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Social Media Affecting BtoB Buying Behavior

Proactive Report

The New Influences in the Buying Process. BtoB buyers are actively using social media in many steps along the path of the purchase-making decision. Companies involved in BtoB sales need to implement a social media strategy along with other marketing and sales tactics. Social Media and Social Bookmarking.

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Facebook Fans Mean Business (And Are More Likely to Buy)

Firebelly

51% of Facebook fans said they are more likely to purchase from at least a few brands they are fans of on Facebook. 60% said that being a Facebook fan of a brand would cause them to be more likely to recommend that brand to a friend. Your comment has not yet been posted. Your comment could not be posted. Error type: Your comment has been saved.

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Yahoo! Unloads Delicious

Small Business Mavericks

So I suppose they had the money to buy the struggling social bookmarking website. Delicious is one of the early forerunners of social bookmarking. Users of Delicious have until July 2011 to accept AVOSs terms of service and to transfer their bookmarks. And it might have had it not been purchased by Yahoo!

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Web Presence Optimization, Reloaded

Webbiquity SMM

Because more than 80% of consumer purchases and 90% of b2b buying cycles now begin with search. If your potential customers can’t find you, they can’t buy from you. Why is web presence optimization important? See the reputation management question below. Do I have to use all of the elements of web presence optimization?

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Many people haven’t really wrapped their head around how marketing is changing from push to pull and how it’s possible to generate highly qualified “ready to buy” inbound sales leads online. Bookmark a site on a social bookmarking site where they can look it up later and where some of their contacts might discover it.

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How To Launch and Maintain Successful Link Building

Idaconcpts

The fact of the matter is that you can easily go out tomorrow and buy ten PageRank links for around $20 – does that spell “value” or “quality” to you? Compliment this with social bookmarking submissions (again, available through LinkVana) and press release distribution via various press release hubs, and you have a link building strategy.

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How NOT to Build Links to Your Website: Courtesy of American Express

Bill Hartzer

Through a division called “ American Express Market 3D “, American Express is doing Inbound Link Building, Social Bookmarking, and General Directory Submissions. – Inbound Link Building: Locate and Submit 10 Social Bookmark Links. business, computers, health, etc.).

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