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The One Effective Use of Facebook for B2B Marketing

Webbiquity

I’ve heard countless people, within the b2b community , express the sentiment that “LinkedIn is for business, Facebook is for friends and family.&# The challenge rather lies in the way Facebook fan pages are used. As such, it’s not surprisingly that many of the entries on Slate’s top Facebook list are lifestyle brands.

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Seven Ways to Use Social Media for Business

Webbiquity

Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn groups, community sites (e.g. promote events, meet up at trade shows). People want to buy from companies that are smart, helpful and responsive. Social media provides the mechanism to demonstrate those qualities. Facilitate offline connections (e.g., Share this on Bebo. Share this on del.icio.us.

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2010 B2B Marketing Budgets and Mix Trends Research

Online Marketing Institute

Marketing budget allocations for 2009 looked identical to 2008, with marketers spending less on trade shows, for example, by attending fewer of them. To keep pace with the digital transformation, B2B marketers must shift from designing outbound campaigns to fostering community interactions.

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4 Tips for B2B Marketing on Facebook

Online Marketing Institute

Engage the Community In the past, your customers may have had little interaction with each other, and the outside world could only see a list of customers on your website (if you put them there). They post a weekly summary of all the important industry news, and provide readers with astute commentary that puts the news into context.

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The Ultimate Glossary: 120 Social Media Marketing Terms Explained

Hubspot

Digg - Digg is a social news website that allows members to submit and vote for articles. This service lets you add next-gen community management and social web integration to any site on any platform. Reddit - Reddit is similar to Digg. Disqus - Disqus is a comment system and moderation tool for your site.

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts October 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

My friend and {grow} community member James Adams has been plowing this ground for some time now and in this guest post shares his personal view of his biggest annoyances … “Use social media marketing to build your business. Is a Blog Just a Container? October 12, 2010 Photo courtesy Haags Uitburo. Google (116). Online Marketing (52).

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Asperger's and IT: Dark secret or open secret?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Though the terms are debated and sometimes disputed in the medical community, both refer in a general way to people who display some characteristics of autism -- including unusual responses to the environment and deficits in social interaction -- but not the cognitive and communicative development impairments or language delays of classic autism.