KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Here are a few stats that highlight the differences in the B2B buyer’s cycle: The B2B buying cycle is six to twelve months, much longer than the few weeks most consumers take to make a purchase. The discovery phase of the buying cycle is when businesses realize they have a problem and begin looking for a solution.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 18, 2013

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? Track results.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

58% spending more time researching products before making purchasing decisions; social media has become increasingly important in B2B marketing The consumerization of business technology is probably one of the biggest driving forces in the development of B2B software. This shouldn’t be a surprise.

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KEO Marketing

MAY 17, 2017

Integrating social media into your integrated marketing strategy is crucial to your company’s success. If you are trying to figure out marketing strategies for your business, take a dive into the world of social media. Social media has taken over, and it is only continuing to grow. Respond to your followers.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

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?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through.

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Valasys

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Having omnipresence in an era of multi-channel marketing is essential for marketers to target the right set of audiences with the right pieces of information to streamline the sales’ conversion cycles. When it comes to social media marketing, marketers need to define social media KPIs to quantify their marketing endeavors.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

These are primarily online pull tactics (including inbound marketing, content marketing, SEO and social media). Information is available free (or close to it) today that you couldn’t buy for any amount of money five years ago. With social media, buyers can reach out to colleagues, experts, peers, etc.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

Who are the top B2B Marketing influencers on twitter? To answer this question, I looked at a variety of factors including twitter followers, profiles that included “B2B marketing,” the focus of their tweets including the hashtag # B2BMarketing , as well as a variety of social scoring tools using the keyword.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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QuanticMind

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Throughout the last decade, the rise of new technologies, diverging cultural trends, and the boundless growth of innovative platforms have together helped social networks evolve into the colossal influencers that they are today. The social media crowd is an ever-changing beast — never static and always in motion.

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Chris Koch

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I’ve been working with my colleagues at ITSMA on another survey on social media for B2B marketers that I hope you’ll take by going here. As we put together the questions, we struggled with the issue of social media strategy. Social media is no silver bullet.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 20, 2011

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

The customer lifecycle is the journey your customer takes with your brand — from their first interaction with your content to renewing their annual subscription or buying additional products. It’s your responsibility to connect with potential customers — and show them information that will shorten their buying process.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

The customer lifecycle is the journey your customer takes with your brand — from their first interaction with your content to renewing their annual subscription or buying additional products. It’s your responsibility to connect with potential customers — and show them information that will shorten their buying process.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

At the same time, you know that social media has changed the marketing landscape : shouting to prospects with endless email offers may produce leads but you’re worried about the longer term implications to your market. So how do you incorporate social media into the marketing mix? Social media?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing.

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Chris Koch

JANUARY 8, 2010

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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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Social media has changed the way we live, interact with each other, and, yes, even market our businesses. billion people use social media worldwide, making it one of the most popular online activities. Designing an effective B2B social media marketing strategy, however, is no easy feat. More than 3.6

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

Here are additional definitions from around the web: Ardath Albee & MLT Creative : “A buyer persona is a composite of different factors that affect your buyer and motivate him/her to buy. Social Media Marketing and Advertising. Connect with me on LinkedIn or Twitter to share your thoughts and perspective.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 26, 2010

People buy from people they know, like and trust. Using Twitter can help B2B marketers reduce “time-to-trust” with prospective customers. When prospective customers follow you on Twitter, you are increasing your touch points with them. But, be careful as you use Twitter for B2B marketing. Credibility.

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 23, 2021

There is a virtually endless amount of data available when it comes to marketing, from social media, to email marketing, engagement data , website analytics and more. times more likely to have an easy purchase experience when they are delivered information that helps them advance in the buying cycle. Social Media.

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xiQ

JANUARY 30, 2023

As digital networks like LinkedIn and Twitter have become more prevalent, buyers have come to expect sellers to have done their homework and be familiar with their professional background, education, personal preferences, and motivations. The buying decision maker risks their reputation and career when recommending a solution.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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seo.co

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Most of your online marketing efforts (other than conversion optimization) will focus on exploiting external platforms like search engines, advertising opportunities, and social media sites to funnel traffic to your site or landing page. Know your buy cycle. Image Source: Pew Research ). Know your dispositions.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

No matter what the newest social media platform may be, LinkedIn remains a hotbed of B2B decision-makers. As social selling becomes more and more important, it's the ideal platform for you and your team to share your unique expertise and connect with people in your market. Find In-Market Buyers on Twitter. Wrapping Up.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 10, 2018

Simplifying and personalizing the buying process is now the key differentiator. It’s not your imagination: B2B buying cycles are getting longer and more complex. 75% of B2B buyers use social media to support their purchase decision. Digital Media Stream ). Maximize Social Business ). BuzzSumo ).

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Digital marketing is an umbrella term for the marketing of products or services using a digital strategy, technologies and tactics that include search, paid advertising, social media, and many other properties. This would not only benefit the organization but also, be a massive help to consumers looking to buy cookies.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 9, 2023

Boosting your social media efforts. Go beyond Facebook or Twitter posts. The B2B audience has a long chain of command, as well as a longer buying cycle than that of a B2C audience. Creating business pages on social media networks. Consider visuals for Instagram or videos on Tik Tok.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? Can we deliver a powerful 1-2 punch by combining social media and email marketing? Do you have any good examples of social media used in email marketing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? And digital marketing and social media are as disruptive as they come. Conduct a content audit and make sure you have mapped your content to the buy cycle.

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B2B Marketing Traction

JULY 12, 2013

After working on one such system yesterday (I will name no names), I popped onto one of my favorite Twitter chats – #B2Bchat. As I looked up the bio of one of the participants, @Nimble, I complimented them on their profile on Twitter. Marketing Soapbox b2b marketing sales social media' “We’re the #unCRM.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

I was particularly struck by the actual data that showed how buyers are using social media in the process, especially by age. Some key findings: Overall use of social media in buying is still somewhat low. The Opportunity for Social. But this will likely require thinking different about social.

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ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.

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Stevens & Tate

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

To reach today’s consumers, create a strategy that not only reaches them where they are looking, but also addresses what stage they are in the buying cycle. Read Also: 5 Example of Great Social Media Branding. Does your budget have a line item for social media? Embrace new ideas.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MAY 30, 2014

Because the buying cycle usually starts online (studies show that buyers are often more than 60% through the buying decision cycle before they contact your company), showing the “human-ness” of your company and brand online is critical. Engaging people with your human side in social media?

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