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15 Actionable Takeaways From Social Media Marketing World 2013

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3: Invest in Passionate Community Managers to Improve Facebook Reach. 6: ‘Facebook-ize’ Your B2B Brand. Being successful on Facebook is determined by answering these 6 questions: What do you sell? Show them how social media can directly impact the sales funnel. #9: Use Facebook ads. #11: Start using SlideShare. #6:

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The Future of Social Media: My 2014 Prediction

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How Will It Impact Marketing, Sales and Customer Service? B2B companies will invest 80% of their effort on blogging, LinkedIn and Twitter, and largely ignore Facebook, G+, Pinterest and others. Getting results will dominate social marketing. This will mean turning “engagement” into lead generation and an investment in social selling.

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How Marketing Can Contribute To Revenue Generation

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In response, sales needs to adapt and be on equal footing with the buyer. Marketing can enable sales reps to be as educated as the buyer so that they know exactly where the buyer is and help them move forward in their journey towards a sale. Marketing needs to be seen as an equal partner to sales. Educate Sales Reps.

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Why The Perfect Marketing Department Needs To Evolve [Infographic]

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Nearly half of buyers believe they are better informed than sales reps: 49.5% Over the last year, the number of questions asked on Facebook brand pages has increased by 85%. In 2013, about 60% of questions asked via Facebook received a response from the brand . Measurable Success . Digital means trackable Big Data.

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Why Is No One Paying Attention to My Content on Social Media?

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Is it links, sales, brand awareness, leads or engagement? In fact, 77 percent of Facebook pages found their widest audience through promoted posts. Whether you want to increase your traffic or drive sales, you should focus on how you can amplify your content to reach these goals. Find your audience. Pump up your content.

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Is Email Marketing Making a Comeback?

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Despite the promising numbers behind email marketing, many marketers made the switch to focusing more on social media strategy and spent more time developing campaigns for Twitter, Facebook, and other social marketing channels. Email marketing was somewhat forgotten, but is it dead ? The short answer is: no. First thing’s first.

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How To Make a B2B Company “Sexy” with Social Media [Infographic]

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71% Facebook. 90% of B2B companies actively use Facebook in their marketing efforts, in comparison to 53% that use Twitter and 47% that use LinkedIn. . 80% on Facebook. 90% of small businesses are on Facebook, and roughly two-thirds post more than once per week. 57% of B2B companies generate sales through LinkedIn.