Remove broadcast help

Chris Koch

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Is Twitter “social?”

Chris Koch

Majority opinion seems to be that Twitter isn’t really a social platform it’s a broadcast medium. These days, my audience is B2B marketers and my goal is to help you learn. For these reasons, pundits say that Twitter isn’t much use for reaching B2B customers. Twitter isn’t for conversation, it’s for learning.

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Is Twitter “social?”

Chris Koch

Majority opinion seems to be that Twitter isn’t really a social platform it’s a broadcast medium. These days, my audience is B2B marketers and my goal is to help you learn. For these reasons, pundits say that Twitter isn’t much use for reaching B2B customers. Twitter isn’t for conversation, it’s for learning.

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How Manchester United Revolutionized Sports Marketing

Chris Koch

The NBA’s stats.NBA.com website, which houses player and team statistics from the league’s 67-year history, has helped double time spent on NBA.com while generating more than 9.5 Fantasy league members generally view about seven times more content – text, video, and data – on NFL.com than non-fantasy users. . Web/mobile content.

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Why B2B marketers hate social media

Chris Koch

Most marketing channels are focused on broadcasting tightly controlled messages to audiences that have little opportunity to talk back. What’s really different with social media? The End of Control. The biggest difference between social media marketing and other forms of marketing is control. Social media is different.

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How to create B2B social media policies

Chris Koch

Social media is not just a place for broadcasting opinions. For example, Cisco has an e-mail alias called “internet postings” where employees can get help. Require employees to disclose their affiliation with the company at all times and avoid using aliases. Encourage community through sharing and attribution. Ditch the legalese.

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Want to know which social media tool to bet on? Look at their relationship models.

Chris Koch

The recent growth of permission-based groups on these sites helps a little bit, but so much of what gets posted on group pages is noise—blatant advertising, desperate job seeking—that it can be difficult for marketers to cut through all that crap and establish trusting relationships based solely on being in the same group as someone else.

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Want to know which social media tool to bet on? Look at their relationship models.

Chris Koch

The recent growth of permission-based groups on these sites helps a little bit, but so much of what gets posted on group pages is noise—blatant advertising, desperate job seeking—that it can be difficult for marketers to cut through all that crap and establish trusting relationships based solely on being in the same group as someone else.