The French Publicis Groupe and American born Omnicom Group have announced plans to join forces in what could be the largest advertising holding company in history. This deal topped the charts with a combined capitalization of $35 Billion. Between the two companies they had combined revenues in 2012 of $22.7 Billion. They say they are […]
Throwing B2B tactics at Facebook is like fishing for trout in the middle of the ocean. Go to Google and search for “B2B” and “Facebook”. You will quickly find an endless sea of stats and figures that show how Facebook “generates this” and “increases that” (traffic mostly, but I’ll get to that later). For example: […]
Since 2008, social media marketing has transformed everything we used to know about creating awareness and generating leads. Gone are the days of “push” marketing. Today it is all about “pull” or “peer-peer” marketing. We see consumer package brands promoted on social sites like Facebook and Pinterest all the time. Sure, it makes sense to […]
Small businesses in the B2B space can learn from a recent VerticalResponse survey summed up nicely by VentureBeat’s John Koetsier, showing 66% of small businesses have invested more on social media marketing activities in 2012 than in 2011. I think most B2B business owners reading this would find it surprising that over 43% of small businesses […]
My good pal and veteran telemarketing guru, David F. McCullough over at Transamerica Microsearch, replied to one of our retweets recently about a very good tweet by Dave Thomas (@businessdotcom), Am I Doing All I Can with B2B Telemarketing? David was happy to hear someone using “telemarketing” on a Social Media website because he was […]
We haven’t posted an infographic in awhile, so I thought it was a great time to share one with you. I came across this one on Mashable and found it very interesting. We often hear about the numbers in terms of overall users on each platform, but it’s not so often that we get a bit […]
Setting up your business on Twitter or Facebook is easy. However, you can’t just hop on and start posting without thinking about a few things first. Perhaps the most important part of your social media presence is creating the voice for your brand. It’s important that your brand’s voice on social media matches up with […]
There’s no doubt about the fact that B2B marketing is changing, especially with the increased use of social media. Would you be surprised to learn that B2B companies are actually leading the charge when it comes to social media? 81% of B2B companies have accounts on social media sites, compared to only 67% of B2C […]
Happy New Year, everyone! We’re back from vacation and are already hard at work on a bunch of really cool projects. Before we get too far into 2012, we thought it would be good to reflect on some of the things we learned and discussed in 2011. Here is a breakdown of our top 5 […]
Setting your brand up on social media is a pretty quick and easy job. The tricky part is maintaining your presence. To do it the right way, it takes time. You need to take a chunk out of your day and dedicate […]
