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What marketers need to know about managing social media through an economic downturn

Sprout Social

How to make a case for social media investment in a down economy “While most companies are cutting people and budgets, there is still money available for ideas and investments that can prove a return,” explains Dietrich. How could an integrated social media management tool support your customer care efforts?

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Six Ways to Connect with Hard-to-Reach Business Buyers

Webbiquity

And even with those filters in place, inboxes are often overflowing, leaving buyers with little time or bandwidth to deal with any but the most urgent messages. Personalization at scale is still challenging, but evolving marketing automation tools are making it (somewhat) easier. But the story didn’t turn out that way.

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Selling your Lead Generation Content

Digital B2B Marketing

At every turn, you offer related content to entice a registration and get someone to opt in to to your drip and nurture program. You have enough traffic, but you need more registrations to fuel your nurture program. The economy was turning sour in 2008 and 2009, it is 2011 now and most economists are talking about growth.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: How TCO is a common sense sales and.

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Posted by Tom Pisello at 1:36 PM Email This BlogThis!

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Want to Get Promoted? Impress Your Boss by Doing These 7 Things

Hubspot

In 2008, one of our sales reps came to me with an idea that he believed could revolutionize HubSpot," explained HubSpot CEO, Brian Halligan in an interview with Inc. "At At the time, we sold our software directly to consumers. That would certainly throw a wrench in your budget and bandwidth, wouldn’t it?

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30 Women Shaping B2B Tech Marketing

SnapApp

Sonja has been working in the B2B space since 2008, and since then, she’s led content and marketing teams at B2B tech companies including Mattermark, KISSmetrics, DocSend, and Zenefits. I'm obsessed with making sure we're creating something valuable with our content marketing programs and not just contributing to the noise.

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Digital Natives in Our Midst | Advice and Opinion

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Are you involved in setting the direction for your companys IT budget or strategy? Mon, Jun 16, 2008 13:22 EDT. s Rob Austin (Rob chairs Harvards exec ed program for CIOs) and the University of Washingtonâ??s Tue, Jun 17, 2008 6:04 EDT. Customers dont understand how software vendors work. Industry Switch.