Steve Woods on social media: interactions lead to insights and…better sales

For our Social Marketing Meetup, we recently organized in Antwerp, I asked some people from all over the world to share in just one minute by video what social media means to them, from their perspective.

The results are some home-made videos in which industry leaders express their opinions. One of them was Steve Woods, CTO of B2B marketing automation company Eloqua, whom I interviewed earlier and who was invited by my good friend Koen De Witte, whose company Lead’fabric is the European partner of Eloqua and recently concluded a partnership with leading demand generation agency Pedowitz Group.

Steve is a leading B2B sales and marketing strategist who wrote a great book, Digital Body Language (you can download some chapters here) and has an excellent blog with the same name.

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Content marketing: predictions from 39 B2B marketers and marketing automation experts

Recently, I posted about Junta42’s research regarding content marketing and where it’s heading. The people at Click Documents also have published content marketing predictions, but they took another approach. Click Documents invited some industry experts to share their opinions.

With the support of Marketo, a US-based B2B marketing automation and lead management company I interviewed here before, all this resulted in a nice eBook. It’s called “Key Content Marketing Trends and Predictions for 2010” and contains very interesting findings, content marketing tips and the opinions of some great people.

Ambal Balakrishnan, president and co-founder of Click Documents asked 39 of the world’s top B2B marketers, email marketers, marketing automation experts and social media mavens one straightforward question: “What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010?”

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