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Getting Visual with Your B2B Marketing: Pinterest or Instagram?

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time to read, they are bombarded with information ( thanks, Internet! ) The founder’s thought was that one’s Pinterest board would suggest a person’s interests and personality ( see the article here ). Just as a person can get across their interests, beliefs, and activities on Instagram, so too can a business.

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Online Marketing – Don’t Leap Before You Look

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After many emails back and forth without a solution, one person threw up their hands and proposed restarting the statistics tracking. I knew that others in the organization (a vendor and an internal technical person) felt that an account already existed, and had for some time. And document your account login information.)

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The Death of Salesmen, Really

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So, there’s me, the person the sales man called. They need good information (content) from your business, not a sales pitch. You need to know the business or person you are going to call first. Get the person talking. But now they can go online and get information when they need it. Don’t sell, ask.

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2015 B2B Content Marketing Survey – 3 Takeaways You Need to Know

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in-person events and 6.) in-person events, 2.) People want information when they are ready to buy, not when you want to sell. Consider moving to a less-frequent newsletter and use it to summarize your marketing activities and share the culture and personality of your business. Is Skype and “in-person event”?

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What Marketing Content Works Best for B2B eNewletters?

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They may include how-to or opinion articles, quotes by thought leaders, personal stories, recipes, and even jokes. What information helps you run your business, your family, your personal life? Can you include a short story about your personal life or something that happened in your career that is funny or meaningful?

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Should You Trust LinkedIn with Your CRM Data?

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In a recent LinkedIn workshop the participants asked me why LinkedIn allows you to edit contact information for your connections. It used to be that all you could do is view the information your contacts chose to share with you. So, now you can see some possibilities for storing contact information on LinkedIn.

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B2B Marketers: Is Your Online Brand Working?

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She also comments that just as in Business-to-Consumer (B2C) marketing, B2B buyers’ business transactions are merging into their personal lives as they review information and emails from their mobile devices and home computers at night and on weekends. What does this mean for B2B Marketers?