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  • Small Business and the Presidential Election, the Economy, and Marketing

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    US small business owners favor Governor Mitt Romney over President Barack Obama as the presidential candidate better equipped to lead the US in an economic recovery, according to the MerchantCircle Confidence Index, which polled local business owners about the economy and their expected revenues and marketing.

  • 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends

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    B2B marketers are spending more, using more tactics, and distributing their content on more social networks than they have in years past, according to the latest findings of a study from MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute: B2B Content Marketing: 2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America.

  • Content Plays Critical Role Throughout Tech-Buying Cycle

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    When making a major technology or security solution purchase, information technology decision-makers (ITDMs) download an average of nine content assets throughout the buying cycle, according to a report by IDG.

  • Five Rules on How Not to Use Social Media

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Social media is a powerful thing, which is why it can wreak havoc if misused or misdirected. Here are five rules for building users' trust, interesting them in your business, and getting them to talk among themselves about it.

  • Tweets Influence Traffic to Political Donation Sites

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    The first debate of the 2012 Presidential race between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney sparked some 10.3 million tweets on the evening of October 3 and became the most tweeted event in US political history, according to a report by Twitter and Compete.

  • Social Marketing: Key Trends and Tools for B2Bs and B2Cs

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    More than three-quarters (76%) of marketers say their brands are conducting social media marketing, and an additional 16% plan to begin doing so by the end of 2012, making for a potential social marketing contingent of 92%, according to Chief Marketer's 2012 Social Marketing Trends Survey.

  • People Respond to Stories: Rohit Bhargava Talks Likeonomics on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: None

    Rohit Bhargava, author and social media strategist, thinks business books need to be useful—to help you solve a problem you're facing. So it has to speak to you from the get-go, draw you in, and convince you it's going to help you solve your problem. And the best way to do that is to start off by telling a story.

  • Dissecting Social Media Buzz on Controversial Topics

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    Not all social media conversations, particular those related to controversial health topics, are legitimate or authentic, according to a study by KDPaine & Partners that explores the nature of viral conversations around three controversial topics: high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and vaccinations.

  • What Marketers Can Learn From Farmers

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    Marketing is a game of seasons and cycles. We deal with ups and downs, timing, and patience. It's a lot like farming, actually. Farmers have to deal with seasons, and so do you.

  • Tech Marketing Budgets Under Pressure

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    Tech companies are increasing their marketing budgets a paltry 1.7% in 2012, roughly one-half the 3.5% bump they reported in 2011, according to the "2012 CMO Tech Marketing Benchmark Study" from IDC.

  • 23 Tips for Using LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter for Business

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    With the global economy still slumping, businesses and marketing companies are embracing new methods of social marketing as a way to spread the word in a more reliable, consistent, and cost-effective way. Are you taking advantage of all that LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter offer?

  • Photo-Sharing on Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr

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    Nearly one-half (46%) of online adults post original photos and videos they themselves have created, and 41% curate photos and videos they find elsewhere on the Internet and post them on various photo-sharing sites, according to a study by Pew Research.

  • Instagram Surpasses Twitter in Daily Mobile Traffic

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    Instagram, the popular photo-sharing platform, attracted an average of 7.3 million daily users in the US via mobile device in August 2012, surpassing the 6.9 million who visited Twitter via mobile device, according to data from comScore Mobile Metrix 2.0.

  • Social Sharing Best-Practices for B2Bs and B2Cs

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    As might be expected, the best day and time of day to share content via social media depends on your target audience (business or consumer) and the specific social platform you're using, according to research by Compendium.

  • Who Has Time for All That PR Stuff?

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    When people want to know about you, your products, and your success story, the first thing they do is go to Google to see what you're doing, even before checking out your website. And if you look as if you don't have momentum, you may never get that call. It's not too late to start doing that PR stuff...

  • B2B Content Marketing: Trends and Benchmarks for 2012

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    Content marketing is gaining in popularity: 83.5% of B2B marketers surveyed say they are stepping up their content marketing production over the next 12 months, up from the 71% who said so a year earlier, according to a report by Holger Schulze for Optify.

  • Three Customer Service Lessons From Dave 'United Breaks Guitars' Carroll on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Dave Carroll is the man whose guitar United broke. He joined us to discuss his book, titled United Breaks Guitars, about the experiences that led up to his now famous music video, lessons he learned along the way about social media, and the keys to effective, meaningful customer service. I asked him what companies need if they are to avoid a "Dave Carroll" in their future. This is what he told me.

  • Why Facebook Users 'Like' (and 'Unlike') Brands

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Nearly nine in ten Facebook users (87%) say they "like" brands on Facebook, and among them fully one-half (50%) say a brand's Facebook page is more useful than its website, according to a survey from Lab42.

  • Nineteen (19!) Ideas for Growing Your Email List

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    What would you rather have, a big list with dismal conversion rates or a smaller list targeting a highly engaged audience? Thought so. For a healthy opt-in email list, quality always trumps quantity, and here are 19 budget-friendly ways to get the list you want.

  • Four Steps to a Social Media Strategy [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Engaging your customers online requires more than just being on the same social networks they are on. You first need to determine what your goals are for social media, how to measure the success of those goals, what tactics to use in your plan, and how to execute that plan.