Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum. Among other stuff.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Blog HubSpot TV Contributors Marketing Kit Internet Marketing Blog The HubSpot Inbound Internet Marketing blog covers all of inbound marketing - SEO, Blogging, Social Media, Landing Pages, Lead Generation and Analytics. Submit guest post ideas to rburnes[at]hubspot[dot]com.

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Blogger RSS Inbound Marketing Internet Marketing 40

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Marketing IT. Offering regional and national programs, CIO (and CSO) events bring together some of the most respected names and thought leaders in information technology and security. To combat this, Brad DeLong, CIO for Orix Capital Markets (a division of Orix USA), seeks out the people he calls the groups "emotional leaders.".

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 100

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Unbelievable turnout (more than 260) for a first-time event, and tremendous kudos to Fred Von Graf , who organized it practically solo. includes slides & worksheet) [link to post] (RT @jaybaer) #smaz – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] Park Howell Sorry I missed you at today’s event. Then this is the blog post for you.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Commerce Related to the first, but commerce-oriented blogs are more interested in conversion events than in traffic generation. Funneling traffic from the blog to some other Web destination (typically a corporate site or lead form) is the prime objective. Very helpful post, Jay.

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Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Paid Search Agency Blogger 130

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Get the answers to these questions and many others here in more of the best articles and blog posts from last year on Google AdWords search engine marketing. But it isn’t the only factor; what other items are considered, and how can you optimize these? Setting up PPC Campaigns 101, Part 1 by Search Engine Watch. Post this on Diigo.

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. For those not familiar with it, the B2B Marketing Zone (a.k.a. CK’s B2B Blog ( SMS Mobile Marketing Mix Audience ). Great B2B Marketing Stats (in a GREAT format!) , June 13, 2010. June 7, 2010.

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B2B Thought Leadership B2B Marketing Advertorials Thought Leadership 100

Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Also, while I think it’s somewhat less likely that a first-time visitor will tweet or Digg or Stumble your work (I’d love to see a study on that), you should make that process as easy as possible as well. Pay attention to your statistics with regard to calls to actions.

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Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 119

Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

On December 19, 2009 Avaya completed the acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Services. We announced on that day we would hold a virtual event that would introduce our new roadmap for the combined enterprise in exactly 30 days. Hopefully it will inspire you to use similar tactics for you upcoming events. Tweet This!

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Case Study Case Studies B2B Marketing Studies 100

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. You’re engaged in an advertising and marketing campaign that uses the Web as its distribution platform. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally.

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Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 149

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Summary: Treehouse Interactive has been slowly enhancing its marketing automation system with features that appeal to experienced users. Its new clients are larger firms and half are switching from another marketing automation product that they found inadequate. This might foreshadow attrition problems at other vendors.

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Features Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com 120

Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 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. Brian Solis provides a wealth of statistics that answer these questions and more, e.g., 87% of Americans said they were familiar with Twitter in 2010, up from just 26% in 2009.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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Social Media 40

Social Media Enterprise Management Social Marketing Work Management 40

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

APRIL 5, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. Great stuff in the world of B2B Marketing for March 2010. We’ve hit a new low: The shittiest social media marketing plan ever - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , March 10, 2010 A local news and media company is getting into the social media consulting business. March 2010.

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B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Planning B2B 40

Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

For anyone in marketing or PR being asked to make “data-driven&# decisions “based on the numbers&# (and doesn’t that include pretty much everyone in marketing and PR these days?), How do social media marketing strategies in small businesses differ from those in larger enterprises? Social Media Facts and Stats.

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Paid Content Stats Social Media Marketing Budget 100

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. 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. To succeed in social media, set aside your marketing plan , October 31, 2010 Forget your marketing PLAN?

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B2B Marketing Enterprise Management Planning Work Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The B2B Social Media Marketing Series is supported by IDG Enterprise. On the contrary, a lot of these companies have found social media to be extremely useful in generating leads, performing market research and establishing themselves as thought leaders. Why are so many B2B marketers using social media, though? Learn more.

Social Media 40

Social Media Enterprise Management Social Marketing B2B Marketing 40

Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2010

Have you added the ability for email recipients to share content on Twitter, Facebook, Digg and elsewhere? Add data collection fields for Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin (at a minimum). Email Behavior Have you added links to your social outposts in your emails? If you send email routinely, you need to integrate email and social immediately.

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Social Media Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Content Media 153

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

They have added new capabilities for delivering highly personalized direct mail, SMS/voice reminders, and on-demand fax and RSS delivery – interesting stuff that, while I’d need to talk to a client or two to be convinced of their specific usefulness, show that Eloqua is delivering a broader range of lead nurturing, drip marketing capabilities.

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Enterprise Management Work Management 40

Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2011

And though a website used primarily by young people to post embarrassing pictures of themselves and by older people to share cute pictures of their progeny would seem an odd venue for selling after-shave or enterprise software, both b2c and b2b marketers have embraced the platform in droves simply due to its incredible scale and reach.

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Stats Facebook Best Practices Privacy Policies 100

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If 2009 was the year many marketers puzzled over, poked at and pondered incorporating social media into their marketing mix, 2010 was the year of diving in. According to a HubSpot study, 71% of marketers viewed Twitter as a useful marketing tool last year, up from just 39% in 2009. Adoption soared.

Social Media 100

Social Media Paid Content Tactics Tips 100

Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 2010

And while I don’t have any issues with those sites (in fact I wrote about Facebook marketing in-depth here), but is treating social media like a checklist really the best possible solution for your company? link] Nisha Pawar There are many niche markets and social media out there. Are you treating social media like a checklist?A

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Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 133

Online Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The hashtag is a favorite tool of conferences and event organizers, but it’s also a way for Twitter Twitter users to organize themselves: if everyone agrees to append a certain hashtag to tweets about a topic, it becomes easier to find that topic in search, and more likely the topic will appear in Twitter’s Trending Topics.

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Twitter Digg Wiki Mobile Advertising 40

Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty?

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Blogger Curation Contingency Planning Classified Ads 40

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You build a volunteer marketing army one soldier at a time, not overnight. So called social media marketers are lured by the instant spread of their business using social networks and hence they ignore the basics! And that takes time. Trust takes time. Creating advocacy takes time.

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