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Industrial Companies Underuse the One Social Media Tactic with Proven ROI

Industrial Marketing Today

The study done by GlobalSpec reported “Only 22 percent of industrial companies use Twitter, which reflects its low value among engineers as a social media resource.”. It is a lot easier to set up free Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts and use them to promote products and announce new ones.

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Business Value of Social Networking

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Even though the use of social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is growing exponentially, there is a raging debate about measuring its ROI. I use LinkedIn and Twitter quite a lot in my online networking and sure, I’ve grown my network in a short period of time.

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Small Manufacturers Use Social Media Effectively

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I’ve read a few articles and blog posts about how some manufacturers are using Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to listen, engage and market to their customers. They actively use YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. However, these have been from other industrial marketing consultants like me. Click here to view the embedded video.

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The More Industrial Marketing Changes, the More it Stays the Same

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73% of the respondents use LinkedIn, 55% use Facebook and 40% use Twitter However, only 17% of these companies are satisfied with their social media efforts. 47% of the industrial companies spend more than a third of their overall marketing budget online.

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Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

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This Marketing Data and Research Presentation includes data on: Lead Generation Blogging and Social Media Marketing Budgets Twitter and Facebook 50+ pages of marketing charts and graphs from original research Download the report from here.

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Inbound Marketing Tactics to Get Bulk of B2B Marketing Budgets in 2011

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A word of caution here about social media marketing – yes, it is easy and free to set up Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts but it is not cheap, and neither is it quick to achieve measurable results. Download the free Website redesign guide from my company’s Website. Social media marketing. Search engine optimization (SEO).

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The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

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Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn. (See contradiction #4) Contradictions and Myth Busters: Only 17% of the marketers felt they were “sales driven.”