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Lead Generation Losing Out to Social Media? Not So Much.

The Point

A recent industry study on Lead Management Optimization, conducted by CSO Insights and conducted in partnership with SMEI and Marketo , sheds insight on the relative budget marketing organizations are investing in areas such as lead nurturing, social media, and lead generation. I have two major issues with the analysis: 1.

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5 Steps to Social Media Leads with Content Marketing

Everything Technology Marketing

One of my recent posts (“ The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011 ”) received a lot of great comments. The number one marketing trend for 2011, according to the 17,000 member B2B technology marketing group on LinkedIn, is the increasing integration of social media with traditional marketing tactics to drive qualified leads.

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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Oracle followed suit this morning with an acquisition of social media monitoring and semantic analysis vendor Collective Intellect. In a word, no.

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Marketing and Artificial Intelligence: Make Your Job Robot-Proof

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

In fact, because of these developments, investments in AI startups has risen in recent years—increasing from $145 million in 2011 to $681 million in 2015, according to CB Insights. For example, at Mintigo we use our own Intelligent Customer Engagement to engage prospects with the right message on the right channel at the right time.

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B2B Marketers Learn to Break Through Barriers at BMA Unleash 2011

MLT Creative

” The 2011 Business Marketing Association International Conference (BMA Unleash), June 1-3 in Chicago, had a similar effect on the more than 600 corporate marketers and agencies in attendance. In February 2011, he became the youngest driver in history to win the Daytona 500. Let’s do it again!” See you next year!

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Can B2Bs Use Social Media to Improve Marketing Effectiveness?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Maria Pergolino Have you ever stopped to think which segment of marketers hold the bag on marketing effectiveness when it comes to social media? A study by Accenture found that while B2Bs lag in integrating social media into marketing plans, they are realizing the value of social media use. Facebook 74%. LinkedIn 72%.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

Besides the rise of social media as marketing channel, the emergence of marketing technology, more specifically Marketing Automation systems, in which you can configure the automated distribution of content to customers and prospects has been changing the way marketers see and create conent.

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