Oktopost

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Are you measuring the right B2B social media metrics? Many B2B organizations find themselves using social media management platforms originally crafted for B2C brands. B2B social media metrics and how they differ from B2C As a B2B marketer, you know at the end of the day, you’re marketing to people.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Social selling has emerged as a powerful strategy for B2B organizations to engage with prospects, build relationships, and drive sales. Source Get deeper insights into social selling wins with a specialized platform This is where dedicated B2B social media management platforms like Oktopost come into play.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Social marketers rate influencer marketing as having a significant impact on their brand’s marketing efforts including customer loyalty (87%), awareness (89%) and reputation (87%), according to our Q3 2023 Pulse Survey of 307 social marketers in the United States. What is an influencer marketing campaign?

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Ignite Social Media

JULY 6, 2022

91% of B2B marketers use social media networks to achieve top-of-the-funnel goals like reaching their target audience and driving sales. . Today, use our expertise at Ignite to help you discover the five best social media networks for your B2B marketing campaigns.? . In fact, 80% of the total B2B leads come from LinkedIn.? .

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Social Media Strategies Summit

AUGUST 4, 2020

But the way you design your social media strategy might vary depending on the type of business you have, e.g. business to consumer (B2C) or business to business (B2B). Social media and B2B marketing are a better pair than many business people think. LinkedIn for B2B Social. Use Influencer Marketing.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 25, 2024

Social media is not just about creating a buzz; it can be a powerful tool for strategically influencing your customers at every stage of the sales funnel. While many businesses recognize the importance of maintaining a social media presence, the full potential of these platforms in driving B2B revenue often goes overlooked.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

For B2B brands, social media is growing in importance: 66% of B2B marketers report that LinkedIn is effective, 66% say they plan to boost their organic usage of Instagram, and 56% rate YouTube as important to overall brands success ( Articulate ). They then craft a strategy that will resonate. Source: Hubspot Facebook. Source: Square.

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Your Escape From 9 to 5

JUNE 27, 2022

B2B marketers love the notion of getting more qualified leads while spending less, whether it be pay per click campaigns, email marketing or print advertising. Users can measure which inbound marketing activity is delivering qualified leads at a lower cost and vice versa. Use Influencer Marketing. Utilize Marketing Automation.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

While some B2B brands are still committed to more traditional sales methods, social selling can be even more efficient. In this article, we’ll take a look at the process of social selling and how it can help B2B companies generate more leads (and ultimately more revenue). Which Channels Are Best for B2B Social Selling?

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When it comes to influencer marketing , C-suite execs want more than just good engagement. While the impact of influencers in shaping consumer behavior is undeniable, translating it into benefits that resonate with the top brass is key to getting the budgets you need for your influencer program.

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Oktopost

MAY 12, 2021

It turns out that creating a brand community for your B2B company can give you that type of mouthwatering ROI. . B2B businesses need to foster a strong spirit of community to serve their clients and customers better. The biggest benefit for B2B companies is developing genuine relationships with your customers. .

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Sprout Social

JULY 1, 2021

But for business-to-business (B2B) companies, the strategy shifts from a broad audience to a very specific one. B2B SEO has a few basic areas that differ from B2C SEO. In this guide, we’ll outline those key differences and how you can better your own B2B SEO strategy. What is B2B SEO? More time in each sales stage.

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Later

APRIL 7, 2021

Influencer marketing is on track to become a $15 billion dollar industry by 2022 – and yet there are still myths about working with influencers. From costing too much, to not getting results from Nano or Micro influencers, there are plenty of misconceptions. Later x Fohr: The Selling Power of Influencers. year-on-year.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Case Studies : These are the B2B equivalent of product reviews. Influencer Marketing : Influencers can be thought of as celebrities within specific niches or industries. Marketers can sponsor influencers or have them review a product and share their honest opinion of it. They often have a highly engaged fan base.

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Keyhole.co

JANUARY 27, 2023

Social media is quickly becoming the go-to method medium for B2B marketers looking to promote their business. In fact, a study by the International Data Corporation found that 75% of B2B buyers use social media to make purchasing decisions. This has made producing social media content a top priority for 95% of B2B marketers.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 13, 2020

The internet of 2020 is full of brands, memes, and influencers vying for everyone’s precious attention. Nowhere is this more true than in B2B marketing, where buyers aren’t (as) swept up by trends and viral ads. Nowhere is this more true than in B2B marketing, where buyers aren’t (as) swept up by trends and viral ads.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

When you hear about influencer marketing, you might immediately envision young, attractive individuals posting pictures on Instagram that showcase an immaculately curated lifestyle while highlighting promoted products. Enter LinkedIn influencers. Why LinkedIn influencers? The opinions of LinkedIn influencers carry weight.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 31, 2020

Twitter is generally viewed as the second-best social network for B2B marketing , behind only LinkedIn. In the current environment where the coronavirus outbreak and COVID-19 pandemic have shut down live events and even coffee meetings, forcing increased online interaction, B2B marketing activity on Twitter should be exploding.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 12, 2024

The dawn of social media activism—from #OccupyWallStreet to #ArabSpring to the 2016 US presidential election—changed people’s expectations of brands. According to Harvard Business Review , “Business has become enmeshed with politics and social issues…By 2018, CEO activism was seen as the ‘new normal.’” Will brands sit this one out?

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The Realtime Report

JANUARY 28, 2017

Making Social Media An ROI Positive Channel For B2B Businesses By Jingcong Zhao. alone last year , it’s clear that social media is being cemented as a marketing function in most B2B organizations. The biggest reason for this challenge has to do with the mindset with which B2B marketers have approached social.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 23, 2011

It’s not that B2B companies aren’t finding success in social media marketing, but more (in my experience at least) that they are less willing to publicly reveal their strategies for competitive reasons. Recently, that’s begun to change a bit as blogs like TopRank and Marketo have highlighted b2b social media success stories.

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Oktopost

APRIL 18, 2024

Patrick Barbera, Director of Product Marketing at IntelyCare, and named in the Top 100 Product Marketing Influencers by Product Marketing Alliance reveals why picking the right marketing KPIs to track and measure can significantly impact the direction and success of your marketing efforts.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

By the time you interview a specific candidate for a particular job posting, it may be too late to have much of an influence on their opinion of your brand. These are the employees who will actively encourage friends and family to work for your company. Passives: Those who respond 7-8. Detractors: Those who respond 1-6.

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Oktopost

JUNE 18, 2019

The industries and markets that digital B2B businesses serve are undergoing constant, dramatic changes. Here at the halfway point of 2019, we’re getting a clearer picture of the B2B marketing strategies that are currently leading the pack. Strategy 5: Influencer and Co-Marketing. Strategy 3: Business-to-User Marketing (B2U).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 28, 2010

According to Wikipedia – Influencer Marketing is a form of marketing that has emerged from a variety of recent practices and studies, in which focus is placed on specific key individuals (or types of individual) rather than the target market as a whole. I draw a hard line between Influencers and Advocates. Tweet This!

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 1, 2021

But for your social media activity to successfully yield results, you need to do more than just broadcast content. Influencer marketing goes a long way. Using influencers to market your brand is a great strategy. Here are three approaches that can improve your influencer marketing success.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 22, 2024

  As we dive into this new era fueled by changing consumer behavior, the influence of AI, and the shifting of how platforms function, certain key trends emerge, painting a picture of a different digital world. But something about 2024 makes me think it stands poised to redefine the social media landscape and the creator economy. 

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Keyhole.co

MARCH 4, 2023

It can be difficult to link your marketing spend back to calculating influencer marketing ROI. Unless you’ve been living under a rock or haven’t been actively participating in the digital world, you have no excuse whatsoever to not be familiarized with one of the most effective and accessible marketing strategies to date.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Social selling isn’t just another sales tactic gaining some momentum – it’s the future of B2B sales. Social media platforms allow you to reach your target audience B2B buyers are now looking to social media when researching solutions. Sales teams across the globe are now cashing in on its success with the advent of social selling.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 30, 2020

(Branding matters as much in B2B as in consumer marketing; if you were trying to sell 10,000 laptops to a large corporation, would you rather be selling Dell or some unfamiliar no-name knock off?). billion people in the United States actively use at least one social network. Harness the Power of Influencers. Image via Instagram.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Though it’s still one of the top three social networks for B2B marketers, Twitter is struggling. The platform needs to make changes to attract new users, and re-activate dormant accounts, in order to maintain its long-term viability. Just 10 (15%) of these event professionals maintain active Twitter accounts.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In B2B, LinkedIn, though #10 overall (#12 on the chart, but Tumblr isn’t really a social network and Vine is dead), is one of the three or four most important social networking platforms. 58% of social media influencers believe they should be paid for the coverage they give brands. Image credit: DreamGrow. V3+Broadsuite Blog ).

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Audiense

MAY 17, 2018

After last week’s post on insights activation in the pre-campaign phase , we’ll continue today by taking a look at how campaigns can be enriched by consumer insights extracted from social data during the execution of the campaign. The brands that influence them the most. The factors that most influence their buying habits.

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Oktopost

AUGUST 10, 2023

B2B marketing teams share a common aspiration: generating as many Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) as possible. While some businesses still put social media in the categories of brand awareness or community management exclusively, research claims that 75% of B2B buyers use social media to make buying decisions.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 3, 2024

The data shows that 42% of businesses leverage AI-powered solutions for influencer identification and research. The 39-page research study, The 2023 B2B Influencer Marketing Report , surveyed 425 B2B marketing decision-makers in management or higher roles. The impact of AI is top of mind for marketers.

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Oktopost

MARCH 10, 2021

We’re tackling this and more with one of B2B marketing’s rising stars. Listen to the Podcast Now: For more thoughtful discussion with renowned marketing leaders, subscribe to B2B Marketing Now for free wherever you listen to podcasts or catch us on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or follow Oktopost on LinkedIn.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 26, 2023

Or maybe through word-of-mouth from a friend , family member or trusted influencer. Or, they might partner with an influencer or offer an affiliate program to incentivize people to promote their products. Here are a few reasons your business should consider having an active referral marketing program. How did you find it?

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