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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity

Marketers follow other marketers, PR pros hang with other PR pros, engineers interact with other engineers. Google settled a lawsuit last fall relating to its Google Buzz service. According to recent research , one-fourth of all online time is spent with social media. Social media is the new PR. The solution?

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10 Important Questions To Ask Before Launching a Product

Launch Marketing

Have discussions with focus groups, use open-ended questions and tune in to research and unsolicited feedback to uncover the details of their pain points and determine if they are major issues or minor inconveniences.

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Seven Ways to Use Social Media for Business

Webbiquity

From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

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5 Reasons I’m Thankful for Social Media

Webbiquity

Social media is fantastic for research and learning. Sure, surveys and focus groups still have their place, but you can learn a lot from what they’re saying in social media circles. Post on Google Buzz. Blowhards (usually) tend to get called out and ignored. Social media makes marketing more fun. Share this on Mixx.

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

Convince & Convert

Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. What are your thoughts on the PR agencies that still have a Social Media or Digital department or practice that operates separately from the rest of the agency?

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Crunchy, salty, nutritious news & views on B2B marketing for technology companies | Velocity - the B2B marketing acceleration agency for technology companies

Online Marketing Institute

It’s a wonderful example… Read more… Stan Woods | March 23rd, 2009 | no comments ROI and social media marketing for B2B One of our clients is talking to us about spending budget on creating online buzz. You don’t have to hire a PR agency to kiss the arses of the editors any more. Your department.

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

Convince & Convert

Market research is as important to most companies as the payroll department. Surveying, physical and online focus groups and opinion polling are still the primary tactics companies depend upon for market prediction and go to market strategy. Before crowdsourcing there were focus groups, which never really worked too well.