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The 20 Best Marketing Conferences In 2013

Marketing Insider Group

With that in mind, I asked my social media connections “what are the best marketing conferences?”. There are events covering just about every topic in marketing today: social media, online marketing, search engine marketing, inbound marketing, branding, marketing leadership, content marketing, direct marketing, business marketing and more.

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Elevate B2B Marketing News Weekly Roundup: B2B Buyer Trust Data, LinkedIn Tops 1 Billion Users, & Google’s $2B AI Investment

Top Rank Marketing

Social Media Today U.S. Ad Market Posts Third Consecutive Gain In September, Albeit Marginally September marked the third consecutive month that the U.S. advertising market recorded a rise in year-over-year ad spending, with a scant 0.1 MediaPost Pew Research: Brands Not Targeting Gen X Are ‘Leaving Major Revenue On The Table.’

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MarTech’s ecommerce experts to follow

Martech

By leveraging social media and influencer partnerships, Kaleigh grew the business to generate five-figure profits while she was attending college and working full-time. It won the Shopify Build-A-Business competition in 2013 and has millions of sales worldwide. followers) TikTok: @amy.porterfield (11.4K

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Social media ROI sucks! (Or, you can prove anything if you send out a survey)

ViewPoint

Social media marketing is now precariously ensconced as a more-or-less mainstream marketing channel. After all, content is the “fuel” that drives the social media engine, right? But things can get murky when marketers are asked to rate social media in terms of contributing to business goals.

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Search: Moving Beyond Your Website in 2013

KoMarketing Associates

They’re using search engines but they’re also on social media and mobile apps, and they’re spending time in communities and places that interest them. Here are a few places to start: Social Media. Social media has become a huge component of search as Bing delves further into Facebook integration and Google continues pushing Google+.

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18 of the Best Content Marketing Strategy Guides of 2013

Webbiquity

Noting that “The old adage — build it and they will come — doesn’t work for content marketing,” Laurie Sullivan reports on Forrester Research guidance on building a content distribution strategy to overcome the glut on content online. 2: 30 Remarkable Content Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2013 (and 2014).

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Social Media is a Terrible Ecommerce Tactic – or is it?

Convince & Convert

The report for the first quarter of 2013 peered into more than 500 million online shopping browser sessions. In fact, social media represented just 1.55% of all commerce traffic, and a conversion rate of less than three-quarters of one percent (.71%). The results were shocking. that would be a viable hypothesis. Maybe that’s so.

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