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

Chris Koch

In my last post, I hope I convinced you why you should establish a personal presence in social media even if your company hasn’t done so yet. In pursuing a personal presence in social media, I had it easier than you will. You may have to adopt a more split business personality (and do more work). Pick an RSS tool.

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In social media, no one knows you’re an introvert

Chris Koch

Two interesting posts this week on how our personalities affect our online behavior. expresses shock that he turned out to be an extrovert on the Myers-Briggs personality test and wonders if you need to be an extrovert to be in social media. I think social media turns most things we think about innate personality on its ear.

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How Facebook’s privacy disasters will change B2B marketing

Chris Koch

Facebook has built its business model around gathering as much personal information about us as possible. And just as our traditional thinking about qual forms is failing, so will Facebook’s personal-information-as-currency model. That price is personal information, company information, and buying intent. come at a price.

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How social media will change lead generation in B2B

Chris Koch

But they may be open to building a relationship that could someday lead to a sale. The trust leads to a more personal relationship and hopefully, a purchase. These people are prospects, not leads. The way we turn prospects into leads is to gain their trust. We need to create that content. Tweet This Post.

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Social media raises the bar for customer intimacy

Chris Koch

These are companies that go out of their way to build close customer relationships. Hard to manage and to scale, highly reliant on the vagaries of human nature, most companies continue to have poor relationships—or worse, no relationships—with their customers. Social media is making that fact plain. Unspoken intimacy.

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There is no social media strategy, only marketing strategy

Chris Koch

B2B marketing lays the path to a sales discussion and supports relationships with existing customers. Social media is another channel—one of many—for making the connection and building the relationship with customers. The trust leads to a more personal relationship and hopefully, a purchase.

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Social media isn’t enough. We need a marketing transformation.

Chris Koch

He wasn’t a marketer, but he had been sent by a marketer, who hadn’t bothered to accompany him or even send an agency PR person for translation and kind supplication. Marketing needs a better relationship with IT. Content creates relationships. But it means shaking up the PR department and our relationships with PR agencies.