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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. “Marketing automation&# is a misleading term. You can’t really automate marketing, of course, any more than you can automate gourmet cooking or great painting.

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Social Pros 25 – Alison Carlman, globalgiving

Convince & Convert

This is Episode 25 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. Digg died this week, basically, I guess Digg died several weeks ago but like it officially died this week. DJ Waldow: I think Stephen Covey died, that to me, that’s a little more real than Digg dying. Listen Now.

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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

How brands can use video sharing sites: Use video to demonstrate how your product or service works. Send out automated coupon codes or discount offers. Examples: Pocket (pictured above), Digg, Pinterest and Mix. How-to’s and tutorials are the cornerstones of social video content. Examples: YouTube, TikTok and Vimeo.

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How to Increase Blog Traffic (in 10 Steps)

seo.co

WordPress offers bloggers extremely useful and powerful plugins that automate some of the most crucial aspects of blogging. There are plugins for automating internal SEO linking such as popular posts. Social sharing and bookmarking sites, like StumbleUpon, Digg, and Reddit, are all valuable places to post your content.

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Social Bookmarking: The Best Option

Valasys

In order to properly understand social bookmarking, it is important to examine how they work. Don’t automate. You could lose credibility if you post using automation as it takes time to build a good social bookmarking reputation. Dribble Pocket Digg Reddit Slashdot We Heart It Paper.li Behind The Curtain. Interaction.

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Customers don’t care about Channels

Buzz Marketing for Technology

4) Respond like a person, not a company – try to resist the urge to automate the responses. Some companies are telling me their volume of social media mentions are getting to high and they are considering automating a response to a Twitter DM. I say – don’t do it! A good response is one that comes from an individual not a company.

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2011 B2B Marketing Trends

Webbiquity

Why would otherwise highly sensible, ROI-conscious marketers spend even more money on a tactic that they don’t believe works very well? But strangely, social media—one of the top priorities for increased spending next year—was viewed as “highly effective&# by only 16% of respondents, while 25% said it was “not effective.&#