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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

Here are some quick thoughts on two items: Unica ’s acquisition of paid search bid management system MakeMeTop (now mercifully renamed Unica Search) and Alterian ’s recently-released and excellent annual marketing survey. 35% of marketers expect to move more than 20% of their direct marketing budget into digital channels next year.

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Interview with Brian Hansford

Onalytica B2B

As my career progressed, I transitioned from sales to marketing and my first big career move happened when I ran a global field marketing program in the US and Europe. I also began working with CRM systems to enable database marketing efforts and lead results analytics. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR OFFLINE INFLUENCE?

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Beyond Buyer Profiling To Buyer Personification

Tony Zambito

As time progressed in the early decade of 2000 to 2010, reliance on the sales representative for product and solutions information began to diminish. And, began the era of marketing fulfilling the role of going beyond just brand advertising, but also building awareness and enabling buyers to research solutions.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

If we can reliably identify a person across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp and elswhere, we can then segment not only for the demographics of the consumer in question; we can tailor content for the mode they are in where we reach them. To paraphrase Tina Turner , we don’t need another acronym. Customers don’t need more messages.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

80% of consumers content about products and services created by just 16% of the population – [link] [link] Laurence Bret Who are your influencers? Multiple purchases doesn't always indicate that customer is a “talker&# that creates content or spread the word about your product. million followers on Twitter?

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

Online Marketing Institute

2010 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Call for Entries OPEN! Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.”

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Capture Website Visitors To Know Who Has Been Visiting - They Might Be Qualified Leads

Online Marketing Institute

There are a few very useful applications which not only allow you to track the volume of visitors and their content viewing patterns but also go a step further to help you identify which company those visitors came from which effectively capture potential leads from a simple visit and not necessarily a form fill. Not any more.