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What is a customer journey map and how to make your own [examples included]

Sprout Social

To keep up with it all and better inform your social media marketing strategy , create a customer journey map as a blueprint to help you understand your customers at each stage. Once you have this information, tailor your marketing efforts and content to align with the actions customers take at each stage.

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7 Ways to Lighten Up Your Marketing and Generate Conversation

Convince & Convert

To date, there haven’t been many great examples of humor in B2B. And, according to a global Nielsen Survey of Trust in Advertising conducted in September 2013 (58 countries), almost half (47%) of respondents said that humor resonates more than any content approach. These conversations are something every B2B company can do.

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Why Critics of Klout Are Missing the Big Picture

Convince & Convert

The most recent example was from B2B social media thinker Paul Gillin who wrote a post unveiling the flaws in Klout’s ranking scheme. While we’re on the topic of crimes against math, let’s examine Nielsen ratings, which are used to set prices for billions of dollars of television advertising in this country.

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The Top 10 Marketing Attribution Software Solutions

Oktopost

Especially, for B2B and Considered Purchase marketing. In 2015, the average B2B nurture funnel was 12 months long with the full marketing and sales funnel taking about 512 days from lead to sale on average! Considered purchase funnels are not quite there yet but moving in the direction of B2B funnels. Nielsen Visual IQ.

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The Best Teachers for Influence Marketing

Convince & Convert

Consumers of all kinds continue to spend more time online , and less time in other information channels, where the relationship between content and audience is more linear. Consumers trust recommendations from real people overwhelmingly more than they trust advertising from companies (according to Nielsen, and others).

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5 Alternatives to LinkedIn Elevate for Superior Employee Advocacy

Socialmedia.biz

After all, the B2B value of social media use is completely different from B2C uses. That’s a content distribution opportunity that B2B marketers should not overlook. What’s more, 83% of people trust recommendations from friends and family more than any other form of advertising, according to Nielsen. Image source: [link].

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5 Alternatives to LinkedIn Elevate for Superior Employee Advocacy

Socialmedia.biz

After all, the B2B value of social media use is completely different from B2C uses. That’s a content distribution opportunity that B2B marketers should not overlook. What’s more, 83% of people trust recommendations from friends and family more than any other form of advertising, according to Nielsen. Image source: [link].