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Chris Koch

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There is only one objective in social media: create learning networks

Chris Koch

Companies that made commodity products would tell me with straight faces that even their financial processes were unique—GAAP be damned—and that they needed to customize their software to fit “our ways of doing things.” Recommend products and services that you haven’t thoroughly researched and you will most likely be out of a job.

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Why B2B marketers need to embrace deal marketing

Chris Koch

Even if we believe deeply in the power of social media, we all have that gnawing feeling deep in our guts that says that there’s little reason for a busy, intelligent person to want to receive frequent updates about our brands when those brands produce complex services and products with two-year sales cycles. That’s a B2C thing.

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Social media raises the bar for customer intimacy

Chris Koch

They are focused on lifetime customer value and are willing to incur short-term costs in order to build long-term loyalty and satisfaction—Nordstrom and Amex are a couple of B2C examples. Product leadership. These are companies that rely heavily on innovative, exciting, status-conferring new products to hold customer interest.

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7 reasons why social media success has nothing to do with social media

Chris Koch

A lot of B2C social media marketing can come out of the marketing group because consumers are looking for deals, product information, and peer reviews. Without those things in place, there’s no reason to get into it, because you will fail. Before social media can happen, companies need an idea culture.

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7 reasons why social media success has nothing to do with social media

Chris Koch

A lot of B2C social media marketing can come out of the marketing group because consumers are looking for deals, product information, and peer reviews. Without those things in place, there’s no reason to get into it, because you will fail. Before social media can happen, companies need an idea culture.

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B2B social media lessons from Steven Slater and Mark Hurd

Chris Koch

The trajectory of Slater’s postings look a lot like the things that customers say about our complex B2B products and services, which have a much longer arc of relationship than B2C. They may have come on board at a time when your products and services offered more than they do now or worked differently.

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6 lessons on how NOT to market to customers

Chris Koch

In both B2B and B2C, we’re getting better about throwing unhappy customers a bone. The highest production-value material I received upon discharge was a two-color, 24-page glossy magazine entitled “A Guide to Taking Warfarin.” (Thank goodness for Google—the day prior I found that he got five-stars on a health review site! Motivational.