Chris Koch

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Companies are having success pulling in fans by linking to charitable cases. Indeed, HDS initially started publicizing its contest across Twitter, LinkedIn , Google AdWords , and with media partners as well as Facebook, but soon shifted most of the budget to Facebook because response was so much better there. Let them win stuff.

Social Media 100

Social Media Campaigns B2B Thought Leadership Media 100

Chris Koch

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Companies are having success pulling in fans by linking to charitable cases. Indeed, HDS initially started publicizing its contest across Twitter, LinkedIn , Google AdWords , and with media partners as well as Facebook, but soon shifted most of the budget to Facebook because response was so much better there. Let them win stuff.

Social Media 100

Social Media Campaigns B2B Thought Leadership Media 100

Chris Koch

JANUARY 8, 2010

In the course of hundreds of interviews with companies over my career, the “yes but we’re different” mantra was a familiar refrain. There is only one objective in social media and it is common across all companies—even across the infamous divide between B2B and B2C: Create learning networks. Not in our businesses, though.

Social Media 100

Social Media B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership Media 100

Chris Koch

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Most of ITSMA’s clients are B2B marketers from big technology companies that sell big, complex products, services, and solutions. However, CEOs did show a specific preference for the range of social networking sites—LinkedIn, Facebook, and Plaxo—over Twitter or blogs. Use Social Media to Drive Peer Connections.

Social Media 100

Social Media Peer-to-peer Enterprise Management Media 100

Chris Koch

JANUARY 22, 2010

We need to believe that more engagement between our companies and the people we want to reach is a good thing that ultimately leads to sales—but down a long, narrow, winding path with a few jumps between cliffs thrown in there. And I haven’t encountered anyone else who can either, have you? Volume and quality of interactions.

Social Media 100

Social Media ROI Lead Ranking RSS 100

Chris Koch

JULY 10, 2009

in their marketing—fewer than 35% of marketers in our survey have been using blogs or podcasts for more than one year, and just 3% have been using social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) Company (so we’re a client/not a client; what does that have to do with anything at this stage of the buying process?).

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Web 2.0 B2B Thought Leadership Ideal Customer Profiles Thought Leadership 100

Chris Koch

AUGUST 3, 2010

When people ask about how to use social media tools like Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook, I suspect that they are really asking about how they should sound in those tools. In social media, it isn’t just what you say; it’s the company you keep. After all, the tools themselves are dead simple. Sharing is the currency of social media.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media B2B Thought Leadership Peer-to-peer 100

Chris Koch

AUGUST 3, 2010

When people ask about how to use social media tools like Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook, I suspect that they are really asking about how they should sound in those tools. In social media, it isn’t just what you say; it’s the company you keep. After all, the tools themselves are dead simple. What do you think? Tweet This Post.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media B2B Thought Leadership Peer-to-peer 100

Chris Koch

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Companies have a long and pointless history of resisting new forms of communication. From Facebook to email to putting telephones on employees’ desks (remember, the telephone started as a “consumer” communication technology, too), companies think that every new wave is going to lead to gajillions in lost productivity.

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Planning Work Management Paid Search Agency B2B Thought Leadership 100