Oktopost

MARCH 15, 2021

B2B marketing has felt these shifts as much as any other field. For B2B marketers, the big news about the pandemic-inspired social media renaissance isn’t about vibing on TikTok, but about what’s been happening on LinkedIn. Re-evaluate Your Marketing Strategy. Use Emotional Intelligence.

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Sprout Social

MAY 4, 2023

LinkedIn Groups are about building community and fostering relationships. With over 900 million LinkedIn members out there, Groups are a great way to hone in on your area of interest or expertise. And LinkedIn audiences have twice the buying power of the average online audience. Table of contents: What are LinkedIn Groups?

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In recent years, B2B marketers have started to see the value of social listening and incorporate it into their marketing strategy. This year, just over half of leading marketers are using social listening as one of their primary sources for timely consumer information. The importance of social listening for B2B marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2010

If you ask the members of my leadership team – they will tell you I keep talking about how I think we have B2B Marketing backward. We focus a lot of energy on the acquisition part of marketing looking for new customers and getting them up the awareness to consideration to purchase cycle. Let me explain …. Email this to a friend?

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But that doesn’t mean you should ignore the B2B email marketing opportunity and (properly) engage your clients and prospects with holiday greetings. . Nearly two-thirds of all buyers are more likely to open and read marketing emails during the holidays. Why use B2B email marketing this holiday season? Plan ahead.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

While focus groups attempt to simulate and gain insights on what the customer potentially thinks, nothing can substitute truly anonymous, honest and unbiased feedback. It’s this level of insight that can spur improvements to product offerings, social media, in-store efforts, other offline experiences and overall marketing efforts.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Whether it’s marketing or public relations, I often have people tell me: “It’s different for me. I’m in B2B, not B2C. But there’s another way, which can work for many B2B’s and it’s what I call the “B2B end-around.” You see, many B2Bs have customers on the other side. The B2B End Around. Horsefeathers!

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Instagram is a fantastic platform for B2B marketers. You need to be marketing to this demographic, which means you need to consider marketing on Instagram as a great opportunity to build your brand and generate leads. And Instagram is one of the best ways to reach this group of business executives and entrepreneurs.

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Oktopost

MAY 24, 2020

The working relationship between marketing, sales and information technology is growing. Technology evolutions have impacted people and companies profoundly over the last decade leaving many B2B marketers in a beautiful world of so much tech. But in today’s digital landscape, should marketers be better IT trained?

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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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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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Mindjumpers

JULY 1, 2010

This guest blog is written by J-P De Clerck , who is an experienced interactive marketing journalist and blogger. The focus on relevant content, that also makes your business “found” in an online world is so strong that there is even a new “marketing discipline”, called content marketing.

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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. In light of this, LinkedIn influencer marketing can be a game-changing addition to your overall Linkedin marketing strategy.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 12, 2018

And this percentage is growing with every passing year, which means digital marketing should be at the forefront of any promotional strategy because it is universal, affordable, and will only grow in importance. Influencer Marketing Going Micro. As of June 2018, 4.2 Currently, social media is primarily used for customer service (i.e.,

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The Realtime Report

JANUARY 28, 2017

Making Social Media An ROI Positive Channel For B2B Businesses By Jingcong Zhao. Billion spent on social media marketing in the U.S. alone last year , it’s clear that social media is being cemented as a marketing function in most B2B organizations. Yet, 61% of marketers claim measuring ROI is a top challenge.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2017

B2B companies have an attention problem. As marketing technology has improved over the last few years, marketers have fallen back on uninspired tactics like formulaic outbound emails and lackluster drip campaigns. Account-based marketing opens up room for innovation and risk-taking. Click To Tweet.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 2, 2018

The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. The next time you write marketing copy: Use “you” instead of “we”. Segment your target markets.

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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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Oktopost

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We’re very excited to share the new Oktopost podcast, B2B Marketing Now! In our first episode, Brett McNay, the Director of Enterprise Client Engagement at Bluewolf, an IBM Company, joins Jessica Stephens, Inbound Marketing Director at Oktopost to discuss sales and marketing. A Few Takeaways from Episode 1.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 13, 2019

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. These are usually the same people who say something like, “We don’t sell anything online” when I ask them about their internet marketing strategy.

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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?). Once they recognize you, they are more likely to trust your brand, engage with your content, and buy your products and/or services.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Content marketing is more than just text of course, and infographics have become one of the most popular non-text formats. How do infographics fit with other content marketing tactics? How do infographics fit with other content marketing tactics? Infographics About Content Marketing.

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Oktopost

MARCH 22, 2022

Using peer-to-peer referrals to promote a business’s products and services is an excellent way for individuals to market to the people in their professional and personal networks. People are more likely to buy products they learn about from trusted friends rather than those they see in ads. What is Customer Advocacy Marketing?

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Watch the recording: Want to hear more from renowned marketing leaders? Rich is a B2B intent data extraordinaire and SaaS sales VP with 13 years of experience across a number of sales and leadership functions within TechTarget. Radically Transparent is a podcast geared towards the modern-day B2B marketer. Meet Rich Stone.

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Sprout Social

JULY 6, 2022

Data points that could impact your pricing, sales strategy, product development and, of course, marketing. You probably collect survey data from your customers, monitor product reviews and conduct focus groups. They can use that intelligence to shape future internal and external communications, with messaging tailored for each group.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 28, 2023

For today’s marketing teams, it’s nearly impossible to do your work and stay agile without marketing automation. There has never been more customer, competitor or industry data available to marketing teams. In this article, we’ll walk through what marketing automation is, how and why to use it and examples of tools.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2011

Guest post by Eric Schwartzman , coauthor of S ocial Marketing to the Business Customer , the first book devoted exclusively to B2B social media communications. When it comes to selling soap, marketing to Facebook’s 500 million members is a no brainer. How do you know if your market is active in social media?

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As organizations scale, they often have marketing functions sitting in many different areas. In those situations, these organizations benefit from a structure that brings together various groups and sits outside of the regular reporting structure. . Here are 4 best practices of effective COEs. Sometimes, this can be a challenge.

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Oktopost

APRIL 21, 2020

Today, the BCG Growth Matrix still holds value and can offer a unique view of your business’ digital marketing strategy. The Boston Consulting Group Growth Share Matrix was introduced in 1968 by Bruce Henderson , the Group’s founder. The matrix was first published in one of the Group’s essays titled Perspectives.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 2, 2013

With 92% of companies now incorporating social media into their marketing efforts, it’s no longer sufficient to just “be there” on social networks. The first step to improving digital marketing results is to understand the emerging trends and best practices. What do buyers really want from social media marketers?

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Well, for the same reasons you need a marketing automation platform, and to adopt SEO and market intelligence. Based on what your audience is engaging with on social, you can route the individual into a nurture stream to drip additional, relevant content through other marketing channels, such as email.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They see your ads, interact with you on social media and explore your website before they buy. To keep up with it all and better inform your social media marketing strategy , create a customer journey map as a blueprint to help you understand your customers at each stage. Generate marketing campaign ideas.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 4, 2011

I met Luke at the ITSMA Marketing Leaders event back in May of this year and I committed to Luke to train my entire leadership team in the art and science of Innovation Games. Need to prioritize a list of marketing initiatives? – Why not play Buy a Feature ! Why not play 20/20 Vision ! The good news is – you can.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

They are highly-qualified professionals with specific digital marketing and communications skills and experience. A lot of people think of social media as marketing, and it’s an important part. But, its use is not limited to marketing. LinkedIn’s Sales Navigator is used by millions of companies, both B2C and B2B.

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Buffer Social

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The reality is that the best LinkedIn users are marketing machines. I've built real friendships with the best B2B marketers in the world and I’m on a text-message basis with countless founders, CEOs, VPs, and executives. They use the platform as a content distribution system, not a resume builder.

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Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

· 7 Steps to a Profitable Digital and Social Media Marketing Plan Developing a digital marketing and social media marketing plan that delivers measurable results requires more than a few pretty visuals or snazzy bite size videos you post on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. Who is it benefiting? Does this sound familiar?

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Pam Moore

DECEMBER 21, 2020

· 7 Steps to a Profitable Digital and Social Media Marketing Plan. Developing a digital marketing and social media marketing plan that delivers measurable results requires more than a few pretty visuals or snazzy bite size videos you post on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. Who is it benefiting? Does this sound familiar?

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