One of the best ways to use social media to drive traffic to your B2B website is to create a blog on your website and publish relevant articles to your prospects and customers. Rather than posting this content only on your social media channels, it is hosted on a site that you control. And you [...]
As search algorithms continue to change, and give more value to social search, it is more important than even for B2B companies to create an integrated approach to social media to improve their SEO, or search engine optimization. SEO is based on two different types of factors, on-page, which you control and off-page, which you [...]
Blogging is a core component of a B2B company’s approach to social media. Not only does it show how the people at a company think and what is important to them, but it provides regularly updated, keyword-rich content that search engines like. Expanding reach by building followings on social media networks is important, but it [...]
Your approach to B2B social media must be thoughtful if you are going to be successful in driving business for your B2B company. Marketers and communicators need to focus on how they can make a difference, and that begins with thinking. Can you see the big picture of your organization, your industry and the business [...]
Today’s posts for B2B marketers seem to have a negative tone. I didn’t pick them with that in mind, but these are some of the posts that resonated with me this week. This indicates to me that we are at a turning point with B2B social media. According to many statistics, there is a high [...]
Statistics are popular with B2B marketers, since they can be used for so many things. Here are some recent stats that can help your cause with your social media adoption, or to use in your next presentation. We have also made these stats easy to share with your network by including a tweet button next [...]
Last year Eloqua created an infographic called The Blog Tree that listed top marketing blogs, and showed the interrelationships between and among them. We were happy to be included in that original graphic.
They just updated the graphic as The Blog Tree – New Growth, and we are more excited to be included in this [...]
As you advance your social media activities for your B2B company, you should be capturing great piles of data. Many marketers are so inundated with data, they don’t know where to begin making sense of it. If you are in this category, this post is not for you. This post is for smart marketers that [...]
As B2B marketers work to connect with customers and prospects through social media, one of the keys to those connections is to create remarkable, compelling content. That content needs to provide value to your followers and fans, rather than push your products or services. The following tips can help you create better content, more compelling [...]
If you’re a B2B blogger, you know that links are the currency of SEO. Building credible, authoritative and relevant links back to your blog is an excellent way in which to tell the search engines that your blog is valuable to their many customers (i.e. searchers) and needs to be ranked accordingly.
But you also know [...]
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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