Chris Koch

article thumbnail

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? Every time we talk about it, we have an endless argument that leads nowhere.”. I’m not saying that B2B companies shouldn’t be on Facebook. I think every company should be on Facebook.

Facebook 100
article thumbnail

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.

Privacy 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Three steps for B2B marketers to build a personal social media presence

Chris Koch

Here are some important B2B blogs that I track: Acquiring Minds: A B2B Lead Generation Blog. To me, it’s the missing link between monitoring blogs and connecting with people through social networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook. Transfer Twitter relationships to LinkedIn and Facebook. Pick blogs to follow. Conversations.

article thumbnail

How old-school data capture is poisoning marketing and what to do about it

Chris Koch

We’re starting to see social media have a positive impact on driving traffic to websites and on lead generation. Increased lead generation” was farther down the list—24% are seeing it. Social media and lead generation go together. But there is a natural link between social media and lead generation. In our recent Web 2.0

Web 2.0 100
article thumbnail

Why the volume and quality of interactions with customers has to pass for social media ROI

Chris Koch

I wish I could say that social media leads to sales. 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 it leads back to the problem we have with PR.