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How Participation Marketing Elevates Your Social Media Strategy

Convince & Convert

They are authentic, and they are trusted by their peers. Credible research and data validate the proposition that mobilizing employees as media is a good thing: Peer recommendations drive business value. Do a quick search on Twitter or LinkedIn for topics like Hadoop, DevOps, or SecOps. But don’t take my word for it.

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27 surprising facts about salespeople who are Social Selling

Biznology

78% of salespeople using social media outsell their peers (source: Social Media and Sales Quota Survey ). 74% of B2B marketing companies use Twitter to distribute content (source: Content Marketing Institute ). of salespeople using social media outperformed their sales peers (source: Social Media and Sales Quota Survey).

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Are You Ready For The Sharing Economy? Interview With Jeremiah Owyang

Marketing Insider Group

The Sharing Economy is a movement where people have opportunity to get resources from their peers and to access them rather than owning them. Right now, the movement is focused on peer to peer interactions, but large companies have a role in this market, as they can shift their business models to allow products to be rented.

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Is It A Good Time To Be CMO?

Marketing Insider Group

The main finding from a survey of senior marketing executives conducted by Forrester and the Business Marketing Association was that there has never been a better time to be a CMO at business-to-business organizations. 88% of respondents said their peers turn to them more often for data and insight needed to strategize and plan.

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Marketing Leadership: 5 Steps To Learning Agility

Marketing Insider Group

Following that conference, I covered research released at the show from Forrester and the Business Marketing Association that presented evidence that it is a good time to be in marketing, despite all these challenges: 88% of respondents said their peers turn to them more often for data and insight needed to strategize and plan.

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The Multi-Channel Marketing Mandate: Be Where Your Customers Are!

Marketing Insider Group

And so Kimberly McCabe from Sitecore found me on LinkedIn and offered to send me a report they commissioned with Forrester on Multi-channel Marketing. And that is why Forrester called their report “The Multi-channel Maturity Mandate.” While it is registration-required, I will provide a nice summary here for all of you.

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The Best Marketing Conferences In 2014

Marketing Insider Group

You can get a sense for the hottest trends, new ideas, a fresh perspective and of course you can make great connections with your peers that can pay dividends in so many ways. Forrester Forum For Marketing Leaders. Which marketing conferences are you attending this year? So please vote, share and tell me which ones you are going to?