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The B2B marketing ironies of our time

Biznology

I’ve been noticing some ironies in the world of B2B marketing lately; you know what I mean. Hubspot preaches inbound marketing as a mantra, right? Turns out Hubspot’s own growth as a software company has been driven via cold calling through an inside sales team. When the common wisdom is one thing, but the reality is another.

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14 Marketing Over Coffee Podcasts You Need To Hear

Marketing Insider Group

So John pulled a stunt that caught his attention and set up an interview with him in 2010 and has been able to talk with him about each of his books since then. John said that once they started Marketing Over Coffee, “I will consider this a success if I get to interview Seth Godin.”

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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. What will 2010 bring? HubSpot particularly comes to mind, which is a testament to their own marketing skills. 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a.

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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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Social media in B2B: from platforms to content… Ten years later.

Exo B2B

What is the relevance of social media for B2B? Lynda St-Arneault managed to sort out these trends which you will see, are very ‘2010’. – B2B companies were more likely to exploit social media marketing opportunities than B2C companies. – B2B companies managed profiles on more social media sites than B2C companies.

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Best Business Blogging Tips and Guides of 2010 (So Far), Part 2

Webbiquity

Find the answers to those questions and others here in more of the best guides to business blogging of 2010 so far. Meaningful Metrics for B2B Blogging by Proteus B2B Marketing. 4 Business Blogging Best Practices by HubSpot Blog. Continually come up with fresh and interesting topics?

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B2B Marketing Summit Shows Old Problems Persist

The Effective Marketer

According to their post: “Last week in San Francisco, 211 business-to-business marketers spent two days sharing insights, case studies and advice on social media marketing, lead generation, Sales and Marketing alignment, and other hot-button issues on the West Coast swing of MarketingSherpa’s seventh annual B2B Marketing Summit.&#

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