Digital B2B Marketing

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The Thin Line Between Social Media Marketing and Spam

Digital B2B Marketing

In this case, a Twitter search showed there were 44 Tweets of an advertising agency’s post in the prior week. Takeaway Are you engaged in social media enough to recognize spam when you see it? As Jay Baer ( @jaybaer ) says, “if you don’t love social media, you probably suck at social media.”

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A New Way to Understand Your Social Media Audience

Digital B2B Marketing

Audience research is invaluable and well developed personas provide a broad array of insights into the lives and minds of your target audience, insights that form the basis for your social media plans. Then, you put your social media plan in place, including sharing great content from others and creating your own.

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Social Media Is Not Like Selling Used Cars

Digital B2B Marketing

Yet this is exactly what social media marketers do every day. Your social media program must be about relationships first. If you are serious about social media relationships, here are three tips to ensure you are building relationships, not borrowing tactics from ambulance chasers or used car salesmen.

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Is Free Costing You Your Social Media Reputation?

Digital B2B Marketing

Advertised Price: Free. How much will you pay for a service that saves you time in social media? A number of tools and services are available for the cost of social promotion. Drive traffic and increase our advertising revenue. I work with B2B clients on media and integrated marketing programs.

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No, Content Will Not Kill Advertising

Digital B2B Marketing

Advertising is dead (again). The latest killers are the social media and content marketing stars. Advertising isn’t dead. Here are a few of the impressions made across the advertising, marketing and sales spectrum. The Advertising Experience. Advertising can deliver a high level message.

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Stop Advertising and Give Them Content! [The Numbers Prove It]

Digital B2B Marketing

Likewise, we don’t pay attention to advertising that doesn’t give us something of value in return , either discounts, entertainment or information. I could launch from here into the value of developing personas to ensure advertising is delivering value. We don’t overpay at Walmart out of the goodness of our hearts.

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Three Reasons Advertising Isn’t the B2B Branding Answer

Digital B2B Marketing

The Problem: Advertising will not create this brand. Before someone buys (and even for a period of time after), whether they are choosing an advertising agency or an ERP solution, they do not know the value. More information is available every day and this information quickly overturns conflicting impressions created by advertising.