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Technology Marketing Budgets Recover With Strength into 2011

The ROI Guy

According to IDC’s annual “Tech Marketing Barometer Study”, marketing budgets are recovering with strength in 2011, with an expected 8% annual increase over 2010 levels. This shift is dramatic, with the traditional media spend reduced in half from 2009 to 2010, with expected continued declines into 2011.

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Three Tips to Build Powerful Customer Connections

No More Cold Calling

World”—that’s how I met Todd McCormick at the Fall 2011 Sales 2.0 Social media, blogs, pay-per-click advertising, and SEO are all excellent strategies for attracting prospects when they’re still in the research stage, before a sales rep has gotten involved in their buying process. Face to Face in a Sales 2.0 conference.

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The R and the I – What’s Engagement Worth?

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Chris Selland is CMO at Terametric , a company focused on maximizing marketing ROI by helping marketers capture and measure all their channel marketing data. Chris originally published this post on November 14, 2011, and it is republished here with his permission. As I chimed in on a Focus Q&A recently.

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6 Outdated SEO Tactics to Avoid At All Costs

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Usually monetized through online advertisements, these pieces of work tend to lack value and relevance to readers, as their “core purpose is simply to gain search engine rankings for every conceivable term” ( source ). In most cases, content farming strategies emphasize quantity over quality.

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Join the Global Business Cocktail by Fabrizio Faraco

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The first one populated a lot of blogs following the dissemination of outcomes of a Forrester Consulting survey compiled for Facebook in December 2011 to evaluate how marketing leaders are building brands in the connected world. Marketing and advertising were the same thing, and the job was to promote what was made. I think so.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink.

The ROI Guy

Friday, October 22, 2010 Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 2011 according to new Harte-Hanks research Technology marketers are challenged today with handling proliferating marketing channels to reach and engage more overloaded, skeptical and frugal buyers than ever before.

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