Where Do Marketers Get Customers? [Data]

by Sara Davidson

Date

May 23, 2013 at 9:00 AM

customer-generation-dataTime and time again, we get asked for benchmark data, particularly about customer generation. Well, you may remember we recently launched our 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Research Report, and we used the mounds of research there to try to, you know, "give the people what they want."

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Twitter Introduces Lead Generation 'Cards' to Collect Leads From Tweets

by Ginny Soskey

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May 22, 2013 at 5:22 PM

twitter-cardHold on to your hats, marketers, because we’ve got some exciting news that’s going to transform the way you use Twitter Ads. 

A little background first: back in June, Twitter rolled out Twitter Cards, their name for the multimedia you sometimes see in expanded tweets on Twitter.com, Android, and iOS applications.

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22% of Salespeople Don't Want to Make Money

by Rosalia Cefalu

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May 22, 2013 at 12:30 PM

sales-social-selling“Two roads diverged in the social media wood, and I, I took the one less traveled,” said 21.7% of salespeople.

In a recent survey of 511 predominantly B2B sales reps and executives published on A Sales Guy Consulting, approximately 22% of salespeople claimed they didn’t use social media to close deals, while an overwhelming 78.3% said they had used social media to sell.

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A Chat With an Internet Addict Who Was Forced to Go Off the Grid

by Corey Eridon

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May 22, 2013 at 9:00 AM

internet-addictMy fellow inbound marketer Sam Mallikarjunan is an internet and social media junkie -- always connected, always checking in, always tweeting, always emailing. He went on a cruise with no internet for a week, and had to leave his cell phone and computer at home. Here's how it went.

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The Future of Inbound: Shel Israel Looks Ahead to the 'Age of Context'

by Dan Lyons

Date

May 21, 2013 at 4:00 PM

shel_typewriterShel Israel writes The Social Beat blog column at Forbes.com and has authored four books about digital media's impact on business. He's now working on his fifth book, The Age of Context: How it Will Change Your Work and Life with Robert Scoble, due to be published in October. 

I got a chance to catch up with Israel to talk about the latest trends in marketing: context, personalization, and the debate over tracking cookies. Here's what he said.

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