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Elevate B2B Marketing News Weekly Roundup: Longer B2B Buying Cycles, AI Marketing Usage Study, & WhatsApp Gets Screen-Sharing

Top Rank Marketing

adults have said that they consider Twitter — recently rebranded as X — to be dominated by unpleasant people who hold extreme views, with a scant 12 percent considering the platform fun to use — two of several findings of interest to digital marketers contained in newly-published social media platform survey results.

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B2B Marketing Trends 2016-2020: Social Media Breakfast Wrap

Webbiquity

Those were among the key questions I had the opportunity to address in a recent presentation at the Social Media Breakfast – Minneapolis St. They’re adopting buyer personas , content targeting and matching content to stages of the buying cycle. Paul ( #SMBMSP90 on Twitter).

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How to Recognize and Respond to Buying Signals (and Close More Deals!)

Zoominfo

Opportunity data: These indicate favorable conditions within an organization for a sale, such as company events or leadership changes. How to respond to buying signals. Accessing a visitor’s intent data helps marketing understand where B2B decision-makers are in the buying cycle. Consider this.

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Digital Events Are the New Black

Content4Demand

Agile marketers are pivoting quickly to embrace digital events to stand in for physical events to help drive leads and build relationships with clients, prospects, vendors and peers. Done well, these digital experiences can do more than just replace those events – they actually offer opportunities that in-person events can’t match.

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How Virtual Event Marketing Benefits B2B Businesses

Valasys

The idea of virtual event marketing was popularized by corporate giants such as IBM and Microsoft to help the idea of real-time customization. Best virtual events focus on keeping it agile and reflecting on the value proposition of the goods or services by appealing to a global audience group preferably in the target demographics.

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Thought Leadership Best Practices: Research On How To Show Your Expertise

Marketing Insider Group

Thought leadership makes a lot of sense in most B2B content marketing scenarios, typically because the buying cycle is longer and may require multiple approvals. Be Consistent on Social Media. On social media sites, you have the opportunity to build a community by sharing more than just your own content.

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How to Integrate Social Media into Your B2B Marketing

B2B Marketing Traction

Social media is not the be-all and end-all, but it is a marketing activity you should add to your marketing program. A lot of business owners view social media as that thing that kids do, or they dismiss it as an easy task. Are your customers, clients, referral sources on social media? Survey your stakeholders. Track results.