Remove audience customer target

Chris Koch

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What the slow death of B2B publishing means for marketers

Chris Koch

In fact, buyers are hungrier than ever for good ideas presented in an objective way that target their specific needs. That drives publishers to produce a lot of short content designed to reach the broadest possible audience (at least one online story about Apple per day for a technology pub, for example). The business model is broken.

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The 2 questions on every buyer’s mind

Chris Koch

We need to create a mix of these two types of thought leadership content to maintain strong relationships with their target audiences. Assuming that you’ve done the necessary research to understand your target audience, that change can be on a personal, organizational, or industry level.

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The 2 questions on every buyer’s mind

Chris Koch

We need to create a mix of these two types of thought leadership content to maintain strong relationships with their target audiences. Assuming that you’ve done the necessary research to understand your target audience, that change can be on a personal, organizational, or industry level. Share and Enjoy:

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Social media strategy for B2B: what’s required and what’s optional

Chris Koch

Most of the marketers I talk to are trying to reach a few top executives in big organizations who make buying decisions about big, complex products and services. For these marketers, the pool of customers and prospects is small and many of them do not want to engage publicly in social media or are simply ignoring it altogether.

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Social media strategy for B2B: what’s required and what’s optional

Chris Koch

Most of the marketers I talk to are trying to reach a few top executives in big organizations who make buying decisions about big, complex products and services. For these marketers, the pool of customers and prospects is small and many of them do not want to engage publicly in social media or are simply ignoring it altogether.

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Is the era of PR over?

Chris Koch

First, let’s define what PR means from the perspective of the customer (i.e., a journalist) and the customer’s customer (i.e., Your customer hates and avoids you. These aren’t the people you want talking to influencers and customers. And customers never read the releases. As in dead. Don’t do it anymore.

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Six ways that marketing needs to lead the organization in social media

Chris Koch

Our subject matter experts (SMEs) are talking to customers. We’re seeing companies use social media to bring customers into the product and service development processes to collaborate on new ideas and improvements. We’re seeing companies use social media for customer support. What do you think? Anything to add?