KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Social media isn’t just essential for brand awareness and customer support; it can also be an extremely effective channel to support SEO strategies, including link building, content marketing, and more. Let’s talk about some of the key ways that social media can be used to take your SEO to the next level.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As detailed in coverage earlier this year, CMO’s remain committed to growing their investment in social media. percent of their marketing budget on social media, they expect to increase this percentage to 12.9 Furthermore, B2B CMO’s foresee social media spending rising to 18.5

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 26, 2016

As a Millennial, or digital native as some will put it, I grew up immersed in social media. Today, pretty much everyone uses social media – not just Millennials. From Facebook to LinkedIn, every generation is socially active. So, Why Does Social Matter to B2B Companies? Link Building.

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Social Media SEO Media B2B 183

KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 22, 2019

Setting your social media strategy in the new year can seem like a daunting task. Here are the steps necessary to creating a wholistic social media approach in the new year: Identify what matters in your social media strategy. What do you want from social media? Who is your target audience?

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 30, 2017

Before it’s possible for B2B marketers to implement successful social media tactics and tools, it is essential to understand what exactly social media is and how it supports your overarching business objectives. Key Benefits of Social Media Marketing.

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Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing Media 120

KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 3, 2017

There is a misconception that B2B social media strategy is easy to develop and implement. While social media sites are simple to use – submission forms with less than a handful fields, one-click voting buttons, and updates written in 140 characters or less – simplicity in success cannot be further from the truth.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 31, 2015

One of those points was in the impact of social media and blogging on the vendor selection process. The role of social media and blogging remains a minimal in vendor selection. 45% of survey respondents indicate social media is not a factor in vendor selection.

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Vendors Social Media Customer Surveys B2B 120

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Instead, your new friends may ask if you have QQ, Qzone, WeChat, RenRen, Momo, or another social media platform popular in China. All these social media names may make you feel overwhelmed because there are so many, and many of them sound alike! Who Is Using Social Media in China? The vast majority (89.3

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 8, 2017

As marketers continue to invest in social media, research suggests that they are still challenged to prove the success of their initiatives. Do you think marketers should change the metrics they are using to gauge social media success? Marketers need to expand the metrics they use to gauge social media success.

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KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Everyone wants more results from social media. Usually, we’ll post to our social media accounts more often. But maybe there’s an easier way to do B2B social media marketing better. So they appear on landing pages, in emails, in apps, at the close of blog posts (“Like this post? You probably do, too.

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Social Media Analysis Paid Search Agency Media 129

KoMarketing Associates

JULY 14, 2016

Social media can be overwhelming, especially if you’re a B2B marketer, because it can be a struggle to find things to share. However, as KISSmetrics suggests, hire someone who is experienced in social media, not your niche, as most social media for any industry will have similar goals: getting more visibility for the company.

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Social Media Social Marketing Automation B2B Marketing 120

KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 15, 2016

Social media isn’t most B2B marketers’ first choice for most effective platform, but highly targeted advertising campaigns are starting to change that line of thinking. If you don’t think your audience is on social media, you’re wrong. Bottom line: your ideal prospects are likely using social media.

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Paid Content Social Media Advertisements Advertising 120

KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 2, 2016

Social media came in at a distant 4th, with only 33% of respondents indicating social media to be effective. However as we covered just this week, B2B marketers are increasingly turning to social media channels as a critical tool for distributing content, according to recent survey results released by Regalix.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 18, 2014

My colleague, Casie Gillette , has touched on a few ways to break down those silos and get your B2B search and social teams working together. You can find those resources below: 3 Things Your Social Media Team Should Know About SEO. Link Building and Social Media Process. 10 Things I’ve Learned About SEO in 2014.

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Social Media SEO Media Link Building 120

KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2015

For social media marketers, spring-cleaning takes on an entirely new meaning. It’s no longer washing windows and scrubbing floors, but it’s organizing social audiences, reexamining the competition, and more. Here is a guide to social media spring-cleaning, including tips and tricks to better organize your accounts.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 5, 2015

Social media advertising has been making leaps and bounds in the level of sophistication, targeting capabilities and opportunities being presented to marketers. While my colleague Mike Pickowicz detailed some of the innovation in social media advertising earlier this year, new opportunities continue to arise.

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Advertising Agencies Social Media Advertisements Advertising 120

KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 26, 2016

As social media has grown, so has the opportunity for businesses to reach customers and potential customers. In fact, according to the Salesforce 2015 State of Marketing Report , 66% of businesses now have a dedicated social media team. Social media isn’t something you just do. Optimize Your Social Profiles.

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

There is a misconception for some that a social media strategy is easy to develop and implement. While social media sites are simple to use – submission forms with less than a handful fields, one-click voting buttons, and updates written in 140 characters or less – simplicity in success cannot be further from the truth.

Social Media 120

Social Media Media Marketing & Strategy B2B 120

KoMarketing Associates

MAY 31, 2012

With so many marketers finding social media stumbling blocks standing in their way, how can they effectively find ways to “leapfrog” over them? Research shows social media usage is steadily on the rise as companies look to promote brand awareness and nurture leads. What kind of social media channels—i.e.,

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Social Media Media Work Management Marketing Management 120

KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 30, 2018

When it comes to content marketing, blogging efforts are often a critical part of a B2B organization’s strategy and lead generation efforts—a point emphasized by the fact that an average of 3 million new blog posts will have been published by the time you’ve gone to bed.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 23, 2015

Even if you have your B2B company’s social media strategy pretty much down (or even if you don’t), there’s always room for optimization, from when you schedule your messages to the call-to-action in each post. One such area that can be optimized is your social media content resharing strategy.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Much like our Secret Santa gift exchange, this list of our favorite articles and blog posts from past year has become an annual end-of-year tradition. I constantly find portions, if not all, of the data used as references (and SEO-friendly links) across a range of publications, blogs, and other platforms. What’s the Value of a Like?

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Social media marketing continues to play a critical role in how marketers connect with their target audience. The “2016 Social Commerce Survey ” from SUMO Heavy found that, last year, 72 percent of buyers used social media on a daily basis, but we wanted to know more. From this survey, no, we did not.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Social media is not a fad for the B2B marketer. According to a recently covered report from Clutch, 78 percent of enterprises consider social media to be more critical for business success compared to other digital marketing strategies. In the end, you must make social media a priority and not just a task.

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KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Thus far, most respondents (33%) say that social media marketing has yielded the best return-on-investment (ROI) in 2022. Discovering the Marketing Potential of Social Media. With more marketers seeing positive results from leveraging social media, previous research indicates that it has seen extensive growth in 2022.

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Advertising Channels Social Media Inbound Marketing Statistics 228

KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 19, 2014

With social now positioned as a legitimate marketing channel with genuine customer (and potential customer) interactions, there’s a lot of great information coming out of the social media department. We also the need these departments sharing their data with the social media team, including the SEO team.

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Social Media SEO Media Keywords 120

KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Over the past few years, advertising on social media has grown in sophistication. What started as a few advertisements on the side of the screen has evolved into a full and mostly seamless blend of the overall social media experience. It’s definitely an exciting time for advertising on social media.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 21, 2014

Ask any marketer their first thought when someone says “social media advertising” and Facebook is bound to be the most popular response. worldwide growth for all social media ad spend in 2014. LinkedIn may be the forgotten advertising platform of the big social media players, with only a.5%

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Paid Content Social Media Paid Search Agency Facebook 120

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

When an organization doesn’t know what online marketing channel makes the most sense for their business, or they are not very knowledgeable on the differences between SEO, PPC, and social media, we need to explain both the differences and how we leverage all three to generate results.

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PPC Social Media SEO Marketing Management 120

KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 6, 2013

Fully developed business-to-business (B2B) social media marketing programs are becoming common practice; recent survey results show nearly half of all B2B marketers (47%) are currently “very involved” or “fully integrated” with social marketing.

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Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing BtoB 120

KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 7, 2013

It’s no secret that social media is an important channel of digital marketing. For B2B marketers, there are endless opportunities for leveraging social media platforms and strategies. Twitter in particular proved to be the strongest performing platform for generating leads through social media.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 14, 2019

You’ve spent all of this time researching and writing blog content that offers your audiences extremely valuable information. Blog optimization includes everything from proper page tagging to keyword research and usage, heading updates, cross-linking and much more. But, for some reason, the content just isn’t being found organically.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 15, 2013

One of the key reasons B2B marketers remain skeptical with social media as a primary tactic in digital marketing is the i nability to determine ROI. While we have access to web reporting tools, metrics specifically within social media platforms have been poor at best. But that is starting to change.

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Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing Tools 120

KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

One of the most effective content marketing tactics we recommend, for SEO and broader online marketing performance, is a B2B blogging initiative. Content fuels keyword visibility and what better way than through regular blog posts. Support existing keyword targets by providing cross-links through new blog posts generated.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 10, 2015

One of the struggles B2B marketers come to me with is the fact that they just don’t know how to come up with content for their blog, website, or other online platform (like social media). Writing a blog post about each one could help your audience learn how to use and leverage your offerings that much more quickly.

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B2B Marketing B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Case Study 120

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Most marketers (72%) measure the impact of influencer marketing with increased engagement, while 55% look to their rise in social media traffic. The Growth of Social as a Marketing Channel. It is followed by website/blog (36%), email marketing (35%), and content marketing (32%).

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Advertising Agencies Custom Publishing Social Media Inbound Marketing 209

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

As B2B marketers work on refining 2012 strategic marketing initiatives, social media has become a central focus. Advances in search engine algorithms bring social media in focus for link acquisition and as a potential signal of trust for engines. The Role of Social Media. Define Social Media Goals.

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