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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity

Wikis (Wikipedia, hundreds of specific topic-focused wikis). Sure, social media can in some cases drive lead generation and even direct sales (so can PR), but that isn’t its strength or its primary purpose. Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media).

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B2B Marketing Thought Leadership: Tom Pick

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

As part of a new feature on this blog, I will be interviewing industry thought leaders to provide expert advice on lead generation, making the most of your current leads with effective lead management, and increasing your marketing ROI. What do you see as the biggest oversight by marketers in terms of lead generation?

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Strategic Guy: Three Phases of Social Media Maturation

Online Marketing Institute

Thought leadership-based lead generation tactics -- such as educational Webinars -- combined with good old fashioned sales outreach must be defined and put in place. Axel - thanks for the comment and raising the issue of social media as a channel for lead generation and sales support.

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How to Create a Social Media Marketing Strategy

WebMarketCentral

The publisher defines social media marketing and PR as "the practice of facilitating a dialogue and sharing content between companies, influencers, prospects and customers, using various online platforms including blogs, professional and social networks, video and photo sharing, wikis, forums and related Web 2.0 technologies." (If

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.) Among other stuff.

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts for September 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

And as any blogger can tell you, PR pros understand this, as witnessed by the incredible increase in blogger outreach “pitches&# from corporate PR departments and firms over the past two years. B2B advertising spend on social media and lead generation sites is forecasted to grow at an annualized rate of 21% and 17% respectively to 2013.