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Don’t Blame Facebook: 10 Reasons Low Conversion Rates Are YOUR Fault

Chances are you’ve viewed recent reports about Facebook’s surprisingly low activity rates [...]

More B2B Marketing on Mad Marketing TV — The After Party

After last weeks show, guest host Jeff Ogden and B2B marketing expert, Paul Dunay discuss: – Marketing at a small company versus a larger company – Buyer personas and the importance of knowing your buyers – Approaches for creating engaging content – How writing a book can help generate awareness and build reputation MadMarketingTV is [...] [...]

How much is that Facebook Fan worth anyway?

Vitrue a social media marketing platform determined that the average value of a Facebook ‘fan’ is about $3.60 when it comes to a Media Equivalent Value (MEV) per year. This calculation is based on the brand posting to their Facebook Fan Page twice a day and that they have a million fans which equates to [...] [...]

Microsoft’s Future in Digital Marketing

Over the weekend I got to meet with Romi Mahajan the World Wide Director of the Digital Marketing Platform Group at Microsoft. His role is to create the vision for Digital Marketing as it relates to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites, and Microsoft FAST Search Server technology to create great digital experiences for its customers [...] [...]

What a Trifecta of a Year!

Last year I wrote about how some weeks are hard to top and how lucky I was to have launched my first book – Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) with my co-author Rich Krueger, and I was nominated for BtoB Marketing Magazine’s (a Crain’s publication) list of the Top 25 BtoB Marketers of the Year [...] [...]

Mapping Content to the Sales Funnel AND Buyer types

You often hear about the concept of mapping content to the sales funnel (especially in B2B Marketing) but it’s not so common in practice. I will self confess that I have ignored this one for a while. The other version of this is the mapping of content to your buyer types and this too is [...] [...]

3 More ROIs in Social Media – Conversations Leads and Advocates

If you follow me you know I talk a lot about the ROI of Social Media since I happen to have stumbled on a great ROI using Social Media in providing support for our customers at Avaya. Social customer support I would argue is the single best place to focus your social media efforts since [...] [...]

Understanding the Value of Social Media Data

There is a big difference between data and insights. Technology may have given us access now to endless amounts of data from every corner of the world. But the real challenge is making sense of all this seemingly disconnected data. Data by itself is generally valueless which is why for the most part it takes [...] [...]