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

Direct Marketing Observations

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 Reality of Social Currency

Direct Marketing Observations

The interview, conducted by Steve Olenski on Explore B2B was titled: What Twinkies Can Teach Marketers About Comebacks And Social Branding. It has about 650,000 likes on Facebook, compare this to more than 17 million for Nutella and 34 million for Oreo for example. Don’t measure the re-launch and sustained success on these metrics.

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How are Those 2022 Predictions Working Out?

Direct Marketing Observations

It’s not just Twitter and Facebook anymore either. 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. This isn’t as much a prediction as it is an acknowledgment that people search whether it’s via Google or via Facebook.

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The Enterprise Conundrum-Adapt, Adopt or Do Nothing?

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For them, social media activities consisted of basically going on to Facebook and either doing a status update or reading others. Or are adaption and adoption just so large and time consuming that it’s just easier to say-&# No social media in the organization, do your Facebooking at home!&# Now back to the other group.

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Should Companies Play it Safe in Social Media?

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Is that creating a Facebook page just to satisfy the critics and the bashers? . . . . . . . . . . What does that mean exactly, to play it safe? Is it creating a Twitter profile “in case&# someone maybe be talking about you so that you can claim that you and your company are proactively listening to the conversation?

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