Chris Koch

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Integrating mobile into B2B marketing

Chris Koch

Great conferences have impact that lasts long after the day (or two or three) that they occur. MarketingProfs’ B2B Forum is one of those conferences. For example, the Twitter stream from this thing (#MPB2B) is still going strong weeks later. You should check it out; it’ll give you a great list of B2B marketers to follow.

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How to get others to blog

Chris Koch

Set up an RSS feed of key news sources and bloggers and forward the good stuff to your SMEs. When blogger’s block sets in at IBM , bloggers can get inspiration through software that lets customers suggest the topics they’d like to see covered. Get ideas from customers. This all happens before the writing begins.

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How to use social media for B2B

Chris Koch

For example, the number of RSS subscribers bloggers have, the number of comments to the blog post, the number of page views, etc. For example, when SMEs speak at conferences, they can engage conference attendees before, during, and after the event to follow threads of conversation through to their conclusion. Gather research.

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Why marketers must become the new publishers

Chris Koch

I’ve spent the last two days as a guest at Marketing Sherpa’s B2B conference in Boston and the many excellent speakers used publishing metaphors constantly. Marketers need to talk to subject matter experts inside the company, influencers outside the company (analysts, academics, bloggers, journalists), and customers. Audit content.

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Why marketers must become the new publishers

Chris Koch

I’ve spent the last two days as a guest at Marketing Sherpa’s B2B conference in Boston and the many excellent speakers used publishing metaphors constantly. Marketers need to talk to subject matter experts inside the company, influencers outside the company (analysts, academics, bloggers, journalists), and customers. Audit content.

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Why the volume and quality of interactions with customers has to pass for social media ROI

Chris Koch

For example, being listed on the blogroll of a highly respected blogger, analyst, or journalist not only generates traffic; it also establishes you as an authority among the people who care most about the subject you’re blogging about. The growth in traffic then confers its own authority—you get lots of visits so you must be smart.

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How social media muteness endangers your company: The crisis at McKinsey

Chris Koch

It was like letting a dumb teenager into one of McKinsey’s glass conference rooms with a stack of fireworks and handing him a match. The political stir encouraged journalists and bloggers to try digging deeper into the story and that’s when McKinsey got into trouble. Something important was bound to get damaged. And so it did.