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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. And YouTube in 10th place?

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Here are links to about twenty studies with statistics on online media consumption and advertising spend. Many are contradictory, but it's clear that marketers need to invest in social media, which might eventually replace search as the primary way that customers find them. How are people actually spending their time online?

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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. Experts outline key content marketing trends for 2014 by The Guardian.

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Social Pros 6 – Instagram Lessons from a Giant B2B Company

Convince & Convert

This is Episode 6 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Jonathan Wichmann the head of social media for Maersk Line , the world’s largest container shipping company. I’m B-to-B. I can’t do social media.” The RSS feed is: [link].

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

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

A Robert Half Technology study announces 54% of companies blog social media sites. Study shares that 8% of US companies have fired an employee because of social media misuse. Social media use soars among b-to-b marketers. Forrester Predicts Huge Growth for Social Media Marketing.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New. ► January (10) Is The End of the Social Media Story Already Writt. Latest Research.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Analysts such as Forrester and Gartner are highlighting “consumerization” of business as a key trend for the next several years, and B2B marketing is one area that will face the ‘consumerization” change, making content marketing and interactive decision support tools more important than ever before.