Chris Koch

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4 Reasons Why Facebook Stinks for B2B Marketing

Chris Koch

The marketer in charge of the company’s social media effort gave me a clear edict: “Look, I don’t want you focusing on Facebook, okay? Seemed a bit harsh, but I had to admit that I had been harboring my own doubts about the value of Facebook for B2B for a long time. I’m not saying that B2B companies shouldn’t be on Facebook.

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Is “social media campaign” an oxymoron?

Chris Koch

Fly-by-night opportunists hoping to win your Facebook sweepstakes. If all you do is run contests and campaigns on Facebook, how can you expect to hold onto prospects over the long term? The campaigns used two methods that play well to Facebook users: Let them play games. Facebook is the fun social network.

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Is “social media campaign” an oxymoron?

Chris Koch

Fly-by-night opportunists hoping to win your Facebook sweepstakes. If all you do is run contests and campaigns on Facebook, how can you expect to hold onto prospects over the long term? The campaigns used two methods that play well to Facebook users: Let them play games. Facebook is the fun social network.

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How Facebook’s privacy disasters will change B2B marketing

Chris Koch

Have you ever noticed that your Facebook profile page looks like one of those horrible qualification forms that we make our customers fill out? If you go to Facebook and look at your profile, your immediate reaction is going to be that it’s asking for too much information. come at a price. This is a disaster if you ask me.

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3 factors in winning the social media horse race

Chris Koch

Some say G+ is dead in the water because it hasn’t generated the mad rush that Facebook did and that growth and use is already starting to slow. The argument is essentially that we’ve screwed up everything in Facebook and G+ is our social media morning after pill. There are only two types of relationships in social networking.

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3 factors in winning the social media horse race

Chris Koch

Some say G+ is dead in the water because it hasn’t generated the mad rush that Facebook did and that growth and use is already starting to slow. The argument is essentially that we’ve screwed up everything in Facebook and G+ is our social media morning after pill. There are only two types of relationships in social networking.

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How to use social media for B2B

Chris Koch

Some monitoring tools let you segment the different types of social media to determine where conversations are happening—such as blogs vs. Facebook. Taking a poll in a LinkedIn or Facebook group, asking for input from Twitter followers, or asking for information through comments on blogs are some of the ways to gather information.