Direct Marketing Observations

OCTOBER 4, 2017

B2B Social media success is like the American ninja warrior TV show. The same holds true for B2B marketers. B2B social media marketing can be brutal but it’s not a loser. Those challenges, metaphorically speaking, completely exist in B2B social media in 2017.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

While some B2B brands are still committed to more traditional sales methods, social selling can be even more efficient. If your sales strategy doesn’t include social media, leads who could have been brought to your business are likely going to your competitor. What Is Social Selling? What Is Social Selling?

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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. Still, 61% of marketers want to increase the effectiveness of their SEO to get more visits and conversions this year. Social Media Marketing.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 5, 2023

By utilizing this data, you can develop campaigns that will yield the highest results and ensure that your time and resources are used efficiently and effectively. These include cost-per-lead, lead to opportunity conversion rate, and customer lifetime value. Conversion Rate.

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Oktopost

JULY 15, 2020

Not a bad zinger, but here we are four years later and LinkedIn is widely acknowledged as an invaluable resource not just for headhunters and job seekers, but for marketers and sales professionals too. For B2B marketers, the importance of LinkedIn cannot be overstated. Why LinkedIn Lead Generation is Perfect for B2B Marketing.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 29, 2024

Social media networks, and the way users interact with them, evolve quickly. This year, plan for more changing audience preferences and deeper social media fragmentation. Every pot has a lid Today’s social media ecosystem is made up of many networks with unique algorithms, content formats and audiences.

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Pam Moore

JULY 13, 2023

Unleash Your B2B Sales Superpowers with Artificial Intelligence Ready to add some sizzle to your B2B sales results? Let's unleash your B2B sales superpowers with a little AI magic. So let's team up, unleash the magic, and take your B2B sales to dizzying new heights! This is the magic of B2B sales in the era of AI.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In the US alone, research from Statista shows that B2B marketing spend has already decreased by over 50% in early 2020. Where else would they go besides social media? Social media is the most popular platform for B2B marketing, says Content Marketing Institute: 83% of marketers are going this route.

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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? Low conversion rate.

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Oktopost

MAY 12, 2021

It turns out that creating a brand community for your B2B company can give you that type of mouthwatering ROI. . B2B businesses need to foster a strong spirit of community to serve their clients and customers better. The biggest benefit for B2B companies is developing genuine relationships with your customers. .

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Oktopost

AUGUST 10, 2023

B2B marketing teams share a common aspiration: generating as many Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) as possible. This is where the strategic utilization of social media comes into play. This is where the strategic utilization of social media comes into play. The easiest way is through social media.

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Keyhole.co

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Social media is constantly evolving, making it challenging to keep up with the latest analytics and metrics worth tracking. As a social media manager, it’s easy to lose sleep over knowing what data is truly important. This blog post aims to help you understand how to measure social media success in 2024.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 31, 2018

Lately, I’ve been thinking way too much about organic B2B social media marketing. This is the great struggle for the enterprise in social media. It’s ticking and you need to figure out real quick where social media fits within your org. It’s brutal at the B2B level. Does it fit?

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Oktopost

MAY 30, 2023

We don’t need to remind you of the benefits of consistently posting quality content to social media, particularly when it comes to getting ahead of the competition. Here are the five things you need to know about streamlining your social media strategy. Content creation for social media shouldn’t be down-to-the-wire.

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Oktopost

JULY 6, 2023

These days, and for a while now (a while in internet terms, anyway), the very center of the universe has been social media. Your mind is probably going to the B2C brands that have made a splash on the socials but, in B2B, the landscape is just as productive and just as fruitful.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Social media is a fun and dynamic place where nothing remains constant. One day everyone is obsessed with a silly social media challenge and the next day everyone forgets about it and moves on to something else. In this post, you will learn about 9 of the biggest social media trends to watch out for in 2021.

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Oktopost

JUNE 19, 2023

Ah, lead generation – that everlasting conversation. For the past few years, a common thread in that conversation has been marketing – how involved is marketing, and how involved should the marketing team be in lead generation? This is never truer than it is on social media.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Every seasoned B2B marketer knows that launching a new campaign can be a venture into the unknown. That might be a big reason why nearly 70% of B2B content ends up unused , because it doesn’t align with what buyers are interested in. B2B marketing is too high-stakes for any blind leaps of faith. 6 B2B Marketing KPIs to Measure.

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Keyhole.co

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Social media is constantly evolving, making it challenging to keep up with the latest analytics and metrics worth tracking. As a social media manager, it’s easy to lose sleep over knowing what data is truly important. This blog post aims to help you understand how to measure social media success in 2024.

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Social Media Management Social Media Strategy Metrics 52

Keyhole.co

JUNE 7, 2023

When we think of a B2B branding toolkit, the first thought to pop up in our minds is a handbook that contains the brand’s preferred tone of voice, colors, typography, imagery, vision, values, and messaging pillars. Imagine if you’re a B2B digital marketing agency, and you try to advertise your services in two different ways.

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Oktopost

AUGUST 24, 2021

B2B event marketing has been proven to be as good as gold for this goal. . 99% found unique value in this B2B marketing strategy that they did not get from other channels. Given that, in this post, we’ll talk about: What B2B event marketing is. What is B2B Event Marketing? Why Is B2B Event Marketing Important?

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 17, 2014

Much has been written about how the internet in general, and the explosion of content marketing in particular, has changed the nature of b2b marketing. Today’s b2b buyers are typically 70% of the way through their purchase process before they contact a vendor’s sales team. How To Do It Right: Demand Generation by Forbes.

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Oktopost

APRIL 18, 2022

It’s no wonder that savvy B2B marketers are taking advantage of this popular and portable format to create value-packed audio programs. B2B podcasts are a powerful form of outbound marketing. Jump to Best B2B Podcasts. What is a B2B Podcast? 4 Reasons to Include Podcasting in Your B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

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Oktopost

JUNE 1, 2023

Without the right approach, leveraging social media can feel like a constant source of friction. Any marketer has heard plenty about the high ROI that can be extracted from the social channels – in B2C or B2B – but there are still countless companies out there that are having to forgo that ROI. Here’s how.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Take a moment to recognize your brand’s role in the conversation, question who benefits from your Black History Month ideas and consider how those ideas can become staples in your brand’s culture. “As Talissa Beall, Strategic Services Consultant at Sprout, led several DEI efforts throughout her career in social.

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The Realtime Report

JANUARY 28, 2017

Making Social Media An ROI Positive Channel For B2B Businesses By Jingcong Zhao. Billion spent on social media marketing in the U.S. alone last year , it’s clear that social media is being cemented as a marketing function in most B2B organizations. ” Click To Tweet.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

AUGUST 10, 2023

To help you do better influencer marketing , we’ve rounded up 10 of the top influencer marketing campaigns from brands across multiple industries, including: B2B technology Consumer goods Food and drink Nonprofit organizations Health and fitness 1. But that was only phase #1 of the campaign.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 13, 2020

Nowhere is this more true than in B2B marketing, where buyers aren’t (as) swept up by trends and viral ads. B2B buyers are increasingly using social media and user generated content to research their major purchases. This presents B2B marketers with a new playground. 60% of advertisers on Quora are B2B.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2019

There are several reasons why marketers may want to partially automate their social media campaigns. First, success with social media marketing comes with frequency (plus quality). Depending on your campaign strategy and target audience, social media marketing could be a 24×7 job. First things first.

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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. This digital shift has welcomed a new era in sales: social selling. Pushing your sales agenda Social media posts are not elevator sales pitches.

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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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Oktopost

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Want to hear more from renowned B2B marketing leaders? But it’s not enough to base your conversations on your audience’s website and email activity only – what about social media? Getting social right so your sales teams can use social engagement data to personalize their conversations with their prospects.

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Pam Moore

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

SocialZoomFactor · Sales and Marketing Conversion Funnels – How to Get Started. One of the best ways to attract more of your dream customers and turn them into paying customers is to learn how to create and optimize sales and marketing conversion funnels. The Ultimate Guide to Sales and Marketing Conversion Funnels .

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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. It outlines the timing, frequency, and type of communication (such as emails, phone calls, social media interactions, and follow-ups) to systematically move a prospect through the sales process.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The rules of B2B buying have changed, and to succeed in this economy, one thing is clear: businesses must adapt to survive. Marketing Strategies That Will Help You Gain More MQLs Account-Based Marketing Building social proof from your customers Doubling down on social media insights Start Generating More MQLs Today What is an MQL?

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 2, 2018

At some point today, a social media marketer is going to get fired. They were hired to create socially engaging posts designed to elevate brand reach, skyrocket shareability, and go viral. For many companies, especially B2B vendors, these are completely unrealistic, impractical expectations. The reason?

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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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