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B2B Social Media Strategy and Executive Buy-in

Marketing Insider Group

The post is called B2B Social Media Strategy – 5 Steps to Gain Executive Buy-in and will show you how to develop your company’s B2B social media strategy. I explain the 5 steps required to gaining executive buy-in. And also discuss the 4 main objectives of a comprehensive plan.

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The New Marketing Accountability

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We want to get people to know us, like us and trust us so much that they want to buy from us and stay with us. Real value comes from producing customers who stay and who have an amazing customer experience so they buy more. What we really want is to “manage&# demand from awareness to consideration to purchase intent.

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Top Takeaways From Blogwell Philly 2010

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To review, Blogwell is an event sponsored by the Social Media Business Council , a &# community for social business leaders at large companies.&# To me this means that in many companies, we are still being asked to justify the time, budget or people required to support social media efforts. “Disclosure is the law.&#

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The Future of B2B Marketing: It's Social

Marketing Insider Group

.&# He also implores us to block the traditional metaphor of the funnel which I also wrote about since it no longer aligns to the consumer buying process. Brian starts by saying that “companies are not adapting quickly enough.&# In their research with 1,000 sales executives in the U.S.,

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: MarketingSherpa Demand Generation Summit 2007

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I’ll be speaking on “Blogging, Podcasting, Speaking Gigs, & Book Authorship: How to Generate Leads and Measure ROI as an Authority.” Some of the other topics include: New B-to-B Search Marketing; Maximizing White Papers, Ezines Webinars & Podcasts; Marketing to Fortune 500; Video, Viral & Web 2.0

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How To Use Paid Search To Target Buyers By Stage

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The study shows that there are specific keyword combinations used dependent upon the buying stage of the person searching on Google. In phase 1, the 2 companies relied on a Question and Answer format to determine the impact of buying stage on the keyword combinations used by IT buyers.

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Report: Blogs Are An Important Part Of The Marketing Mix

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They reported in a separate study by Technorati that blogs are right up there with many traditional media in terms of importance and influence on their buying behavior. Blogs help deliver information from the company to the consumer. And they are more likely to buy from people they know, like and trust. That is why blogs matter.