Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 18, 2020

An employee advocacy program can be a fantastic way to build brand awareness, reach a wider audience, and attract new talent. A poorly executed employee advocacy program will be ineffective, but it could also be damaging to your company and brand reputation. Think about what’s in it for your employees too.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Are you ready to make 2024 the most successful year for your employee advocacy program? This is where employee advocacy comes in. We analyzed key employee advocacy trends from 2023 to help you implement a more effective employee advocacy program in 2024. Does Advocacy Posting Vary by Industry?

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Martech

JUNE 21, 2023

Enter stage right: the power of an employee advocacy program. Maybe you’re wondering, “Should I be mixing professional content into my colleagues’ personal social media worlds? Decoding employee advocacy Employee advocacy isn’t just a fancy marketing term.

Marketing & Strategy 138

Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Content Marketing Paid Search Agency 138

Sprout Social

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In the face of limited resources, changing algorithms and congested feeds, an employee advocacy program is a social team’s greatest asset. Advocacy programs help social marketers extend their brand’s reach beyond their bandwidth—without additional paid spend. That’s more than all our social profiles combined.

Marketing & Strategy 132

Marketing & Strategy Curation Thought Leadership Content 132

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 4, 2021

While you are likely posting on your social media profiles, using email marketing, and using other common distribution models, it’s hard to amplify unless you have a plan and tools to elevate your efforts beyond general posting. You can post on your social media profiles organically as the first means of distribution. Image: Broca.

Paid Content 276

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Social media is an undeniable part of the B2B digital environment. With 74% of global marketers investing in social media marketing, the channel allows you to connect with your audience, increase brand awareness, handle customer service, and even increase conversions. However, social media also presents many risks.

Social Media 363

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With various marketing initiatives and product updates happening simultaneously, B2B social media managers have a lot of content to produce at once. Social media managers need to keep up with giving every initiative the spotlight on social media, as well as within your employee advocacy program, that it deserves.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 4, 2023

One way is through brand advocacy. Brand advocacy is when individuals who love your brand share their positive sentiment about your product or service to their followers and audience. Harnessing and amplifying this advocacy should be an integral part of your social media marketing strategy.

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Onalytica B2B

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The concept of your employees being influencers may sound odd to some. When most hear the term ‘influencer’ they think of the social media influencers on platforms such as Instagram, Twitter and YouTube endorsing consumer products to their audience in return for a pay cheque. DOWNLOAD EMPLOYEE ADVOCACY 2.0.

Peer-to-peer 279

Peer-to-peer Thought Leadership Social Media Work Management 279

Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Quick thought experiment: when I say jobs, thought leadership and networking, what social platform comes to mind? And LinkedIn employee advocacy is how you reach them. Why is LinkedIn employee advocacy right for your social strategy? 10 tips to master advocacy on LinkedIn.

Linkedin 115

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Oktopost

JANUARY 31, 2024

We think it’s fair to say, social selling and employee advocacy are taking the B2B social media marketing world by storm. Both strategies are methods of building relationships on social media through your employees, but their goals and results are different. Jump Ahead: What is Social Selling?

B2B Thought Leadership 62

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

With the shifting world of marketing and the ever-increasing use of social media by brands, marketing advocacy strategies are imperative. One of the most important parts of advocacy marketing, besides your loyal customers, is your employees. First, What is Advocacy Marketing? How to Establish Advocacy Marketing.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This digital shift has welcomed a new era in sales: social selling. If you want to compel buyers online, social selling is a new sales approach that allows you to cut through digital noise and harness buyer attention. However, since social selling is a relatively new concept, few sales teams manage to get it right.

Sales Management 136

Sales Management Examples Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership 136

Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When taking an employee advocacy program up the chain, employee advocacy stats should be the backbone of your pitch. Keep reading for statistics on employee brand advocacy that will grab the attention of multiple leaders across your C-suite. And employees want to post about their companies.

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Oktopost

APRIL 9, 2024

Monitoring B2B social media metrics such as likes, shares, and mentions can help determine whether your efforts are succeeding at spreading awareness, engaging audiences, and eliciting positive sentiments. Build a social media marketing program Social media accounts can be a significant marketing asset for any B2B business.

Demand Generation Agencies 62

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand B2B Marketing 62

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 6, 2020

LinkedIn is undoubtedly one of the best social platforms for B2B marketing. With 675 million monthly users and 30 million companies active on the platform, it lends itself well to promoting business services, networking, building an audience, and content marketing. The same should be true of your social media pages.

Linkedin 363

Linkedin Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Enterprise Management 363

Sprout Social

MAY 11, 2023

Operating on social media without brand safety tools is like browsing the internet without malware protection. But it also encompasses monitoring your organic content and what people are saying about your brand on social, and scoping out imposters or other security threats. What are brand safety tools? brand safety rate and a 99.9%

Paid Content 131

Paid Content Tools Brand Identity Branding 131

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Businesses around the world, some of them huge, are turning to people on social platforms like Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook to tout their products and get their sometimes millions of friends to buy their product or service. . Employees are your ambassadors. Influencer marketing is a hot topic these days. It does make sense.

Activities 217

Activities Marketing Agencies 2 Paid Search Agency Case Studies 217

Oktopost

JANUARY 25, 2024

Social media is not just about creating a buzz; it can be a powerful tool for strategically influencing your customers at every stage of the sales funnel. While many businesses recognize the importance of maintaining a social media presence, the full potential of these platforms in driving B2B revenue often goes overlooked.

Social Media 69

Social Media Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics B2B Thought Leadership 69

Oktopost

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When it comes to social media for financial services, compliance is not just a priority; it’s a necessity. Financial institutions must be able to navigate the complex web of regulations while staying up-to-date with modern forms of communication, including social media. What is the Smarsh integration?

Marketing Management 62

Marketing Management API Ideal Customer Profiles Barriers 62

Oktopost

MARCH 29, 2023

Here at Oktopost, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new certifications designed to help B2B companies and their employees become proficient in social media marketing and drive measurable business results through the Oktopost platform. It’s about driving measurable results for your business.

Social Media 118

Social Media Media Analysis B2B Sales 118

Biznology

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As we know, employee advocacy software has been around for almost ten years, but it’s still a growing industry that not everyone has taken advantage of. Similar to any marketing stack, there are different methods and customizations you can take for your employee advocacy program.

Advertising Agencies 180

Advertising Agencies Planning Paid Search Agency Social Media 180

Biznology

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Many brands today are publicly acknowledging and take positions on social issues in ways they never would have a few years ago. And, employees are engaging with their employers over social issues in new ways — from employee walk-outs at large companies to using social media to demand more of their companies and CEOs.

Webinar Metrics 197

Webinar Metrics Consulting Social Media Activities 197

EveryoneSocial

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Today, employee advocacy is critical to companies’ success, as they seek to leverage employees’ voices and networks to build employer brand, drive engagement, and authentically promote products and services. How Does an Employee Advocacy Platform Illustrate the Network Effect? What is the Network Effect?

Social Media 98

Social Media Effectiveness Media Work Management 98

EveryoneSocial

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I think we can all agree that LinkedIn is the professional social network that helps drive sales, retain customers, build brand affinity, and attract top talent to open job positions. If you want to drive real growth through this social network, there are ultimately three main ways to do that: Employees Founders/Execs Company Page.

Paid Content 136

Paid Content Linkedin Ad Building Marketing & Strategy 136

Oktopost

JULY 4, 2022

Salesforce announced earlier this year that Social Studio, their one-stop social media management platform, has entered sunset mode and will no longer be receiving any updates. For those of you working in Social Studio and enjoying the native integration with your Salesforce platform, this is likely a difficult time.

B2B Thought Leadership 131

B2B Thought Leadership Work Management Social Media Marketing Management 131

Oktopost

JANUARY 16, 2024

But, when it comes to investing in tools, you’ll want to allocate your budget to the platforms that fit your business needs and bring you the most value in return. Harness Oktopost’s AI Capabilities to Maximize Your Social Selling Results Top 5 AI Sales Tools 1. This is difficult for social media teams to deliver at scale.

Budget Programs 62

Budget Programs Tools Sales Qualified Leads Allocation 62

Oktopost

AUGUST 4, 2023

We love talking about loyal and engaged customers, but what about loyal and engaged employees? They hold an incredibly high value for businesses, provided you understand how to showcase their enthusiasm in a way that feels authentic and done for the right reasons: by driving advocacy on social media.

Practices 62

Practices Best Practices Social Media Work Management 62

Sprout Social

MARCH 29, 2023

The way candidates research, discover and apply to roles on social media has completely reimagined job seeking and hiring. As a result, using social media for HR functions like recruitment has become standard practice, further proving that social is no longer exclusively reserved for the marketing department. It’s a win-win.

Social Media 101

Social Media Acquisitions Media Marketing & Strategy 101

Martech

APRIL 10, 2024

One scathing review or a whiff of buyer’s remorse on social media can hurt a company’s reputation faster than a retargeted ad. It categorizes a company’s social contribution, from fulfilling basic needs to creating positive change that benefits clients and society. Building authentic brand advocacy 1.

Work Management 112

Work Management Marketing Management Product Differentiation 112

EveryoneSocial

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

When LinkedIn Elevate shut down in 2021, there’s a reason why LinkedIn redirected traffic from that page to EveryoneSocial — and it’s not just because we’re the best employee and brand advocacy solution on the market. It’s also because switching to our platform is as easy as, well, activating your employee influencers.

Eye-Tracking 76

Eye-Tracking RSS Advertising Benchmark Training 76

Seismic

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Even as social media and social selling have evolved over the years, one thing remains the same: people buy from people. So, even as corporations cultivate a presence on social media, word-of-mouth messaging is more important than ever. Employee advocacy programs don’t just appear overnight.

Marketing AI 59

Marketing AI Work Management Tips Marketing Management 59

Oktopost

MARCH 10, 2022

Yet, organic social media is one channel that still delivers consistent results. Many marketers shy away from social media because they don’t understand how to measure social media return on investment (ROI). Measuring the ROI on social media is easy once you know what you’re looking for.

Social Media 174

Social Media ROI Media Brand Identity 174

Oktopost

MARCH 11, 2020

LinkedIn announced earlier this year that they will be sunsetting LinkedIn Elevate, its standalone employee advocacy app, merging it with Company Pages and offering the solution for free. It has been and always will be a fantastic social media network that was architected to help people connect with one another and find jobs.

Linkedin 138

Linkedin Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 138

ClickDimensions

MARCH 2, 2022

When it comes to social media, your employees are your hidden superpower. Collectively they can average 10 times more followers than a typical corporate profile, so enlisting them as social “advocates” gives any of your company-initiated social efforts an exponentially wider reach. Driving Brand Awareness.

Sales Management 105

Sales Management Small Business Marketing Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer 105

Oktopost

MAY 16, 2022

“We’re using social media for brand awareness.”. However, if you’re not using social media to drive real revenue to your brand, you’re leaving money on the table. So, how do you use social media to actually earn revenue for B2B? How do you shift the preconception that all social media is good for is brand recognition?

Social Media 91

Social Media B2B Thought Leadership Media B2B 91

Oktopost

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We’ve heard our Advocacy Board Administrators loud and clear: crafting messages for the same media asset across multiple social networks is an incredibly time-consuming process. This often led to frustration and inefficiency as administrators had to duplicate efforts, creating similar messages for different platforms.

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Social Networks Aggregators Content Display 62