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Five Ways to “Get Real” With B-to-B Social Media

Biznology

Today, 89% of B-to-B marketers in the U.S. are using social media, says a study conducted by iTracks and the Business Marketing Association (BMA). In fact, B-to-B use of social media may have even eclipsed that of consumer marketers, according to another report from White Horse Productions. First, get busy on LinkedIn.

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

ViewPoint

Companies try to dutifully engage with customers and prospects on all the main social channels, plus as many of the secondary ones as possible. Social distribution of content and messages isn’t considered all that effective in providing business value to companies, according to a recent analysis by Forrester Research.

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8 Great LinkedIn Groups for B2B Marketers

KoMarketing Associates

Why it’s great: Quite simply, it is one of the largest LinkedIn marketing groups available, run by an experienced team of marketers and supported by the eMarketing Association, an international association of marketers, companies and governments committed to the advancement of marketing in the digital era. Search Engine Land.

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Social Pros 6 – Instagram Lessons from a Giant B2B Company

Convince & Convert

This episode features Jonathan Wichmann the head of social media for Maersk Line , the world’s largest container shipping company. Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. I’m B-to-B.

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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Salesforce.com announces Chatter, social computing for enterprise companies. YouTube is routinely serving more than a billion video views per day. A Robert Half Technology study announces 54% of companies blog social media sites. Study shares that 8% of US companies have fired an employee because of social media misuse.

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The Changing Rules of B2B Marketing

Paul Gillin

This chapter focuses on drawing the major distinctions between business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) markets and where social marketing has particular value to B2B companies. Companies like Dell, which does 80% of its sales volume with corporate customers, are ideally positioned to take advantage of these new channels.

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18 of the Best Content Marketing Strategy Guides of 2013

Webbiquity

Matthew Anton presents three dozen questions to ask when creating a content marketing strategy, from questions about the company’s business model (e.g., “Which products make up most of the revenue?”) How To Develop A Content Marketing Strategy Framework by BloggerBeat. 1: Content Marketing Week Starts Tomorrow! #2: