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Oktopost’s Social Listening: Tap Into Conversations That Impact Your Business

Oktopost

The practice of social listening was adopted by the B2B marketing community from our B2C counterparts—very much like social media itself. The volume of B2B mentions might be lower, but the potential cost of every missed negative post is so much bigger. Research engine for agile product teams.

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B2B Marketing Stats from HubSpot’s Marketing Data Box

Webbiquity SMM

Here are some of the most interesting observations for B2B marketers: Slide 10: B2B magazines continue to struggle. While print in general has taken a beating over the past decade, B2B publications have been particularly hard hit, leading to speculation about the future of B2B trade magazines (content marketing?

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Media Fragmentation: 3 Strategies For How Business Marketers Can Keep Up

The Realtime Report

This is a guest post written by Lisa Smith, Director of Media and Markets Research/Mindwave Research. Maybe you remember when media research was just about capturing TV viewership and print readership? Shifting the B2B Media Research Model. More Access to Information = More Collaborative Decision Makers.

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Online reputation monitoring: What it is and why it’s important for business

Sprout Social

Monitoring your digital reputation involves a wide variety of channels, including: News and earned media Forums (especially Reddit and Quora) Social comments and discussions Videos (think: YouTube) Third-party review sites and review aggregators How is online reputation monitoring done? The reality?

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5 ways to create better buyer personas with social media data

Sprout Social

When built on diligent market research , they can be helpful in a variety of circumstances in and beyond marketing, offering critical audience insights. They don’t have to scramble doing a bunch of just-in-time research or making guesses about how a marketing message or activity might be perceived by their target audience.

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Word of mouth marketing: how to drive conversations and sales at the same time

Sprout Social

Either on-site, social media, Google or third-party review aggregators. rating or review is most valuable to someone researching a brand for the first time or buying a new product. In fact, recent research from R.R. Review aggregation sites are crucial for software brands, as is Google search. See how that works?

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

But, at the end of the day, they need to generate “leads” that get fed into some kind of offline sales process—just like most b2b [and many b2c] companies do. So, hopefully by now, you’re convinced that SEO, SMM and blogging can and should work in concert to generate leads for your B2B company. Keyword Research/SEO.