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Another Big Reason B2B Marketing Fails: Failure to Engage

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You have a business that sells to other businesses, so you plan to keep your marketing business-like. Buyers have developed different expectations as consumers. They also buy because they feel good about the company that manufactures or supplies a product or service. By telling the world what values your company stands for.

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Is Your Social Media Marketing Plan SMART?

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” Just as with marketing as a whole, it helps to have a strategy and a plan for execution. The plan is essential to successful, consistent execution, because there are a lot of moving parts in social media. In your social media plan, make sure social media goals are SMART. LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter? Measurable.

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Case Study: Getting Results with Social Media Marketing

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The client had a decent Facebook page with over 1,000 likes, and they send a weekly email with updates and announcements to customers and prospects. Web developers and SEO providers took note of this, because it is rare for Google to announce algorithm changes in advance. But, fortunately, Facebook has a merge feature.

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What Does Social Media Have to Do with Crossing the Chasm?

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I have a “strong suggestion” for you entrepreneurs, start-ups, spin-offs, R&D folks, developers, CTOs, CEOs, COOs, CMOs, PR and crisis communications peeps – well, everyone involved in getting the word out about some “new thing.” Online, strategically, on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and more.

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Why Product Launch Plans Need to Include Social Networking

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“We haven’t done much – we’ve been very busy with product development.” ” The old approach to product development and launch – develop the product and then work on the launch in a linear fashion – isn’t effective in today’s fast-paced technology world.

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4 Ways Pinterest Secret Boards Benefit B2B Marketers

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While it’s a great feature for planning holiday shopping or that surprise birthday or anniversary party, it also has some great benefits for B2B marketers. Creative Brief Development – A secret Pinterest board can be part of a creative brief for an ad campaign, a new design for a website or print piece.

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Social Media Outsourcing – Is It Right?

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The reason to engage in social media sites online such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook is to have authentic, engaging, transparent conversations with people with whom you want to connect. With authentic, transparent engagement in mind, is it OK to outsource your social media to a third party social media company or consultant?