Buffer Social

JANUARY 22, 2024

Lindsey Gamble , who writes a newsletter about social media and the creator economy , predicts that 2024 will be the year of influencer marketing on LinkedIn. Similarly, Lia Haberman , who writes the ICYMI newsletter , which chronicles the latest in marketing, shared a LinkedIn-focused prediction, except with a focus on brands.

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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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Oktopost

JANUARY 11, 2024

From email marketing to social media and sales outreach, there are various ways in which you can continuously generate demand for your product. Therefore, it may not be surprising that 39% of businesses are looking at marketing automation to drive their demand-generation efforts. What is a Demand Generation Tool?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 1, 2014

Image via Influitive.com The folks at ReadyTalk , a web conferencing platform had their work cut out for them in marketing their brand against big names such as GoToMeeting, WebEx, and join.me. In general, an advocate is someone who is happy with your brand and willing to talk about it—many marketers just give it the fancy name.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. Seeing a social media ad, getting a branded newsletter and asking a friend for a product recommendation are all touchpoints.

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Oktopost

MARCH 20, 2021

Now, more than ever before, marketers must get creative to accelerate growth in the face of a shifting global business landscape. According to a survey conducted by CoSchedule , 74% of marketers say they set marketing goals, but only 3% admit to reaching them. Growth hacking isn’t prescriptive.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

There’s a reason 68% of marketers say their company has an advocacy strategy. With over 65 million decision-makers on LinkedIn, it’s the place to connect with your next B2B buyers. And considering most B2B buyers use social media to make purchasing decisions, interesting, persuasive content can translate into dollars.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 19, 2017

During my most recent exhibit at a B2B marketing conference in London, I met and spoke with lots of great customers, partners, and prospects. Looking at the facts, I understood that B2B marketers need to rethink their social media strategy. And they were certainly not blind. Employee Advocacy Boosts Brand Awareness.

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Keyhole.co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, while it affects both B2B and B2C industries, the dynamics differ. B2B brand reputation A reputation crisis for a B2B brand often has a limited audience and can be contained through direct communication channels and negotiations. B2B brands have more scope on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 10, 2021

Between social media, display ads and direct email newsletters, the possibilities are near endless. How do you choose which marketing channel to focus on? Marketing email newsletters have been around for decades. Marketers who work with email are constantly trying to make sure theirs is the one you open.

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Oktopost

JUNE 14, 2021

It takes intelligent targeting, a gentle approach, and calculated marketing strategies to embrace a new client into the sales funnel. It’s not uncommon for B2b marketers to conflate these two processes and definitions, which is an unfortunate lousy habit. . If demand generation catches the fish, lead generation reels them in.

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Kikolani

JUNE 21, 2016

Title suggestions: Content Marketing Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic. Content Marketing Traffic Boosting Tactics . A statistic in DemandGen’s 2015 content marketing survey report shows that over 75% of B2B (business to business) purchasers base their decisions on content the use for research. Over 1 milion posts!

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 25, 2022

To keep up with it all and better inform your social media marketing strategy , create a customer journey map. Seeing a social media ad, getting a branded newsletter and asking a friend for a product recommendation are all touchpoints. And with the support of social media market research , they also help brands in other ways.

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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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Keyhole.co

MAY 9, 2023

Besides, the platform offers advanced features and advertising capabilities that can help generate brand awareness, attract target audiences, and drive high engagement, making it a powerful marketing tool. A recent survey reveals Instagram is the “ #1 platform ” for building brand relationships. The choice is yours!

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 11, 2016

Let’s take a look at how copywriters and content marketers can maximize the persuasive power of benefit-based copy. Perhaps all of these variables explain why marketing is such an inexact science. In B2C, phone interviews and online surveys are usually more practical. The Five Types of Benefits. Get to Know the Audience.

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Writtent Blog

JULY 3, 2013

Email should be the power player of your inbound marketing strategy. The Direct Marketing Association reports that email drives more ROI than any other form of outreach for 67% of companies, and it’s the top source for new sales for 30% of marketers. Image credit: nokhoog buchachon/freedigitalphotos.net.

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Kikolani

JUNE 21, 2016

A statistic in DemandGen’s 2015 content marketing survey report shows that over 75% of B2B (business to business) purchasers base their decisions on content the use for research. Most marketing bloggers will tell you to realize influencer roundup posts in order to persuade those influencers to link to that blog post.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 10, 2011

Yet a Bazaarvoice/CMO Club study showed that only 15% of CMOs could point to a “significant return&# from Facebook marketing efforts, while 9% report no ROI and 35% basically had no idea. The core of social media marketing efforts should be the corporate blog. What should they promote? Here are 20 ideas.

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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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. &# Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? But those differences are at the tactics layer, not the strategy layer.

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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 14, 2022

If you can’t answer these questions, then you need a content marketing plan. According to one recent study , only 40% of B2B marketers have a documented content marketing strategy. Whether or not you are in that 40%, it’s a good idea to establish or revisit an existing content marketing plan. But you’re not alone.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

To be fully effective, this presence will be separate from any marketing content but consistent with the message it contains. For marketers, this means it’s time to drag your CEOs into Twitter Town, if they aren’t already there. In a B2B situation, this becomes even more important. highlight to tweet). I’m like a proud parent!

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agora pulse

JUNE 27, 2019

B2B firms are extremely bullish about the effectiveness of social media content and plan to continue to invest heavily in it, according to recent research from Walker Sands. B2B firms rank social media as the second-most effective content type for engaging existing customers, just behind website content.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. It’s a Bird.

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Ignite Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This past year many marketers struggled with their social media advertising efforts. 2020 was a unique year for social media marketing, but the state of social ad buying specifically had some interesting points we want to address. Is Paid Social Media Worthwhile for Small Business Selling to B2B Audiences?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

The post explored the topic of utilizing common interactive marketing tools in unintended ways to tap into consumer demand. Not unlike traditional surveys, keyword research and social data mining tools tell a powerful story about the information target audiences want from organizations, on-and-offline.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference. JaneNation will package its findings through newsletters, seminars, and other research programs, and also connects brands with female consumers (for a fee, natch).

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 30, 2020

Even so, the cloud market is scheduled to grow a staggering 17% in 2020. Doing so means nailing down your SaaS marketing strategy, though. In this guide, we’ve broken down everything you need to know about SaaS marketing. What makes SaaS marketing “different?”. SaaS marketing is all about long-term customers.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter. Facebook fan pages are email newsletters 2.0 Place making social media (Foursquare, Gowalla, et al) will continue to gain traction over the next 18 months.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

You can survey your customers, although that’s not always the best approach because the questions are not fresh in their minds – they’ve already made their buying decision. Or, you could survey Web site visitors, gathering data in real-time. You can use a few methods to determine which questions to answer.

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agora pulse

MARCH 1, 2021

For example, have you subscribed to the Agorapulse newsletter yet? If you have, you have entered your email address, clicked ‘’sign me up,” and started to receive a juicy, monthly newsletter filled with “the hottest posts and latest social media news,” right? Produce a newsletter and encourage people to subscribe to it.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research, paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem. Note that the survey population was 12 and up, including a representative portion of seniors). 42% learn about products and services via Twitter.

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Oktopost

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Your products are top quality, your customer service is attentive, your marketing is sharp and informative, but you still see your market share slip away. You perform a detailed investigation into how they’re conducting product development, marketing, sales, and other vital operations. The overall market outlook.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and expanding) reach of social media, and its relatively low cost (at least from a production fees perspective) makes it an incredibly attractive proposition for marketers. Learn the Science of Social Like any other online marketing program, social media is widely measurable – and testable.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 11, 2010

We have some other craziness planned, too, and we’ll want to bounce ideas off of you, solicit your genius for marketing the book, and all that stuff. About Damn Time Great idea to do the survey, makes it easier to see early on that people are feeling it for the water theme suzyoge 1. Time for Real Time or 2. Seriously, thank you.

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