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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 4

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by HubSpot Rick Burnes notes that without a strong content strategy to back up social media efforts, marketers risk the "all hat, no cattle" syndrome: lots of attention on Twitter and Facebook, but no compelling content to back it up and turn the curious into the converted. This tutorial is clear and generously illustrated with screenshots.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 2

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He also quotes a HubSpot study finding that three-quarters of bloggers in small to midsize companies say that " their company blogs were 'useful,' 'important,' or 'critical' to their business." Another MediaPost article worth checking out is Scout Labs Offers Cheaper Way To Monitor Consumers.

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 5

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Three Ways People Who Aren't Running for President Can Make Social Media Pay by HubSpot's Inbound Marketing Blog Rick Burnes explains three ways that even organizations which don't have tens of millions of dollars to spend and thousands of volunteers can use social media for marketing and PR, and measure the return.

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 2

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6 Tips for Making a Business Marketing Video by HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog Guest blogger Catie Foertsch provides tips for producing an effective, professional business video, such as starting with a script, using an external wireless microphone, and setting up proper lighting. Social Tagging.

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Best of 2008: Random but Interesting, Part 2

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tags: PromotionWorld Rob Wood TopRank Online Marketing Blog Lee Odden Informal Learning Blog Jay Cross HubSpot Preshant Kaw B2B marketing MediaPost Aaron Goldman Search Insider Summit micro-conversions white paper downloads iMedia Connection J. Brooke Aker semantic search semantic advertising Wildfire Marketing Group Jeremy L.

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Social Media ROI vs. RONI

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Consider, for example, a tactic viewed by many marketers as extremely measurable: Google AdWords. Tools like HubSpot do a great job of quantifying social media leads, but still have some last-click bias. You have no way of even accurately identifying all of those points of exposure, much less assigning a value to each one.

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SEO Is Not Dead, Just Changing: What This Means

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A tactic that is white hat one day becomes gray hat, or even black hat, the next. There will also likely be more emphasis on search-driven conversions, though this is, strictly speaking, more of a website optimization than an SEO issue. Search algorithms are constantly changing.

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