B2B Marketing Traction

JUNE 6, 2014

My answer to the question, “How long should my blog post be?” I also found a very interesting post in Fast Company that said readers on average spend seven minutes on a blog post, which amounts to 1,600 words. A few of the blog posts about this made mention of Seth Godin’s exemplary short blog posts.

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Opinions Blogger Stats Paid Search Agency 100

B2B Marketing Traction

JULY 11, 2011

Do you want to have a presence on Facebook & Twitter, but don’t want to spend tons of time – or sacrifice your personal privacy? B2B marketers are interested in having a presence on Facebook and Twitter, but they have two main concerns – time and privacy. You can also view the presentation slides on Slideshare.

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Twitter Facebook B2B Privacy 100

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JANUARY 19, 2012

If you’re just getting started in blogging, it’s not easy to know the basic features you need to include in your blog. There is a lot of information on the Internet about how to blog and about blog features. 9 Basic Blog Features. A way to subscibe to the blog (typically an RSS feed). Commenting.

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Business Blogging Features RSS Blogger 100

B2B Marketing Traction

AUGUST 25, 2011

When you create a company page on Facebook, you create an instant emotional connection with customers, prospects, employees and website visitors. Because those who spend time on Facebook either like or love the brand. And today over 750 million people spend time on Facebook. So, what are you waiting for? Photo on Flickr.

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Facebook Paid Search Agency Companies Trade Show 100

B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 27, 2012

Is blogging worth it for B2B marketers? Here are 12 benefits business to business marketers can gain from blogging. Blog posts that include how-to information or provide insightful opinions about your industry serve your audience, create goodwill for your company, and move you away from just selling. Crowdsource market research.

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Planning B2B Word of Mouth 100

B2B Marketing Traction

JULY 20, 2009

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B2B Marketing Traction

APRIL 28, 2014

Content marketing includes writing blog posts and posting article and other links relevant to what your business does and that helps your target audiences. In this blog post I will share what I recommend to my clients, including what social media platforms to use and what type of content to share on each. Facebook for B2B Marketing?

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Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing Marketing & Strategy 100

B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 16, 2015

We decided to begin by optimizing their website and implementing a blog and social media marketing. The client had a decent Facebook page with over 1,000 likes, and they send a weekly email with updates and announcements to customers and prospects. Implementing a multiple-author blog is like herding cats.

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Case Study Case Studies Social Media Social Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Traction

AUGUST 23, 2013

Just as “SEO Experts” created themselves overnight after reading a few how-to blog posts online, many consultants who call themselves social media “experts” have little or no real experience. They figure if they’re on Facebook they’re experts. That’s a topic for another blog post.

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Social Media Consulting Media Linkedin 100

B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 16, 2012

LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter? 150 followers on Facebook? 5 or more comments per blog post? Take business blogs, for example. Blogs take time, inspiration and writing skills. Where are your target audiences? What tasks do you have to do to have a presence? Who has the skills to do it? What will it cost?

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Planning Social Media Marketing Plans Social Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Traction

APRIL 6, 2012

If you ask me, visitors who land on a blog post have the right to know when it was written. So, why do B2B marketers hide their blog post dates? This blog post could have been written yesterday… …or, 3 years ago!” I guess they want to fool us. “Hey! So come on, B2B marketers! Show us the date!

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Transparency Blogger B2B Trust Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Traction

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This blog post answers questions you may be having about social media – Why do it at all? In a LinkedIn discussion group, a participant posted that they had been blogging for six months with no results. According to a Technorati study in 2008 , the blog abandonment rate is over 90%. How do I do it efficiently?

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Social Media Media Linkedin Twitter 100

B2B Marketing Traction

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday I was reviewing Hubspot information and saw that they recommend no more than two or three updates on Facebook each week. In fact, in a blog entry with this title, In Social Media, Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail , Brian Solis sites a Gartner statistic that 70% of social media campaigns will fail in 2011.

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Social Media Media Gartner Planning 100

B2B Marketing Traction

JUNE 23, 2014

Do they want to subscribe to your blog and receive email notifications when a new post is published? Do they prefer to listen to a podcast version of the blog while driving or working out at the gym? Do they spend a lot of time on Facebook and follow your content there? Do they want to subscribe to your eLetter?

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Loyalty B2B Marketing Planning B2B 100

B2B Marketing Traction

JUNE 22, 2011

Facebook, Blogging, and Twitter work great for pre-show marketing and marketers can post the trade show exhibit as an event on LinkedIn. At the show Facebook and Twitter provide good coverage in addition to YouTube. Post-show blogging and YouTube videos were most effective. Create a micro site for your presence at a show.

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Trade Show Social Media Social Marketing Media 100

B2B Marketing Traction

JANUARY 18, 2013

The proof is in the pudding, so you have to prove how social media gets results with Comments on your Blog , Impressions on a LinkedIn Company Page , Likes on a Facebook Company Page , and/or Followers and Conversations on Twitter. Create your own blog on Tumblr (it’s easy) and Twitter account.

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Social Media Media Case Study Case Studies 100

B2B Marketing Traction

JUNE 4, 2012

Facebook has intricate settings, even allowing you to receive notifications when friends “tag” you in photos. I tried the links to LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, and they all went directly to my notifications settings or preferences pages on the sites. Jones Tech Tools 4 Us blog post, Too Many Social Network Emails?

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Social Networks Social Media Twitter Curation 100

B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 20, 2010

I do suggest that folks use some tools to automatically send links to new blog posts to Twitter or RSS feeds to send new press releases to a Facebook company page. In a blog post long ago, Chris recommended a ratio of 12:1 for helpful, outward-focused tweets to self-promotional tweets. Astounding! Have an online conversation?

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Social Media Media RSS Twitter 100

B2B Marketing Traction

MAY 19, 2015

They increased internal links between blog posts to increase engagement of the readers, connecting synergistic posts together so that visitors to the site could do a deeper dive into their information. Moved from more frequent, shorter blogs to weekly, longer blog posts.

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Work Management Marketing Management Budget Programs Paid Search Agency 100

B2B Marketing Traction

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

So, use great images or photos when you share on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, but you should also think about expanding into some new social media platforms. I’ve seen some blog posts about how to post product information on Instagram with a general link to your website will help viewers find you, but I think that’s spam.

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Enterprise Management Work Management B2B Marketing Marketing Management 120

B2B Marketing Traction

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Blogs, videos, eBooks and other helpful content attract qualified buyers to pages on your site. Social media sites like Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook are all popular platforms from which your site pages and content can be shared. Websites that are linked to from social media sharing sites perform better in search results.

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Marketing Websites High Quality Lead Social Media SEO 100

B2B Marketing Traction

JANUARY 3, 2014

” The SEO tactics of yore (keywords, links, guest blogging, short blog posts for the sake of headlines and keywords) are not working anymore. Use of images and substantial articles or blog posts are the new winners. So it’s not that “content is king,” it’s that “substantial content is king.”

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Planning Tactics Marketing Plans Trade Show 100

B2B Marketing Traction

DECEMBER 4, 2013

If you do not have a strong presence online, begin by updating your website, add a blog, and focus on a couple of key social media platforms that have the most traction, like LinkedIn and Facebook or Twitter. We need to track engagement and conversion rates and improve our marketing to increase both. How do you get there?

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B2B Marketing Planning Branding Brand Identity 100

B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Here are some ideas: Blog posts. Tweets, LinkedIn and Facebook status updates. Provide quality information that solves problems, answers questions, and gives you credibility. What kinds of content will fuel your online marketing machine? Press releases. Whitepapers.

Online Marketing 100

Online Marketing Planning Paid Search Agency Content 100

B2B Marketing Traction

DECEMBER 9, 2014

If you need to reach both partners and the media as well as end users, you may want to connect on LinkedIn and Facebook or other platforms popular with consumers such as Instagram and Pinterest. You can write some blog posts pre-launch that can become a thorough white paper for your launch. This is part of knowing your audience.

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Planning Startups Advertising Agencies Marketing & Strategy 100

B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 12, 2012

I wrote about this in a previous blog post – please read Why Your B2B Marketing Needs a Hub and Spoke System. ). This is a relatively new step in a buyer’s buying process, which used to involved 1.) a stimulus like an ad, 2.) a visit to a store and a purchase, and 3.) the customer’s experience using the product purchased.

Internet Marketing 100

Internet Marketing Pricing Price Consulting 100

B2B Marketing Traction

AUGUST 17, 2009

I read Chris Brogan’s blog this morning, in which he asked his followers to buy his new book, Trust Agents , this week. In another blog post, How to Manage Twitter , he said that his ratio of promoting others’ valuable content to promoting his own stuff is about 12:1. Is that a self-serving promotion? So, guess what?

Work Management 100

Work Management Social Networks Twitter Promotion 100

B2B Marketing Traction

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Does each page on your web site have a few actions a visitor can take such as subscribing to your blog or newsletter or following you on Facebook or Twitter, so they are not forced into an “all or nothing” call to action? (By If they’re not ready to buy now, how can they stay in touch with you?

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PPC B2B Traffic Newsletter 100

B2B Marketing Traction

MAY 3, 2011

It takes time to establish a following, a rapport with your connections, and credibility on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and even LinkedIn. You tweet relevant article links, you comment on blogs, you provide your opinion on happenings in the industry.

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Social Networks Planning Product Social Media 100

B2B Marketing Traction

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Read more about Blue Ocean Strategy in my blog posts, 3 of My Favorite Strategic Models and Why B2B Marketers Need Blue Ocean Strategy.). If your CMO for Hire announces, “You need to be on Facebook!” A neutral party who has your best interest in mind (not a front for an agency or marketing services firm).

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CMO Paid Search Agency Effectiveness Cross-Selling 100

B2B Marketing Traction

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The reason to engage in social media sites online such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook is to have authentic, engaging, transparent conversations with people with whom you want to connect. You update profiles, approve and edit blog entries and message your followers. Transparent.

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Social Media Media Transparency Ideal Customer Profiles 100

B2B Marketing Traction

JANUARY 21, 2010

They don’t want middle men and women crafting clever, catchy messages to try to lure our attention away from blogs, forums, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter where they’re connecting with and learning from thought leaders, colleagues, customer and friends. In addition, they can tell when the story being told is not true.

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Advertising Agencies Advertisements Advertising Paid Search Agency 100

B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 18, 2010

See the example in my previous blog post, Why B2B Marketers Need Blue Ocean Strategy ). Social media sites have some of the highest adoption rates ever – 95% of companies now recruit on LinkedIn , use of Facebook has more than tripled and videos on YouTube have gone from one to two billion in the last year. Performance.

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SWOT Marketing Management B2B Marketing Planning 100

B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 18, 2010

See the example in my previous blog post, Why B2B Marketers Need Blue Ocean Strategy ). Social media sites have some of the highest adoption rates ever – 95% of companies now recruit on LinkedIn , use of Facebook has more than tripled and videos on YouTube have gone from one to two billion in the last year. Performance.

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SWOT Marketing Management B2B Marketing Planning 100

B2B Marketing Traction

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This book discusses why trust is important for social media – a must read if you’re thinking of getting into Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and blogging, and a great read if you’re already into these networks and activities or even if you consider yourself an expert. First I read Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith.

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Consulting Trust Marketing Social Networks Social Media 100

B2B Marketing Traction

JULY 8, 2015

I joined over 30 groups in my industry and began posting all my blogs, articles and newsletters to these groups. The value of LinkedIn, at least for me, diminishes greatly if I can’t post my blogs, etc. Automation helped people share their blog posts, product pages and events on LinkedIn Discussion Groups.

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Linkedin Work Management Marketing Management Planning 100

B2B Marketing Traction

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Increase your online content with a blog. If there is one thing you add to your marketing next year, I would suggest adding a blog to your website. A well-written blog with consistent posts can do wonders for driving traffic to your website. Get real and give buyers valuable information. That’s right, give it away.

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