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Best Social PR Guides and Tips of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity

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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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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2010 B2B Marketing Budgets and Mix Trends Research

Online Marketing Institute

Reviewing this year's survey results I was surprised that, while B2B marketers experimented enthusiastically with social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn) and microblogging (Twitter), social media have yet to create budgetary or business impacts on the marketing mix. Note: this research looks at firms of 50 employees or more only.

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What the slow death of B2B publishing means for marketers

Chris Koch

The business model is broken. It’s not that the journalists have gotten lazy; it’s a problem with the business model for B2B publishing. From the ashes of trade journalism, an opportunity for marketers. However, the tragedy that has become trade journalism is an opportunity for B2B marketers.

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OneSource Survey: Salespeople Accept Value of Leads from Marketing

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: A survey of business-to-business salespeople finds they (still) consider themselves their best source of qualified leads. Events and trade shows actually rank below all of these. One anomaly in this data is sharply increasing reliance on external business information services.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Webinar: A Multimodal approach to Lead Nurturing for Complex Sales

markempa

The secret to successful lead generation and marketing in the business-to-business space today is the process called lead nurturing, which converts more inquiries into qualified leads and qualified leads into sales. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Content ideas for lead nurturing and tactics to use

markempa

The workhorse of business-to-business direct mail is still the one-page, personalized letter sent in a #10 envelope. Invite people to attend events such as: trade shows, live seminars, webinars, webcasts, executive briefings, workshops, conferences, road shows, speaking engagements and on demand events.