Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 19, 2010

So let’s take a look at another more contemporary framework for B2B marketing – the Four C’s. The 4 C’s of B2B Marketing are: Content – the creation of a steady stream of engaging content. In the next post I will show you the new 4 S’s for Social Media Marketing … Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Around this time last year I wrote about the 10 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2010 and while I would say 7 out of 10 have already materialized and the others are on their way. So that begs the question – what’s on the horizon specifically for B2B Marketers next year?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 6, 2010

Imagine a world where B2B Marketers could target specific decision makers in specific companies using Social Media ads. Now he turned this idea on his B2B prospect list (which included me) and with a few clicks he was able to target me precisely. Think that sounds like the future years from now?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 7, 2010

For B2C or B2B Marketers this was a huge revolution. But for B2B Marketing fans I think you need to expand your game around search to start include what I am calling … LinkedIn Search Optimization (LSO). For a good example check out these searches for the terms Facebook Marketing and Social Media. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Trust is not a new thing in the world of sales either – its a fact that people enjoy buying from people that they trust and in B2B Marketing part of our job is to shorten the time spent building trust so sales can have an easier time and focus on selling. Social Media changes that and elevates Trust to the individual level.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 2, 2010

s Social Media in Business study found that 60 percent of consumers believe they are already interacting with companies on the social Web. Nearly all participants — 93 percent — believe all companies should have a presence in social media. Related posts: B2B Marketing Content: Lure or Lasso?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

But these days for B2B Marketers I think we need to take it a step further and say that “Content is Media&#. Building a solid content creation engine is critical to B2B marketers today. I think B2B marketers really need to think and act more like a media house themselves. What is your publishing calendar?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 21, 2010

Ok ok – based on the great response I got from my readers on my last blog post The 4 C’s of B2B Marketing I thought I would try to apply the same principle to Social Media Marketing. 4 Launch them using all available S ocial Media - think Inbound Marketing by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

At a recent BlogWell event I got a chance to hear Robert Raines from Chevron present his Social Media program and how he reports their activity into the Boardroom. It all starts with the Pulse Report that Chevron had produced by Edelman (their PR firm) using their Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool. Technology.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2011

It’s easy to get caught up in the buzz, and the hype, around social media. I’ve been working with many B2B companies to help them figure out when and how to use social media in their business. One area that few people have written about is how to use social media for solution marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Social media definitely pays off, but you’ve got to focus on the approach not the tools. Social Media has hit the mainstream these days but the big concern on every product marketer’s mind has been how to justify the ROI? If you’re concerned about social media cost justification, you’re not along.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 4, 2010

The point here for B2C and B2B Marketers is that as Facebook makes their platform rich in interaction and captures more users and hence more conversations about your brand – you will need to be there and engage with their user base. I was talking to a small business owner last night.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 26, 2011

Now the same could be said about social media – any mention of your brand is good in social media but that’s not entirely correct! Related posts: Social Media for the Boardroom At a recent BlogWell event I got a chance to. It used to be said that any publicity is good publicity. Let me explain ….

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 7, 2012

After last weeks show, guest host Jeff Ogden and B2B marketing expert, Paul Dunay discuss: - Marketing at a small company versus a larger company. Related posts: Changes in B2B Marketing — Mad Marketing TV Ep 13 Join guest host Jeff Ogden and special guest Paul. Buyer personas and the importance of knowing your buyers.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2011

The great thing about using social media data for topic discovery is you can see all of those searches connected together. For example, you can see the result is first “social,&# then it’s “social media,&# then “social media analytics,&# and then “social media analytics paid.&#

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2011

But after 2 years of reading, trafficking and routing both positive and negative mentions in my organization I realized there had to be more out in the social sphere than just monitoring social media. If you think about it there is at least 2 solid years of user generated content out in the social sphere.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 26, 2010

At a recent dinner with a buddy of mine from Microsoft (who helped launch Bing) – I learned a lot more about the search market and a very important trend that can effect the future of B2B Marketing. OK so what does this mean to B2B Marketers? Related posts: Social Search could it be a Google Killer? Email this to a friend?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 21, 2010

When it comes to Social Media data the same holds up to a point! There is clearly a spectrum of Social Media data that can be collected by any listening platform like a Radian6 or a Networked Insights. Social Media Lead flow in B2B Marketing Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 15, 2010

But focusing on the Extrovert angle for a second, I began to wonder if you need to be an extrovert to be in social media. Certainly internally in your organization you need to be an extrovert if you want to organize a Tribe or movement in your company to take on social media. Email this to a friend?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 28, 2010

In my own words – Influencers are individuals that write about Avaya but they also write about Cisco and Siemens in social media or otherwise. Which is why I prefer to have my communications group work with them much like they have always worked with the media. I draw a hard line between Influencers and Advocates.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Far and away one of the best blog posts I wrote this year was on the new 4′c of B2B Marketing – it was read over 15,000 times and 3X more popular than the next most read blog post of the year. Fire your Director of Social Media! Is The White Paper Dead for B2B Marketing? 4 C’s of B2B Marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The 4 P’s to Social Media Marketing Ok ok – based on the great response I got. Tags: Blogging Content Marketing Inbound Marketing Interactive Marketing Lead Nurturing Social Media Thought Leadership. Sharing is how you build a Brand In a recent BusinessWeek article featuring Tony Hsieh from Zappos.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 17, 2015

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Dave or Smart Insights – Dave Chaffey is CEO of Smart Insights, a publisher of planning templates and articles focusing on Digital Strategy with channels on B2B Marketing and Marketing automation. I think content personalization is the biggest opportunity into 2016 for B2B Marketers.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Related posts: Social Search could it be a Google Killer? Avaya makes Business Communications more Social It’s a very exciting day for me here at. Social Media speeds Onboarding I am officially up and running now in my. This morning I typed into Google the search term: VoIP.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Now that we are beginning to feel the relief of the economic uncertainty that has been hanging around us for the past few months, I am beginning to hear a lot about the invention of some new roles inside organizations looking to get “social media”. But wait, social media hasn’t been around that long!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 1, 2011

The kingpin of the spend is usually some sort of TV ad spend (if you are B2C) and print/online media spend (if you are B2B). It’s easy to see how social media data can be used to optimize major media spending like TV ad for B2C by aligning the shows you buy with the best fit for the audience you are trying to reach.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 30, 2010

This is great in a world of tightening budgets and ROI on every campaign but getting the customer up the scale from Awareness to Consideration to Purchase is just part of the deal now that social media has arrived. B2B Marketers need to examine and invest in this area of the spectrum – the customer retention area.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 18, 2009

There are other examples of B2B tech companies that put a special 800 number in their white papers to signal the call is coming in from a download on the website. Right now you have to think of ways to use social media as an “outpost” for your content and use that outpost to drive back to your website.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 23, 2013

Posted in Advertising Applications Branding Content Marketing Customer Experience Facebook Inbound Marketing Listening Personalization Social Media. As excited as marketers may get about shiny new objects— especially social media objects—they‘re often reluctant to spend the time and money to truly develop new efforts for them.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 8, 2010

Let’s face it at this point social media has gone mainstream. Customers are not only surfing the web looking for information but more and more they are relying on social media to get their information. Your customers can seamlessly move from web to social to call center to your front door. Email this to a friend?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of Storytelling Gone Wild: The Key to Creating Viral Content. Know your Audience – everyone loves kittens and puppies but you would never leverage them if your audience was B2B Execs!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

There is a customer service lesson in here for all B2C and B2B Marketers – this is the type of support customers are expecting today on the social web. I think a lot of B2C and B2B Marketers are listening but they tend to think that actual customer support is someone else’s job when in reality Marketers need to own customer support!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 18, 2012

Download this report to learn about the emerging role of social media analysis. Related posts: Changes in B2B Marketing — Mad Marketing TV Ep 13 Join guest host Jeff Ogden and special guest Paul. There really is an ROI in Social Media – I’ve seen it! I really don’t get it. I recently saw an.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2010

In an age where there is more User Generated Content than Publisher (or marketer) Content – here is one way that B2B Marketers can ride that user generated wave to make your content stand out and live longer than it does today. Will Facebook replace your B2B Marketing email system? Email this to a friend?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In January I started on a product with the Avaya Labs (formerly Bell Labs) team to create what is now known as the Avaya Social Media Manager. In the process I found that this was the BEST place to get an ROI in Social Media. With the year rapidly winding down I am almost afraid to set any goals for next year!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2010

Social Media Lead flow in B2B Marketing Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly. Will Facebook replace your B2B Marketing email system? Related posts: Generating a Buyer Persona with Facebook Advertising I am a big fan of David Meerman Scott’s work.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I see this in my travels talking to Avaya customers about how social media can be integrated into their contact center. I like to say I never read a Social Media case study that was titled “We Ignored this Tweet and everything was Great!” Related posts: Social Customer Support: AT&T is doing it Right!

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