Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Social media is an undeniable part of the B2B digital environment. Modern customers expect you to be available online to entertain, educate, and answer questions they may have. However, social media also presents many risks. Why is It Important to Develop a Social Media Policy?

Social Media 363

Social Media Media Guidelines PR 363

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. A typical definition of a lead is any potential customer who has expressed interest in a company’s goods or services.

Ideal Customer Profiles 130

Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Lead Generation Sales Management 130

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Long gone are the days when sales teams and social media are estranged – combine the two together and your results will be a powerhouse for converting leads into customers. Here’s the solution: harnessing social media engagement insights. But why is this so important?

Top of Funnel 135

Top of Funnel Social Media Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management 135

Oktopost

APRIL 28, 2024

Social media marketing managers and sales executives are no longer sitting on opposite ends of the strategy table. To close more deals, sales executives are starting to take social media for sales seriously. What’s the difference between thought leadership on social media vs. a cold email with similar content?

Social Media 62

Social Media Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Media 62

SocialPilot

JANUARY 21, 2024

Social media has too many things to offer to brands and users. Your marketing strategy should be planned in such a way that it propels maximum people to complete their sales journey and be converted into your customers. A killer social media CTA can help you achieve all of these goals and maximize return.

Social Media 119

Social Media Examples Media Urgency Marketing 119

Rev

JANUARY 11, 2023

When most B2B companies set out to find new customers and increase sales, they rely on an outdated ideal customer profile, use one-size-fits-all marketing tactics and hope for the best. What if you could focus your marketing efforts and target potential customers with the highest likelihood of buying from you?

Ideal Customer Profiles 78

Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Content Cross-Selling Bundling 78

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 1, 2023

Ever feel like your social media metrics are whispering secrets to you? Social media metrics are constantly gathering intel, ready to report back with crucial insights about how much your audience is digging your content, how loyal they are to your brand, and much more. It’s the first step in the customer journey.

Social Media 218

Social Media Cost Per Click Cost Per Thousand CPM 218

Spiralytics

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

However, there are several avenues where social media automation can be a game changer. This comprehensive guide will help you understand the power of social media automation for your business. What is Social Media Automation? How Does Social Media Automation Work?

Social Media 126

Social Media Automation Marketing AI Marketing Automation Services 126

Stevens & Tate

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Crafting an effective social media strategy is essential in today’s digital marketing landscape. This comprehensive guide explores crucial SEO issues to avoid, ensuring your social media efforts are both effective and rewarding. A well-optimized approach can lead to increased brand visibility, engagement, and conversions.

Social Media 98

Social Media SEO Optimization Media 98

Oktopost

MARCH 4, 2024

In this highly competitive and saturated market, SaaS companies must continuously meet their KPIs, drive customers down the B2B funnel, and ensure they stand out from their competition. The goal is to implement a range of top, middle, and bottom-of-the-funnel marketing activities covering every funnel stage.

Ideal Customer Profiles 62

Ideal Customer Profiles Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Marketing & Strategy 62

Rev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Want to understand your customers better than—and before—anyone else? Well, we hate to break it to you, but… your typical ideal customer profile isn’t gonna cut it. So, you need a way to uncover the underlying motivations, preferences and behaviors that drive your customers’ decision-making processes.

Ideal Customer Profiles 78

Ideal Customer Profiles Account Based Marketing Thought Leadership Demand Generation Agencies 78

sagefrog

APRIL 16, 2024

What’s the Difference Between Ideal Customer Profiles & Buyer Personas? The B2B buyer’s journey is the process potential customers go through before purchasing. Providing the right information and support at each stage can guide potential customers toward purchasing and ultimately improve your sales success.

Buyer Personas 62

Buyer Personas Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management Marketing Management 62

Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What is social media technology? At its core, social media technology is software designed to manage a company’s social media profiles across multiple platforms. From emerging networks to well-established platforms, audiences have a nearly insatiable appetite for social media content across channels.

Social Media 103

Social Media Work Management Marketing Management Media 103

Sprout Social

APRIL 25, 2024

There are social media templates available for virtually any task you can think of—from content production to reporting to team onboarding. Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy. Download the template 2.

Social Media 79

Social Media Template Work Management Marketing Management 79

Optinmonster

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Not sure where to start: email marketing vs. social media? Both email and social media marketing are promising channels to grow your business. In this post, we’ll share important insights into email and social media marketing. Which Drives More Sales: Email or Social Media? Let’s get started!

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Social Media Email Marketing Social Marketing Marketing Budget 111

Oktopost

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Social media has revolutionized B2B marketing. Now an essential tool for all marketing efforts, it has changed how brands reach their customers, build awareness, and foster connections with their audiences. And businesses recognize the power of social media in driving tangible results.

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Social Media Trends Media B2B 117

Martech

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Never has the expression, “Don’t confuse activity for performance,” rang truer than in B2B social media programs. You can divide organizations into two buckets based on their approach to social media execution: Those that think strategically and plan their programs. The ones who just post… anything and everything.

Social Media 125

Social Media Media B2B B2B Thought Leadership 125

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

However, I am trying to practice more mindfulness, get back into creative hobbies, and significantly reduce my social media consumption. I’ve been using social media for two-thirds of my life, and after the pandemic hit, my media consumption sky-rocketed. Where might your ICP be hanging out?

Ideal Customer Profiles 102

Ideal Customer Profiles Advertising Agencies B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership 102

Only B2B

MARCH 27, 2024

B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Marketing casts a wide net at the top, attracting potential customers. These are your hottest prospects, most likely to convert into customers. The culprit? Acme Inc.,

Sales Qualified Leads 71

Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Ideal Customer Profiles 71

Trade Press Services

JANUARY 15, 2024

With 77 percent of businesses using social media to reach their customers and more than 90 percent of users following at least one brand on social media, marketers cannot underestimate the importance of social media marketing. Instead, focus on hard-hitting expertise that solves client problems.

Social Media 75

Social Media B2B Thought Leadership Media B2B 75

Sprout Social

DECEMBER 6, 2023

You’d be hard-pressed to find healthcare marketers that don’t understand the value of social media for healthcare , according to Jill Florence, Director of Enterprise Sales at Sprout Social. However, as Katherine Van Allen, Senior Solutions Engineer at Sprout, points out, the benefits of social outweigh the risks.

Social Media 105

Social Media Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 105

Martech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

With AI personality profiling tools, we can become more familiar with an audience, segment or industry before we even engage with it. B2B marketing, usually kept at arm’s reach from customers, can now know them as well as account managers who have long-standing customer relationships. What are AI personality profiling tools?

Ideal Customer Profiles 108

Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing AI Profiling Personalization 108

SocialPilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Be it inspiration for your next campaign or leveraging the latest features of social media, they’ve got your back. Social Media Marketing + Michael A. Social Media News + Matt Navarra Karissa Bell Sarah Frier Social Media Marketing Michael A. Are you ready? Let’s begin! Table of Contents 1.

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Paid Content Paid Search Agency Social Media Social Marketing 93

TrustRadius Marketing

JUNE 20, 2022

Social media is essential to building brand awareness and increasing sales. Social media analytics is indispensable for improving social media performance and business growth. If you’re a small business or eCommerce merchant, free social media analytics tools can boost your social marketing strategy.

Social Media 116

Social Media Analytics Work Management Media 116

Sprout Social

MAY 18, 2023

Social practitioners wear many hats as they balance emerging networks and formats. Yet, strong social media copywriting skills remain the foundation of bringing a social strategy to life. Social media copywriting varies greatly by industry and brand. How do our posts address customer pain points?

Copywriting 127

Copywriting Social Media Practices Marketing AI 127

Sprout Social

JULY 21, 2022

If you want to improve your social media marketing strategy , you need to know about the different types of social media content and how or where you share that content. Understanding these different types of social media will help you develop a better content strategy and know where to focus your time and energy.

Social Media 145

Social Media Social Marketing Media Curation 145

Navigate the Channel

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Though it is hard to believe, at one point in time social media was considered to be a fad that would eventually pass like other trends. Social media has exploded in popularity year-by-year. So establish a profile on the top social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Pinterest.

Social Media 65

Social Media Media Ideal Customer Profiles Business 65

ClearVoice

MARCH 31, 2021

Some things never change, but social media is not one of them. We’re here to help you stay current with all of the latest social media news updates from new features, product releases, and occasional platform glitches. Need to get connected with all the latest updates in social media? Not anymore!

Social Media 132

Social Media Paid Content Media Advertising Agencies 132

Rev

JULY 12, 2023

Yes, just one hour to follow up with leads and secure the best chance of speaking to key decision-makers and converting them into customers—at least, that’s what a study from the Harvard Business Review found. You have one hour. You see the issue? At Rev , we like to add a bit more rigor to this process by using exegraphic data.

Lead Ranking 78

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Ideal Customer Profiles Sales Qualified Leads 78

Binary Demand

JUNE 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven business landscape, understanding customer intent is paramount. This is where B2B intent data comes into play, providing valuable insights into potential customers’ buying behavior and preferences. These insights can help businesses understand customer preferences and behavior more effectively.

Intent Data 98

Intent Data Ideal Customer Profiles Intent B2B 98

Navigate the Channel

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

As agriculture promotion groups (APGs) and checkoffs strive to provide educational information for farmers to keep them informed about investment activities and new opportunities, building a social community with your target audience can be a positive, engaging way to support key communication goals.

Social Media 65

Social Media Media Communities FAQ 65

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Long gone are the days when sales teams and social media are estranged – combine the two together and your results will be a powerhouse for converting leads into customers. Here’s the solution: harnessing social media engagement insights. But why is this so important?

Top of Funnel 62

Top of Funnel Social Media Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management 62

SalesIntel

APRIL 6, 2023

Most sales teams waste a lot of time and resources pursuing accounts that don’t fit their ideal customer profile (ICP). To overcome this challenge, you need to have a clear understanding of your ICP. Once you define your ICP, you can use account-based marketing (ABM) to target accounts that fit your ICP.

Ideal Customer Profiles 96

Ideal Customer Profiles Efficiency High Quality Lead Account Based Marketing 96

ClickZ

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

30-second summary: The foundation of good account-based anything is data and insights about customers. There are two types of listening when it comes to ABM – active and passive. Customers lose interest in these calls because they aren’t relevant, and may feel they leave calls having given more than they gained.

Ideal Customer Profiles 118

Ideal Customer Profiles Account Based Marketing ABM Positioning 118

Sprout Social

AUGUST 25, 2022

Investing in social media management increases your brand’s awareness, generates leads, drives traffic to your site and boosts community engagement. While that sounds great to executives and stakeholders, they may not understand how the costs associated with social media translate to business objectives. Let’s dive in.

Paid Content 125

Paid Content Social Media Work Management Marketing Management 125

SocialPilot

JANUARY 21, 2024

Influencer marketing is all about brands teaming up with individuals, known as influencers, who have a loyal following on social media platforms and other digital channels. They are experts in a particular niche and post content on social media revolving around the same niche, catering to a specific and engaged audience.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Marketing Budget Creation 95

Go Beyond SEO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Determining the best platforms to establish your firm’s social media presence and establishing an effective social media presence may seem overwhelming at first. According to the American Bar Association , law firms continue year after year to prefer LinkedIn as a social media marketing platform.

Social Media 88

Social Media Media Best Practices Marketing Analytics Tools 88