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changed, and digitalization has rendered traditional in-person sales methods (such as door-to-door and cold calling) outdated.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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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. Have you noticed this trend happening on your feed?

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Sprout Social

MARCH 28, 2024

But with millions of posts flooding users’ feeds daily, how do you make sure your content gets noticed? In this article, we’ll dive into why hashtags matter, how they boost your brand’s visibility and how to use LinkedIn hashtag analytics to add fuel to the fire of your LinkedIn marketing strategy. Hashtags may be the answer.

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Oktopost

MAY 18, 2021

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. Brands put together campaigns or make certain marketing decisions with the intent to see a certain result, and sometimes, they just miss the mark.

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Oktopost

APRIL 30, 2020

In a survey of more than a thousand mid-level and senior marketers taken last year, 41% listed live events as “ the most critical marketing channel ” for their business objectives. With conventions and conferences on hold, marketers are looking for tools to help them explore digital alternatives. Why Use LinkedIn Events?

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Oktopost

MARCH 5, 2019

Staying relative has always been a challenge for marketers. Attention spans decrease and the public becomes desensitized to marketing messages. This means marketers need to to up their game. Done right, real time marketing (RTM) captures (and holds) the attention of your target audience. What is Real-Time Marketing?

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Tweet B2B social media is one of the most nettlesome of all social media marketing topics. There are plenty of half-truths and misunderstandings about what, where, why, and how B2B social media works (or doesn’t). I tried to dispel the most common B2B social media myths in this Webinar for Genius.com and Focus.

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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.

Examples 62

Examples B2B ROI Analytics 62

Ignite Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

If you missed our webinar last week on the 7 surprising differences between millennial men and women and their social media usage, we’re here to give you a debrief. Read on to determine if your social media marketing strategy should shift to reach these two varying audiences. To check out the full webinar click here.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Marketing professionals, from specialists to VP, agree it’s getting harder to reach your target audience with no ad spend to back it up. While the path to a perfectly curated feed is paved with good intentions, there’s bound to be some trial and error along the way. As networks work those kinks out, marketers have to adapt.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 4, 2023

Social media marketing provides a unique opportunity to connect with this massive audience on the platforms where they already spend their time. But what exactly does social media marketing entail? How do you “do” social media marketing, and how do you get started? What is social media marketing? A whopping 4.74

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Rebekah Radice

JULY 15, 2019

The great thing about thought leadership videos is the many ways you can go about creating them and bringing value: you can share some interesting facts or tips, create a webinar, and a lot more. You can even do an interview with a fellow expert or colleague in your niche like Jessika Phillips and Mike Gingerich do with NOW Marketing Group.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 11, 2012

Recent research from MarketingProfs shows that 84% of B2B companies use social media marketing in some form, and the figure is likely higher for B2C firms. In fact, another recent study from HubSpot reveals that 63% of B2B companies aren’t generating leads from social media at all.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2016

Offer them a case study ; 54 percent of marketers believe it is the most effective form of content marketing. To further nurture and nourish your leads, consider a webinar. More than 60 percent of marketers use webinars to convert. Get more content like this , plus the very BEST marketing education, totally free.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Industry events and webinars make space for people to discuss trends, talk about controversies and tout the latest innovations in their industries. The people who attend those are all on social—and they’re interested in seeing that information in their feeds. Manufacturing marketers: don’t pass up this opportunity. Cummins Inc.

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Pam Moore

AUGUST 3, 2016

These stories are non-intrusive and do not currently appear in the standard feed for Instagram users. However, where Snapchat has struggled is expanding the demographic as well as presenting a solid value proposition that is both affordable and understandable for brands working in the business to business (B2B) space.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 26, 2022

As HubSpot’s Director of Executive Communications Hannah Fleishman puts it, “The reality is, an executive’s platform is one of the most powerful recruiting, marketing and sales tools a company has.”. Looking for some must-follow B2B startup CEOs. And this can feed your efforts. I’m talking “change the world” kinda companies.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 12, 2020

By now you know that social media is a marketing powerhouse. 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.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 31, 2022

Although it’s the ideal platform for reaching your target audience, the problem is that 96% of B2B content marketers are already using LinkedIn for organic social marketing. Fortunately, there are some advanced ways of using LinkedIn as a powerful B2B marketing tool. Image credit: StockSnap on Pixabay.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

He’s also founder of Exploring Social Media , a social media marketing program for beginners to teach them how to best understand and make sense of this online phenomenon for marketing. Samir Balwani is a marketing strategist and Director of Member Acquisition for StyleCaster. Samir Balwani. Adam Singer. Kristi Hines.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 21, 2020

B2B social media marketing is often written off as boring or unnecessary. The digital media company credits its LinkedIn marketing efforts for closing 42% of its deals in 2018. B2B marketing helps Adobe ink bigger contracts. Why use social media for B2B marketing. Just look at Adobe. Not only that.

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Keyhole.co

JUNE 6, 2023

Have you ever felt like you’re playing an endless game of tag with your B2B content marketing strategy, trying to catch your target audience’s attention while they’re just out of reach? So why not use them to your advantage in your B2B content marketing strategy? If so, you’re not alone.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Creating captivating B2B social media post ideas can be… challenging. If you’re in B2B social, you know it has a bit of a reputation of being kind of dull. One survey even found 48% of B2B customers say the ads they receive are boring and lack the creativity found in B2C marketing. Let’s be honest.

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

When I first started out with digital marketing, I was blown away by the sheer amount of online marketing resources and social media classes. I read hundreds of articles and enrolled in as many marketing courses that I could possibly get my hands on. Digital marketing classes (9-17). Diploma in Social Media Marketing.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Indeed, email marketing and social media marketing are spiritually and procedurally similar. Email is all about actual audience. Approximately 25% of the time (on average) they will.

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Oktopost

JUNE 9, 2020

Why Employee Advocacy Matters for B2B. It can take months for a B2B marketing team to build up a company’s presence and credibility online. This is exactly why employee advocacy is so powerful: your team is the key to unlocking the true potential of social media marketing. Why Employee Advocacy Matters for B2B.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

How to not suck being a conference moderator or speaker , from TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog. How B2B companies use real-time blog posts to get trade media exposure , from David Meerman Scott ‘s Web Ink Now. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So, we’re giving you a cheat sheet of the top B2B social media trends you need to know to create a successful social strategy. Where Are B2B Marketers Posting Most Often? In fact, 42% of social media posts made by B2B organizations were posted from LinkedIn in 2023. We’re going to say it.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 29, 2016

Although more than three-quarters of B2B technology marketers use social media to market their products, less than half say they can tie social channels to revenue generation for their businesses. But it may also be a problem with basic B2B social media marketing strategy. Cross-Platform Social Media Strategy.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 2, 2023

37% of consumers say that live video is the most engaging form of in-feed social content. And that’s why live streaming is becoming more common in B2B marketing. From webinars to interviews and beyond, Live is a prime way to educate your B2B audience. Educational webinars are likewise a safe bet.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results. As I am starting to preach more and more in email marketing – there is no such thing as best practices, only practices that are best for YOU.

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Keyhole.co

JANUARY 4, 2022

Along with being a preeminent social network for hiring top talent, more and more businesses are using LinkedIn marketing to network, connect and sell to potential customers. Both marketing and sales departments are using LinkedIn to attract and convert new business. These statistics highlight that you need a LinkedIn marketing plan.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Now, you can track number of “likes&# and daily interactions on your Facebook page, in the same place you can track RSS feeds, Twitter followers, and all the other awesome data points Swix provides. Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Comtex takes their feeds and spreads them around to their member sites. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. We’re often compared to PR distribution services, which is okay, but it’s apples to oranges. Their magic? Does that drive business to you? Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

A recent presentation at the PRSA Counselors Academy, by Michael Lasky , Partner and Chair of the Public Relations Law Practice at the law firm of Davis & Gilbert in NY, provided a wake up call to those in attendance about how the law is slowly creeping into the social landscape and why responsible marketers had better pay attention.

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Oktopost

AUGUST 9, 2020

B2B marketers harness this power by asking employees to promote their organization on social media. This marketing practice is called employee advocacy. The same goes for customer support, marketing and HR professionals. Social media is no longer just a marketing channel. Almost a full-time job. A major time saver.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

With every such success, however, you must feed the beast or it will get hungry and wander off. After your webinar yesterday my department spent an hour or so asking ourselves, “What IS the goal of our blog?&# Metrics would include the number of times a post is mentioned in other blogs or media, references, RT's, etc.

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