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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.

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

ViewPoint

Social media marketing is now precariously ensconced as a more-or-less mainstream marketing channel. Companies try to dutifully engage with customers and prospects on all the main social channels, plus as many of the secondary ones as possible. After all, content is the “fuel” that drives the social media engine, right?

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Social Pros 6 – Instagram Lessons from a Giant B2B Company

Convince & Convert

This is Episode 6 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Jonathan Wichmann the head of social media for Maersk Line , the world’s largest container shipping company. Social Pros Transcript For Your Reading Enjoyment. I’m B-to-B.

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Connections, connections everywhere, and not a one to pitch

Leading Results Rambings

And this is where today’s discussion of social networks will start. We, as humans, can really only maintain up to about 250 active social connections at one time- and even fewer (less than 15) as our “immediate tribe or family”. How should they use that social media platform? connect without connecting!).

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Advertising Leaders: Consider Content Over Advertising

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing and social media that seeks to meet customer needs is now more important than ever! It’s great to see a B to B brand not taking itself too seriously and having a bit of fun. Customers continue to tune out promotional marketing in traditional channels.

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Social CRM: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Paul Gillin

And if you’re a CRM user, you’re almost certainly hearing about Social CRM, the hottest new craze in that 20-year-old field. It seems only natural that online social interactions should be part of this profile. Social CRM introduces potentially enormous new complexity to the process. I encourage you to restrain your enthusiasm.

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Two B2B Social Marketing Initiatives Worth Checking

Paul Gillin

One is Element14 , a social community for engineers sponsored by an electronics distributor of the same name. 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. This is a commerce play, incidentally.