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Perspective on the B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Survey Report

KoMarketing Associates

In a poll of 155 primarily C-level marketing experts, social media received the largest percentage of votes for demand generation channels that marketers will spend more on in 2013. Despite scoring low for quantity and quality leads, more than 50 percent of those polled said they will make Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin a priority in 2013.

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How to Get Found Where Your Buyers are Looking: Web Presence Optimization

Webbiquity

Editor’s note: a version of this post originally appeared on ChamberofCommerce.com in January 2013. With more and more purchases, for business-to-business (b2b) and high-value consumer goods, now starting with online research, it’s imperative to make your business ubiquitous when potential buyers are searching for what you sell.

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What the growth of inside sales means to B2B marketers

Biznology

Turns out, the statement was based on a recent study showing that inside sales is growing 7.5%, compared to field sales at only 0.5%, and that as of 2013, 53% of the B2B sales rep population sells by phone, instead of face-to-face. Send your inside sales people to the trade shows where their customers are in attendance.

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A Social Media Strategy for B2B Marketers

B2B Marketing Traction

Some business to business (B2B) marketers are still hesitant about investing in social media. They may view social media as a business to consumer (B2C) activity or they think that their target audience isn’t on social media. Here is why they are wrong. Then, use Facebook to bring out the human side of your company.

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How to Launch a B2B Product: 8 Steps to Success

Altitude Marketing

This is due to a variety of reasons, but in business-to-business commerce it’s primarily because the people building the products are experts in development, not marketing. When the cloud-based collaboration tool, Slack , launched in August 2013, their product team already knew they had something special. Step 6: Soft Launch.

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106 More Amazing Social Media and Marketing Statistics for 2014 and 2015

Webbiquity

Business 2 Community ). Social media produces almost double the marketing leads of trade shows, telemarketing, direct mail, or PPC. Not as believable.) ( Business 2 Community ). billion) than they did for broadcast television in 2013. Business 2 Community ). Business 2 Community ). Believable.)