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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. Now, what about Facebook?

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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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Connections, connections everywhere, and not a one to pitch

Leading Results Rambings

As soon as you are over that number, you have what are termed “Facebook friends” Not people on the proverbial Christmas card list, but people who you know of, and know of you. We do not however think of our Facebook friends regularly or first when we look to make referrals and introductions- they simply aren’t and can’t be top of mind.

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Advertising Leaders: Consider Content Over Advertising

Marketing Insider Group

It’s great to see a B to B brand not taking itself too seriously and having a bit of fun. And please follow along on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Google+ or Subscribe to the B2B Marketing Insider Blog for regular updates. Let me know what you think in the comments below.

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The B2B marketing ironies of our time

Biznology

Here’s another: Google and Facebook are leading the digital marketing revolution. Did you know that both Google and Facebook use dear old direct mail for cold prospecting in their ad sales businesses? Kudos to them. Budgets continue to shift to digital channels. Marketers are abandoning print and face-to-face channels in droves.

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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

Technology leaders like Microsoft, IBM and Cisco had hundreds or thousands of employees blogging as early as 2005 and those same companies are now expanding their footprint into social networks like Facebook, YouTube and, overwhelmingly, Twitter. Yet B2B applications of social media get remarkably little attention. It doesn’t really matter.