Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 28, 2010

How will social media marketing evolve in 2010? We have invited 2 Social Media Icons - Pam Brossman and Chris Garrett - to shed light on the following question: "What do you foresee as the biggest change that will happen in social media marketing in 2010? How should marketers and businesses adapt to this change?"

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Here are 10 concrete ways I think the environment in which BtoB Marketers operate will evolve in 2010. Facebook Advertising will take off – This year Facebook saw their advertiser base triple! Facebook ads today remind me of Google AdWords in 2001 with low CPC’s on topics and segments many marketers will want to reach.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

LinkedIn is firmly ensconced among the “big 3″ social networks for marketing and business purposes, and though its base of 80 million members is far smaller than the 600 million users of Facebook, its impact in B2B marketing is larger. Blogs represent 50%, Facebook 47% and…Twitter scores 41%.”.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? The same dynamic is present on Facebook. What percentage of your status updates are seen by each of your Facebook fans? Facebook “like&# and Twitter follow are not “subscriptions&# at all, but rather assertions of passion.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 9, 2010 9 Subscribe Finding The Time To Tweet or Blog? I check LinkedIn for connection requests.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 12, 2011

Optimize company news for SEO benefit? So, if you’re stumped for an opening line the next time you’re drafting a press release, try something like “XYZ Company, the leading innovator of unique, customer-centric solutions, today announced an outside the box product which supports peak performance.&#

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Tomorrow People

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Remember 2010? 2010 saw the inception of the Content Marketing Institute , and a growing realisation that content was the way forward. But let’s face it — it’s not 2010 anymore. You know more about your business than anyone else. How many times have you seen that blog post rehashed again and again?

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The Future of Business is being defined right in front of our eyes. Massive changes brought on by the internet, social media and mobile technologies are transforming business models faster than our ability to keep up. Consider: Over 40% of the companies that were at the top of the Fortune 500 in 2000 were no longer there in 2010.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

They reported in a separate study by Technorati that blogs are right up there with many traditional media in terms of importance and influence on their buying behavior. From 7,205 bloggers, the survey reports that 81% have been blogging for more than 2 years, two thirds of bloggers are male, and 65% are age 18-44 years old.

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Valasys

DECEMBER 18, 2019

According to research by Forbes, 89% of the companies today compete primarily based on customer experience, as compared to 36% back in the year 2010. Certainly, companies have a long way to go in terms of optimizing their customer experience management (CXM) thresholds.

B2B Marketing 59

B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency B2B Best Practices 59

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

However, none of that can happen until you drive lots of interested traffic to your business blog. Optimizing (SEO) your business blog is critical because it allows your target audience to find you in search engines and attract traffic. In this post, I’m going to focus on a powerful DiY SEO tool for WordPress blogs.

Business Blogging 60

Business Blogging Optimization Web 2.0 Business 60

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

They recently updated their “State of Social Business Maturity” report for 2013. Companies with more than 100,000 employees have moved from around 20 to almost 50 people dedicated to social media since 2010. Content wasn’t even on the list of the 2010 survey conducted by Altimeter. Social Media'

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures. Facebook is for people you used to know. Every company is its own TV station, magazine, and newspaper.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

But the reality is, your blog is probably a lot more broad than you think. The free “Blogging’s Long Tail Approach&# white paper is devoted to describing this notion of blog content breadth, and its impact on search term selection, and search term optimization. If you get a chance, please check out the white paper.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

A collaboration between RESMARK Systems (a provider of hospitality software), Western River Expeditions (an adventure tour company), Compendium (provider of corporate content creation software), and ExactTarget (provider of enterprise messaging software) shows how this can be done day-to-day.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Do You “Like&# How I Look In These Jeans?

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 14, 2010

And fields overflowing with the weeds of bad ideas grown from the seeds of false assumptions… A couple of months ago I experimented with a blog rant on Whatever Happened To Marketing Strategy. You can be a leader by starting with those big business challenges and present a strong business case on how to solve them.

Business 100

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

With social media, we can join conversations previously hidden, but what we need is the same as ever: a way to reach you – the places you metaphorically live, the clubs you frequent, the places you hang out, the company you keep. Leaving the etiquette alone for now, our focus is how marketers need to approach our targets.

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Social Media Work Management Marketing Management Media 123

Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

As the world continues to watch the devastation caused by the BP oil spill, it shines the light much brighter on the impact that major companies have on society while increasing consumer concerns about business practices. If a company is “doing good,” don’t be shy about talking about it. Don’t be Shy.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. However, even within the business (non cat) blogging arena, there are a wide variety of potential measures to gauge your momentum. Is anyone out there? Does anyone care?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Then this is the blog post for you. Sessions start October 5. What’s Your Pitch?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

I realize my first blog posts are a bit self-indulgent but since I am only talking to myself and a few friends, I hope you will allow me these few introspections until I grow my followers and hopefully start to dispense pearls of wisdom that become widely shared across the web. I have never blogged but I know how to build a website.

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B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning B2B 100

Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

When I discuss this concept with companies, however, too often I hear something in the realm of “we don’t know what to provide our customers that would be helpful.&# for most business travelers, it’s also incredibly helpful. Try to return something to your own company. You can be helpful, too.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. million followers on Twitter?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Since 2010, the marketing world has changed. In the early 2010s, social networks were only starting to gain traction. Facebook reached one billion users in late 2012. Instagram was launched in 2010. Facebook has three billion active users. Today, businesses win and lose because of their customer experience.

Work Management 100

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

Something along the line of “we tried a blog but it wasn’t a success” or “we have a Facebook page, but it isn’t doing anything for our business.” Digging deeper into the failure, many times it is because the business did not understand who is doing what. If you have a Facebook page, know who is responsible for engagement.

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Social Media Paid Content Media Act-On 141

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter.

Social Media 114

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 114

Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances.

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Social Media Enterprise Management Media Webinar Metrics 116

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. None of that is impacted in the slightest by whether you’re selling to consumers or other businesses. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

prepare TV review content about HDTVs for twitter and blog comment distribution). Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: Why D.I.S.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

I realize my first blog posts are a bit self-indulgent but since I am only talking to myself and a few friends, I hope you will allow me these few introspections until I grow my followers and hopefully start to dispense pearls of wisdom that become widely shared across the web. I have never blogged but I know how to build a website.

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B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning B2B 100

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 20, 2013

And many businesses are struggling to keep up. In an attempt to tell that story, I have covered the future of marketing and now I’m looking for the best quotes, studies and predictions on the future of business. Only 7% of Gen Y works for a Fortune 500 company as startups dominate the workforce for this demographic.

Business 100

Business Peer-to-peer Mobile Advertising Internet Marketing 100

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Read on to learn how social media is changing PR, how pitching bloggers is different from traditional media outreach, how to optimize press releases for search and online distribution, which tools should be in your social PR toolbox and more here in some of the best articles and blog posts on social PR of 2010 so far.

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PR Marketing Automation Services Blogger Eloqua 100

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Before the Internet, making a good first impression often meant face-to-face interactions at business meetings, conferences and lunches. Successful online business people must be proactive in cultivating business on their own by creating a positive public image, being authentic and likeable. ” Get Real.

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Privacy Policies Privacy Protection Business Ideal Customer Profiles 100

Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. I recommend using a mixture of your Top 25 phrases and some that are highly relevant to your business, but perhaps aren’t sending as much traffic as you’d like at present. What shows up in these search results?

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Paid Content Ad Building Branding Brand Identity 145

Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Advanced social media analytics and ROI calculations often require tying together disparate systems, and looking for causation (or at least correlation) between social media success and business outcome. A write up on a blog. A new product launch. Trade show. New YouTube video that goes viral. Love Swix.

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