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89% of Social Media Marketers Consider Social Search to Be Strategically Critical

KoMarketing Associates

As younger customers and prospects spend more time on social media platforms, new research suggests that social search is growing in importance to marketers who are focused on optimization. Additionally, 87% believe that customers will primarily search for companies on social media, rather than search engines, in 2023.

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Social Media Marketing Goals and How To Achieve Them — Five Tips

Webbiquity

Goal-setting is the foundation of any successful social media (or any other type of) marketing campaign. Having clarity on marketing goals is an important first step, but creating a realistic plan for achieving them is essential. Guest post by Ahana Basu. What’s the best approach for creating that strategic plan?

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Nine Benefits of Using Social Proof in Marketing

Webbiquity

Social proof is a powerful tool for marketers who know how to use it effectively. This psychological phenomenon has further expanded thanks to the growth of social media. With social proof, prospective customers get an in-depth look at a product or service without wading through direct marketing or sales-focused copy.

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44% of Marketers Now Cite Social Media As Their Top Marketing Channel

KoMarketing Associates

As marketers look for new ways to connect with their customers and prospects, new research indicates that social media marketing has grown in importance as a marketing channel. This is followed by website/blog (36%), email marketing (35%), and content marketing (32%).

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3 Steps for Mastering B2B Demand Generation on Social Media

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

Spoiler Alert: Most B2B Companies are Engaging in Social Media the Wrong Way. Today, we all need to have a robust social presence, but most companies struggle to do it correctly. Discover how leading B2B companies are driving opportunities and revenue with social media by engaging buyers in the places they go to learn.

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66% of B2B Marketers Now Seeing an ROI from Paid Social Media Marketing

KoMarketing Associates

As B2B marketers assess which types of strategies are helping them achieve key objectives, new research indicates that social media marketing is rising above the rest. In general, most social media engagement for B2B marketers now comes from Twitter. B2B Marketers’ Shift to Social Media Marketing.

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Report: Majority of Marketers to Increase Social Media Marketing Budgets

KoMarketing Associates

Digital marketers have already discovered that leveraging social media can have a positive impact on their overall bottom line. About 45% of marketers will increase this budget by up to 50%, and 9% of respondents expect a rise of more than 100%. Investing More in Social Media Marketing.

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Seven Things Marketers Need to Know About Lead Generation

Speaker: Douglas Burdett, Host of The Marketing Book Podcast, Founder/Principal of ARTILLERY

One of the biggest responsibilities and challenges for marketers is generating leads. Lead generation has become much more important because the buying process has changed, and marketers need to find new ways to reach buyers and get heard through the noise. How inbound and outbound marketing should both be used.

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Organic Growth Strategy: How to Leverage Market Collateral Around Social Media

Speaker: Akilah Murrell, Sr. Director of Channel Marketing at Channel Maven

For B2Bers, social media matters more than ever, as today's increasingly digitally-savvy customers are going to your social media page before they go to your website. Therefore, it is crucial to evaluate the type and cadence of the social platform your customers are interacting with.

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Intent Data: No Tricks, all Treats

Speaker: Michael Ballard, Senior Manager of Digital Marketing, Lenovo

Using social media, machine learning, lead scoring, and so much more, we can learn so much about our prospects. and then proceed to annoy the heck out of them with endless emails, ads, and other marketing messages. In this session, you'll learn: How intent data opens you up to more opportunities be targeted with your marketing efforts.

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Utilizing Intent Data to Get Everyone a Seat at the Planning Table

Speaker: James Gilbert, Head of Marketing at CRMNEXT

Social distancing is a byword now often heard in B2B companies, but what about the departmental distance between your own organization's sales and marketing teams? Use B2B Marketing Zone's webinars to earn continuing education credits! March 25, 2021 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 7:00 pm GMT.

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

Speaker: Jamie Shanks, CEO, Sales for Life

You know the saying – Marketing is from Mars, Sales is from Venus. But if you can successfully align your sales and marketing teams, you'll find that the cooperation between the two quickly becomes a key differentiator for your company. How have your sales and marketing teams aligned to deliver that value before your competition?

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9 Award-Winning Customer Advocacy Success Stories

Influitive's annual BAMMIES - Best Advocate Marketing Awards - eBook has been read by 2,000+ savvy B2B marketers and business leaders. How Staples got 4,112 social shares that generated 19,210 clicks. These 9 short, easy-to-read success stories will teach you new strategies to mobilize your advocate community to drive ROI.

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Download 7 Exceptional Event Email Templates for Driving Attendee Engagement

Relying on decades of social science research and cutting edge behavioral data, SpotMe shows you their science-based methods for creating wildly successful event-marketing email campaigns for almost any situation. SpotMe is the event management platform for B2B marketers.

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Has Your Content Marketing Strategy Evolved?

8 Way to Improve Your Content Marketing in 2022. When was the last time you evaluated your tactics to make sure your content marketing strategy has kept pace with the changing digital landscape? Why social proof is important for B2B. The B2B Digital Content Revolution has catapulted forward these past few years.