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A study of 2,168 HubSpot customers shows that businesses that published at least 5 blog articles in the last 7 days draw 6.9 times more organic search traffic and 1.12 times more referral traffic than those who don't blog at all.

Good stats below the video on Twitter user growth rate.

HubSpot's 2010 State of Inbound Marketing report, being released today, shows that Inbound-dominated organizations average 60% lower cost per lead than outbound-dominated organizations!

In October 2009 the Twitter user base grew 3.5% -- robust growth for most web applications, but far below the 13% growth in users Twitter experienced in March 2009.

Yesterday Google announced a new social media service called Google Buzz. This new service combines a number of different social media tools into one: (a) friends, commenting and rich media (photos, videos) like Facebook, plus (b) simple, public status updates like Twitter, and (c) location based updates like FourSquare. Google Buzz also adds two more new and interesting things: (a) curated recommendations of what updates are likely to be most interesting to you, and (b) easy access to the social network through a tool 175 million people use... Gmail. If you want to know more about how Google Buzz works, read the official Google Blog article announcing it. This article is about the marketing implications of Google Buzz.

Links are the top metric by which search engines determine who you are and what you are about, and ultimately how you are ranked in search results. In other words, links are your website's life line.

"HubSpot's recently released 2010 State of Inbound Marketing Report, based on a survey of 231 marketers, shows that companies that blog multiple times a day more consistently acquire customers from blogging."

"Need to Convince the Boss of the ROI of Inbound Marketing?"

The survey was conducted by RainToday.com and included more than 200 buyers from companies of all sizes, responsible for more than $1.7 billion in professional services purchased, such as accounting and financial services; architecture, engineering and constructions services; human resources consulting; IT consulting and services; legal services; management consulting; marketing, advertising, and public relations; and training services.

"Twitter Now Handling 600 Tweets Per Second"

"You Get What You Give: Social Media Engagement Translates Into Sales"

"8 Common Mistakes in B2B Social Media Marketing"