Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Increased spending on online marketing is driving companies to try new and innovative means of getting the word out about their products and services — one area that’s getting a lot of buzz with B2B marketers is social media. Let us know how your brand uses social media for B2B marketing in the comments below.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Summarizing the questions and calls I get from clients, you would think social media presents B2B marketers with tremendous new marketing opportunities. When rating these tactics on effectiveness, on average, fewer than one in five of marketers who use social media says it is highly effective for branding and lead generation.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You’re engaged in an advertising and marketing campaign that uses the Web as its distribution platform. Especially in comparison to many other communication programs like traditional PR, TV advertising, outdoor advertising and others, social media actually offers pretty solid metrics. This is all to the good.

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 26, 2007

5) Digg 6.5% An online community focused on web marketing, or as the site puts it: "Benefit from the collective intelligence of your peers to discover the best internet marketing strategies and thought leadership." He tells everyone it was the former since it's a better story that way." 7) Ma.gnolia 5.3% 6) StumbleUpon 6.2%

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Blog HubSpot TV Contributors Marketing Kit Internet Marketing Blog The HubSpot Inbound Internet Marketing blog covers all of inbound marketing - SEO, Blogging, Social Media, Landing Pages, Lead Generation and Analytics.

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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. Is Your Online Marketing Strategy All Tweet and No Meat? Study: Company Blogs Lead Social Media Options by MediaPost. Study: Company Blogs Lead Social Media Options by MediaPost.

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

For those not familiar with it, the B2B Marketing Zone (a.k.a. the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers. Writing on the Web ( Ning Advertorial Business Blogging Online Marketing Linkedin Landing Page ). June 8, 2010. June 8, 2010.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Leyl Master Black is a Managing Director at Sparkpr , one of the world’s top independent PR agencies. You can also set up a promotions tab using Fan Appz to offer special deals to your Facebook fans and even use these deals to support lead generation programs.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2010

Companies should follow, not lead, their customers across the social Web. If you have a contact us form, an online lead generation form, an email newsletter sign-up, or a shopping cart, why are you still only asking for name, address, and email address? Because there really is no benefit in beating your customers to the punch.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Provide relevant, timely information to established media This is a really simple tactic I came up with as a PR strategist. Pull PR Pull PR (or inbound PR) is exactly what you think it is – it’s the opposite of traditional PR. pull PR is, in my opinion, a superior approach: you draw media to you.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 2, 2010

For those whose job it is to generate leads and sales through content and social media, here are five excellent new resources to help increase your knowledge. A B2B Marketer’s Guide to Great Facebook Pages from HubSpot (29 pages). 10 Key Online Marketing Trends for 2010 (3 pages). And SM is MUCH more efficient.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Increased spending on online marketing is driving companies to try new and innovative means of getting the word out about their products and services — one area that’s getting a lot of buzz with B2B marketers is social media. Let us know how your brand uses social media for B2B marketing in the comments below.

Social Media 40

Social Media Enterprise Management Social Marketing Work Management 40

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Should social media be under the overall purvue of marketing or PR? What will be the “next&# big issues in social media marketing? How to: Use B2B Social Media for Lead Generation by TopRank Online Marketing Blog. Does social media belong in PR or marketing divisions?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

APRIL 5, 2010

The Dos and Don’ts of B2B Content Reuse - Savvy B2B Marketing , March 30, 2010 Content reuse is a great idea because effective content is time-consuming to produce, and you want to extend its reach as much as possible. B2B Online Marketers Focus on Lead Gen - eMarketer , March 4, 2010 Lead generation for B2B Marketing.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 24, 2011

Instead of just getting subscribers, I’m getting more inquiries and leads for what I sell.&# Josh Chan, an online marketing specialist at Chromatix design admits that his company’s blog underestimated the commitment. It’s also a great source of leads if you use it well.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 24, 2011

Cutting corners or half-assing this exercise will do nothing more than lead you to produce advertorial dribble. Or is it the amount of business (leads/sales) the blog can create for the small business? Having some call to action in your posts to drive leads, newsletter subscribers, twitter followers is also key.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

It Depends , October 13, 2010 Until fairly recently, keeping track of your organization’s online presence was relatively easy. Other than your company’s website, most mentions were likely in well-known online news sites or trade industry publication sites. In lead generation marketing our goal is to get visitors to take action.

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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?), B2B Marketing and Social Media. B2B Marketing: Red-Headed Step-Child of SEM World? by aimClear.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Another notable Pam Dyer post, this one summarizing a study from online advertising network Chitika which shows that Twitter is the best place to share news: 47% of the outbound traffic from Twitter goes to news sites, vs. 28% from Facebook, 18% from Digg and an imperceptable share from MySpace.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 16, 2010

Here’s a modest contribution to help with that effort; more than six dozen of the best, most bookmark-able articles and blog posts about social media tactics, tools and strategies written so far this year, by leading writers like John Jantsch , Lori Dicker , Lee Odden , Lisa Barone , Jay Baer and many more.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

As we shift resources from traditional outbound marketing to inbound attraction marketing, how should we (re)organize to support that? As we rely more on all of our employees (not just marketing and PR) to represent our company through social media, how do we train and motivate them to do so effectively?

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Webbiquity

MAY 14, 2013

Dozens of reasons why corporate blogs still matter in B2B marketing by Content Marketing Experience. J-P De Clerck makes a comprehensive case for corporate blogging—as long as it isn’t done the “wrong” way: “It’s traditional PR in a new package: corporate blogs as a way to shout how great they are.”

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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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Until marketing organizations take an investment approach rather than leads per quarter approach, they still won't “get&# social media. Unfortunately, in my experience marketing and sales groups never accept anything with the word slow in it. link] B-Diggs Amen brother! link] B-Diggs Amen brother!

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