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5 Advantages of Online Advertising for B2B Marketers

According to Statista, online advertising spend is steadily growing year-over-year, and is expected to grow almost 11% yearly through 2021. Online advertising opens up many possibilities for marketing teams to scale, reach new contacts, and nurture leads through their funnel. B2B lead generation is...

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Can you use Facebook for B2B marketing?

B2B companies often wonder which, if any, social media channels to use for lead generation and awareness. Facebook, the network once solely used to connect with friends and family, often comes into question as to whether or not it’s a useful tool for B2B businesses to communicate with prospects....

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Is Twitter an Effective Social Channel for B2B?

Many B2B companies struggle to use social media in their marketing efforts, but this is a missed opportunity for too many. Twitter can be an effective platform for B2B organizations to connect with their target market. First, look at Twitter’s growth over the past seven years. Twitter now has...

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How Effective is Linkedin for B2B Marketing? These 20 Stats Say it All

These 20 Stats Prove LinkedIn Must be Part of B2B Marketing LinkedIn is a powerhouse social network for B2B marketers. Built for business networking, LinkedIn works exceptionally well for B2B lead generation, making it one of the top tactics for B2B marketing. For those who are wondering whether or...

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Tips for Building a B2B Content Strategy for Social Media

Social media and messaging services account for roughly one in every three minutes users spend on the Internet (Global Web Index), which means businesses of all sizes need a sound social media strategy. A good social content strategy for social media starts with goal setting. Goal setting does not...

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Where Should You Focus B2B Marketing Strategy? Builder Versus Driver Activities

“If you build it, they will come.” While this motto worked well for baseball enthusiasts in an Iowan farm town, it doesn’t work so well for a results-driven B2B marketing strategy. Building marketing assets is only half the puzzle to generating traffic, leads, and growth. Yet many companies focus...

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Small Business Marketing Trends for 2018 - 10 Stats and Insights

Most small business owners and employees play many roles within the company. In some organizations, different members of the team jump in to help with marketing, and in other organizations, a single person must develop and execute the entire marketing strategy. To find out how small businesses...

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Inbound Marketing Statistics: 10 Stats That Demonstrate Impact

As we move towards a new year, businesses often take time to reflect on what strategies worked and what didn’t work. Organizations think about what tactics to implement in Q1 and what tactics to retire with 2017. If your company is still performing more outbound marketing than inbound marketing,...

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Agile LinkedIn Best Practices for B2B

LinkedIn sponsored content is one of the best ways for B2B companies to generate targeted, qualified leads. An agile strategy — that is, one that involves testing, iteration, and scalability — is ideal to get the most return on your LinkedIn investment, and see campaign conversion rates well above...

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Top 5 Most Common B2B Marketing Mistakes

Learning from both success as well as failure is essential for modern day marketers. To this purpose, we share our perspective on the top 5 most common B2B marketing mistakes. These lessons we learned from working with B2B organizations of all sizes, from small service companies to global...

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