Digital B2B Marketing

article thumbnail

B2B Marketing Has a Perception Problem

Digital B2B Marketing

Here are three examples from magazines or proposals that are within arms reach on my desk. In a recent logistics magazine, 60% of the full page ads are lead generation focused. More than 80% of the full page ads in a recent enterprise technology magazine are lead generation!

article thumbnail

Social Media Does Not Influence B2B Buyers

Digital B2B Marketing

That was the headline on the first page article when BtoB Magazine landed in my inbox last week. According to new research from IDC, only 18.6% of B2B technology buyers say social media has influenced their purchase decisions or interactions with vendors.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

6 QR Code Mistakes Marketers Make

Digital B2B Marketing

But that hasn’t stopped marketers from using them underground in subway stations and in in-flight magazines. On a recent flight I counted a dozen ads with QR codes in the in-flight magazine. QR codes as a shortcut to a URL are pretty worthless when there isn’t an internet connection. And most of them broke #3 as well.

article thumbnail

6 Free Ways to Find the Best B2B Advertising Opportunities

Digital B2B Marketing

Add keywords like magazine, blog, news or site that describe media properties to the audience or category you are looking for. While marketers engrossed in their industry will often know many of these sites, smaller or more technical properties are often an overlooked opportunity.

article thumbnail

The Trick to Seeing Through Marketing Statistics

Digital B2B Marketing

This is a favorite trick among magazine publishers. Anyone that doesn’t care that much about the publication, particularly those folks that get a free copy of a controlled circulation magazine, ignored the survey as well. Bonus: here is a classic example of how marketers biased their research to make bacon part of breakfast.

article thumbnail

The Thin Line Between Social Media Marketing and Spam

Digital B2B Marketing

One presumably well-intentioned individual spammed influential individuals and organizations in B2B marketing, from BtoB Magazine ( @btobmagazine ) to Jonathon Block ( @jblock ) to Steve Farnsworth ( @steveology ). In this case, a Twitter search showed there were 44 Tweets of an advertising agency’s post in the prior week.

article thumbnail

4 out of 5 Marketers are Zombies! [Infographic]

Digital B2B Marketing

Magazines are Dead. What, it’s changing? Quick, call it dead! Write an article about how social media is killing advertising! Advertising is Dead. SEO is Dead. Television is Dead. Newspapers are Dead. Websites are Dead. Agencies are Dead. Media companies are Dead. Did TV kill radio? After more than 50 years, radio is still here.