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The Ladder of Emotional Values: Pleasure Reigns

Writing on the Web

As incoming information from web and blog pages enters the brain and is processed, our emotional centers assign values to offers. Later, when that leads to a buying decision, people justify their actions with rational logic and intellectual “alibis.&#. This is where greater differentiation and profitability become evident.

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

How can you efficiently nurture those long-term prospects, learning more about their interests in the process, until they are really ready to engage with sales? They apply technology to a difficult process. It’s with internal processes, office politics and other issues. The buying process has fundamentally changed.

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The B2B Inbound State of Mind: Build the Brand

MLT Creative

According to Courtney Wiley of iMedia Connection , “The B2B buying process is fundamentally changing. 93% of B2B buyers use search to begin the buying process and 37% post questions on social networking sites when looking for suggestions." Bookmark phenomenal content on Delicious, StumbleUpon or Digg.

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How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy.

Convince & Convert

The first step in that process of course is knowing why it is that you’re blogging. If you don't have remarkable content, you have not differentiated yourself and therefore is no reason for people to pay attention. It’s imperative that you select the most relevant ones that match with your blog’s purpose and intent.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Humanize Your Blog Remember, it’s a blog not a white paper, and a key differentiator is personality. Also, while I think it’s somewhat less likely that a first-time visitor will tweet or Digg or Stumble your work (I’d love to see a study on that), you should make that process as easy as possible as well.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Advice for students: buy yourname.com to secure your brand, make a video resume, start a Wordpress blog, use Google Reader, participate (comment on blogs and link to them), get on Facebook and LinkedIn, network, and more (see slideshow below): | View | Upload your own. Alternately, you can just subscribe to a "best of" RSS feed here.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Positioning yourselves as “lead management” does not help differentiate what you REALLY do. They need a platform that fits together with their CRM/SFA systems but separately helps them to identify and sort the best leads from the rest and to nurture those not yet ready to buy. We can broaden our available market."