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Top 5 Social Media Trends For The B2B Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

In this post I will review a whitepaper produced last month by Toolbox.com in conjunction with PJA Advertising + Marketing called “ Top 5 Trends in B2B Social Media Usage: What Every Marketer Should Know “ (registration required) on social media usage. You are most certainly not the only one.

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3 Steps To Make Blogging A Top Priority

Marketing Insider Group

Are blogs an important part of your marketing mix? Blogging should be one of the first thing every marketer considers when starting their marketing plan, when distributing budgets, or when assessing their results. This is ahead of more costly webinars, virtual events, whitepapers, videos and research reports.

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The 4 Cs of Social Media

Marketing Insider Group

In social media content is not necessarily about creating white papers or videos. Context: this is important because some traditional marketing assets like white papers or product demos do not perform very well in social media. It can include 140 character tweets, photos, brief product updates or FAQs.

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7 Common B2B Social Media Marketing Mistakes

Marketing Insider Group

To help out my fellow B2B marketers, here is a list of 7 common mistakes that B2B marketers make when jumping feet first into social media marketing. Using social media as a direct response vehicle - The reason for much of the success from B2C marketers is that the majority of their products are impulse purchases (i.e.

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Confessions Of A B2B Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

I especially was glad to see content programs listed under your insight-driven marketing comment. I think that too often content planning is still more than an after-thought rather than part of an overall customer engagement strategy. Marketing will always need to focus on planning and strategy, almost by definition, for our companies.

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11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail

Marketing Insider Group

In this article I will summarize a whitepaper Robert wrote on the 11 reasons why outbound telemarketing fails. Sometimes, inbound demand generation isn’t enough to fill our funnels. And so we turn to good old-fashioned cold calling to drive leads, identify new contacts or even clean our lists.

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6 Content Marketing Tips That Drives Leads

Marketing Insider Group

Use the key insights from your surveys to create whitepapers on the top pain points. Remember the tip from yesterday about surveying and interviewing your customers? Videotape your interview and post it online. You don’t need to sell your solution if you can engage your prospects and demonstrate that you understand their needs.