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

Convince & Convert

But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. At this point, we should give up the navel-gazing debates on which are the most appropriate acronyms, and focus on solutions that allow us to start conversations in social media.

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

Convince & Convert

I would look at increase in positive social mentions, increase in social conversations indicating purchase intent, actual purchases from defined influencers (if the database and transaction funnel permits that level of tracking), website behavior indicating purchase intent on the part of influencers. Especially the competitive aspect.

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Social Pros 27 – Jeremiah Owyang and Rebecca Lieb

Convince & Convert

Our friends at Janrain , all kinds of interesting social signing and social media database marketing. Most of the agencies, the brands, even the vendors that we spoke to said earned media is where you get these insights about your audience and find out what really sparks conversation and attention. Social Pros Shout Outs.

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HubSpot Custom Properties Every HubSpot User Should Track in Their CRM

SmartBug Media

Target segments or lists to improve message open and conversion rates by sending your message to a laser-focused audience. Streamline the handoff from marketing to sales and service teams by providing relevant information for all teams in your organization.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

I would put Demandbase here along with firms like Active Conversion, Hubspot, iHance, Leadlander, Sales Genius, and Zoominfo. Or disagree with the list…) On the other side, I see solutions more oriented toward marketing and enabling a “pull” model, one focused on letting prospects engage at their own pace. I’m sure I forgot a few.

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Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success

Online Marketing Institute

With these changes, I see Eloqua – like many of the other firms I mentioned in my prior post – moving the B2B marketing conversation ahead in an important direction. They: 1) Sit with sales, talk about leads, and come to an agreement about what is a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL). Seems like there should be a correlation here.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

In B2B, it’s not about batch-and-blast acquisition as much as it is about using email to continue a conversation. Posted by: Laura Ramos | March 26, 2008 at 01:02 AM What a great conversation this is becoming. Once you have the right people in place, you need to start with a conversation. Thanks, Laura, for initiating it.