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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

The VP of marketing communications at SAP was recently asked by B-to-B magazine how she is measuring ROI on marketing efforts. Many excellent solutions are now available on a software-as-a-service basis today, including Salesforce.com , RightNow Technologies and NetSuite. Conversion rate. Defining ROI. White paper.

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Top 60 B2B Marketing Posts and Hottest Topics November 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

While still a workhorse for b-to-b companies, e-mail marketing is getting increasingly stiff competition for mind share from social networks such as [.]. Conversion Rate (27). Salesforce.com (26). Web users spent an average of 4.6 hours a week on social sites in September, compared with 4.4 Is the era of PR over?

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Summary of Sold-out "Science of Inbound Marketing" Session at Dreamforce 2011

Hubspot

Way back in September (seems so long ago), I had the opportunity to speak at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference (which is now the largest software conference in the world, with over 45,000 registrants). You would think, Oh, marketers that are out there B to B marketers which is our target market are relatively serious people.