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Microsoft buys LinkedIn: the largest martech acquisition in history?

chiefmartech

Last week, Microsoft announced that it was acquiring LinkedIn for a whopping $26.2 billion in 2011 — and one of the largest in the history of the digital age (we’ll graciously look past that whole AOL acquiring TimeWarner fiasco ). LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a great example of the company marketing this capability.

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Need to Drive Leads? Try These Traditional Tactics Now

Marketing Insider Group

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? But social media has opened up a channel.

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Social Buyerology: Understanding Buyers in the Social Age

Tony Zambito

  We are seeing the births of new technologies and processes, such as content marketing, inbound marketing, marketing automation, and social media technologies attempting to address the voids created as B2B businesses shift their own buying processes and cycles.    Why do some work and others do not remain a puzzle. . 

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better time management with smart calendars

The Effective Marketer

Make your calendar available to your direct reports and your peers : companies differ on their network policies and who has access to what, so you may not need to do this but just in case your company locks down access to other people’s calendar you should proactively let your direct reports (those who work for you) and your peers see your schedule.

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A Marketer's Guide to Nailing the Timing & Frequency of Social Media Updates

Hubspot

Here's the thing: Social media timing matters. In 2011, HubSpot's Dan Zarrella conducted extensive research on the topic of social media timing. In fact, HubSpot's own default suggested times in our Social Media publishing tool try to space scheduled shares out by approximately two hours , just to be sure.

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How Google+ Is Changing the Web, Even Though No One Wants It To

Hubspot

The last thing the social media population at large wanted was yet ONE MORE social network to manage and visit. When Google+ launched in the middle of 2011, everyone from Google to many of us here at HubSpot were consumed with talking about the feature differences between Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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A Brief History of Social Media [Infographic]

Oktopost

Social media has come a long way from when it first appeared on the web. Long before any of us knew or understood the potential behind social media, the first iterations were popping up to connect us all to the rest of the world. Today, there is a full generation of adults who have never known a world without social media.