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Use of social networks in B2B marketing (2) The buying cycle!

Exo B2B

I would like to discuss in this post, the importance of social networks in the B2B buying cycle. It’s not enough to be there, but it’s often the central element of a B2B social networking strategy. Know that according to an IDC study, 75% of B2B buyers use social networks to find suppliers.

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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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5 ways to create better buyer personas with social media data

Sprout Social

To create an effective marketing, sales or social media strategy, you must first have a clear idea of who is consuming your content and why. In this guide, we’ll show you how to better understand your target audience by creating buyer personas built on social media data. And their social media game is tight.

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Size Matters: Digging in to Employee Counts and Social Media Discrepancies

DiscoverOrg

Larger companies, typically, have more complex buying cycles, more sophisticated internal processes, and more specialization throughout their org. Certain types of companies have a large blue-collar contingent of workers who do not have much use for a professional social network. But a company with 300 certainly does.

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There is only one objective in social media: create learning networks

Chris Koch

There is too much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth about social media objectives and strategy these days. We all assume that our organizations are unique and that we must devote great sums of time and money to figuring out what our particular motivation is for social media and how we will carry it out.

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How Social Media Changed the Sales Cycle into the Buying Cycle

Webbiquity

Marketing and sales were still largely in control, but buyers were entering sales cycles with more and better information. But it’s been the explosion of social media and user-generated content over the past three years that has really changed the sales process. This is not necessarily bad news for sales. Tweet This!

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Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Industrial Marketing Today

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. How can you accomplish all that?