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Three Words That Should Never Be Used With Social Media

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It supports a brand, and needs to integrated with other marketing and PR activities rather than treated as a separate island (just as, for example, a company’s search and display advertising should communicate a consistent message). It’s a component (an increasingly essential one) of an overall marketing and PR plan.

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Web Wise on the Sales Side

Webbiquity

Your company website can serve as far more than a marketing and PR vehicle—it should be a genuine sales tool as well. The new Flip Cameras are great tools to use to interview clients at trade shows, in their offices or at your own office, and the videos are easy to upload to your website. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Seven Ways to Use Social Media for Business

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The bottom line is that while social media marketing definitely provides benefits (such as a higher conversion rate for organic search traffic ), it’s not generally effective as a direct promotion tool. Traditionally, customer case studies, PR and analyst relations have filled this role. promote events, meet up at trade shows).

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2010 B2B Marketing Budgets and Mix Trends Research

Online Marketing Institute

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. Marketing budget allocations for 2009 looked identical to 2008, with marketers spending less on trade shows, for example, by attending fewer of them.

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Viral Marketing for B2B Lead Generation, Part 2: Viral Promotion

WebMarketCentral

Part 1 of this series rated the various types of viral media; this post focuses on promoting your viral content to get maximum exposure and pass-along. Having your campaign cited in online industry trade online publications is also a highly effective viral promotion tactic—and again, it costs nothing other than the PR legwork.

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4 Tips for B2B Marketing on Facebook

Online Marketing Institute

Leyl Master Black is a Managing Director at Sparkpr , one of the world’s top independent PR agencies. For example, if you’re selling enterprise security software, why not do a poll where people rate the most evil tech baddies in films like Hackers and The Terminator ?

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts October 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Other than your company’s website, most mentions were likely in well-known online news sites or trade industry publication sites. Your PR team was aware of most of these as it often had a hand in generating those placements. Smashmouth Rating: Thumbs Up! We love them all and use them all in parallel. Is a Blog Just a Container?