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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. Involvement : Measured by tracking traffic to your site or your blog, Pageviews, bounce rates, New vs. Returning visitors and time on site. In Google Analytics look at Traffic Sources > Keywords.

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Building B2B Online Communities - Insights from the Online Community Unconference | Business.com's B2B Online Marketing Blog

Online Marketing Institute

0.1 - B2B online communities will have about 1/10th the active participants of a B2C community at comparable traffic volumes - but participation rates are all over the map. However, don’t confuse traffic and behavior with value to your business. Keeping track of traffic, leads, revenue, etc. More leads? Raising awareness?

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The Top 3 Priorities for 2010 Marketing Budgets

Online Marketing Institute

Based on my own anecdotal research, natural search typically drives at least 40% and average more than half of all unpaid traffic to b2b websites. Virtually every b2b buying decision involves some level of research on the web. Buyers won’t buy from you if they can’t find you.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 3

WebMarketCentral

Forrester: B2B Marketers Need To Keep Up With Business Technology Buyers On Social Media by Forrester Research It's pretty rare to include a press release in a best of list here—actually, this is probably the first time ever—but this one includes key statistics on how b2b buyers use social media on the job.

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Best of 2009: Social Media Marketing, Part 1

Webbiquity

Rebecca Weeks provides a “cheat sheet&# with five key tactics to increase website traffic through social media, including interaction on the most popular social networking sites, using free Twitter tools to maximize the value of that platform, and getting exposure on social news sites. Top 25 Social Networks by Navel Marketing.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Go beyond the obvious and use customer service metrics, social connectivity of customers, and Web traffic patterns as measures that matter. Allowing clients to treat number of Facebook fans as the core success metric is a dereliction of duty.

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5 B2B Marketing Infographics You Can’t Go Without

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

This social landscape infographic offers a compare and contrast grid of the top social media sites and how they rank among customer communication, brand exposure, traffic to your site and SEO. Good, better, best is a mantra we can all live and learn from in B2B marketing. Buzz coming in last. Visualizing Facebook. Who Participates Online.