Tag Archives: B2B

LinkedIn Better Than Facebook or Twitter!

Want to generate a lot of leads for your business and not spend a lot of money? In a survey-based study by HubSpot, business’s who used LinkedIn to showcase their services generated 3 times as many leads as when they…

8 Ways Digital Will Improve B2B Sales in 2012

Guy Nirpaz is the CEO and co-founder of Totango, which analyzes user actions on SaaS applications, providing sales teams invaluable information in qualifying prospects and prioritizing people to contact who are most likely to buy or renew.
How B2B products…

Engage Against the Machine: The End of Business as Usual

One of the most often asked questions about The End of Business as Usual is how it’s different than Engage.
I thought I take a moment to answer it here just in case you were wondering the same thing.…

The Rules of Smarter Engagement

To celebrate the release of my new book, The End of Business as Usual, I recently hosted a discussion on behalf of Vocus on how businesses should rethink a marketing-driven social media approach by not just engaging, but activating…

How LinkedIn Brought $72,000 in Sales for PostcardMania

These days, it doesn’t take long to find a Facebook or Twitter success story. Businesses that wisely use the tools see a payoff.
But LinkedIn? The stodgier cousin of the group? Not so much.
Yet for PostcardMania, a fast-growing, Florida-based…

Google+ ett plus för social computing och B2B

Slutligen har Google+ börjat att släppa upp sina sidor för företag. Först är det betalande Google Apps-användare som får tillgång till tjänsten vilket är mycket smart drag av Google då man direkt skapar mervärde för de som valt att bygga…

Fakta och fantasi om reklam

Även om det inte riktigt framgår varifrån statistiken kommer kan det vara intressant att fundera över hur mycket som förändrats de senaste åren. Reklam och marknadsföring är inte riktigt som förr. Sociala medier var visst ingen tillfällig fluga. Hänger…

Seeking sales and marketing synergy in social media

In today’s B2B market, the alignment of sales and marketing has never been more crucial. The old school approach puts vendors in the solution provider seat, and customers in the “we have a pain, need a solution” seat. However, with…

10 Tips for Better B2B Community Management

Maria Ogneva is the Head of Community at Yammer, where she is in charge of social media, community programs, internal education and engagement. You can follow her on Twitter, her blog, and via Yammer’s Twitter account and company blog.The…

First Impressions of Google+ From A PR Perspective

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As Clay Shirky once stated, information overload is not the problem, filter failure is. And Google+ is sure taking aim for that whole filter thing. Get this: You place your contacts in different groups. So when…