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Social media ROI sucks! (Or, you can prove anything if you send out a survey)

ViewPoint

And even with concerns over social metrics, the rise of content marketing has rushed in to boost social’s street cred. After all, content is the “fuel” that drives the social media engine, right? But things can get murky when marketers are asked to rate social media in terms of contributing to business goals.

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10+ Essential Research Reports & Guides for B2B Marketers

KoMarketing Associates

MarketingProfs 2013 B2B Content Marketing Report. The 2013 B2B Content Marketing report, created by MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute takes an in-depth look at budgets, benchmarks, and trends to watch for with B2B content marketing. BtoB Research Defining the Modern Marketer.

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4 New Marketing Fundamentals Impacting the B2B SEO Professional

KoMarketing Associates

In Forrester Senior Analyst Anthony Mullen’s new report, “ Emerging Touchpoints Require A Marketing Mind Shift “, he identifies four fundamentals marketers must realize, in order to succeed in today’s technology and information-rich environment. Value is the Currency. Agents Broker Brand Relationships.

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How Social Media Helps Marketing, PR, And Sales Become Better Friends

Marketing Insider Group

The alignment problem is what drove me into here… BtoB Magazine recently reported on a Forrester survey that proves the point that this is huge challenge: only 8% of B2B companies say they have tight alignment between sales and marketing. I guess this shouldn’t be a huge shocker. I started my career in sales. What Now? ”

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Top 50 B2B Marketing Influencers On Twitter

Marketing Insider Group

ForresterForrester Research, Inc – An independent research company that provides pragmatic advice to global leaders in business and technology. BtoBmagazine – BtoB Online – The resource for # marketing strategists. Home of Chief Content Office Magazine and THE event Content Marketing World.

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Top-10 Marketing Automation Blogs

LeadSloth

Ardath is a talented independent marketing consultant who writes about using content to engage with prospective customers; she really gets Marketing & Sales collaboration. David’s posts are about content-based marketing, which is an important ingredient of successful lead generation.

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What’s your Social Media diet?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I break out my reading by several meta-topics like Must Reads which is mostly keeping me up to date on things like Facebook because of my book and the new book coming out in November as well as B2B Marketing trends, Primary are blogs that I frequent such as the majors like Mashable and the individual blogs like Web Ink Now (plus a ton more), some personal (..)