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Survey Says: Your Blogging and Social Media Efforts Are “Not a Factor” in B2B Vendor Selection

KoMarketing Associates

Last year, we learned a lot about the objectives of the B2B buyer and how vendors may miss opportunities to connect and provide further value through their website presence. One of those points was in the impact of social media and blogging on the vendor selection process. What This Means for B2B Marketers.

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Marketing Automation Vendors Added Webinars, Social Media, and Dynamic Content in 2011

Customer Experience Matrix

Last week's post took a horse race approach to data from our newly available B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST): who’s ahead, who’s behind, and who is coming on strong. The VEST survey, covering nearly 200 items per vendor, answers that question in glorious detail. Real marketers care about what the systems can do.

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Why Social Media Matters for B2B Vendors

Webbiquity

Social media marketing has clearly been embraced by consumer brands. Pepsi famously dropped its Super Bowl advertising a year ago in favor of a social media campaign. SMR has developed a sophisticated methodology for continuously tracking the top brands on social media based on reach, satisfaction and other metrics.

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Millennials Take Over B2B Tech Buying — Here’s How (and How Not) to Reach Them

Webbiquity

Among the most important takeaways from the year-end report were: Buyers consistently use these top five information sources to make purchasing decisions: Product demos; Vendor/product websites; User reviews (nearly half of buyers use reviews as part of their purchase process); Vendor sales reps; and. Free trials/accounts. Be positive.

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Digital Revenue Leaders: How to Make Sales & Marketing Integration Your 2020 Strategy

Speaker: Jamie Shanks, CEO, Sales for Life

According to Forrester, 74% of customers choose the vendor that's first to provide them with new value and insights. Join Jamie Shanks, CEO of Sales for Life and best-selling author of Social Selling Mastery and SPEAR Selling, for an in-depth webinar into the "why" and "how" of sales and marketing alignment!

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The 22 Best Virtual Event Platforms

Webbiquity

Today’s virtual event platforms are adding features like virtual expo halls and exhibitor booths, 3D environments and avatars, social media integration, gamification, one-to-one video networking, content libraries, and detailed attendee activity analytics. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year. But no one knows how best to use it, which has led to a wide range of offerings under the social media label.