Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 9, 2010

At the recent ITSMA Marketing Leadership forum I was stunned by a presentation given by Sean Geehan CEO of the Geehan Group author of the upcoming book the B2B Executive Playbook. Which is what the CEO and the market wants from you anyway!). Its time to start embracing those few people in ways B2B marketers haven’t before.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 2, 2010

s Social Media in Business study found that 60 percent of consumers believe they are already interacting with companies on the social Web. Nearly all participants — 93 percent — believe all companies should have a presence in social media. Share it on StumbleUpon. Related posts: B2B Marketing Content: Lure or Lasso?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

But these days for B2B Marketers I think we need to take it a step further and say that “Content is Media&#. If you have been following my thoughts on the 4 C’s of Marketing – it all starts with content. Building a solid content creation engine is critical to B2B marketers today.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Blogging is often viewed as the core component of a B2B social media marketing strategy, and other than discussion forums, it’s the most mature component of social media. So what’s next for B2B blogging? If your company doesn’t have a blog, you’re not a laggard…quite yet. Share this on Bebo.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

The question is – What is the appropriate level of budget to support social media for a B2B company? First was the post on the Media Budget Ratio (MBR) for a B2B company. According to the IT Services Marketing Association (ITSMA) which, full disclosure, I am a member and an avid fan of their work.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2010

You must keep a constant eye on mentions of your brand, your products and your services in order to survive in this market landscape. People appreciate when a company listens, and they don’t mind offers of assistance, especially when done in a helpful, friendly way. Share it on StumbleUpon. Send this page to Print Friendly.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 4, 2010

Facebook made its initial announcement of Project Titan to the market on February 5th and was candidly thought to be a Google Gmail killer. I still get questions from B2B firms asking if they should start a presence in Facebook and the answer is unequivocally YES. Share it on StumbleUpon. Share this on Linkedin.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 13, 2019

I did a website analysis and custom demonstration for a local IT recruiting company recently. This is a very successful company. They need a pipeline of companies that want to hire them to recruit on their behalf. By Peter Caputa. They’re a leader in their field and they have a good number of recruiters working for them.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Nominations and voting are now open for the B2B Twitterer of the Year (B2BTOTY) awards. Here’s your chance to recognize your favorite B2B organization or individual for their exceptional Twitter skills. Nominations can be submitted in 10 categories: • National / International B2B Manufacturer (includes software developers).

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

These technologies include Browse My Stuff (which powers both the B2B Marketing Zone and Social Media Informer ) and Paper.li , which enables users to create custom online “newspapers&# based on a Twitterer and his/her followers, a hashtag subject or a Twitter list. Bloggers and content marketers want traffic.

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Jason Yormark

JANUARY 6, 2011

communications firm offering a full-team approach to marketing, government relations, business strategy, creative services and. clients outside the normal b2b and b2c environments I have. interested in learning more about S360, you can visit our company. Share it on StumbleUpon. Despite the. href="[link]. src="[link].

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 18, 2012

Social media and inbound marketing techniques have been a boon for marketers. Not only do leads generated through social and content marketing cost half as much as traditional outbound-generated leads (see below), they also close at higher rate (again, see below). Marketing Charts ). Marketing Charts ).

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Bill Hartzer

JULY 24, 2010

What’s the best way for B2B companies who market to small businesses to drive word of mouth? Corporatespeak and heavy-duty marketing pitches turn small business owners off, says Campbell: “They love to see people’s faces.” Share it on StumbleUpon. By Erika Penzer Kerekes. – Cultivate your cheerleaders.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 27, 2010

Whatever questions you may have about social media marketing, you’ll probably find the answers in the 2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report from white paper guru Michael Stelzner. A year ago, the top questions most marketers had about social media related to tactics, with ROI second. The Biggest Question.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 15, 2010

Certainly internally in your organization you need to be an extrovert if you want to organize a Tribe or movement in your company to take on social media. Share it on StumbleUpon. Related posts: Social Media Listening for B2B Marketing One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 30, 2010

In a recent speech by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research at the ITSMA Marketing Leadership forum it occurred to me that customer acquisition is no longer an “end state” for marketers its somewhere in the middle. B2B Marketers need to examine and invest in this area of the spectrum – the customer retention area.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 9, 2010

While there are unquestionably many ways that social media marketing results can be measured , the debate rages on as to whether it’s truly possible to quantify the ROI from these activities. being made about your company, brand, product or service generally positive, negative or neutral? Influence: a.k.a.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 11, 2010

And according to a study by Neilsen on Facebook Ads there is much better awareness, ad recall and best of all purchase intent when your friend “likes&# or mentions a company to you via Facebook. Our hypothesis is that Facebook Ads will become a strong component in every marketers toolkit much the same way as Google AdWords is today.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 8, 2010

4) Respond like a person, not a company – try to resist the urge to automate the responses. Some companies are telling me their volume of social media mentions are getting to high and they are considering automating a response to a Twitter DM. A good response is one that comes from an individual not a company. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I just had to have one and it killed me that it took a week to get one when it first hit the market. There is a customer service lesson in here for all B2C and B2B Marketers – this is the type of support customers are expecting today on the social web. Share it on StumbleUpon. Bravo AT&T! Email this to a friend?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 5, 2010

Combining two of the most customer focused organizations I am aware of on the web and making one of the most powerful customer centric companies out there. In this world where customers can create content at the drop of a hat – displaying their love or hate for a given company – should not be taken lightly.

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yMarketingMatters

MARCH 27, 2016

In Part I , I gave you a bird’s eye view of what is only going to INCREASE in 2016 and recommended concentrating on and implementing these “Must Have” tactics to see fast, powerful and reliable results in your marketing and sales for your B2C or B2B business: Consumers Are Social. Being on Social Media is a Must. Consumers Are Visual.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In other words, they have more to worry about than trying to keep up with the latest and greatest marketing tactics. As early as seven years ago, hiring a marketing department was fairly simple. Marketing in today’s world is a little bit like being on a roller coaster. and the interview was over. and the interview was over.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

LinkedIn is firmly ensconced among the “big 3″ social networks for marketing and business purposes, and though its base of 80 million members is far smaller than the 600 million users of Facebook, its impact in B2B marketing is larger. LinkedIn New Feature – Follow Company by Success CREEations.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 30, 2010

I am a big fan of David Meerman Scott’s work and I am in the middle of re-reading his book the New Rules of Marketing and PR 2nd edition ! Translation – it provides a rich target for your marketing, you may even put a name or a face to it as one of his blog post detailed called How Well do you Know your Buyer Personas ?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

of articles on the topic of Internet Marketing, from SEO to social media to web usability and then some. They are strategic guides that hopefully will enhance your internet marketing experiences in the future. Without further ado, I now present to you the best internet marketing posts of 2009. Here’s my list for 2008.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The impact of that can be felt in B2C as well as B2B Marketing. There are fewer numbers of print publications remaining and every company’s marketing department wants to garner more traditional press. PR becomes this amorphous blob that can move into many adjacent markets. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 25, 2010

To give credit where it’s due, both the TopRank Online Marketing Blog and Robin Good have provided nice lists in the past, but as changes in the blog directory world can be challenging to keep pace with, both now include dead links and directories that have significantly changed their policies (e.g. Webbiquity B2B Marketing Blog).

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 24, 2009

Zuberance , a Word of Mouth marketing company that provides an on-demand platform that enables B2B and B2C marketers to identify and mobilize their Advocates, generating leads and sales, is hosting a free webinar on June 24th (today) 11 AM Pacific Time about how to turn “word of mouth&# into actual sales.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 23, 2010

Can the financial return on expenditures for social media business activities– in marketing, PR, customer support, HR, product development or other areas — be accurately measured? determining which topics generate the highest traffic and comment activity on a company blog, what time of day is most productive for tweeting, etc.).

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 25, 2011

Because more than 80% of consumer purchases and 90% of b2b buying cycles now begin with search. It’s not only great for search, but showcases your (or your company’s) expertise, helps humanize your company (blogs are more informal and less promotional than corporate websites), and encourages reader interaction.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 21, 2010

From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Now I routinely trade updates and information with smart marketers and other interesting people across North America as well as in the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, South Africa, India, Thailand, Malaysia, The Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and elsewhere. Social media makes marketing more fun. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing by Tamar Weinberg on April 8, 2010 Share Even though social media isn’t new to many of us, the world is waking up to this new shiny toy.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Share it on StumbleUpon. My advice would be don’t let Google Reader (or any social activity) over run your life – remember you are in control! Tweet This! Share this on Facebook. Share this on Linkedin. Share this on del.icio.us. Share this on Reddit. Stumble upon something good? Send this page to Print Friendly.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 15, 2010

At its core, social media marketing is still marketing: it requires a strategy, planning, objectives, measurement, and utilization of key messages. It’s a component (an increasingly essential one) of an overall marketing and PR plan. Mass (as in “mass marketing&# or “mass messaging&# ).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A recent Forrester report called The Intelligent Approach to Customer Intelligence does a good job outlining the challenges of creating data that can truly be used for driving strategic marketing decisions (what they call Strategic Intelligence). But for most B2B marketers like myself – we tend to optimize by the channel of data that we have.

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