Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

The question is – What is the appropriate level of budget to support social media for a B2B company? First was the post on the Media Budget Ratio (MBR) for a B2B company. Share this on Facebook. Related posts: The 4 P’s to Social Media Marketing Ok ok – based on the great response I got. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Trust is not a new thing in the world of sales either – its a fact that people enjoy buying from people that they trust and in B2B Marketing part of our job is to shorten the time spent building trust so sales can have an easier time and focus on selling. Social Media changes that and elevates Trust to the individual level.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 18, 2010

In the last post we covered how to create a Social Media Lead Flow. There is a growing number of listening platforms devoted to Social Media – everything from highly customized services that are managed for you, to free tools you can manage yourself. Share this on Facebook. But what if you don’t have a listening platform?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2010

Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly than you can keep up with. There are several types of conversations that you can encounter out on the social web anything from a complaint to a compliment to what I like to call the Expressed Need. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2010

If you ask the members of my leadership team – they will tell you I keep talking about how I think we have B2B Marketing backward. If you look at the interview I did with Sean Geehan – he talked about the typical number of customers in B2C versus B2B and the high concentration we have in B2B that account for the most of the revenues.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 7, 2010

For B2C or B2B Marketers this was a huge revolution. But for B2B Marketing fans I think you need to expand your game around search to start include what I am calling … LinkedIn Search Optimization (LSO). For a good example check out these searches for the terms Facebook Marketing and Social Media. Share this on Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

At a recent BlogWell event I got a chance to hear Robert Raines from Chevron present his Social Media program and how he reports their activity into the Boardroom. It all starts with the Pulse Report that Chevron had produced by Edelman (their PR firm) using their Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool. Share this on Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 2, 2010

s Social Media in Business study found that 60 percent of consumers believe they are already interacting with companies on the social Web. Nearly all participants — 93 percent — believe all companies should have a presence in social media. Social also acts in the same way – the more your engage the more people engage back.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 15, 2010

But focusing on the Extrovert angle for a second, I began to wonder if you need to be an extrovert to be in social media. Certainly internally in your organization you need to be an extrovert if you want to organize a Tribe or movement in your company to take on social media. Share this on Facebook. Share this on Linkedin.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2010

At last count well over 100,000 websites integrate some form of Facebook’s social plugins (including my site!). My favorite is Levis use of the Like button to create a social shopping experience. Share this on Facebook. Related posts: Facebook can’t be stopped and here’s why! but I digress …). Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 14, 2010

Whether you are a CMO’s of a B2C or B2B Marketing team the key in this next decade is sharing and the key to sharing is Content! As the old adage goes – some people spend more time planning the wedding then they do the marriage and this is true of a lot of what we see organizations do socially. Share this on Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My advice would be don’t let Google Reader (or any social activity) over run your life – remember you are in control! Share this on Facebook. Related posts: Social Search could it be a Google Killer? Related posts: Social Search could it be a Google Killer? Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

To make matters worse it is almost impossible to use in my home but that is a network issue rather than an iPhone issue. It connects to AT&T’s network via your existing broadband Internet service and is designed to support up to five simultaneous users in your home. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Around this time last year I wrote about the 10 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2010 and while I would say 7 out of 10 have already materialized and the others are on their way. So that begs the question – what’s on the horizon specifically for B2B Marketers next year? Keep in mind we all start in the same place and that’s at ZERO!

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Webbiquity

JULY 6, 2010

Social Media is Simpler Than You Think. A post that explains why “social media marketing is simpler than you’ve probably been led to believe. At its core, social media is not about doing new things, but about doing things you’ve always done as a business person differently.&#. Five Big Shifts in Social Media Marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Everyday I provide support on the social web to customers. But what’s becoming clear to me is that real time communications is essential in this new multi channel world where you better be listening for your customers and delighting them with Social Customer Service. It’s a great double sided ROI story for Social Customer Support.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 24, 2011

Supplement your email list with your contacts’ social network info? Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? Display a feed of brand-related comments from a variety of social networks on your website? Promote events through social media?

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Webbiquity

MARCH 29, 2010

With the tidal wave of how-to articles , jargon and self-proclaimed “social media experts&# hitting the online world, it’s easy for marketers and business executives to view social media as something akin to the unexplored regions of the earth as presented on medieval maps—&# here be dragons.&# Social Media Demystified.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

But these days for B2B Marketers I think we need to take it a step further and say that “Content is Media&#. Building a solid content creation engine is critical to B2B marketers today. I think B2B marketers really need to think and act more like a media house themselves. Share this on Facebook. Can you stick to it?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

If you have (lets take Microsoft for example) customers who are avid users of the brand and tend to be socially active blogging, tweeting, posting on Facebook, or posting on forums about their good and bad experiences with the Microsoft brand – then how as a brand marketer am I supposed to get my message through all that mess?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Social media marketing activity exploded in 2009, and so did coverage of these practices. Every social media consultant , corporate marketer and PR professional was challenged to keep up with the latest writing on the topic. Social Media Measurement. Understand the Impact of Social Media by ClickZ. Ryan Walker.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

LinkedIn is firmly ensconced among the “big 3″ social networks for marketing and business purposes, and though its base of 80 million members is far smaller than the 600 million users of Facebook, its impact in B2B marketing is larger. Blogs represent 50%, Facebook 47% and…Twitter scores 41%.”.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 8, 2010

Let’s face it at this point social media has gone mainstream. Customers are not only surfing the web looking for information but more and more they are relying on social media to get their information. Your customers can seamlessly move from web to social to call center to your front door. Share this on Facebook.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Business Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Business Mobile 2.0 A couple of months ago, we talked about ways to engage your fan base on Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 21, 2010

When it comes to Social Media data the same holds up to a point! There is clearly a spectrum of Social Media data that can be collected by any listening platform like a Radian6 or a Networked Insights. Moving up the chart from monitoring into analytics is where you see higher value from all that monitoring of your social data.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 8, 2009

I get a few blank stares at times when I talk about social media technologies with friends and colleagues but I’m starting to win people over day by day. LinkedIn: Starting an Alumni Group When Linkedin started a groups feature (like Facebook groups) I thought about how I could network with former colleagues. With real stories!

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Any business that primarily relies on customers within it’s local geographic area—which includes not just restaurants and dentists but also some types of b2b vendors, such as IT services and of course marketing and PR firms—needs to understand the ins and outs of local search engine optimization (SEO). Share this on Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A good friend and former colleague of mine Dan Neely, CEO of Networked Insights reminded me recently that there will be more data created in this year than in the previous 5000 years combined! But for most B2B marketers like myself – we tend to optimize by the channel of data that we have. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This!

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

An outstanding list of useful WordPress plugins from Andy Beal, author of Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online and the brain behind the Trackur social media monitoring tool. Code to Create Custom Share Buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Delicious by B2B Online Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2011

by Maria Pergolino As the social media terrain becomes more populated with websites, the choices for B2B social media marketing stretch far and wide. Facebook, has only been around for seven years, after all!) stalwarts – Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn – there are thousands of other sites to choose from.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Though business use of social media is rapidly increasing, many executives remain skeptical of its value. The bottom line is that while social media marketing definitely provides benefits (such as a higher conversion rate for organic search traffic ), it’s not generally effective as a direct promotion tool.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

many people pause to think about what they’re thankful for: family, friends, TiVo, the Yankees not winning the World Series… I’m thankful for all of those things too of course, but also for the development and growth of social media. Now, social media tools like Facebook and LinkedIn make it easy and (usually) non-awkward.

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B2B Marketing Savvy

JULY 27, 2009

Read time = 2 minutes) For me – getting a handle on the “social media” marketing landscape is easier if I simply connect the new stuff to my trusted, old and faithful outbound and marketing roots. This will be way to simplistic for some, but hopefully a way to lessen the confusion, for others.

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B2B Marketing Savvy

JULY 26, 2009

Read time = 2 minutes) For me – getting a handle on the “social media” marketing landscape is easier if I simply connect the new stuff to my trusted, old and faithful outbound and marketing roots. This will be way to simplistic for some, but hopefully a way to lessen the confusion, for others.

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MLT Creative

JULY 20, 2011

According to Courtney Wiley of iMedia Connection , “The B2B buying process is fundamentally changing. 93% of B2B buyers use search to begin the buying process and 37% post questions on social networking sites when looking for suggestions." 25 brand building inbound marketing tactics: Write a post on your B2B blog.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 17, 2011

by Maria Pergolino I know what you’re thinking – the seven ways marketers should be using social will be all about Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Digg or Reddit, and YouTube, right? These channels are just the places where we network with others online, not the best ways to do it.

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Webbiquity

JULY 25, 2011

Because more than 80% of consumer purchases and 90% of b2b buying cycles now begin with search. The second and third largest “search engines,&# based on volume of searches, aren’t search engines at all: YouTube and Facebook. And that you are interacting with your networks on those platforms.

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