With all the micro-blogging, I’ve often wondered whether the number of bloggers who actually create original, substantial content is decreasing. Don’t get me wrong, you can create meaningful thought in 140 characters, but it’s a lot easier to write 140 characters (no matter how well crafted) than it is to consistently create original content for [...] ...Tags: Tags: B2B Social Media b2b blogging B2B Blogs B2B Sellin

So what do I think will be top trends for 2009? While this will provide immediate cost and time savings by reducing travel and hotel costs, I think that the pendulum will swing back by the end of 2009. Other 2009 Predictions: Peter Himler over at The Flack beat me to a list of 2009 trends. Influential Marketing Blog - 2009   One of my most popular posts last year was my summary of 2008 trend lists . I’m a little late this year, but better late than never =) When I look back at my three trends, it seems odd that I selected the growth of blogomerates, social media

Here is our 2009 year in review.  December 2009 Online Marketing News Top word of 2009: Twitter November 2009 Online Marketing News October 2009 Online Marketing News Take a moment to reflect on the year’s most interesting, exciting and sometimes surprising online marketing news. Twitter Starts Testing Features for Businesses

This technique was also used to generate the Hot Trends in B2B Marketing for 2009 . Top 80 Posts - December 1, 2008 to November 30, 2009 How to Create a Social Media Marketing Strategy - WebMarketCentral , March 24, 2009 Would YOU Trust a PR Agency Not Involved in Social Media with YOUR Social Media Programs? It’s always fun at this time of the year to look back at what’s happened in the world of B2B Marketing .  We are happy to announce the Top Posts as defined by Social Filtering - meaning by everyone involved directly or indirectly. 

Joe Pulizzi from Junta42 polled content marketers and social media marketers for their best single prediction for 2009 - see the full list of 42 predictions here . The Top 10 Marketing Predictions for 2009 Number 10 - Smart brand marketers will reach out via text offers and Twitter offers to the college aged crowd, money saving offers that they can use repeatedly to build brand preferences for the future (by Scott Howard ) Number 9 - Brand marketers will continue to experiment with existing and emerging forms of social media, concentrating their efforts on substance and distribution

7 Social Media Predictions for 2009 by Search Engine Watch Erik Qualman produced this list of predictions in January. Many free services will become defunct"—hmm, not yet, but there are still three months of 2009 to to. Social Media and the Enterprise Customer – Wired PR by uber.la John McElhenney lays out a process for mapping your social media communities, then capitalizing on their structures by letting your customers and partners tell your story for you. What The F**K is Social Media? Welcome to the first best-of-2009 (so far) compilation. This year will feature expanded,

He recently turned the tables on me with seven questions of his own as part of his own interview series: Thought Leadership Interview #6: Miller Time: Marketo’s Jon Miller on Lead Generation and Management in 2009 . What are the three trends you see emerging in 2009? money, so as marketers try to do more with less in 2009 they will focus more Last October, Craig Rosenberg shared some insightful best practices in one of my first thought leadership interviews, titled Lead Generation Best Practices: Thought Leadership with The Funnelholic . I

In fact, visitors searching our site for the phrase “content marketing” increased by 85% in 2009 over 2008. In fact, in 1997 when we started our small business magazine in Southwest Florida, few owners had websites, let alone an online marketing strategy. In 2009, most small businesses do have websites and the term, ‘content marketing,’ has gone from obscure to fashionable. Thanks to everyone for their support in 2009! Share It’s been a very good year for content marketing. Social media certainly loomed larger in the past 12 months but interest in

Do you know how much to spend on your B2B marketing budget in 2009? Benchmarks, and Essential Guidance for 2009 �, Michael Gerard, essential to help you plan your B2B marketing budget in 2009. (In one How to allocate your budget across programs and headcount? Or Or how to split marketing programs

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