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 […]
There is a fantastic SlideShare by Velocity Partners on the use of metaphors in B2B Marketing (or misuse, rather). As I wrote in my previous post, business marketing is about relationships because the journey (more on that below) that B2B companies take their customers on is all about finding a solution to their problem, not […]
According to a recent 2012 State of Digital Marketing report published by WebMarketing 123, B2B Marketers are closing the gap on B2C Marketers when it comes to SEO, PPC and Social Media. The infographic below is a snapshot of the report and illustrates a few key nuggets that every B2B company should consider when planning […]
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 […]
Mitch Baranowski wrote a fantastic piece on Fast Company’s CoExist site about the importance of ensuring brand relevance. Listen up! Branding is not a tactical free-for-all anymore! Companies are paying much more attention to their brand culture and their brand perception these days because there are many more instantaneous customer touch-points than there have ever […]
Dan Zarrella, the social media scientist over at HubSpot, offers some fantastic insight into getting the most out of Twitter from this excellent infographic. Because Dan spends a ton of time researching and analyzing how to optimize social media for business, this one really struck a chord with me. Dan’s advice is pretty simple: You […]
This may surprise you, but according to eMarketer and BtoB Magazine, North Americans rely equally on traditional and digital media when researching information and making purchasing decisions. Canadians prefer print, Americans prefer online… but only slightly. According to a February eMarketer article, Traditional Trumps Social Media Influence in Canada, a study conducted by the Canadian Council […]
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 […]
When you look at successful social media campaigns, they all seem to have one thing in common – they are easy to participate in. It’s something we touched on in last week’s post about the Kony 2012 campaign. The fact that all that was required of people was to click a few buttons in […]
If you ask most clients about what they hope to accomplish with their social media campaigns, they will probably tell you that they want to go viral. It’s the sort of thing marketers don’t like to hear, because it really can’t be promised. Even if you set everything up for success, there’s just no way […]
