Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. Gated content must also be compelling, quite often it solves a pressing problem.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Forrester: B2B Marketers Need To Keep Up With Business Technology Buyers On Social Media by Forrester Research It's pretty rare to include a press release in a best of list here—actually, this is probably the first time ever—but this one includes key statistics on how b2b buyers use social media on the job.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Way back in the early days of PitchEngine (like 2009), people thought we were crazy to offer our social media news release service for free. He’s a former journalist turned PR guy and straight shooter at New Media Cowboy. “I can publish search engine optimized pitches for free, really?&#

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. Having a social media policy is considered an enforcement action by the FTC, which can be important if you are sued for misleading or unsubstantiated claims on a blog or by a blogger.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

.&# Traditional ROI measures fail to take into account the search value of social media engagement, as well as the value of the customer service and product enhancements that social listening and interaction can provide. 11 Reasons You Can’t Ignore Social Media in 2009 by Digital Labz.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Alinean Powers ROI Calculator for Interactive Inte.

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Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The Supply Chain Expert Community launched in August 2009 and is home to 3,620 members and counting. From 2008 to 2009, Kinaxis saw a 270% increase in web traffic to Kinaxis.com and a 320% increase in conversions (customer leads), as a direct result of introducing the community. For a niche community, that’s a feat.

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Social Media Enterprise Management Social Marketing B2B Marketing 40

Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs. Don’t be Shy. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

Social media is (or will be) for every company, because customers will eventually flat-out demand that you interact with them there (the same way they previously insisted on interaction via phone and email). But the job of arm twisting and education can’t come from outside.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

To be on the same list (much less on top) with bloggers for whom I have tremendous respect and admiration ( Valeria Maltoni , Lee Odden , David Meerman Scott , and many others) is a real affirmation for what I’m trying to do. link] [link] Six Cent Press Inc RT @EricBuchegger: Good insights on content marketin.

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Hubspot

JULY 27, 2010

She also developed Google’s corporate strategy using Twitter in 2009; in the first six months, @Google gained more than 2 million followers, making it one of the largest corporate Twitter accounts. The more interactive questions and calls for participation will also yield metrics. Download the ebook now!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 13, 2010

Oh, and for those that think that “blogger outreach” counts as social exposure for your staff, don’t kid yourself. Would love to do it after work, but I'll be writing press releases until the wee hours. Don’t cheat them of that opportunity. (Oh, It’s a big world out there.) lauraclick Excellent post!

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

So click here to find out whether they changed my mind… Read more… Stan Woods | June 16th, 2009 | one comment The Content Marketing Workbook It’s here. Read more… Doug Kessler | June 11th, 2009 | 3 comments Choose your patients carefully The most respected surgeons in the world have the best survival rates.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

this year, to $129 billion Interactive spending will climb 9.2%, to $51.5 billion this year Source : eMarketer B2B interactive marketing spending will climb to nearly $4.8 this year, to $129 billion Interactive spending will climb 9.2%, to $51.5

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The Supply Chain Expert Community launched in August 2009 and is home to 3,620 members and counting. From 2008 to 2009, Kinaxis saw a 270% increase in web traffic to Kinaxis.com and a 320% increase in conversions (customer leads), as a direct result of introducing the community. MTV Launches Interactive Visualizatio.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

Thompson Social Listening and Analysis for the DIY Inclined – [link] [link] Beth Warren RT @jaybaer: Social Listening and Analysis for the DIY Inclined [link] [link] MyCrowd.ca August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Buyer Interaction Shapes Buyer Experience Design , October 25, 2010 Image via Wikipedia. Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. Collaboration. Dumb it Down.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

link] jaybaer Chris the interactive book stuff is AMAZING for kids. Many people leave their laptops at home on 1-2 day trips already and just bring BlackBerries or iPhones (especially the tradeshow crowd unless you are a member of the press or blogosphere, and unless you have to give a presentation). Great for output.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2010

play with the data in the super cool interactive tool below) This correlates well with a similar, but far less statistically rigorous poll I conducted one year ago asking Twitter users what they checked first in the morning, and email was preferred by 77%. They are not a faceless heard.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But after rapid growth in 2009 and 2010, the study found that “There has been little or no change in the number of companies using corporate blogs (0%), Facebook (2%) and Twitter (2%) in the last year.” The most rapid increase in adoption has been in the use of social networking, which has nearly doubled since 2009. •

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Marketing Interactions , July 11, 2010 As the business environment becomes more interactive and “social,&# content must follow step and become more experiential. But where can a conscientious business blogger find free, legal images to use on their blog? Many beginning bloggers turn to the image search in Google.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings. Sheesh, you are busy.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

This year, the team dove deeper into the blogs with a focus on female bloggers and mobile blogging. To begin, let’s take a look at the residence of bloggers worldwide. Almost one-half of all bloggers reside in the United States with 29% blogging in Europe. Gender Two-thirds of bloggers according to Technorati are male.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. for 2009, showing that a spending recovery is in place, but marginally.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Interaction. Customer prefer Twitter as the mechanism to truly interact with brands and learn more about them. Customers follow you on Twitter not to be informed, but to be interacted with. Overwhelmingly, respondents in the study prefer interacting with official, branded accounts rather than personal accounts from employees.

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