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Forrester Consulting's Moronic Blogging Policy

Marketing-Gimbal

On Friday our PR firm sent this post fromSageCirclerelating to Forrester's recent decision (some say it has been in effect since mid to late 2009) to ban all personal blogs from analysts that relate to topics they are researching for. Tags: Branding Marketing Social Networking.

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

Webbiquity

Your PR team was aware of most of these as it often had a hand in generating those placements. 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.

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Forrester: If You Think Social Media Marketing is Worthless, You’re Doing it Wrong

readwrite

According to the the latest report by analyst firm Forrester, many people are looking at the face-value dollars and cents of social media marketing and, put simply, they’re doing it wrong. The post Forrester: If You Think Social Media Marketing is Worthless, You’re Doing it Wrong appeared first on ReadWrite.

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The Battle for Trust: 18 Comms, PR and B2B Marketing Stats Summarizing 2022

Sword and the Script | B2B

Communicators found their influence grew with executives, even as the functions they performed evolved in 2022; PR and marketing alike battled to win trust amid clutter, noise and skepticism. Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on B2B marketing and PR. Annual spending on PR software grew 14.7% 34% said ebooks.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Look to Facebook Somewhat surprising (at least to me) was the finding in the Forrester study that 62% of influential impressions from Mass Influencers took place on Facebook, with Twitter just 10%.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

And while substantially smaller than the Facebook brigade, the Twitter crew is tuned in to brands like nowhere else on the social Web. 49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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2010 B2B Marketing Budgets and Mix Trends Research

Online Marketing Institute

Reviewing the prior survey's results published in April 2009 , I expected that the economy -- and burgeoning interest in social media -- would accelerate the shift toward digital channels throughout 2009 to an unprecedented degree. Note: this research looks at firms of 50 employees or more only. So what does all of this mean?