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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

Marketers believe the highest consumer priorities on social media are insights for buying decisions (59%) and customer service (58%). B2B buyers are most likely to share useful vendor content via email (79%), followed by LinkedIn (53%), Twitter (39%) and Facebook (18%). Social CRM is still confusing. B2B Lead Blog ).

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The Essentials of B2B Search Marketing

Oktopost

If you’ve ever gone searching for information on the internet about a product you were interested in buying, you’ve replicated one of the critical parts of the B2B customer purchasing journey. Of B2B buyers surveyed, 77% say they won’t even speak with a salesperson until they’ve done their own purchasing research.

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Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive | Social Media.

Convince & Convert

link] > @jaybaer [link] Stephanie Wonderlin Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive? When applied to the area of Social CRM, we see the majority (+90%) of activity as reactive (social monitoring)– very focused on the service-side. link] [link] Jessica Griffin Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

RT @jaybaer: 5 Simple Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Gold: [link] [link] Foundora 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness – [link] By @jaybaer [link] Deirdre Reid, CAE 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Marketing Greatness (by @jaybaer) [link] [link] Jack Scharff How can b2b apply?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. It’s really only possible in a reactive sense via social CRM, where individual complaints or questions can indeed be handled.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

.&# But, I’m excited by the possibilities, eager to get our kids set up in what I think will be a terrific situation, fired up about our new home, and eager to get integrated into the Indiana social media community. Even getting this far has been a carnival ride of mortgage, insurance, real estate, movers and utilities drama.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

link] Jay Thompson This may be the best post on social media I’ve seen. I have a small, independent, real estate brokerage. There are tremendous social media applications in real estate, but so many don’t “get it&#. I have a small, independent, real estate brokerage.