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10 Best Posts of 2010

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This inspired me to do a quick 10 Best Posts of 2010 as we slide into the New Year. Customer Service is the New Marketing – Zappos was founded in 1999 and sold to Amazon for $1.2 Zappos is powered by its customer service and was built on the premise of WOWing each and every customer. 4 C’s of B2B Marketing.

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Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010

Webbiquity

We’ve seen these before—meaningless, over-used goobledygook buzzwords in press releases—but here Adam Sherk provides an updated list for 2010, topped by “leading,&# “unique,&# “solution&# and “innovator&# and proceeding through “customer-centric,&# “outside the box&# and “peak performance.&#

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The Best B2B Marketing Ideas of 2010

Online Marketing Institute

The Best B2B Marketing Ideas of 2010 A guest post by Jeff Ogden , president of Find New Customers Although companies like Marketo, Eloqua and Kinaxis have produced terrific written content in blogs, e-books, etc., 19 , 2010, the marketing take-away I shared was “Think Different.&# They all are very entertaining, too.

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Why Sales and Marketing Don't Get Along « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

According to a recent chart published by MarketingSherpa (below), 80% of marketers don’t spend time qualifying leads before sending them to sales. It is interesting that back in 2009, MarketingSherpa had published a chart showing the key challenges marketers faced and “generating high quality leads&# was the top one.

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Marketing Content That Sells

The Effective Marketer

You setup a campaign, define the nurturing stages, and even add some points to different interactions to score the lead and customize the nurturing experience. This entry was posted on Monday, August 30th, 2010 at 8:45 am and is filed under Communication , Content Marketing , Online Marketing. United States License.

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what's your marketing approach?

The Effective Marketer

An interesting post by Steve Johnson talks about marketing not being a list, but rather an approach to solving customers problems and helping buyers to buy. Create this email here, prepare a webinar there, and send the artwork for publication in that magazine. United States License. United States License.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

Wanting to be at the center of a new way to communicate to customers and prospects is a worthy objective. Better question: How can we encourage existing customers to truly engage with our clients on the social Web? Better question: How can we optimize a video so that prospective customers find it in search results?

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