53% of employers now research candidates on social networks before hiring. Researchers To Marketers: Go Social, Mobile by MediaPost Online Media Daily. Les Luchter looks at research showing that 10% of all website visits to the top 1,000 web properties come from social sharing, half as much as from search. Shea Bennett examines research finding that, no surprise, the user base on LinkedIn skews older than on other social networks: more than half of all members are aged 36-65, with just 6% younger than 22. ” B2B Marketing Research and Statistics. hours. MORE >>

You may recognize these five states from the research I’ve been doing over the past few years How to Organize for Social Media Measurement Read the report, print it out, and share with others. link] Research Report: A Framework for Social Analytics | Thought Experiments [.] After interviewing nearly 40 experts and working with Charlene Li and a bit of help from myself, she’s found six distinct use cases (see compass below) on how companies are measuring using these new toolsets. Why are social analytics so important? Read Susan’s post announcing this report. MORE >>

Oracle: Buys Market2Lead in May 2010. IBM: Buys Coremetrics in June 2010. Buys Unica in August 2010. Salesforce: Buys Jigsaw in April 2010. Teradata:  Buys Aprimo in December 2010. Forrester Research recently recommended establishing an “office of marketing technology” to deal with all the technologies in marketing. B2B BloggerHow Tech Companies Are Setting Sights On The Swelling Marketing Budget. It began in 2009.  The CMO’s budget was surging and the CIO’s was receding.  And follow they did.  So began the gold rush…. Portfolio or suite? MORE >>

Forrester recently released a report by Laura Ramos and Augie Ray on How to Assess the Impact of Social Media in B2B Tech Marketing. It’s about engaging with customers, prospects, industry press, analysts, bloggers and other key influencers to increase the amount of positive conversation about your company,  product or service. These results, along with the fact that “many B2B marketers treat social media like an outbound communications channel, and our research highlights the consequences of this choice. Coordinate efforts. Open, public social networks (e.g., MORE >>

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Social Media in B2B Marketing - Survey Results - Everything Technology Marketing , November 16, 2010 The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted a survey earlier this year to explore the rapidly changing landscape of social media in the context of B2B marketing. Twitter for B2B Marketing - MI6 Marketing Agency , November 18, 2010 Author: Chris Herbert. MORE >>