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Looking Back at 100: Top 10 Posts on the Webbiquity Blog (So Far)

Webbiquity

How to Write an Ad Agency RFP. Small companies don’t bother with agency RFPs (nor should they) and even mid-sized companies use them less today than in the past. A post that explains why “social media marketing is simpler than you’ve probably been led to believe. Five Big Shifts in Social Media Marketing.

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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your sales team must report to marketing and put these leads back into the hopper for nurturing.

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American Business Media - Research & Marketing

Online Marketing Institute

focuses on the importance that readers, viewers, and attendees place on business info rmation to info rm and help the purchase/decision-making process. focuses on the importance that readers, viewers, and attendees place on business info rmation to info rm and help the purchase/decision-making process.

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Top 25 Posts and 6 Hot Topics - Best of B2B Marketing Zone in January

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Best of B2B Marketing. There is only one objective in social media: create learning networks - Chris Koch , January 8, 2010 There is too much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth about social media objectives and strategy these days. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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

Convince & Convert

On mid-1990s projects, for example, typically organizations defined hundreds of requirements and went through protracted RFP processes in search of the best software and system integrator. link] [link] Hot In Marketing Social Media's Internal Impact – An Interview with Phil Simon | Internal Social Media | Social Media Consultin.

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The Critical Building Blocks of an Enterprise Sales Engine

InsightSquared

Many of you will at some point be faced with a board or executive team who want to get a slice of the juicy enterprise market after experiencing success in the mid-market. In one of my deals, I had 17 people dedicated to winning the RFP for 6 months! We can’t manage an enterprise team as we would the mid-market.

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

Convince & Convert

Inevitably, when corporate America seeks a PR agency to support their communications effort, the Request for Proposals (RFP) asks for critical capabilities that can help a company sift through the myriad of options available and narrow them down to the few that make sense for their specific needs.