Oktopost

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

While some B2B brands are still committed to more traditional sales methods, social selling can be even more efficient. In this article, we’ll take a look at the process of social selling and how it can help B2B companies generate more leads (and ultimately more revenue). Which Channels Are Best for B2B Social Selling?

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In the world of B2B sales, this can be a complex and time-consuming task, as the buyer’s journey is often long and convoluted. Over 84% of B2B executives are using social media as a source for making a purchase decision, which shows that buyers are doing their research online before they make a commitment to a company.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There are few things in a B2B marketer’s toolkit that can deliver as much ROI as paid social media marketing. While anyone can make organic posts, paid social refers to ads placed by a company that also pays for increased exposure to these ads. What is Paid Social Media for B2B?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

For B2B brands, social media is growing in importance: 66% of B2B marketers report that LinkedIn is effective, 66% say they plan to boost their organic usage of Instagram, and 56% rate YouTube as important to overall brands success ( Articulate ). Companies are frequently trying to reach multiple audiences on their social channels.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 7, 2018

In survey after survey, year after year, lead generation is a top priority for B2B brands. No matter how big or small, B2B businesses can’t survive without new leads. According to CMI , 91% of B2B marketers are already using content marketing to generate leads. Here’s how you can do it: Start by Setting Up a Company Page.

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Sprout Social

JULY 1, 2021

But for business-to-business (B2B) companies, the strategy shifts from a broad audience to a very specific one. B2B SEO has a few basic areas that differ from B2C SEO. In this guide, we’ll outline those key differences and how you can better your own B2B SEO strategy. What is B2B SEO?

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Later

JUNE 28, 2021

LinkedIn is now a powerful business-to-business (B2B) marketing and sales tool. We’re highlighting 5 ways to level up your LinkedIn B2B marketing strategy in this blog post: What Is LinkedIn B2B Marketing? B2B marketing does exactly what it says on the tin. Why You Should Use LinkedIn for B2B Marketing.

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Oktopost

MARCH 15, 2021

B2B marketing has felt these shifts as much as any other field. For B2B marketers, the big news about the pandemic-inspired social media renaissance isn’t about vibing on TikTok, but about what’s been happening on LinkedIn. The new habits we’ve learned aren’t going to evaporate the moment we conquer the virus.

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Oktopost

APRIL 21, 2020

There’s no doubt that when B2B marketers do social media right, they can be a great facilitator in staying connected with prospects and customers through content. Together, they unveil current trends emerging in the B2B marketing industry due to COVID19 and best practices to tighten B2B content strategies.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Episode two of our podcast, B2B Marketing Now, was posted last week and we learned so much about video for B2B marketing creating this episode. We invited Paul Carpenter to educate us on the value of video for B2B marketing, covering the why and how with video programming. How can you build a video marketing program?

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Oktopost

AUGUST 24, 2021

B2B event marketing has been proven to be as good as gold for this goal. . According to The Changing Environment of Exhibitions and exponents.com: On average, a company sets 31.6% 99% found unique value in this B2B marketing strategy that they did not get from other channels. What is B2B Event Marketing?

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As noted in the 2016 B2B Marketing Trends report , B2B marketing strategies and practices are in the midst of significant change, driven by new technologies and evolving buyer expectations for more “consumer-like” experiences. B2B marketing budgets are shifting to digital and social. B2B messaging gets personal.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The B2B sales process has changed, and digitalization has rendered traditional in-person sales methods (such as door-to-door and cold calling) outdated. With sales reps only having 5% of a customer’s time during their B2B buying journey, they have no choice but to pull out all the stops to get customers’ attention.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With various marketing initiatives and product updates happening simultaneously, B2B social media managers have a lot of content to produce at once. Webinars, podcasts, events, blogs, you name it, your team most likely has them. This is where AI tools for content creation can come into play. AI can lend you that welcomed helping hand.

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The Realtime Report

JANUARY 28, 2017

Making Social Media An ROI Positive Channel For B2B Businesses By Jingcong Zhao. alone last year , it’s clear that social media is being cemented as a marketing function in most B2B organizations. The biggest reason for this challenge has to do with the mindset with which B2B marketers have approached social.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 1, 2010

MarketingSherpa recently released its 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. As MarketingSherpa notes, “Year after year, the greatest challenge that B2B organizations face is generating high-quality leads.&#. You can download the executive summary for free (or pay $400 for the full report ). Stumble upon something good? Tweet This!

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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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 11, 2016

Webinars continue to be an invaluable content marketing tool for companies to attract and engage with prospects as well as retain existing customers to become your advocates. Over the last eight years, my team and I have produced, delivered, and moderated hundreds of webinars across a wide canvas of B2B industries.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

The question is – What is the appropriate level of budget to support social media for a B2B company? First was the post on the Media Budget Ratio (MBR) for a B2B company. One question has popped up a few times to I thought it was worthy of some research and comparative analysis to give you a very clear answer.

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Social Media Marketing

MARCH 1, 2010

The exception – company blogs – should be backed by both a strategic content strategy and the resources necessary to create this content on an ongoing basis before it allocating IT resources to blog creation or management. Company / Brand Pages on Social Networking Sites – social network participation is now mainstream for U.S.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The impact of the economy has slowed down the pace of B2B sales, leaving sales teams wondering how to meet their KPIs. In fact, statistics reveal that 63% of leads who inquire about your company won’t make a purchase for at least three months, and another 20% will take more than a year to complete the sales cycle.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Tweet B2B social media is one of the most nettlesome of all social media marketing topics. There are plenty of half-truths and misunderstandings about what, where, why, and how B2B social media works (or doesn’t). I tried to dispel the most common B2B social media myths in this Webinar for Genius.com and Focus.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 25, 2016

Following up on last week’s post covering my most important lessons for attracting your webinar audience , let’s now pivot and focus on how to keep them engaged once they show up live as an attendee at your webinar. Consider External Thought Leaders as Speakers vs. Internal Company Experts. You can review the full post here.

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Oktopost

MAY 18, 2021

Following the success of our From the Experts webinar series , we wanted to provide you with this content through another channel to make it easily accessible and digestible for our audience. How and What B2B Marketers Can Learn from B2C . What Makes Up Peoples Relationships with Brands.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, with approximately 500 million users and more than nine million companies represented. This is an excellent way to let businesses on LinkedIn know what your company does without doing the blatant self-promotion that everyone hates. Add Webinars. Guest post by Lexie Lu.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 23, 2011

On Thursday October 27, join me and my friends at Argyle Social for a valuable (yet free) Webinar that puts some of the big questions about social media timing under the experimental microscope. We’ll also teach you how to run legitimate testing experiments on your own data, in your own company. (at least on weekdays).

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 13, 2021

The company is currently “in talks to raise funding from investors in a round valuing the business at about $4 billion,” according to Bloomberg. That would be four times what the company was valued at just four months ago. appeared first on B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity. Three Reasons Clubhouse May Crash and Burn.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The B2B sales process has changed, and digitalization has rendered traditional in-person sales methods (such as door-to-door and cold calling) outdated. With sales reps only having 5% of a customer’s time during their B2B buying journey, they have no choice but to pull out all the stops to get customers’ attention.

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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. Say, for instance, you work for a virtual event software company and want to compare posts with #eventprofs to ones with #eventtech.

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Oktopost

APRIL 8, 2021

Following the success of our From the Experts webinar series, we wanted to provide you with this content through another channel to make it easily accessible and digestible for our audience. Now, if you’re a B2B marketer in 2021, you’re probably on a constant quest to figure out how to beat the algorithm. P2P over B2B.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

B2B advertising expenditures in the United States totaled $32 billion in 2022, an increase from the $28.9 Jump ahead: Examples of Paid Media for B2B Marketers Why Do You Need A Paid Media Plan in Digital Marketing? Source: Titan Growth B2B marketers have various options to reach their target audience directly through paid media.

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Oktopost

MARCH 13, 2018

Every B2B marketer has had their fair share of bad days. Forgetting to share screen during a live webinar. Tagging the wrong company in a Tweet. Sending the wrong campaign to a huge email list. Failing to print enough conference materials. You name it! But like everything in life, the severity of an issue is […].

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Content marketing has become ubiquitous, with 93% of B2B marketers now using it. 93% of B2B marketers are using content marketing—but only 44% have a documented content strategy. ( B2B Marketing Insider ). 87% of B2B buyers say content has an impact on vendor selection; more than a quarter (27%) say it has a “major impact.”

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Oktopost

APRIL 30, 2020

A LinkedIn Event organizer either be an individual profile or a company; page admins can create events for company pages. The platform is widely used by B2B professionals, the feature is free to use, and if you’re organizing a virtual event every channel that can reach potential attendees is worth utilizing.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Following the success of our “From the Experts” webinar series, I wanted to provide you with this content through another channel to make it easily accessible and digestible for our audience. Sometimes this is done on behalf of the company or brand, sometimes it’s done by individuals in the organization.

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