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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion: Get Ready for Software Vendors as Data Owners

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billion acquisition of LinkedIn. This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising.

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Best LinkedIn Guides, Tips and Tactics of 2010

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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. How can you optimize your profile to be “findable&# for the right phrases within LinkedIn?

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How Everybody Wins with HubSpot's Funding « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How Everybody Wins with HubSpot’s Funding As everyone in the marketing industry surely knows by now, HubSpot raised $32 million in additional funding. Everyone Wins But it also means something else.

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The Entrepreneur Interview Series #22: Dustin Bruzenak, Modern Logic

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Year founded: 2010. My other bit of advice would be to get to know and love LinkedIn and your CRM of choice (mine is Hubspot). LinkedIn is my primary social network and as a founder, it should be yours as well. You can connect with Dustin Bruzenak on LinkedIn and Twitter. This post is sponsored by Better Proposals.

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Best Business Blogging Tips and Guides of 2010 (So Far), Part 2

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Find the answers to those questions and others here in more of the best guides to business blogging of 2010 so far. 4 Business Blogging Best Practices by HubSpot Blog. Share this on LinkedIn. Continually come up with fresh and interesting topics? Avoid dumb mistakes that even smart bloggers make? Share this on Bebo. Tweet This!

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The Evolution of Inbound Marketing

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Then, social media took off—LinkedIn was founded in 2002, Facebook in 2004, YouTube in 2005, Twitter in 2006. And by 2010 mobile was already showing signs of changing the digital landscape forever. Soon after, Halligan and Shah founded HubSpot (Meerman Scott joined the board in 2007) in order to help businesses evolve?

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Social media in B2B: from platforms to content… Ten years later.

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Lynda St-Arneault managed to sort out these trends which you will see, are very ‘2010’. And in this area, the Content Marketing Institute and HubSpot are kings! In fact, almost all other studies and statistics report the dominance of the socio-professional platform, including CMI and HubSpot. Cultural difference?