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2011 B2B Marketing Trends

Webbiquity

MarketingSherpa recently released its 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. Why would otherwise highly sensible, ROI-conscious marketers spend even more money on a tactic that they don’t believe works very well? You can download the executive summary for free (or pay $400 for the full report ). Share this on LinkedIn. Tweet This!

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Not Tracking Social Media ROI is Your Fault

Convince & Convert

Last week, Susan Etlinger from Altimeter Group published the Social Media ROI Cookbook. click here to view and download the Social Media ROI Cookbook on Slideshare). If you’re looking to place blame for why you can’t measure social media ROI in your company, grab a mirror. Is social media ROI attainable?

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Inbound Marketing Tactics to Get Bulk of B2B Marketing Budgets in 2011

Industrial Marketing Today

With the cloud of economic uncertainty still hanging over many industries, it is not surprising that B2B marketers are shifting their 2011 budgets more towards lower-cost inbound eMarketing tactics. MarketingSherpa asked more than 900 B2B marketers how they expected their marketing budgets to change for 2011.

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2011 B2B Marketing Predictions

Online Marketing Institute

What business marketing revolution is coming in 2011? So, we developed a list of our top B2B marketing predictions for 2011. Emerging Marketing’s 2011 B2B Marketing Predictions + Companies will continue to spend again. The focus on ROI that we’ve seen in 2010 will continue. What do you foresee coming?

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Does Chasing Content Marketing ROI Cause Us to Lose Sight of the Long Game?

Content Standard

But business rarely plays the long game; goals and KPIs are often short-term in a dash for content marketing ROI, and stretch goals don’t do much to encourage thinking about a five-year strategy. ” Does Chasing Content Marketing ROI Cause Long-Term Damage? What do you think it’s doing to your brand?

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Promises and pitfalls of voice technology in marketing

ClickZ

The struggle for advertising space continues, the price tag is going up, but the effect is wearing off. The struggle for advertising space continues, the price tag is going up, but the effect is wearing off. As said above, voice is an early platform, so it’s not likely to skyrocket ROI in the first place.

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5 Steps to achieve Lead Generation ROI

Marketing Insider Group

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Assuming all of those activities are neatly in place, one of the most powerful ways to justify a marketing budget is through paid online lead generation and the ROI that follows. Because it is an easy metric to obtain.