Sword and the Script | B2B

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Communicators found their influence grew with executives, even as the functions they performed evolved in 2022; PR and marketing alike battled to win trust amid clutter, noise and skepticism. Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on B2B marketing and PR. Twitter is still a journalist’s favorite social media site.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. Fink) Twitter Comment As always, great stuff.

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Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Twitter Search can reveal top-of-mind concerns and perspectives for specific topics. Blog Phoenix Rising Twitter RebelBrown. "Twitter! I avoided Twitter until May of this year. Marketing Edge podcast.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. PR pros, read this!) ^NS Holden-Bache RT @jaybaer: How to add the digital ecosystem to your ad/PR agency (incl. 17 Services.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Reviewing this year's survey results I was surprised that, while B2B marketers experimented enthusiastically with social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn) and microblogging (Twitter), social media have yet to create budgetary or business impacts on the marketing mix. Note: this research looks at firms of 50 employees or more only.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

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. But that requires agencies to get beyond “setting up&# a Twitter account or other one-and-done services of dubious strategic value. (If

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

A 2010 study by Forrester research found that online viewing now equals that of TV viewing. Use Social Media for extended reach – Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are great outlets for extending your carefully-crafted public relations’ messages. However, the quickly expanding net also provides challenges. The average U.S.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Part one covered what Twitter is and why it's cool ; this post discusses Twitter etiquette, tools, and speculation about its future. How to Twitter Properly Like any other social setting, Twitter has its own etiquette. This is the second of a two-part series. This can be confusing to new users. But there are limits."

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Pop-out the activity stream to keep a real-time feed of what the SEW community is saying, reading and sharing. Nearly 85 percent of B2B decision makers are online and using social media to help in their decision making, according to Forrester Research estimates. IBM employees are encouraged to become Twitter-holics.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

link] [link] duane forrester Alltop RSS – 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness [link] [link] Matt McDougall 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Mktg Success. Instead of the customer leaving your store (or unfollowing on Twitter), this help can encourage customers to stick around and tell their friends, thus increasing sales.

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Sprout Social

MAY 24, 2023

Choosing the right social media tools for government agencies and other public sector organizations is a non-negotiable part of proactively reaching and engaging your citizens, saving your team valuable time, creating internal visibility and, ultimately, serving your community better.

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

Why not just establish some sort of conversion goal from the web on your own site (blog or www) as hub and create a social segmentation, establish process to campaign tag special links / promos and set everything else as a KPI (community size, engagement events). I really don’t see this as a tough thing to solve. Will send you a ping.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 9, 2012

In just a few short years, Twitter has transformed from an odd little sort of public IM service where people posted what they just ate for lunch or what their cat was doing at the moment into one of the big four social networks and a significant channel for news, PR & marketing, politics and more. More than 80% of U.S.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing. applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc. That said there are some options. Hope that helps!

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Brandpoint

MARCH 26, 2021

Having been the marketer of marketers for some of the best advertising, PR, digital and content marketing agencies in the Twin Cities, I’ve learned a few tricks to keep you scrappy when you have fewer resources, but need to bring more to the table. Video marketing It’s not a surprise to know video is the most preferred way of reading content.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

When used properly , a blog establishes the author—and by extension, the author's company—as a knowledgeable and influential voice within a particular industry or community. Blogs are becoming a hugely popular, almost mainstream tool for indirect business promotion. Titus Hoskins offers a helpful list.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Forrester recently released a report by Laura Ramos and Augie Ray on How to Assess the Impact of Social Media in B2B Tech Marketing. Social media is more like a PR activity than marketing or advertising. And as with any other marketing or PR activity, social media efforts be focused on a specific audience. LinkedIn, Facebook).

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Martech Advisor

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This is the gist of earned media, or as Forrester puts it, “ When customers become the channel.” Earned media is the result of the brand doing something noteworthy from the PR perspective or making its customers go wow! The effectiveness of this depends on the effect the influencer has on their community.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

With the rapidly increasing use of social media tools for marketing and PR comes growing pressure to demonstrate results. 8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams by Social Media Today. Forrester: B2B Marketers Need To Keep Up With Business Technology Buyers On Social Media by Forrester Research.

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Hubspot

MAY 16, 2014

There used to be a myth that PR was reserved for big brands with deep pockets. But for Beyoncé, it’s a full-blown PR crisis. As it turns out, all the clout, money, and connections in the world can’t save you from media scrutiny if you overlook one fundamental detail of PR: You have to tell your story.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions. I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. Tweetie This extremely intuitive Mac-only app is my hour-to-hour choice for Twitter. If you’re serious about Twitter, this is a great app.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

According to a HubSpot study, 71% of marketers viewed Twitter as a useful marketing tool last year, up from just 39% in 2009. Facebook added more than 200 million users last year, and Twitter more than doubled in size, adding 115 million. Should social media be under the overall purvue of marketing or PR? Adoption soared.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Look at companies like General Electric who do an amazing job with their blog and yet have almost no “community or comments at all.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

For anyone in marketing or PR being asked to make “data-driven&# decisions “based on the numbers&# (and doesn’t that include pretty much everyone in marketing and PR these days?), At its current rate, Twitter will process almost 10 billion tweets in 2010. Are Twitter Followers Better Than Facebook Fans?

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions. I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. Tweetie This extremely intuitive Mac-only app is my hour-to-hour choice for Twitter. If you’re serious about Twitter, this is a great app.

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B2B Marketing Savvy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Other Twitter Topics: The Graying of Facebook Multiple Account Layering Strategy More Analytics Email The Scoopdog Team. Even if your target communities are exceptionally narrow, odds are these sites capture some segment of your audience base if you embed content. Twitter accounts: yes •LinkedIn: Yes.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang Home About Speaking Research Media Contact Subscribe via RSS Connect with Jeremiah: twitter friendfeed linkedin flickr technorati Connect with Jeremiah on twitter A few years ago, critics said Blogging was a fad. Single Sign On systems don’t go away they simple aggregate this new level of data.

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Metadata

MARCH 16, 2021

I think my old CEO once said, “Yammer is my Twitter.” And they were sort of dubbed by the media were Twitter for business. And it was this new emerging category of a new way to communicate inside your company. So Forrester and Gartner actually ended up adopting the terminology that we coined.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

You don’t have to hire a PR agency to kiss the arses of the editors any more. Check… Read more… Doug Kessler | December 15th, 2008 | 3 comments Five Basic Social Theories of Online PR Roger , our web wonderwall, posted a terrific article on the essentials of Online PR. Your department.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 6, 2011

Today, Tom Pick ( @TomPick ), Online Marketing Executive at KC Associates , who blogs at his award winning B2B Webbiquity , and I ( @ckburgess – Blue Focus Marketing @BlueFocus360 ) present 50 remarkable men on our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men list. These men are indeed using Twitter to rewire and reorient the Web.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

My friends at ExactTarget announced a moment ago that they have acquired CoTweet , the leader in enterprise Twitter management, and will be building a social products lab to add tie-ins for Facebook, YouTube, and other elements of the social communication ecosystem. to be larger than email by 2012 doesn’t hurt, either.

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SnapApp

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Maximise your presence on Twitter and LinkedIn to harvest relationships. Information sources" can be defined broadly: email, Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Forbes online, industry-specific print publications.have an open mind. Our Facebook Instagram, Twitter stream and even our LinkedIn stream is being dominated by video.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty?

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Brand, Reputation, PR, Community, Cust Serv, R&D, Sales / Leads – “The 7 Business Drivers of social” @jasonfalls. Forrester Tech classifies how biz pple use social @bengrossman Creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators 91% spectators. Forrester Study. via @jasonfalls). bengrossman.

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