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Moving Upmarket: SMB to Enterprise—What Does Your Marketing Plan Need?

SmartBug Media

At an SMB level, there may be one decision maker who has a budget and can quickly sign on with your product or service. At an enterprise level, you may need more documents to help gain buy-in from other team members, even though that may be completely unnecessary at an SMB level. Different personas and decision-making team.

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Fresh Insights in Selling to SMBs

Biznology

Despite the attention given to large enterprise marketing, it’s small and medium businesses (SMB) where the bulk of marketing investments go. SMB is where there’s enough volume to do plenty of testing. Plenty of agencies, research firms, and other marketers are focused on SMB, and willing to share their insights.

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30 Remarkable Content Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2013 (and 2014)

Webbiquity

In another study, 35% of marketing professionals worldwide cited content marketing as their leading focus in 2013, followed by social media (25%) and SEO (15%). ” ( Social Media Today ). 76% of B2B vendors in North America maintain company blogs; 70% of large B2B enterprises, and 77% of small-to-midsize (SMB) firms. (

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47 Superb Social Media Marketing Stats and Facts

Webbiquity

Social media use isn’t quite universal—but it’s getting close. The number of worldwide social media users is projected to grow from 2.1 Here are four key takeaways (among the many possible) from the compilation of social media marketing facts and statistics below: Social is important today, but even more so tomorrow.

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The $1,000 SMB Marketing Challenge: How Would You Spend It?

Biznology

Many tools, like social media management platform Hootsuite , have free versions ample enough to meet a small business’ needs. As you’re creating that list, be mindful of how you’re going to measure your success , and which key performance indicators (KPIs) you should be tracking. Next, Start with Free. Blog Posts.

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Vocus Purchased by Private Equity Firm GTCR: This Could Be Interesting

Customer Experience Matrix

When I wrote about them last July , they had already created a Marketing Suite separate from their PR Suite. It also still provides the advanced social media monitoring and influencer identification, press release posting, and local directory submission services that most competitors do not. Those were all added last month.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Social media is by definition slow.