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How to build brand loyalty that lasts

Sprout Social

Brand loyalty will build ambassadors and help you retain customers long term. Read on to learn how you can bring the concept of brand loyalty into focus through your marketing. What is brand loyalty and why is it important? When people strongly favor a particular brand over all the others, that’s brand loyalty.

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7 Top B2B Social Media Trends

Oktopost

Facebook: With the ability to refine your audience targeting with Facebook Ads and create Facebook groups for customer support, Facebook is another popular platform for B2B marketers to raise brand awareness and build an online community. Facebook is a solid social media platform to focus your community-building efforts.

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Marketing, community, support or all of the above?

Dave Fleet

Like many other people at the time, I was interested in the humanizing effect that social media could have for companies. While companies were previously faceless, anonymous entities, suddenly they could have a face, and interact with the people who cared about them. Marketing, community or both?

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Mastering Social Media ROI: Steps to Empower Your Team

Convince & Convert

This includes the importance of social media for discovery, reputation management, community building, and brand awareness and engagement. Find existing or create new opportunities to present social data to the larger company and/or marketing organization. Keep the social team top of mind always.

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How to Build a Brand Community for your B2B Business

Oktopost

If you had to guess which business decision could increase your company’s ROI a staggering 6,469% this year, what would your guess be? It turns out that creating a brand community for your B2B company can give you that type of mouthwatering ROI. . 6 Tips for B2B Brands Community-building.

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Marketing, community, support or all of the above?

Dave Fleet

Like many other people at the time, I was interested in the humanizing effect that social media could have for companies. While companies were previously faceless, anonymous entities, suddenly they could have a face, and interact with the people who cared about them. Marketing, community or both?

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Five Signs the Future Belongs to User-Generated Content

Waxing UnLyrical

Retail companies the world over are taking to holistic commerce and everything it brings to the table. While customers have always held the dollars that controlled your company, the last decade has brought far greater control into the hands of consumers than ever before. Other industries should take note immediately. Gamification.

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