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Five Ways to “Get Real” With B-to-B Social Media

Biznology

Today, 89% of B-to-B marketers in the U.S. are using social media, says a study conducted by iTracks and the Business Marketing Association (BMA). In fact, B-to-B use of social media may have even eclipsed that of consumer marketers, according to another report from White Horse Productions. Now, what about Facebook?

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Chalk Talks: Generate More Leads with Video

Vidyard

Online video content has become the best way to tell your story, but it’s also become the most effective way to generate new leads and to qualify your prospects. So let’s look at how video can help you in each one of these stages of the lead generation life cycle, to generate better results for your demand gen programs.

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The B2B marketing ironies of our time

Biznology

Here’s another: Google and Facebook are leading the digital marketing revolution. Did you know that both Google and Facebook use dear old direct mail for cold prospecting in their ad sales businesses? Kudos to them. Budgets continue to shift to digital channels. Marketers are abandoning print and face-to-face channels in droves.

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Connections, connections everywhere, and not a one to pitch

Leading Results Rambings

As soon as you are over that number, you have what are termed “Facebook friends” Not people on the proverbial Christmas card list, but people who you know of, and know of you. We do not however think of our Facebook friends regularly or first when we look to make referrals and introductions- they simply aren’t and can’t be top of mind.

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How the CEO Can Enhance Sales, Marketing, and the Executive Branch

ViewPoint

Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Isn’t it demand generation with a new name? And, inbound leads generate smaller deals with lower level decision makers. Isn’t it demand generation with a new name? But it isn’t.

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The Changing Rules of B2B Marketing

Paul Gillin

Those sales are generated by the affinity that the staff has developed with these key corporate customers. Dell TechCenter and other initiatives like it are microcosms of the changes that are sweeping across corporate America as a consequence of the rapid growth of social media tools like blogs, communities and user-generated multimedia.

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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MySpace and Facebook sign real-time search deals with Google. Facebook Pushes People to Go Public. Time spent on Facebook by 18-24 year olds declines. Facebook is awarded $711 million in damages from Sanford Wallace, the notorious "Spam King". Facebook introduces @Mentions in Status Updates. technologies.