In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010. In 2010 you’ll start to hear about marketing methods. At Marketbright, we believe Agile Marketing will emerge as a popular methodology so marketing professionals can adapt and survive in 2010. Social Media Marketing FAIL: In 2010, we’ll see a lot of companies spend a lot of money trying to make a big splash into social networks and many will crash and burn. Manticore Technology wishes you a full-funnel in 2010. Marketers over 2010 will get much savvier about doing this, however. MORE >>

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? The State of the Blogosphere 2010 Since 2004, Technorati has published its annual State of the Blogosphere report. In 2009 and 2010, we saw microblogs and tumblelogs such as Posterous and Tumblr gain in prominence and universality. startups. MORE >>

Find out here in some of the best blog posts and articles about SEO link building of 2010 so far. Optimizing a website by incorporating keywords into page titles, headlines, text, page URLs, image alt tags and internal links will help improve the position of a site in the search engines—but it’s only half the battle. As one of the posts linked below notes, “In Search Engine Optimization, things that are happening OFF of your site can be just as important (if not more so) than things happening ON your website.&# Nine Tools for Your Link-Building Toolkit by ClickZ. Digg this! MORE >>

FREE eBook from Marketo and ClickDocuments : ClickPredictions: Key Content Marketing Trends and Predictions for 2010. To answer these pressing questions, we dusted off our trusty crystal ball and passed it along to 39 of the world's top B2B marketers , e-mail marketers and social media gurus, and asked them one straightforward question, “What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010?” Click for free download now and you can get 2010 started on the right foot with a bit of inspiration and no-nonsense marketing straight-talk. So what are these new rules MORE >>

This inspired me to do a quick 10 Best Posts of 2010 as we slide into the New Year. Far and away one of the best blog posts I wrote this year was on the new 4′c of B2B Marketing – it was read over 15,000 times and 3X more popular than the next most read blog post of the year. hope you enjoy it … 4 C’s of B2B Marketing – We’ve all heard about the four P’s of marketing: Product, Price, Placement, Promotion. The four P’s were created mainly to describe the ideal “marketing mix.”. Fire your Director of Social Media! Is The White Paper Dead for B2B Marketing? MORE >>