Convince & Convert

AUGUST 8, 2019

The term “dark social” is kicked around every so often by marketers. Messaging apps continue to be on the rise with no end in sight, and they come with a bunch of new opportunities for marketers. The marketing potential is endless. Marketing firm RhythmOne says that more than 80% of all shares are “dark.”

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 19, 2016

And that usage isn’t all selfies and cat videos; both consumer and B2B purchases are influenced by social content. Most businesses now use social media for marketing and those efforts are expected to continue to increase, yet many marketers and top executives alike find the business value difficult to quantify.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 22, 2018

Do a bit of research with an SEO tool like SEMRush to identify the best keywords to use in your bio. In 2012 he founded a creative design agency. The post Five Actionable Social Media Tips for Your Web Development Business appeared first on B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity.

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Writtent Blog

JUNE 25, 2013

Would you read something about a 2012 political election, or best practices for using MySpace? Being able to blend your branded messaging with relevant topics will significantly increase the virality of your content marketing. Probably not. Humans have an innate craving for trending news and breaking stories. Twitter Lists.

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Writtent Blog

JULY 10, 2013

It’s no exaggeration to say that smartphones and tablets are the biggest thing to hit marketing since the internet appeared. Cultural shifts can eat a weak marketing strategy for lunch, which is why it’s crucial for small businesses to immerse themselves in the realities of mobile, and adapt to the change. Source: HubSpot ).

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Convince & Convert

MAY 23, 2017

The term “dark social” is kicked around every so often by marketers. Messaging apps continue to be on the rise with no end in sight, and they come with a bunch of new opportunities for marketers. The marketing potential is endless. Marketing firm RadiumOne that says more than 80 percent of all shares are “dark.”

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Visually SM

AUGUST 19, 2020

A big part of succeeding in Digital Marketing is finding out the right channels to promote your brand. However, you wouldn’t believe how many times the question we proposed above is asked to marketers. You should leverage those tools to talk to your audience just as you would when using any other major service.

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Writtent Blog

MAY 20, 2014

Content marketing — like any other type of online marketing — is continually changing and evolving. Example: one of my Internet marketing buddies’ content marketing campaign was built heavily around article directory submissions (think Ezine Articles ). Image source: Marketing Profs. Image source.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In 2012, a group of marketers got together to find a better way. This was the birth of the agile marketing manifesto. Agile Marketing Mitigates Risk. We as marketers have been trained to think we can outsmart the consumer by being creative. With each piece of content we create, there is an obvious risk.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 24, 2012

Content Development: Finding Great Topics for Your Target Audience – Find out how to discover great content topic ideas for your target audience using internal resources, tools, and social networks. 37 Posts About Crappy Marketing (and What You Can Do Better) – Mistakes provide invaluable learning experiences.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 14, 2013

The early adopters were laughed at and even discouraged from using social media as a tool for driving sales. There are blog posts like 5 Tools To Help You Close Sales Deals and 3 Potent Ways to Use Social Media in Sales that give sales people a starting point on applications they should look at using. ” Peter F. Drucker. —

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 29, 2012

Penn , the Director of Inbound Marketing for enterprise email company WhatCounts. Read on for insights from Chris, and Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: social media as a B2B lead generator!). People joke about marketing ninjas and developer ninjas. This episode features Christopher S. Listen Now.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 29, 2012

Penn , the Director of Inbound Marketing for enterprise email company WhatCounts. Read on for insights from Chris, and Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: social media as a B2B lead generator!). People joke about marketing ninjas and developer ninjas. This episode features Christopher S. Listen Now.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

As the fourth-largest social network, and the fastest growing in 2012 , Twitter has emerged as a serious platform for business professionals to share breaking news, promote thought-leadership content, and engage with customers, prospects, peers and industry influencers. ” Twitter Tools. Most effectively use Twitter advertising?

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 3, 2012

Social media, content aggregation and curation , user-generated content and other developments have dramatically changed the B2B buying cycle over the past few years. How can B2B organizations, marketers and sales professionals adjust to, and thrive in, this new environment? B2B Marketing Trends, Tips and Strategies.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Find the answers to those and many more questions here in more than two dozen of the best Twitter how-to guides, resources, tools and reviews of 2012 so far. A Beginner’s Guide to Twitter and the Twittersphere Culture by Creative Marketing Channel. Secrets of Becoming a Pro B2B Tweeter by Social Media Today.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 27, 2023

In 2012 while working and traveling for Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters, he launched The Traveling Unicorn , an Instagram account documenting his journeys—but in a unicorn mask. He was also a director for Ubiquitous, an influencer marketing agency, and Canoo, an electric vehicle startup. Think of Flock Freight like a marketplace.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 9, 2013

How has the way buyers in your market make procurement decisions changed? How can your organization utilize social networking principals and tools to improve operations across departments? Find the answers to those Big Questions and more here in nine expert marketing strategy guides from the past year.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 4, 2012

How can marketers make more productive use of their time on social networking sites? What under-utilized site has been called a “social media powerhouse,” and which highly popular social bookmarking site is frequently overlooked by marketers? Social Media Marketing Guides and Tips.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 15, 2013

As noted in 21 (of the) Best Facebook Guides, Tools and Rants of 2012 So Far a few months back, Facebook remains the 800-pound gorilla of the social networking world. Or if not—how have recent changes in Facebook’s layout changed best practices for marketers? what are the secrets to Facebook advertising success?

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 28, 2012

Given the widespread adoption of social media marketing practices, the “if” and “when” questions seemed to have now been resolved by most midsized and larger companies (and a lot of small companies as well). What’s the best process for developing a social media marketing plan? by MarketingProfs.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yet another post about 2018 B2B marketing trends? This piece compiles and analyzes the predictions of more than 100 B2B marketing professionals as published in 10 highly-ranked posts over the past month (best!). Here we go… Content Marketing Trends. ” — 2018 Trends: B2B Marketing , Edelman.

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Keyhole.co

JANUARY 30, 2024

Are you exhausting your marketing funds, hiring the best creative geniuses, and publishing content regularly but not seeing tangible results? No matter how creative your social media marketing is, all efforts will drown in the noise if you don’t know what your target audience looks like. billion social media users?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and expanding) reach of social media, and its relatively low cost (at least from a production fees perspective) makes it an incredibly attractive proposition for marketers. Learn the Science of Social Like any other online marketing program, social media is widely measurable – and testable.

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Social Selling Masters

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Every marketer worth his salt knows the value of this reach. Here are 3 ways social selling has changed the B2B sales process. Consider this statistic – 53% of buyers turn to social media for peer recommendations in 2013 compared to just 19% in 2012. 92% of B2B buyers choose to engage with industry thought leaders.

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yMarketingMatters

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

With so many social media and digital marketing options now available, it can be overwhelming to know what you should be doing first. At the same time, it’s also very exciting times for marketers and business owners, to have so many powerful marketing tools to escalate and grow their business, sales and exposure.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Marketers, we’re told, need to think like publishers. How widespread, really, is the use of social media for marketing? How are B2B marketers using social media differently from their B2C counterparts? How are marketers measuring social media success? We’re all hungry for data.

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The Social Media Hat

MAY 6, 2016

Facebook is the marketing platform of choice for businesses of all kinds and sizes everywhere. Be sure to track this using the Insights tool on Facebook. Since Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012, it has upped its advertising game and made it easy to purchase ads through Facebook's advertising platform. Instagram ads.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 27, 2013

Indisputably the largest business-oriented social network, LinkedIn has emerged as a crucial site for professional networking, B2B marketing, hiring and job seeking. As a key driver of both traffic and online visibility, LinkedIn is a key component in any B2B firm’s web presence optimization framework.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 7, 2014

LinkedIn has made dramatic changes to its platform over the past 18 months, making what was a rather plain but effective business networking tool into a content-rich, visually dynamic, more interactive professionally-focused social network. ” 10 Expert Guides to Corporate Marketing on LinkedIn.

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Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Henriette has previously written a blog post that offers a quick overview of the vast social media marketing landscape. Similar Posts: Study: The Global Social Media Check-Up 2012. How Social Is B2B? Facebook and Twitter tend to be the first choice for most brands. However, they are also highly successful on Facebook.

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Buffer Social

JUNE 1, 2016

Many locations also have their own Facebook pages, with follower counts any marketer would be happy with. Also, like the engineering team, your design team probably won’t be using social media to achieve traditional marketing goals. I recently spent a whole day at a B2B tech company watching Sam, a sales rep, call prospects.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

As the use of social media in marketing has become ubiquitous, marketers have turned their attention to making the use of business social media more sophisticated and strategic. How can marketers help their organizations move from “social media marketing” to “social business”? Relevanza ).

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

2012 Edelman Trust Barometer: Global Deck. Interestingly, in this edition it draws a direct line from the chaos that’s all around us in government and public markets. What that really means for you, the listener, and for guys like you and me, Jay that are in the business of marketing, people are becoming more and more skeptical.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 18, 2012

Social media and inbound marketing techniques have been a boon for marketers. Not only do leads generated through social and content marketing cost half as much as traditional outbound-generated leads (see below), they also close at higher rate (again, see below). Marketing Charts ). Marketing Charts ).

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Kikolani

JUNE 29, 2012

Blogging / Content Marketing. The Marketer’s Guide to Information Visualization: How to Rock Infographics, Shareables, and Slideshows – That’s why today, I’m going to reveal how you can get aboard the visualization marketing gravy train, where to find the best resources, and how to get graphics done without breaking the bank.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2012

Thanks as always to our sponsors on Social Pros, Eric’s company Argyle Social , who we use for all of our social media stuff, and Infusionsoft , who we use for all of our email marketing shenanigans, and Jim Kukral from DigitalBookLaunch.com , who also sits it in on the Social Pros podcast from time to time. You saw the video?

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