Many B2B companies approach social media the same way they approach other parts of their business. With silos. No matter the size of the company, there are separations that reduce efficiency and cause confusion both within and outside the company. Even social media starts in a silo, usually in the marketing or pr department. And [...]
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Too many B2B companies are flat out failing at social media marketing. It isn’t their fault. This isn’t an attack on the companies. Heck, they are at least brave enough to give it a shot. Instead this is an explanation for why a new marketing channel has been slow to grow in the B2B space. This shouldn’t [...]
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
B2B marketers are looking for ways to improve their social media marketing results, and one of the platforms that helps with that is LinkedIn. Many B2B companies have seen success on the professional social network by getting employees to represent the company in addition to their own experiences, managing company pages and even running industry [...]
Monday, July 9, 2012
It is halfway through 2012 and it is always interesting to see what B2B social media posts generated the most interest from our readers. This list was compiled based on page views in Google Analytics. It is no real surprise that the top posts relate to Facebook’s Timeline, current statistics, Pinterest, LinkedIn, generating leads and measurement. [...]
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Many B2B companies have been successful at generating leads from LinkedIn, but there are features of a company page that B2B marketers are just not aware of. Most B2B companies have company pages on LinkedIn where they include a keyword-stuffed paragraph or two of marketing-speak. It also shows the employees who work at the company. [...]
Thursday, April 5, 2012
B2B marketers like to measure things. This is not measurement for its own sake, but to determine the results of their marketing efforts. Social media, since it occurs online, is filled with measurable elements, but it can sometimes be a challenge to know which ones are worth measuring. Start by establishing a set of goals and [...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
2012 is going to be a big year for adoption of social media for B2B companies. We expect that early adopter companies will move even further out in front by becoming social in many areas of their business, while more of the second wave adopters will begin to see value in social media and move [...]
Monday, December 19, 2011
Before we publish our 2012 B2B Social Media Predictions, we wanted to review of predictions for 2011, and see how the year turned out for B2B marketers and their adoption for social media. In general it seems that some B2B companies started moving forward with social media initiatives, but many of these conservative-minded companies did [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
B2B marketers are constantly striving to improve the quality of leads that they generate with their marketing programs. In the traditional split between sales and marketing, the quality of leads always comes up. This causes marketers to focus on lead quality over lead quantity, but I would say that it is the same thing. If [...]
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