Oktopost

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For this reason, utilizing intent data has become a pivotal strategy for B2B revenue teams, as more of their budgets become dedicated to generating new business. Despite its substantial potential for increasing closed-won opportunities, B2B revenue organizations often overlook one critical source of intent data : social media.

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Oktopost

JULY 4, 2022

Salesforce announced earlier this year that Social Studio, their one-stop social media management platform, has entered sunset mode and will no longer be receiving any updates. For those of you working in Social Studio and enjoying the native integration with your Salesforce platform, this is likely a difficult time.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 28, 2024

For example, suppose you’re a social media marketer at a B2B marketing software company for small businesses. Track the sentiment for certain hashtags A solid social media strategy also tracks how people feel about the content you’re putting out.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 4, 2022

The sheer number of available formats and venues for social media video illustrates the point well (think TikTok, Instagram Reels and Facebook Stories, just to name a few). Of those social media marketers who use video, 93% say it’s a vital component of their strategies. Social media video marketing statistics.

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Mindjumpers

APRIL 14, 2011

Tweet Useful Social Media is a company that produces business intelligence products designed to help big businesses get the most of their use of social media. In June 2011, they will be holding The Corporate Social Media Summit in both New York and San Francisco.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 4, 2017

Establishing your organization’s identity on social has undoubtedly helped you perfect your own personal brand. But what may seem obvious to a social media managers is a whole new world to other departments at your company. Wednesday, April 19: Managing a B2B Brand on Social With Sprout All Star, Alex Bimonte.

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agora pulse

DECEMBER 26, 2016

How do you choose what social media news you read each day? With a gazillion social media marketing blogs out there, you could easily spend hours a day reading best practices posts — and getting a crazy headache in the process. The Best Social Media Roundup Posts of the Year. Music and social media?

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 30, 2020

Branding matters as much in B2B as in consumer marketing; if you were trying to sell 10,000 laptops to a large corporation, would you rather be selling Dell or some unfamiliar no-name knock off?). Arguably the best channel is through social media. billion people in the United States actively use at least one social network.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Use video to carry out a social media contest. Give your engagement a boost by creating a social media contest fueled by video. MeUndies collaborated with creators like Lauren-Ashley Beck to promote their social media contest, #GetSpookywithMe. Here’s how you can create Reels for your B2B company: 11.

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Ignite Social Media

JULY 27, 2020

Here are a few key stats to keep in mind before diving into the LinkedIn Insight Tag: It’s projected that more than half of marketers will leverage LinkedIn for marketing and advertising by 2021 (excludes companies that use it strictly for recruiting). Deep, Relevant B2B Audience Insights. And it’s uniquely business.

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Buffer Social

AUGUST 23, 2018

While much of the focus over the last few years on social media has been on Facebook and Instagram, LinkedIn has been steadily growing its user base to more than 500 million users. With this simple 5-step strategy your business can accelerate the growth of your Company Page by up to 600 percent. – Company description.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

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? This chart shows usage of five major social outposts by organization type.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 1, 2018

Through social media platforms , attendees and businesses can share content and experiences from the event. In this article, we take a look at why engagement on your social media platforms is so important. Use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram to advertise your upcoming trade show appearances.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

There are probably other companies that do the same thing. For example, if you run a B2B CRM software company that sells to small and medium-sized businesses, a CRM for enterprise clients would be your indirect competitor. For example, a Google search for “makeup brands” highlights a few of the world’s leading makeup companies.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

JUNE 8, 2023

Brands have many reasons to move away from the social media giant Facebook. Whenever an NFL player suffered an injury deemed to be turf-related, Pennington responded in real-time on social media. RXBAR Uses Facebook to Drive In-Store Sales Protein bar company RXBAR had a tough couple of years.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Social media has given brands and businesses a platform to engage with their customers. We spoke to several social selling experts to understand what it means and its value to salespeople. The immediacy of social makes it easier for salespeople to connect with, engage and nurture top prospects.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

MARCH 11, 2019

Lauren Brommer is an experienced digital marketer with a passion for social media. Her data-driven approach has helped establish social as a strategic channel for engaging Cisco’s diverse range of customers. Check out our interview with her in anticipation of her talk at the Social Media Strategies Summit !

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Often, you hear about them being involved in hacking incidents or trying to influence people on social media. Retailers and other companies that sell direct to consumers have known this for a while, and the consumer chatbot field is already fairly overcrowded territory. Bots on the internet get a bad rap. Slack, of course!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Indeed, email marketing and social media marketing are spiritually and procedurally similar.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

As a result, the audience of LinkedIn is different than any other social media site: 50% of LinkedIn users have a college degree, 45% earn at least $75K per year, and 33% of millionaires are on the platform. Members also include 92% of Fortune 500 companies, 90 million senior-level influencers, and 63 million decision-makers.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Would a company launch a major television campaign if the CEO had never watched TV? Social Media? Most B2B companies have fewer customers, so the opinions of each are magnified.

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Ignite Social Media

APRIL 13, 2018

Here are a few eMarketer stats that prove that the majority of marketers also haven’t quite figured it out: 68% of companies worldwide do not yet use chatbots (eMarketer, May 2017). Best in class examples of chatbots from a variety of B2C and B2B brands. Four steps to get started on your brand’s chatbot strategy.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. However, for marketers, a social media address is insufficient to manage that channel.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 28, 2023

Think: sending customer emails, SMS communications, scheduling social media posts, running digital ads and more. It includes automation strategies across marketing, including social media, digital advertising, segmentation, analytics and data measurement and yes, email marketing. Why use marketing automation?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

When I discuss this concept with companies, however, too often I hear something in the realm of “we don’t know what to provide our customers that would be helpful.&# Try to return something to your own company. Make it a habit within your organization to “shop&# yourself. Buy your own product.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 5, 2014

This week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of Transforming Events into Meaningful Experiences: Lessons in Real-Time Marketing. Amber set the stage with a discussion of Real-Time Marketing (RTM) and some examples of companies doing it right.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

While my social media speaking engagements vary enough that I alter my material quite a bit from event to event, there is definitely a batch of one liners that I tend to incorporate. Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse? Focus on how to be social, not on how to do social.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. Yet before a crisis erupts, no matter what the root of the issue, companies should cushion themselves by leveraging the good work they’re already doing. Don’t be Shy.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 4, 2016

When it comes to using humor in marketing, advertising and public relations, we often have to step back and answer a few questions before proceeding down a path of knock-knock jokes, current event inspired memes and company social media postings which could potentially make your mother-in-law cringe. What about B2B?

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Sprout Social

APRIL 26, 2022

And with new data revealing that the majority of people expect CEOs to be the face of change at a company, strong executive communications are a must. Executive communications can benefit both of these elements, your comms strategy as a whole and can even boost employee morale and company visibility. Any recommendations? Build trust?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Do you see social media participation as one of the hurdles businesses now need to successfully clear? Absolutely. Change takes time.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

A collaboration between RESMARK Systems (a provider of hospitality software), Western River Expeditions (an adventure tour company), Compendium (provider of corporate content creation software), and ExactTarget (provider of enterprise messaging software) shows how this can be done day-to-day. That’s it. It makes sharing simple.

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Social Media Strategy Tourism Social CRM 140

Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Press releases and corporate write-ups across the web talk about the company’s production of electronics for Redbox , NASA , Nokia , and Ford — to name a tiny few consumer brands you may recognize. The company went social this fall, as CMO Catherine Hernandez-Blades elaborated in the company’s first blog post.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. This presentation: “Why Before How: The Keys to Developing a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps&# also formed the basis for my recent MarketingProfs Webinar. Because tools will change.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts.

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