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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. And even with concerns over social metrics, the rise of content marketing has rushed in to boost social’s street cred. After all, content is the “fuel” that drives the social media engine, right?

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How to Improve the ROI of Your Content Marketing Strategy

B2B Digital Marketer

Good content diverts attention from that fear and makes people relax. If you’re engaging your content marketing strategy this way, then you’re doing it all wrong! Content marketing is a challenging endeavor , and in order to be successful in it, you have to be very intentional. Episode Transcript.

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

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Take a moment to reflect on the year’s most interesting, exciting and sometimes surprising online marketing news. December 2009 Online Marketing News. MySpace and Facebook sign real-time search deals with Google. Google Announces New Offerings in Real-Time, Mobile and Social Search. November 2009 Online Marketing News.

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The Changing Rules of B2B Marketing

Paul Gillin

Here is a draft of the first chapter of Social Marketing to the Business Customer by Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman. This chapter focuses on drawing the major distinctions between business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) markets and where social marketing has particular value to B2B companies.

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Ethan Beute: Rehumanizing B2B Digital Marketing

B2B Digital Marketer

Rehumanizing B2B Digital Marketing. With technology advancing and our world rapidly changing, automation and digital communication becomes the modern approach to marketing. The human connection is gone and marketers are no longer able to build a relationship with their customers. Timestamps/Outline. 12:04 – 1.

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How to Leverage LinkedIn to Become an Industry Influencer

A Better Jones

And then we can focus on the content. A little bit about me, I've been running a lot of marketing for John and Jay Barrows. And then I've also done B-to-B side sales which is where my heart is. Pretty much everything on the top of funnel side on both marketing and sales. Lucas: Yeah, you're a little pixelated.

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

Hubspot

Key Points from "Science of Inbound Marketing" Session. People hate outbound marketing (cold calls, spam, junk mail, etc.) This makes inbound marketing a much more effective, and cheaper way to reach people. It is entirely possible for your marketing not to suck. Determine what the half-life of your marketing channels is.