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Best Social PR Guides and Tips of 2010 (So Far)

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And as any blogger can tell you, PR pros understand this, as witnessed by the incredible increase in blogger outreach “pitches&# from corporate PR departments and firms over the past two years. Pros & Cons of Applying Social Media to Traditional PR Campaigns by Howell Marketing Strategies. How Is PR Changing?

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2011 B2B Marketing Trends

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While there’s no reason to expect sales cycles to shorten, an improving economy next year should help stabilize the length of the decision process. Generating PRbuzz&# and having a product perceived as “cutting edge&# were called significant challenges by only about a third of marketers, unchanged from last year.

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2011 Social Media Marketing Trends

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Three-quarters of b2b buyers use social media at some point during their purchase decision process, and marketers are responding with increased spending on social media marketing. “Social is much bigger than marketing and PR. “Social is much bigger than marketing and PR. Post on Google Buzz.

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Social Media Success Starts with Listening

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It’s not just that most people aren’t waiting on eggshells in eager anticipation of XYZ Company’s latest PR announcement, it’s that the marketers and PR people at XYZ didn’t take the time to figure out what their prospective buyers and influencers do really care about and want to discuss.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

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This presents misunderstandings (at the least) and enlists your people beyond just the marketing and PR groups. She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). Instead, they want to connect. Amen!). .&#

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How to Sell, Even if You Hate Selling

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Most of us aren’t good at it (if we were, we’d be highly compensated professional sales people instead of managers, marketers, PR practitioners, designers, writers, or whatever). Post on Google Buzz. It’s not comfortable. Doesn’t seem natural. We’re much more comfortable doing than selling.

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Looking Back at 100: Top 10 Posts on the Webbiquity Blog (So Far)

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But if your company wants to use an RFP process to help in selecting a marketing agency, this post will help you craft one that meets your needs without driving the responding agencies crazy. As with the how-to-write-an-RFP post noted earlier, this outlines a solid, traditional process for mid-sized companies but overkill for small firms.

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