There’s still a persistent online debate whether social media is effective in B2B or even if it has a role at all. Some companies actually bar access to social networks to stop staff "wasting time". It’s strange that the same...
Ever wondered why Facebook has a 'like' button, but not a 'dislike' button? I was having a conversation with clients the other day about this and it seemed to underline a much wider point - what is possibly the biggest...
B2B marketing often faces being pigeonholed as the ‘undefinable’ – or worse, the ‘boring’ – sibling to the glam of B2C marketing. But B2B is on the rise. As a group, we’ve embraced digital. Integrated social media, microsites, video, mobile...
After clocking many years in this profession—and spending the last several years urging B2Bs to recognize that social media signals drastic changes to their marketing—I know if there's *one* thing that moves companies to action, it's data. Especially data that...
At the beginning of March, I spoke at B2B Marketing’s seminar, ‘Social Networking: Effective marketing through online business communities’. It provided an invaluable introduction to online communities from a B2B perspective with useful pointers on how to identify the relevant...
“How does social media apply to our target audience of business professionals, and help us achieve our B2B revenue goals?”I’ve had this question thrown at me scores of times by many an enterprise executive, and in my fair share of...