In the B2B space, LinkedIn may be the best social media site to take stock in. Recently while gathering some data for my company’s website, I was surprised to see how many website conversions viewed our LinkedIn profile. Of course Twitter and Facebook are great for awareness, getting traffic to your site and generally for [...]
Monday, November 14, 2011
LinkedIn added statistics to their groups, and these are visibile to everyone, whether they are a member of the group or not. These are promoted as a way for people to know what the makeup or activity is of a group before joining, but B2B marketers running groups can now track relevant data related to [...]
Friday, November 11, 2011
Many B2B marketers approach their social media programs from a tactic entry point. There is pressure to get started. Sometimes that pressure is from above. Sometimes it’s from below. There can even be pressure from the industry and competitors. This is why so many blog posts about social media focus on the tactics. They answer [...]
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
We work with many B2B clients who want to engage with their audience via social media. We often get the question about investment in LinkedIn vs. Facebook. You would think LinkedIn would be better for marketing to B2B customers. It’s designed for business. People use it only for business. They want you to use it [...]
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
B2B companies now have the ability to share updates with their followers on LinkedIn. This is the first company page functionality that LinkedIn added that would be more effective with additional followers. Based on executive remarks, more functions are coming to company pages. To make sure you are ready, here are five ways to increase [...]
Friday, October 7, 2011
LinkedIn remains B2B companies’ favorite social network. Recently LinkedIn added a new feature that makes using LinkedIn for your B2B business even better: Company Status Updates. Having company profiles was nice to gather some data, for SEO benefit and to follow companies that were of interest to you. Previously following a company just meant you knew [...]
Friday, September 30, 2011
LinkedIn is the dominant social network for many B2B companies. 58% use the platform for marketing, building relationships and lead generation. Since LinkedIn began as a personal networking and job site, everything has revolved around personal profiles. Company features have been slow to roll out, but Mike Gamson, SVP of sales has indicated that more [...]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
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 [...]
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
We are at the halfway point of the year and it is instructive to review which Social Media B2B posts have resonated with our readers over the past six months. The following list is based solely on page views, as determined by Google Analytics. It does not include factors like how many comments a post [...]
Monday, June 6, 2011
While much of B2B marketing and sales is about developing relationships, many of the social media metrics tracked are number of followers, connections, comments, clicks and retweets. It may be possible to assume that you or your company are providing some value to those who start engaging, but these are not significant metrics to track. [...]
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