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2011 B2B Marketing Trends

Webbiquity SMM

MarketingSherpa recently released its 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. As MarketingSherpa notes, “Year after year, the greatest challenge that B2B organizations face is generating high-quality leads.&#. Share this on Technorati. You can download the executive summary for free (or pay $400 for the full report ).

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How Marketers are Using Social Media for Business: New Report

Webbiquity SMM

Metrics related to ROI, such as leads generated and direct sales, were mentioned by only about half of the survey respondents as key benefits of social media marketing. B2B marketers were slightly more likely to report increased sales than than their B2C counterparts. …But Facebook Means Consumer Marketing. Facebook – 87%.

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5 Reasons I’m Thankful for Social Media

Webbiquity SMM

Just a few of the cool people I likely never would have gotten to know without social media include Jill Konrath , J-P De Clerck , Jennifer Kane , Judy Grundstrom , Alice Elliott , Paul Dunay , Ambal Balakrishnan , Tony Karrer (my partner in the B2B Marketing Zone and Social Media Informer ), the B2BTOTY steering committee or the LeBron team.

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Social media loyalty: me like you long time (but me hard to get)

Mindjumpers

Sounds like B2B marketing and lead nurturing, doesn’t it? I wonder what a similar survey would find in, let’s say, two years from now, when the “new” media of today won’t be called new anymore. with 77% of the respondents. Similar Posts: Why You Need a Blog: Blogs Are The Websites of The Social Media World.

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Zuberance Webinar June 24 Shows How to Turn Word of Mouth into Sales

Bill Hartzer

Zuberance , a Word of Mouth marketing company that provides an on-demand platform that enables B2B and B2C marketers to identify and mobilize their Advocates, generating leads and sales, is hosting a free webinar on June 24th (today) 11 AM Pacific Time about how to turn “word of mouth&# into actual sales. Share this on Technorati.

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Seven Ways to Use Social Media for Business

Webbiquity SMM

From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

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The Social Media ROI Debate

Webbiquity SMM

Social Media ROI – How 3 B2B Technology Companies Are Achieving Revenue Results by MarCom Ink. Kim Cornwall Malseed summarizes the social media wisdom and ROI results gleaned from a panel of b2b marketing pros including Holger Schulze of SafeNet, Frank Strong of Vocus and Susan Cato of CompTIA. .&# Share this on Technorati.

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