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3 Quick Marketing Tactics B2B Marketers Can Borrow from B2C

Marketing Insider Group

B2B buying cycles are also much longer than B2C and involve many different stakeholders, compared to B2C purchases, which are often instantaneous and involve one person only. Use the power of storytelling to reach the people you’re ultimately marketing to. Harness the Power of Storytelling and Emotions.

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32 Influential B2B Social Media Profiles (People) to Follow on Twitter

KoMarketing Associates

It’s no secret that social media is an important channel of digital marketing. For B2B marketers, there are endless opportunities for leveraging social media platforms and strategies. Twitter in particular proved to be the strongest performing platform for generating leads through social media.

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Content and Social Media Marketing Predictions for 2011

Avitage

Two strategic insights I found especially helpful: Must have a real-time mindset (David Meerman Scott) The “consumerization” of B2B marketing (Tom Pisello) This summary of especially salient points looks like a pretty good content checklist: Content will get shorter (Doug Kessler) Relevance will become the new standard (Sandra Zoratti) Must become (..)

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What is a content marketing strategy? Your checklist to secure content success

Tomorrow People

Social media networks are booming and blogs are part of the everyday online landscape. Guide your prospects A content marketing strategy allows companies to fit their content into a five step process which matches their customers’ buying behaviour, creating a clearer and more consistent sales funnel. Your marketing personas.

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Why DE&I is integral for your marketing strategy

SmartBrief - Marketing

Customers look for authenticity and evaluate brands across all touch points of the buying cycle. In fact, the World Federation of Advertisers conducted a study in partnership with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and found that 54% of consumers do not feel culturally represented in online ads.

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4 Critical Door-to-Door Sales Lessons for Marketers

Zoominfo

Did the prospect enter through social media? Can you tap into their social media profile information? As a door-to-door salesperson personalizes their sales pitch based on information provided by the prospect, marketers must personalize lead follow-up in order to move each prospect to the next stage of the buying cycle.

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How to Scale Up Personalization to Streamline B2B Sales Cycle

Valasys

Employing social listening can help brands track, analyze & respond to conversations about them on diverse social media channels. Social listening is amongst the most crucial components of audience research. Leverage Visual Imaging: Buying from businesses is more of an implicit decision than explicit.