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

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

40% of Marketers plan to increase their budgets in 2010. IT marketers meeting buyers' online content needs. Salesforce.com announces Chatter, social computing for enterprise companies. Marketing Automation gets Social – the first major announcement about social marketing automation.

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Social media is only one part of your B2B inbound marketing engine. Is it time for a tune-up?

MLT Creative

The engine works like this: Social Media + Search-Engine Optimization + Blog + Call-to-Actions + Conversion and Lead Generation = Inbound Marketing. Mount this inbound marketing engine under the hood of your website, and turbo-charge it with marketing automation and a CRM program such as Salesforce.com.

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Content is King in B2B Marketing, but Customers are the Power Behind the Throne

MLT Creative

Most marketers, especially those in B2B, understand the importance of customer relationship management. CRM tools like Salesforce , Sugar , SAP CRM and others have made it easier to integrate marketing automation with sales opportunities among a company’s current customers, in addition to nurturing leads from non-customers.

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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 [.]. Segmenting IT buyers in Your Marketing Automation Campaigns - Lead Views , November 22, 2010 Today’s post is by Ben Bradley, Managing Director at Macon Raine, Inc.

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Top 37 B2B Marketing Posts and Hot Topics August 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Nurture The Leads In Your Sales Funnel – On Social Media - Lead Views , August 27, 2010 Today, in most B2B companies, the marketing departments engage in Lead nurturing programs. Lead nurturing in fact becomes an integral part of the Lead Management process for those companies which use Marketing Automation solutions.

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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). If your marketing is broken, marketing automation just gets you to the wrong place more reliably.