Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 16, 2010 8 Subscribe What Is The Future Of The Social Media Role? That sounds ominous.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Mike: You're presenting on the use of social media in communications. I've noticed lately that if you have the right media contacts connected with you on Twitter and Linkedin you can almost get your word out through those channels as opposed to the standard techniques. Are traditional media outlets dying? Let it play out.

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 26, 2007

Based on two months of testing across a half-dozen B2B websites and blogs, these Web 2.0 social bookmarking sites produced the best results, in terms of driving direct traffic and having active, engaged discussion communities. Overall, Web 2.0 The percentages shown below are the proportion of total Web 2.0

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 22, 2009

The emergence of social media has dramatically changed the role of public relations. As the landscape has shifted from being dominated by one-to-many mass media to many-to-many participatory social media, the skillsets required of PR professionals have changed.

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 5, 2008

I'll be starting off my presentation at the Blogging for Business Conference tomorrow with this statement: The practice of PR has changed more in the last five years than it did in the previous fifty. Social media has shifted the practice to interactive PR , or, if you prefer, social PR or conversational PR.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

A number of new social networking, social search, social bookmarking, and other Web 2.0-related net Billed as "the complete Web 2.0 directory," this site has cataloged more than 2,000 Web 2.0 net Billed as "the complete Web 2.0 Ning Marketing 2.0 Ning Marketing 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

At the same time, the extraordinary rise of social media means that the thoughts arising from millions of conversations are now available to the world at large. For example, del.icio.us, used with judicious tagging, is a very powerful tool. Certainly the new array of social media and Web 2.0

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Brazil and China, Ogilvy found that social media is extremely influential over buyers’ purchase decisions, that sales people see this change but do not think their companies are adapting quickly enough. They can’t fully blame their organizations as they also did not report using social in the sales process themselves. .

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 3, 2007

Hot on the heels of my last post came several news announcements on the growing influence of Web 2.0 social tagging and its impact on marketing practices. First, there was Use Web 2.0 Author Joe Lichtenberg contends that "Customer engagement drives loyalty, and effective (and judicious) use of Web 2.0

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

BlogWell Event Today At SAP’s Newtown Square, PA Offices Today I will be attending an event titled “ BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media &# including case studies from SAP, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Hershey, and Discovery Communications. Blogs help deliver information from the company to the consumer.

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 26, 2009

One of the most popular posts ever on this blog was The Social Media Email Signature , in which I noted that "In the old days, email signatures pretty much just mirrored business card information (which is still the case for most people).A A growing number of Web 2.0-savvy Social Media Signature"), then click "Next."

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 15, 2009

When it comes to social media, however, MarketingSherpa reported yesterday that a majority of marketers don't believe any experience is necessary to be a social media expert. Their overconfidence in unproven ability can doom social media initiatives to failure."

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

A growing number of Web 2.0-savvy savvy executives, however, are breaking out of the old mold and creatively integrating social networking into their email sign-off. Social networking sites are simply an extension of those two functions, giving other people more information about yourself and additional ways to interact.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 9, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar Strategic Guy Timely views and best practices in the world of technology public relations Sunday, April 12, 2009 Three Phases of Social Media Maturation At Strategic Communications Group (Strategic) weve been through the cycle. This has proved to be spot on when it comes to a social media campaign.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

How should you measure the impact of social media? What are some of the best free tools for monitoring social buzz about your brand or company? Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 24, 2009

MarketingSherpa's 2009 Social Media & PR Benchmark Guide (PDF) provides a wealth of useful statistics and guidance. If you parse that, it matches up pretty closely to the 4 C's model of social media marketing.) In It Came from Facebook! Here's some research on how to do that. technologies." technologies." (If

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Judy Grundstrom at the Just JudyJudyJudy blog yesterday announced the Twin Cities Top Ten Titans In Social Media 2009 , chosen by a distinguished group of judges. The winners come from a variety of backgrounds, including politics ( Dusty Trice ), broadcast media ( Jason Matheson and Alexis Thompson of FM 107.1, Paul del.icio.us

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 2, 2009

Interest in social media marketing is surging, with several recent studies showing that a majority of companies, of all sizes, are now using social media in some form for business purposes. I've also seen dramatically increased interest in hiring social media consultants.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

MarketingSherpa recently published this chart revealing marketers' opinions of where social media fits among what the publication calls the "elite trio" of Internet marketing: social media, search and email. The confusion stems from where social media fits in the marketing mix.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 30, 2009

Given the enormous interest in using social media for business purposes, I've been astounded to hear comments like these at recent conferences: "That's all really interesting, but I can't access any of the websites you just talked about. My company blocks all access to social media sites."

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 30, 2010

David Meerman Scott , in his book The New Rules of Marketing and PR points out that creating quality content is the new imperative: “The tools of the marketing and PR trade have changed. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 But why the focus on content?

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 30, 2009

Understandably, as businesses begin to invest more marketing/PR dollars into social media, there is great concern over the ROI of these activities. Tools like HubSpot do a great job of quantifying social media leads, but still have some last-click bias. Does anyone have any experience with BrandX thingamabobs?").

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 13, 2009

How can you make more efficient use of social media? What are the best examples of organizations using social media for marketing, promotion and interactive PR ? How can you optimize your use of social networking tools like Twitter and LinkedIn? 5 Daily Social Media Builders In Less Than 10 Minutes (Total!)

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

The VirtualHosting blog just announced their list of the Top 100 Social Media and Social Networking Blogs for 2007. The list is divided into nine categories including Most Popular Social Media, Most Popular Social Networking, Web 2.0, Industry News, and Social Media and Marketing.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

How can you make a big splash in social media without a huge budget? Turn your social media contacts into leads, and ultimately customers? Discover the answers to these questions and others here in the penultimate list of the best posts on social media marketing from the past year.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Social media, and discussions of its value for PR and marketing, have become ubiquitous. But which social media tool do marketers find most valuable? What's the best tool for social media research and learning? How can you explain the value of social media to skeptics?

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MLT Creative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

October 6, AMA/AJC Digital Marketing Education Series Atlanta, GA: Explore how marketers are combining traditional and non-traditional research along with social media and word of mouth insights to better decide their media and marketing mix. October 10-13, Web 2.0 October 17-18, Sales & Marketing 2.0

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MLT Creative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

October 6, AMA/AJC Digital Marketing Education Series Atlanta, GA: Explore how marketers are combining traditional and non-traditional research along with social media and word of mouth insights to better decide their media and marketing mix. October 10-13, Web 2.0 October 17-18, Sales & Marketing 2.0

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Wikipedia defines interactive PR as "the practice of using Internet tools and technologies such as search engines, Web 2.0 social bookmarking, new media relations and blogging.to David Meerman Scott's The New Rules of Marketing & PR provides an excellent primer on the subject.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Back in 2006, David Meerman Scott had a done comprehensive analysis over a nine-month period of the large number of meaningless phrases used in corporate marketing and PR materials. The use of buzzwords or clichés in B2B marketing content is not a new trend. He called it “The Gobbledygook Manifesto.”

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Back in May of this year, I reported the results of a test of the impact on B2B website traffic growth using Web 2.0 social tagging. monthly growth rate for the year—still a respectable monthly traffic growth rate, but well below the trend line following the social tagging activity.

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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 11, 2007

The umbrella term of "public relations" (PR) has always covered a number of specialties: media relations (primarily), investor relations, analyst relations, community relations, even employee relations. The social networking of Web 2.0 Used properly, the social media tools of Web 2.0

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 4, 2009

Social media is a bit like art—most of us are pretty sure we know what it is, but articulating a common definition can be challenging. There are many definitions of social media floating about of course, they just aren't consistent. Social Tagging. Tags: Web 2.0

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Note: this is a guest post from Cece Salomon-Lee , social media relations expert and author of the PR Meets Marketing blog. Cece has previously guest-posted here on best practices in PR and blogging outreach. The same goes for social media technology. In this case, social media isn't only for virtual events.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Which social bookmarking sites have the most clout? Can social media really increase revenue? What common mistakes should you avoid in social media marketing? Get the answers to these questions and others here in the final set of the best posts on social media marketing from last year.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 23, 2007

According to recent white paper from Robert Lesser, publisher of LeadGenTools.com , and Paul Dunay of the Buzz Marketing for Technology blog , "B2B marketers are not just embracing Web 2.0 They're rolling Web 2.0 More than half of marketers embracing Web 2.0 Nearly 90% of respondents are using Web 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

I wonder if the popularity of this post is a sign that few people are actually in control of their use of social media. In fact, I think that social media is creating a generation of social outcasts. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). Jun 20, 2008 — Digital Media — Aus Web 2.0

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