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JULY 14, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 14, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing Even though “content curation” is not a common phrase, there’s plenty of discussion to be found on the Internet. So curated content is not something new.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

But, in short, here is where this notion that the App Store is going off the rails is pretty baseless: – 280 million apps were downloaded from the App Store in December alone, generating $250 million in revenue. (I In December, that meant $175 million in revenue to developers.

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MAY 13, 2010

18 social media quotes jay baer View more presentations from Jay Baer. Every company is its own TV station, magazine, and newspaper. I love your quotes and they are spot on!

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

But, let’s say he’s only generated 20 million views. If not then people need to take a deeper look at his claims and ask some serious questions. link] jaybaer You raise a fair point. I have found Scott to be exceptionally ethical in every way. Does that really impact the value or validity of what he’s teaching?

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JANUARY 4, 2011

As my friend Crispin Sheridan shared recently on ClickZ, targeting these “first mover” items is good for link generation. Unless they’re mentioned in the news, do they really have interesting content that you – as a blogger/journalist - would want to link to? Links Let’s be real. White papers?

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JUNE 17, 2010

The Followers Per Tweet Equation Certainly, you can generate a ton of Twitter followers using any number of schemes, tricks, and other false economies. Assuming, however, that you are not using some sort of @ptbarnum system to generate thousands of followers). Over the past 30 days, it was approximately 10%. Followers per tweet.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Simon RT @JamieCrager: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing by @jaybaer [link] RT @HowellMarketing: @MarisaCorser @cargillcreative [link] Abbi Siler RT @dscweb: Story of small biz helping customers share experiences thru soc media from @jaybaer Very cool [link] #smallbiz [link] Joel Book RT @jaybaer: The 3 Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

We believe – perhaps falsely – that with our combined readership we could generate a lot of votes regardless. We absolutely realize it could be interpreted as if we’re trying to “buy&# votes with Make-A-Wish Foundation as the conduit. But that’s not the intention at all.

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APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. link] [link] Jeff Deibel Consumers generated over 500billion online impressions about products.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I look forward to getting past the basic questions of application of social media for B2B and starting to focus on things like lead generation and social CRM as we move forward in 2010.-= Big List: 13 B2B Social Media Prediction Blog Posts For 2010 =-. Big List: 13 B2B Social Media Prediction Blog Posts For 2010 =-.

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APRIL 15, 2010

To be on the same list (much less on top) with bloggers for whom I have tremendous respect and admiration ( Valeria Maltoni , Lee Odden , David Meerman Scott , and many others) is a real affirmation for what I’m trying to do. If you purchase a magazine ad to promote your company, that ad might generate a lot of new customers.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

That seems short-sighted and workable only for very small companies with a minimum of online chatter about them. You can’t sell ideas, and unless companies of all sizes can figure out how to assign real or at least believable revenue or cost reductions to social media, this entire movement is going to flame out in 18 months.

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JULY 6, 2010

From raising awareness, to connecting with consumers in the way they want to engage and fostering positive action, leveraging CSR in the social media world can strengthen consumer trust and loyalty, encourage followers (and their friends) to take action and participate, and put a halo over the brand that dives in.

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MARCH 25, 2010

That’s why there’s a built-in calculator where you can input your costs (hard costs + labor costs) for each social media outpost, and the system automatically calculates your ROI. For example, you can determine in an instant what the cost and return per view is for a YouTube video you spent $5000 on to generate 25,000 views.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Last week, I was on a content marketing discussion panel (moderated by Jeff Rohrs ) at the ExactTarget Connections conference. I was joined by Joe Pulizzi from Junta42 , Ann Handley from MarketingProfs , and Brad Kleinman from Online Marketing Connect. Extra resources are important. But this distribution surprised me.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Customer Relationship Management Marketing can generate new opportunities, repeat business and most of all, additional revenue. Many companies fail to utilize their own client base for revenue generating opportunities. Whether large or small, each and every business is dependent upon their customer relationship strategy.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Better question: How can we develop a sustainable, ongoing social media strategy that will turn customers into advocates over the long haul? How can we find the most influential bloggers and get them to write about our client? But at the end of the day, it’s a time and cost expense that is meant to generate business.

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JULY 14, 2010

On one side, it is social media that must adapt to the organization: the ROI is not going to come from a ‘social media strategy’ but from the contributions made by social media tools to specific business objectives.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&# What other social media fallacies do you have? I might add; Social Media can be managed by a junior marketing person. Tyler Excellent post.

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APRIL 6, 2010

You’ll be amazed at how many content-creation ideas this simple exercise can generate. What shows up in these search results? How much photo and video content appears? Content from your competitors? Understand Your Frequency Schema The key to a content ladder is organizing your rungs.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Elf Name Generator =-. Elf Name Generator =-. Elf Name Generator =-. link] bill_fennell (bill_fennell) Twitter Comment 7 steps to a social media strategy [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] laurenabele (A. Clare Swindlehurst´s last blog. Clare Swindlehurst´s last blog.

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MAY 11, 2010

Social media clearly has the ability to mitigate doubt and confusion among fence-sitters. This approach will certainly generate sizzle but will it sell the steak? But, I didn't think of it until now, and I'm also trying to generate clicks, not win an accuracy contest.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Is social media creating a generation of cowards? &# My take on it may surprise you … and provide uncomfortable reading if you are a parent or social media junkie. Other than your company’s website, most mentions were likely in well-known online news sites or trade industry publication sites. Have I gone MAD??

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Social Media in B2B Marketing - Survey Results - Everything Technology Marketing , November 16, 2010 The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted a survey earlier this year to explore the rapidly changing landscape of social media in the context of B2B marketing. ReTweeting. Reporting news.

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JUNE 11, 2010

People think the sense of entitlement in the younger generation is a problem. (I I think that this country and the world is full of as Tony Robbins says–Urgency Junkies. And now with the transparency of the web it's become overwhelming as everyone tries to keep up and one up. But I believe the real epidemic is Instant Gratification.

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JULY 22, 2010

Does More Than Test the Social Waters: Like all long term relationships, building real connections with customers requires a certain level of commitment, and each of the three businesses above are clearly willing make the investment.

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JUNE 3, 2010

It seemed that creating and editing these beastly things would always be a complex and expensive task until the arrival of the first online form generators, of which Wufoo was one. Which leaves us with a huge question: who owns the data generated by visitors to these “sites&# ? Ok, I’ll knock it off.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Without that passion internally, there's no chance of generating the spark between brand and audience. link] (via @jaybaer) susanbaier … which brings up a nice point about ensuring that your employees are fanatically enthused about what your company does. link] Promotional Products Great post Susan!

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AUGUST 26, 2010

Keyword Volume and Analysis – Comparative data across multiple terms Influencer Report – Who is talking about you that has disproportionate online influence? There’s a bonus feature that automatically selects winners of online contests, via random number generator.

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JULY 13, 2010

(And, they WILL walk out the door, since most agencies realize they at least need “skin in the game” and are actively recruiting) Damages Other Employees: You have an obligation to help the next generation become the very best professionals they can be. Don’t cheat them of that opportunity. (Oh, It’s a big world out there.)

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Free Download: 2010 Online Marketing Blueprint. Blog to Generate Leads - Lead Views , July 16, 2010 The importance of Corporate blogging is known to all, but few companies are able to use this medium as a lead generation tool. Yes, corporate blogs are an excellent resource for Lead generation. Name your blog.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Setting up multiple iPods on an iMac or PC was never easy either until later generations. USB and external memory slots = giving up a little control. randygiusto yeah, interesting non-multi-user experience. I hadn't thought of that. link] Dan Birlew Thanks dude.

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JUNE 8, 2010

I suppose if we said generate leads by listening it may have an impact instead of listening to conversations to find new opportunities. I suppose if we said generate leads by listening it may have an impact instead of listening to conversations to find new opportunities. SuzanneVara [link] Suzanne Vara Listen.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Ask Perhaps the most obvious way of finding out where your customers are hanging out in social media is unfortunately the least utilized. If you have a contact us form, an online lead generation form, an email newsletter sign-up, or a shopping cart, why are you still only asking for name, address, and email address?

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APRIL 22, 2010

Our natural desire for compartmentalization and shorthand has caused us to kill the value of “social media&# as a descriptor. You’ll perhaps remember that “social media&# was originally coined to reference user-generated content. And our modern definition of “social media&# still includes that component.

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JUNE 23, 2010

What is the next generation of crowdsourcing? The 3 C’s of Next Generation Crowdsourcing: Co-Creation, Constant, and Control Co-Creation There are people out there that love your product. Next-generation crowdsourcing always recognizes effort via reward, social status, and incentives that are meaningful to the user.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The premise is that it takes a “wizened older generation” with a broad scale of knowledge and experience to form good judgment. Judgment and Wisdom Are Not the Same A column by The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan entitled Youth Has Outlived Its Usefulness, focused on good judgment. I disagree.

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