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Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media

Online Marketing Institute

MediaPRO Community. ADVERTISEMENT. ); ); ); Home » Blogs » B2B. Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media. Data shows about 40 percent of b-to-b brands aren’t using social marketing. Of 548 b-to-b marketers surveyed by Eloqua, about 40 percent say they are not yet using social media marketing.

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Social media ROI sucks! (Or, you can prove anything if you send out a survey)

ViewPoint

Following in 2nd through 7th place are paid search, email, branded communities and word-of mouth (tied), branded blogs, and online display advertising. B-to-b marketers have had issues with Facebook for a while, but what accounts for the poor evaluation of LinkedIn, a perennial b-to-b darling?

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8 Great LinkedIn Groups for B2B Marketers

KoMarketing Associates

From the group introduction: A community those looking to reach their best customers online through techniques like inbound marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) and social media. B2B Technology Marketing Community. Inbound Marketers – For Marketing Professionals. BtoB Marketing. Final Thoughts.

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B2B Blogging Excellence

Paul Gillin

I first noticed Jim Cahill’s blog four years ago, so it was a particular pleasure to meet him and hear his story. It took two years for Jim Cahill and Deb Franke to convince the management at Emerson Process Management that a blog was a good idea. And for a blog this specialized, the traffic is pretty impressive.

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Sirius Decisions Thinks Websites Will Generate 71% of All B2B Sales Leads by 2015. I Disagree.

The Point

Sirius Decisions wrote an insightful article last week about the acquisition by Marketo of Insightera (a Web personalization platform), and included was the following projection: “By 2015, we expect to see 71 percent of b-to-b organizations’ new inquiries coming via the corporate Web site.”.

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How the CEO Can Enhance Sales, Marketing, and the Executive Branch

ViewPoint

Anyone who is intellectually honest and not employed by an inbound marketing company will admit: It’s a fantasy that search engine optimization (SEO), Facebook and tweeting about our community-building , value-creating blog are sufficient to produce the volume of face-to-face sales meetings required to hit our new business objectives.

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The Changing Rules of B2B Marketing

Paul Gillin

By day, he and three other technologists at Dell Computer manage the Dell TechCenter , an online community that helps enterprise IT professionals unravel the thorniest problems that occur when trying to integrate technology from multiple vendors. Dell conceived of the community in 2007 as a way to enhance loyalty among its largest customers.