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

ViewPoint

In last place: Facebook, whose problem (according to Forrester VP and principal analyst Nate Elliott) is poor targeting and static-image ad units. 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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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

Customer Experience Matrix

Its most recent report shows that in the past year, time spent on “community” applications like Facebook and Myspace has more than doubled from 8.8% On the other hand, the Direct Marketing Association shows spending at $339 billion total in 2008 including $75.9 Where are marketers moving their budgets? of the total.

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

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Linda Ruffenach: How A Personal Relationship Can Make You Stand Out

B2B Digital Marketer

And this one, the one thing I’m finding is the real power of LinkedIn right now, for B to B marketing. I believe in that direct marketing strategy that you’re putting out there. It was like, Oh, there’s a connection. I know this person. Now it’s become easy.

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Paul Slack: B2B Digital Marketing Has Never Been Easier

B2B Digital Marketer

I knew internet marketing, but really what was amazing, Jim then, uh, everything was so transactional. Nobody was focusing on, especially in the B to B space, the, the marketing side. And so they let Facebook kind of determine what advertising venues or products really serve, uh, the digital space.

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Writing Your Own Book to Establish Authority

B2B Digital Marketer

But if I’m talking about in a B to B digital marketing process, and I’m the marketer that’s responsible for helping to bring sales qualified leads to the salespeople, how does this really work? Okay, great. Raza Imam ( 03:39 ): I love it. Let’s talk. There’s a lot of branding.

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Joe Apfelbaum: Building a Long-Term Relationship with Your B2B Customers

B2B Digital Marketer

I’m sure you’ll probably load and are unload a few of those honest, but I want to make sure that we’re really getting an understanding or at least listeners are of your background, your experience and how you fit into B to B digital marketing. Whereas you try to do a Facebook, you know, organically.