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The 22 Best Virtual Event Platforms

Webbiquity

Today’s virtual event platforms are adding features like virtual expo halls and exhibitor booths, 3D environments and avatars, social media integration, gamification, one-to-one video networking, content libraries, and detailed attendee activity analytics. Pricing: $4,800/$16,000/$26,700 per event; enterprise pricing by quote.

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Is “social media campaign” an oxymoron?

Chris Koch

If you had asked me a few years ago whether the traditional marketing campaign had any place in social media I would have scoffed. After all, “engaging” is one of the four components of social media management. Facebook is the fun social network. Fly-by-night opportunists hoping to win your Facebook sweepstakes.

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Is “social media campaign” an oxymoron?

Chris Koch

If you had asked me a few years ago whether the traditional marketing campaign had any place in social media I would have scoffed. After all, “engaging” is one of the four components of social media management. Facebook is the fun social network. Fly-by-night opportunists hoping to win your Facebook sweepstakes.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

Webbiquity

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. But they’re just that: tools. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Seed this on Newsvine. Add this to Mister Wong. Share this on FriendFeed.

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B2B Pay Per Click Advertising

LeadSloth

I have written a lot about Inbound Marketing ( social media and search engine optimization ): it’s free, but takes a fair amount of time to set up. For clients that are using marketing automation platforms like Marketo or Eloqua, there is a bit more integration to do, but the links can still be made to work.

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Steve Woods , CTO and co-founder at marketing automation provider Eloqua, for a wide-ranging conversation about the future of marketing and the challenges faced by those adopting marketing automation / demand generation systems. Here are six key points that surfaced from our conversation.