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Viral Marketing for B2B Lead Generation, Part 1: Viral Media

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At the game microsite , visitors could choose the type of desk they want to see destroyed, then press a large red “destruct” button to watch the desk get crushed. Microsites are a third highly-rated viral tool. DMNews referred to microsites as "the next big thing in B2B" in this helpful article.

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 1

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Welcome to the first post in the official Best of 2008 series, which will summarize and link to some of the best blog posts and online articles about SEO, social media, online marketing strategy and more. Matt Cutts Translated: 8 SEO Tips I Heard Him Tell Eric Enge by SEOmoz SEO expert Brent D.

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Will Content Marketing Kill Trade Publications?

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Check out Joe Pulizzi's Junta42 blog , pick up a copy of Ardath Albee's wonderful new book eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale (which builds upon the foundation laid by David Meerman Scott and others), follow @Mike_Stelzner on Twitter—it's everywhere. Content marketing is all the rage. Authority and independence. Advertising.

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Viral Marketing for B2B Lead Generation, Part 2: Viral Promotion

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Trade publication editors are more likely to write about viral media that are industry-related (and creative) than those that rely primarily on humor. After blog and trade press mentions, social media and social tagging sites such as Digg and del.icio.us are the most effective means of spreading viral content.

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Best of 2008 (So Far) - SEO Guidance, Part 2

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Again, there have been so many excellent blog posts and articles written on SEO already this year that I'm trying to get a jump on 2009. Q&A With Google's Matt Cutts About SEO and the Future of Search by the Epicenter blog from Wired.com Betsy Schiffman posts a brief interview with the head of Google's quality team.

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How to Write a Strategic Marketing Plan

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With so little written on this topic (at least according to Google Blog Search ), one could easily conclude that marketing professionals must be born with knowledge of how to write a strategic marketing plan embedded in their genetic code. That ought to get you started! That ought to get you started!

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Marketing Automation: Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

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They get 95% of the information they need from the Internet—online publications, analyst reports, vendor websites, blogs and other social media—before they have any contact with sales. Buyers no longer rely on sales people for basic information or exploratory "consultation."