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Marketing Automation Vendors Added Webinars, Social Media, and Dynamic Content in 2011

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Let’s start with three areas that gained a lot of industry attention last year: Webinars, social media, and revenue management. Social Media: It’s no news that social media is a hot topic among marketers, so it’s no surprise that vendors are adding features to support it. from last December.

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New Paper -- Which Social Media Marketing Methods Are Best For You?

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It's a do-it-yourself guide to picking social media marketing methods. Resources include ability to generate large volumes of content, ability to generate high quality content, existing social media traffic, available support staff, and budget. You can download the actual paper here. and TrustRadius.

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idio Does Sophisticated Content Recommendation

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But I ultimately excluded idio because it is tightly focused on identifying the content that customers are most likely to select, a function I felt was too narrow for a proper CDP. It uses advanced natural language processing to extract entities and concepts from this content, classifying it with the vendor’s own 23 million item taxonomy.

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Real Examples of Social Media ROI

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Summary: some published examples of "hard" ROI from social media. As part of the preparation for next Tuesday’s Webinar with 1to1 Media and Neolane (register here ), I poked around for some concrete examples of ROI from social media. I also found plenty of insightful content that doesn’t include specific numbers.

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Why Social Media Really Matters

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Social media is the latest stage in this evolution. One was the disparity between the time people spend on online activities (20% to 30% of total media time) and the share of advertising expenditures spent online (10% to 15%). Thus, social media present a major threat to search advertising revenues.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

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Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

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SAS, Unica and smartFocus Add Social Media Features

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Summary: major consumer-oriented marketing automation vendors have all added some type of social media capabilities. On Monday, marketing automation vendors SAS and Unica both announced new social media capabilities. Techrigy lets marketers and service departments monitor, analyze and respond to comments in social media.