Oktopost

MARCH 10, 2022

B2B Growth Marketing, Demand Generation, Field Marketing—however you badge it, it’s a numbers game. Many marketers shy away from social media because they don’t understand how to measure social media return on investment (ROI). How to Measure ROI in Social Media Marketing. We are here to drive revenue.

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ROI B2B Social Media Brands 174

Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

While your competition is arguing about which social network is going to win… Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook, I'm going to help you build an audience first marketing strategy and plan to zoom right past the competition. There's a ton of buzz about audience marketing being the NEW BIG shiny thing for 2018. I got ya' covered.

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Training Marketing Small Business ROI 158

Socialmedia.biz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

[ 2 February 2021 ] B2B Marketing , a trusted advisor to the global B2B marketing community, have launched Propolis , an online community aimed at boosting marketing performance and sharing of expertise. The community offers 4 tiers of membership, tied to the level of access to content.

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Press Release B2B Communities Marketing 78

Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 7, 2018

In survey after survey, year after year, lead generation is a top priority for B2B brands. No matter how big or small, B2B businesses can’t survive without new leads. In fact, according to the 2017 State of Inbound report , lead generation is the biggest challenge for 63% of marketers. Email Marketing.

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B2B Brands LinkedIn Influencer 217

Oktopost

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With various marketing initiatives and product updates happening simultaneously, B2B social media managers have a lot of content to produce at once. Webinars, podcasts, events, blogs, you name it, your team most likely has them. This is where AI tools for content creation can come into play.

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Tools Content B2B Social Media Management 62

Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

With its ability to get in front of a wide array of consumers, social media may be the darling of retail and B2C brands, but it is increasingly difficult for ANY business to ignore the power of social media marketing. 1 Hubspot is a Resource for Marketing Decision Makers. They then craft a strategy that will resonate.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There are few things in a B2B marketer’s toolkit that can deliver as much ROI as paid social media marketing. But what if you could get more out of your current organic social media marketing strategy by using the power of paid ads and sponsored content instead? What is Paid Social Media for B2B?

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B2B Social Media Strategy LinkedIn 136

Oktopost

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In the world of B2B sales, this can be a complex and time-consuming task, as the buyer’s journey is often long and convoluted. Over 84% of B2B executives are using social media as a source for making a purchase decision, which shows that buyers are doing their research online before they make a commitment to a company.

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B2B Metrics Engagement Data 84

Pam Moore

JULY 13, 2023

Unleash Your B2B Sales Superpowers with Artificial Intelligence Ready to add some sizzle to your B2B sales results? Let's unleash your B2B sales superpowers with a little AI magic. HubSpot CRM: From lead scoring to content personalization, it's your AI toolbox all in one place. That's when we truly soar.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

While some B2B brands are still committed to more traditional sales methods, social selling can be even more efficient. In this article, we’ll take a look at the process of social selling and how it can help B2B companies generate more leads (and ultimately more revenue). Which Channels Are Best for B2B Social Selling?

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B2B Brands LinkedIn Groups 171

Pam Moore

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Another day of amazing content creation. You create yet another epic piece of content. You publish yet another epic piece of content. Your epic piece of content is shared all over the social and digital web, once again. However, as usual your content is not converting. It is not driving business.

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Content Training How To ROI 162

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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B2B Social Media Strategy LinkedIn 136

Oktopost

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Influencer marketing is one of the most powerful strategies that could be done for your business. It helps you reach out to a wide range of people, generate new prospects, foster connection with your audience, increase brand loyalty, and of course, B2B’s ultimate metric — get sales. What is influencer marketing strategy?

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B2B Influencer Strategy Industry 69

Oktopost

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Episode two of our podcast, B2B Marketing Now, was posted last week and we learned so much about video for B2B marketing creating this episode. We invited Paul Carpenter to educate us on the value of video for B2B marketing, covering the why and how with video programming. Consideration.

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B2B Video Marketing Module 89

Sprout Social

JULY 1, 2021

But for business-to-business (B2B) companies, the strategy shifts from a broad audience to a very specific one. B2B SEO has a few basic areas that differ from B2C SEO. In this guide, we’ll outline those key differences and how you can better your own B2B SEO strategy. What is B2B SEO? More time in each sales stage.

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B2B SEO Travel Hubspot 123

Sprout Social

MARCH 28, 2024

But with millions of posts flooding users’ feeds daily, how do you make sure your content gets noticed? LinkedIn hashtags are searchable, which increases your content’s reach and gets your posts in front of more of the right people. Table of Contents What are LinkedIn hashtag analytics? Hashtags may be the answer.

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Hashtag Analytics LinkedIn Content 101

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As noted in the 2016 B2B Marketing Trends report , B2B marketing strategies and practices are in the midst of significant change, driven by new technologies and evolving buyer expectations for more “consumer-like” experiences. B2B marketing budgets are shifting to digital and social.

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B2B Social Media Marketing Survey 110

Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Content marketing has become ubiquitous, with 93% of B2B marketers now using it. And it continues to expand: 82% of marketers plan to increase their budgets for content marketing in 2014. In addition, nearly half of marketers say they are unable to measure the value of their content marketing efforts.

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Statistics B2B Content Marketing 207

Oktopost

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

One of the biggest challenges B2B marketers face in today’s hyper-connected world is being defeated by marketing fatigue. . Today’s modern marketer needs to put digital content strategies in place that stand out. Richard , is a Senior Marketing Executive at Spotler UK, a marketing automation platform for B2B SME’s.

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B2B Marketing Apple How To 108

Sprout Social

MARCH 12, 2024

A proof point that illustrates what many social marketers already know: Presidential elections make social media a hard place to navigate, even if your brand isn’t inherently political. Check out our communications plan templates and webinar. Of these conversations, less than half were positive. Which can work to your advantage.

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Social Media Marketing Sentiment Influencer 112

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Content marketing in 2018 is going to hit a new dimension of importance, organization and integration. Smart and savvy marketers know the days of throwing social spaghetti at the wall and hoping it sticks are over and done. 2018 content marketing trends, statistics and predictions.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Cutting through competitive noise is difficult for B2B marketers, making lead generation tricky. Lead generation is proving difficult for 68% of B2B companies, and 61% of marketers pinpoint it as their top challenge. The B2B buyer journey has shifted, with sales reps now only having roughly 5% of a customer’s time.

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Data B2B How To Metrics 124

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. So here is my take ….

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B2B Social Media Marketing Survey 198

Pam Moore

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

It's time to get real about the real return on the investment you make in content marketing. Is the money and time you are investing in content marketing helping you achieve your business goals? Is the time you invest researching your audience, learning the social networks and pounding out mounds of content fruitful?

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Content Training ROI Compete 164

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The B2B sales process has changed, and digitalization has rendered traditional in-person sales methods (such as door-to-door and cold calling) outdated. With sales reps only having 5% of a customer’s time during their B2B buying journey, they have no choice but to pull out all the stops to get customers’ attention.

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Examples B2B ROI Analytics 136

Ignite Social Media

MAY 6, 2021

Many social media platforms are making changes since they’re becoming a critical channel for marketing efforts given the global pandemic, so it’s no surprise that LinkedIn marketing is already in the works with several changes to compete with other platforms. Posts on LinkedIn: Then Versus Now.

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LinkedIn Marketing Eventful Compete 202

Oktopost

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For this reason, utilizing intent data has become a pivotal strategy for B2B revenue teams, as more of their budgets become dedicated to generating new business. Despite its substantial potential for increasing closed-won opportunities, B2B revenue organizations often overlook one critical source of intent data : social media.

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Oktopost

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Following the success of our From the Experts webinar series, we wanted to provide you with this content through another channel to make it easily accessible and digestible for our audience. With that comes some fears as to how we might lose the “human touch” in shifting all marketing and sales to digital. .

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Construction Marketing Authentication B2B 118

Oktopost

JANUARY 10, 2022

She reveals how to make B2B social less boring and why you don’t always need to take the conventional approach to social media, and why it’s important to take calculated risks in the ever-changing world of social. Unleash Your Inner Artist. Behind the Post is a podcast by Social Media Managers, for Social Media Managers.

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Social Media B2B Social Media Management Hosting 158

Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Much of what we’ve come to believe about social media and content marketing is wrong. I crushed them originally a few weeks ago on a webinar for the Content Marketing Institute : Myth 1: My customers are not social. Myth 7: Content creates thought leadership. Content is fire. They are myths.

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Social Media Content Marketing B2B 167

Oktopost

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Table of Contents. Employer branding is the marketing of the experience your employees and potential candidates have through your recruiting, employment, and ending of professional relationships with employees. In such a competitive, fast-paced market, inefficiencies in your hiring workflow could turn off top talent.

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Company B2B Brands How To 136

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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B2B ROI Social Media Hashtag 91

Oktopost

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

“Gating content” or placing forms in front of eBooks, webinars, and whitepapers has long been practiced by B2B marketers. You give access to a valuable piece of content in exchange for an individual’s contact information. The question is, how relevant is this practice in 2018? Before we […].

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Content B2B eBook Questions 87

Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

You often hear about the concept of mapping content to the sales funnel (especially in B2B Marketing) but it’s not so common in practice. The other version of this is the mapping of content to your buyer types and this too is one I have ignored for a while … until now!

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Types Content Case Study Press Release 255

Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

You often hear about the concept of mapping content to the sales funnel (especially in B2B Marketing) but it’s not so common in practice. The other version of this is the mapping of content to your buyer types and this too is one I have ignored for a while … until now!

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Types Content Case Study Press Release 255

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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Engineering Social Media Hubspot Marketing 137

Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of Storytelling Gone Wild: The Key to Creating Viral Content. This webinar was sponsored by Citrix GoToWebinar. Here are three key takeaways from the webinar: What is viral content?

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