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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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Two B2B Social Marketing Initiatives Worth Checking

Paul Gillin

I wrote in B-to-B magazine early this year about a Make magazine-like video series they started last fall that appeals to engineers’ passion for tinkering as well as for fun. Element14 is trying to position itself as “Facebook for engineers,&# and they’re doing a heckuva job.

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Social Pros 6 – Instagram Lessons from a Giant B2B Company

Convince & Convert

I’m B-to-B. My thought of the week is all about this new Facebook thing. It requires some additional management of your Facebook presence as well as some additional aptitude with photos and uploading and things like that. I’ll tell you, my perspective on a lot of the Facebook changes. ” Bull!

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Business Value of Social Networking

Industrial Marketing Today

Even though the use of social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is growing exponentially, there is a raging debate about measuring its ROI. But like many b-to-b marketers, I’m not sure how it has impacted my business.

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B2B Business Blogging: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff with Matthew Schwartz

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

We think we’re drawing an audience due to the approach we’ve taken in order to grow the blog, which is the notion that we are a news agency covering the b-to-b sales and marketing industries. In an ‘iPhone world’, you still can’t forget that sales is pressing the flesh and creating some kind of harmony with prospects and customers.

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Social media is only one part of your B2B inbound marketing engine. Is it time for a tune-up?

MLT Creative

I consider the top three social media platforms for B2B marketing to be Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook. In addition to expert advice and observations, your look within your company’s files for whitepapers, presentation decks, videos, how-to guides, case studies, press releases, etc., View Billy's Other Blog Posts.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

For example, this could include methodologies, presentations, white papers and assessment tools to help sales professionals identify and illuminate buyer issues, benchmark buyers versus competitors and best practice leaders, and create / drive solution roadmaps to help resolve the most pressing customer issues.