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What Happened to Brand Ambassadors?

Zoominfo

Even better, the email had a 35% discount code for her first purchase, which she had to make in order to activate her ambassador status. This worked, and it’s easy to see why when 76% of people say they’re more likely to trust content shared by a ‘normal’ person over a brand. Suddenly, she realized: She wasn’t being asked to sell.

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. me-too products.

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Social Media Marketing Strategies for 2010

Webbiquity

Marketing Sherpa last week released its 2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark report. Among the key findings from the report: Despite the lingering economic malaise, companies across virtually all industries plan to increase budgets for social media marketing in 2010. Share this on Mixx. Tweet This! Seed this on Newsvine.

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Content Marketing Isn’t What It Used to Be

EveryoneSocial

They understand that content marketing as we’ve known it no longer works. Content marketing has been the central pillar of marketing online for the last 10+ years. And yet so many marketers keep going back to this playbook like it’s 2010. What content can be consumed on a platform? I talk with a lot of marketers.

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Content Marketing as We Know It No Longer Works

EveryoneSocial

They understand that content marketing as we’ve known it no longer works. Content marketing has been the central pillar of marketing online for the last 10+ years. And yet so many marketers keep going back to this playbook like it’s 2010. What content can be consumed on a platform? I talk with a lot of marketers.

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5 Mistakes B2B Marketers Need to Avoid in 2010

Anything Goes Marketing

2009 has been a long year but as I reflect back on my many conversations, I've created a top 5 list of items to avoid in 2010: 1. In 2010 you will not have a choice but to make social media part of your overall marketing strategy. This concept needs to be at the forefront of your planning in 2010.

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25 Billion Tweets And More: A Year In Online Activity

Marketing Insider Group

Facebook users sent 360 billion pieces of content. 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010. 255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010. million – Added websites in 2010. 39.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2010. COM domain names at the end of 2010.