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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Marketers Face Steep Web 2.0 Learning Curve


2008-11-26-Meng-Chart
According to a new Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) report mentioned on MarketingCharts and in the CMO Council's "Marketing Magnified" most marketing execs are not surprisingly still in the early, experimental phases of using and measuring social media. According to the report:



I like that last point about the "Wild West." The thing about the Wild West was that someone had to tame it, so why not your company? In these challenging economic times being the last person to the frontier, being the last one to dig into social media for marketing your company will probably be far worse than doing some trials and making a few mistakes along the way.



It's at least heartening that 67% of those in the report say they plan to increase their social media advertising budget in 2009 and see some benefits to using social media. But even without advertising on social networks there are alot of simple things business-to-business companies can do to get their feet wet without spending much at all: blogging, Twitter, YouTube are just a few.




"Marketing Executives Networking Group Survey Finds
Social Media Practices Still in Infancy Stages."
Marketing Executives Networking Group. November 6, 2008




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