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Conversation Gained-How to Determine Influence in B2B Social Media

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Now B2B marketing? B2B influencers? The bottom line is this: Influence is a nebulous but nevertheless, powerful “thing” in B2B social media , and you my dear marketer, need to understand how to determine it, identify who is influential within your space, and then decide what you’re going to do about it.

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Conversation Lost-How to Align B2B Social Media Marketing Efforts with the Right Strategy

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B2B Social media success is like the American ninja warrior TV show. The same holds true for B2B marketers. B2B social media marketing can be brutal but it’s not a loser. Those challenges, metaphorically speaking, completely exist in B2B social media in 2017. It’s where and it’s why. Oh yea, and to who m matters too.

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Social Media for B2B-10 links for the week that was in Social Media

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Last week seemed to be the week to talk about social media and B2B. Because B2B is focusing on social media. The impact of social media on B2C is obvious, but B2B is starved for information, case studies, consultants that know what they are doing and knowledge. My word to you, point your efforts towards B2B. how to win.

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The Key to Success in Enterprise Social Media

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Lately, I’ve been thinking way too much about organic B2B social media marketing. The bottom line is that creating a solid, measurable, B2B social media strategy is extremely difficult, and to say that the enterprise just doesn’t have a clue, though it makes for great copy, just isn’t true. Now snap B2B on top of that.

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The Reality of Social Currency

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The interview, conducted by Steve Olenski on Explore B2B was titled: What Twinkies Can Teach Marketers About Comebacks And Social Branding. social business social media #socialmedia b2b Erich Joachimsthaler social currency steve olenski twinkies' In this context, it was said matter of factly.

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How are Those 2022 Predictions Working Out?

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With that said, let’s focus on social media’s impact in a B2B world. Specifically, for B2B, social media is a complicated love/hate relationship. Right or wrong, good or bad, social media sits there daily waiting for you and if you don’t see “it” that day, don’t worry, they’ll be more tomorrow. Social resets every day.

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Two Hurdles and One Gap in Enterprise Social Media Engagement

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Recently, my work required that I evaluate some of the top global brands in a certain industry in regards to internal b2b social media usage. I’ve used upwards of 7-10 free and paid social media monitoring and measurement tools to do it. I’ve looked at social data for a month and I have discovered two hurdles and one gap.