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. Here are some steps to create an effective B2B social media strategy for your business.

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Oktopost

APRIL 2, 2020

In the digital marketing world, making decisions based on data and analytics is crucial to growing your business. Helping people make sense of the data that social media managers (SMM) have access to is no easy feat. The veritable avalanche of data that we can use to make these highly informed decisions can feel overwhelming.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

When it’s time to launch a B2B marketing campaign on social media, LinkedIn seems like the obvious platform of choice. There’s no mystery why B2B marketers keep flocking to it – it simply works. By the numbers , LinkedIn is supposedly the best social media platform for B2B lead generation. . Not so much. billion users.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

But when it comes to social data, it’s not about how much data you have but rather how you leverage it. 75% of B2B buyers use social media to make buying decisions. Their research and engagement can turn into precious data for your business. Jump ahead: What Kind of Social Data Can You Analyze?

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The Realtime Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

5 B2B Marketing Strategies. With business-to-business (B2B), it’s important to use the right strategies to generate leads. That said, it’s still crucial to come up with a B2B marketing plan that makes you stand apart from the competition and gets you noticed. Your Business Needs to Use. Let Content Speak for You.

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Oktopost

JUNE 30, 2021

Though it’s still the most widely-used social network in the world , B2B marketers don’t always see it as a viable platform for generating leads. Easy, but wrong — because with the right strategy, Facebook is a viable channel for B2B marketing. Are Facebook Ads Right for B2B? What Are Facebook Ads?

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Welcome back to the Post Performance Report (PPR), a series where we compile and analyze social media posts and campaigns inspiring us, and breakdown what makes them so genius. The stakes are high, but that doesn’t mean financial companies can ignore social altogether. The opposite is true.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 17, 2014

Much has been written about how the internet in general, and the explosion of content marketing in particular, has changed the nature of b2b marketing. Today’s b2b buyers are typically 70% of the way through their purchase process before they contact a vendor’s sales team.

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Keyhole.co

MARCH 11, 2024

Creating a monthly LinkedIn Analytics report is your go-to strategy for gauging your professional network’s engagement and reach. This immense user base presents an invaluable opportunity for professionals and companies to engage with a targeted audience. Yet, simply being active on LinkedIn won’t guarantee success.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 30, 2023

B2B companies use social media to increase their reach and talk with their prospects, and they need to do it wherever their customers are. TikTok has also recently emerged as a powerful and valuable tool for B2B marketers, driving brand awareness and affinity.

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Oktopost

JULY 30, 2020

So many B2B deals closed, and so many connections made. Back in the B2B world, companies are increasingly shining a spotlight to online lead generation and engagement. So what exactly is a webinar, and why are they so crucial to your B2B strategy in 2021? Should you use a dedicated B2B webinar software?

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 27, 2013

There’s no question that B2B marketers have embraced social media. According to recent research , more than 80% of b2b marketers now use the “big 3″ social networks—LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook—to distribute content. of B2B commercial website traffic and 7% of leads—correlate fairly well with the 1.9%

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 16, 2018

To better understand these changes, plus what’s ahead for 2018 and beyond we teamed up with Social Media Week to collect data from over 1,700 marketers and create the State of Social Media 2018 report. The report shows us how marketers, from businesses of all sizes, are approaching social media marketing.

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Keyhole.co

JUNE 2, 2022

In B2B, word of mouth is one of the kings when it comes to marketing strategies. It’s a rising market that is already bringing a lot of success to companies. Influencer marketing is a marketing strategy where a social media influencer promotes a product from a company. How does influencer marketing work in B2B?

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Oktopost

AUGUST 26, 2019

85% of internet users in the United States report watching at least one online video per month on any device. Companies that market directly to consumers have quickly figured out that they have to reach their audience through video. So, why are B2B marketers lagging behind? The second caveat to B2B video marketing is ROI.

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Oktopost

JULY 18, 2019

The same holds true for B2B organizations, who use Instagram to effectively display the more human, cultural, and light-hearted side of their company. . Instead of fearing the potential hidden like update, there are ways B2B businesses can instead use it to their advantage. Up your content-game. Pay attention to other metrics.

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The Realtime Report

APRIL 15, 2021

Frameworks in Companies. An example of a B2B sales framework that works in a simple approach and allows a deeper focus is the MEDDIC sales framework. Gather high-quality, actionable, and quantifiable sales data: Initiated framework sets standards that you need to improve forecasts and overall results.

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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 11, 2024

Demand generation tools leverage automation technologies to help you understand your customers better and make data-driven decisions. Types of Demand Generation Tools While some companies prefer to look broadly at marketing automation, others may choose a tool for a specific purpose, such as sending newsletters.

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Sprout Social

MAY 5, 2021

In the context of marketing and sales enablement, this support comes in the form of marketing content, data and insights from customer interactions. Again, the average B2B buyer’s journey is growing longer. Your marketing team is sitting on a potential goldmine of data when it comes to what customers want. Communication.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 9, 2024

Regardless of size, most companies face the same challenges—tough competitors, and evolving customer and market demands. Add to these, workflow inefficiencies, data silos and rising costs, and there’s a growing need for tools that can help give you an edge. Traditional analytics, in contrast, requires more manual data analysis.

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Oktopost

MARCH 26, 2024

That is why we’re excited to share we’ve joined forces with LinkedIn to provide mutual Oktopost and LinkedIn customers the ability to channel messages directly from their LinkedIn Company Page into Oktopost’s Social Inbox. What’s in it for you?

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

The great content marketer Ann Handley advocates for making your customer, rather than your company, the hero of your brand story. In this guide, we’ll show you how to better understand your target audience by creating buyer personas built on social media data. How to create a buyer persona using data from social media.

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Oktopost

JULY 4, 2022

The question is – with the immense choice of social media management platforms on the market today, which is the best choice for your B2B business? After all, that’s the main reason you chose Social Studio in the first place – and keeping your customer data centralized will be important for offering a better customer experience.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What if your Salesforce and social data could come together to create a 360° view of your customer? Not only does it add your customers’ social engagement data to Salesforce, but it also shows you how this channel impacts your bottom line. And Oktopost has a new tool for that: Influenced Opportunity reporting.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

All 20,000 of us must have created and shared a teraflop of data that night in about 4 hours. And I would argue this is exaggerated even more when it comes to B2B Marketing. Ok so now that I depressed you – lets talk about what I have been thinking B2B Marketers need to do. Of course, I ended up doing the same!

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Looking for B2B leads on social media? Having a distinct B2B sales advantage over your competitors in that environment can be challenging. To be successful in today’s B2B sales environment, having a strong social selling strategy is paramount to your company’s ability to drive results and generate ROI.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Tracking social media data can be a pain. Luckily, solutions like Oktopost, which bring your social data under one, unified roof, exist to make it easier for you. As an official LinkedIn Marketing Partner , Oktopost is dedicated to providing the best data and reporting tools to help you succeed on this key B2B social network.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2014

So the question is–are there things that today’s B2B marketers can learn from history, specifically, the tremendous success of Facebook and the rise, fall and possible resurrection of Myspace? How can the respective histories and behaviors of these two companies inform the best practices for B2B marketers? Historical Lessons.

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The Realtime Report

OCTOBER 3, 2012

A recent study of 100 CMOs by Bazaarvoice reveals that nearly half of CMOs have used social data to make predictions or forecasts. The survey asked members of the CMO Club (a forum for top marketing executives) how they value social data, as reported by MIT Sloan Management Review. Do you agree?

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Sprout Social

MARCH 28, 2024

Understanding the data behind your hashtag strategy will help you fine-tune your approach and content to reach more of your target audience. For example, suppose you’re a social media marketer at a B2B marketing software company for small businesses. Of course, hashtags are just one feature that can affect content performance.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

B2B advertising expenditures in the United States totaled $32 billion in 2022, an increase from the $28.9 The data paints a clear picture – paid media is here to stay, and businesses are increasingly aware of its power. billion spent in the previous year.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 24, 2021

Those are just a few of the social network-specific findings from the recently-released Digital 2021 Global Overview Report , compiled by We Are Social and Hootsuite. Post engagement rate declines as the number of Facebook followers a company has increases. That’s a lot of data to feed China’s AI development.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 13, 2023

The customers I speak to daily, especially those in the B2B space, are always concerned about proving their return on investment for social media. There are no impulse buys in the B2B SaaS industry and quantifying the impact of social media within the buyer’s journey is not always straightforward.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 15, 2016

As a SaaS B2B company, LinkedIn has become an increasingly important part of our social strategy. That’s why Sprout’s LinkedIn Company Pages Report is so important for our team. It makes it easier for us to distill and present valuable data and insight to internal stakeholders.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 12, 2020

Social ROI often comes down to the data you collect and how you use it. Customers, competitors, campaigns, cultural events—today’s marketers have real-time data on it all and still, 39% say they struggle to demonstrate the value of social across their organizations. Building a data-driven marketing culture. Getting started .

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