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Nine Social Media Marketing Stats You Can Use

Webbiquity

The phase “social media marketing” first appeared in searches back in March 2007, but the first spike in interest came in January 2009, when search volume more than doubled from the previous month. of marketing budgets in 2009 to 11.7% Twitter emerged at the SXSW conference in March 2007. 89% of U.S. eMarketer ).

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HubSpot Expands Its Services But Stays Focused on Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot has continued to grow its customer base and expand its product. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs. Of course, this competition was always implicit – few small businesses would have purchased HubSpot plus one of those products.

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Best Business Blogging Tips of 2009, Part 2

Webbiquity

Discover the answers to these questions and others here in the final batch of the best articles and blog posts on business blogging from 2009. 5 Simple Tips for Creating a Content Culture at Your Company by Hubspot’s Inbound Internet Marketing Blog. 5 outstanding corporate blogs by iMedia Connection. Add this to Mister Wong.

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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Hubspot has accepted this challenge. But Hubspot also applies automation to improve results without making the user work harder. Free versions of these and other graders are available from Hubspot at Grader.com.

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WordPress Plugins for Marketers

The Effective Marketer

The list is not all inclusive and depending on the focus of your blog you may have to search for that specific plugin elsewhere, but it seems there is an agreement that at minimum you need some kind of SEO and Analytics plugin, and if your blog has enough traffic, a cache plugin is justified. United States License. United States License.

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because you can't beat free marketing training

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Because You Can’t Beat Free Marketing Training This is the second post finalizing the review of the Inbound Marketing University program from HubSpot. Here I talk about the final 5 classes.

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