Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Sure, they are human beings like the rest of us but they have very different emotional triggers and needs when it comes to making work-related decisions. I should know — I am an engineer too. So I’m not only familiar with an industrial marketer’s target audience, I am the audience or at least a member of it. Engineers are creatures of habit.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. The difference is actually very small, as the goal of social media is to make big companies act like small ones.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #2: Content comes before redesigning your website Avoid the site redesign cycle of frustration by first developing a clear game plan for creating or repurposing existing content for the new site. Is your site ready for this shift in expectations or do you need a website redesign? And yes, it does cost money.

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APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Labeled “Mass Influencers&# this army of 29 million opinionated chatterboxes may very well be the key to your social media success. million followers on Twitter? Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. population.

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JULY 14, 2010

His ramblings can be found at www.membershipjedi.com This post is a compilation of ideas born out of Jay’s post “ Why You’re the Key to Social Media Success ” in which he succinctly describes one of the biggest obstacles facing organization’s pursuit of social media effectiveness – corporate culture. Why ignore it?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. First – What are the objectives? County, region, state or city?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Twitter for B2B Marketing - MI6 Marketing Agency , November 18, 2010 Author: Chris Herbert. There better be. Why not use it?

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JULY 8, 2010

I mean it in a 2010, gothic cool sort-of-way in which vampires are smart, sexy, bankable characters who can’t be killed and are making boatloads of cash for the people who channel them into books, TV shows & movies. philosophy, Jeff is also co-author of the ExactTarget/CoTweet SUBSCRIBERS, FANS & FOLLOWERS Research Series.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Because as a content consumption device, the iPad is simply without peer. Before that fabulous, glorious day, one of my jobs at home was to jump up and twist the channel knob at the whim of my parents, like some sort of orthopedic carpal-tunnel experiment gone astray. Less than seductive technology. I have found this to be a poor comparison.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

But, a new study by Edelman (whose digital arm features social media and ebusiness genius David Armano ) claims that bond is eroding. world-wide shows that just 25% of respondents said their friends and peers are credible sources of information about companies – a decline of 20% since a similar analysis in 2008.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Social Media Too Big For Its Britches?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Or Microsoft. It came from a Canadian computer sciences student who uses his free time pretty damn wisely. Kurrently is a new, free real-time search engine that combines results from Twitter and Facebook in a simple, blazing fast format. But there are 400 million people on Facebook,&# Gilbert said. “I want to know what they are saying, too.&#

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

As my co-author Amber Naslund put it once “with social media, my relationships aren’t bound by geography or circumstance.&# The ability to make or consume social media from an array of mobile devices increases the convenience factor (and the pressure on my wi-fi router) immensely. Family, friends, colleagues.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Effective crowdsourcing delivers exactly this and it can super-charge your social media efforts along the way. Crowdsourcing is evolving beyond the shiny contest model (Doritos’ “Crash the Super Bowl” ) and into something more meaningful to the brands embracing it and the consumers contributing to it. That’s last year.

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APRIL 27, 2010

He is without peer. Louis to Phoenix, coming back from SocialFresh. I’ll probably fly 150 segments this year, which is a lot, but nowhere near Chris Brogan territory. Today, I’ve fortunately been upgraded to first class, which happens infrequently because I travel enough to make it exhausting, but not enough to make it rewarding.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Are You Slow Enough to Succeed in Social Media?

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