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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year. But no one knows how best to use it, which has led to a wide range of offerings under the social media label.

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How to Choose a Social Media Listening Platform for B2B Marketing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

There is a growing number of listening platforms devoted to Social Media – everything from highly customized services that are managed for you, to free tools you can manage yourself. Between the myriad of vendors and the accompanying hype it makes it difficult to figure out the best solution to meet your needs. Tweet This!

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31+ of the Coolest Social Media, Search and Web Tools of 2010

Webbiquity

Supplement your email list with your contacts’ social network info? Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? Display a feed of brand-related comments from a variety of social networks on your website? Promote events through social media?

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Will Facebook replace your B2B Marketing email system?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

If Facebook can create this type of rich interaction with their Fan Pages and now their email systems – then why would you need an external email vendor? Tags: Buzz Marketing Communications Facebook Interactive Marketing Social Media Social Networking email Marketing. Did I forget to mention all of this is FREE!

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Nine Expert Guides to Local SEO

Webbiquity

Any business that primarily relies on customers within it’s local geographic area—which includes not just restaurants and dentists but also some types of b2b vendors, such as IT services and of course marketing and PR firms—needs to understand the ins and outs of local search engine optimization (SEO). Share this on Bebo.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity

The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. Social Mention. blogs, microblogging sites, social networks, etc.). Share this on Bebo.

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How Social Media Changed the Sales Cycle into the Buying Cycle

Webbiquity

Once they developed a short list of vendors for consideration, they contacted the companies (using phones, which were connected via wires) and the companies sent them (printed) sales collateral by mail (postal, that is). Prospects can ask questions, within or beyond their social networks. What will they find? DBXNT74M6AKY.