How Can Social Media Help to Generate Leads?

social-media-typography.jpg While purchasing leads should form an important part of any lead generating strategy, utilizing social media to build new contacts can also be potentially rewarding. Not only are a substantial number of prospective clients using social media, but creating a decent online presence requires minimal financial investment.

Still not convinced? Well the facts certainly speak for themselves, as there are currently over 850 million Facebook users, 200 million Twitter users, and 100 million LinkedIn users. Although identifying your online market is one thing, generating solid leads is an entirely different proposition. Therefore utilizing the business potential of social networks, especially Twitter, is vital. Read more…

3 Secrets to Mobile Marketing Success for any Business

mobile-compass.jpg Mobile marketing software is more important than ever in today’s world. That’s partially due to the fact that mobile marketing itself is on the rise. Fortunately for you, most businesses aren’t doing it effectively (at least not yet). Everybody wants to “go mobile,” but unless they have solid mobile marketing software to show them what’s working and martial their resources, they are largely just flailing around in the dark. Read more…

How B2B Marketers Are Succeeding With Social Media Marketing

graphs.jpg Social Media Examiner released its 2012 Social Media Marketing Industry Report a few weeks back that contains one of the most comprehensive snapshots of how marketers are using social media and the benefits they’re seeing.

It featured some great evidence for using social media marketing: that investing 6 hours a week can improve your sales – while also highlighting some of the challenges: for 3 years running, the question of ROI and measuring the effects of social media efforts has been the top issue for marketers.
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Social Media Is Not Your Savior

jesus.jpg In the past decade, social media marketing has evolved to command the same respect as other marketing disciplines. Your presence on Facebook, Twitter and any number of other platforms can help propel your business toward enormous success. We see examples everyday of small start-ups launched into celebrity thanks, in part, to a smart online video or engaging Twitter account, but the fact of the matter is social media will not save your marketing program.
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How Social CRM is a Shift From Traditional Marketing

question-mark.jpg Would everyone please stop yelling and start conversing? Would it not be better to talk to people and not at them? Of course, this involves finding out what they like to talk about, where they like to talk and when they are available to chat. Plus, then we have to get their permission to talk to them again. Pretty simple, right?
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Oktopost Releases Best in Class B2B Lead Generation Platform

important-announcement.jpg Oktopost is an innovative platform that provides marketing teams with all the tools they need to plan, execute and measure multiple social media campaigns for lead generation. Oktopost makes it easy for social media marketers to reach more potential clients and track results. This week we released new features and tools that provide instant value to any marketeer using our platform. Read on to learn more about Okotpost’s Social Media Campaign Dashboard, Campaign Management, Social Media Calendar and Inbox, and the new Leads Database. Read more…

27 LinkedIn Social Media Marketing Tactics

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LinkedIn can often be a great resource for social media marketing, Here 27 are free LinkedIn features you can take advantage of for your businesses and brand.
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B2B Marketing Automation Leadership for Lead Generation

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The number one issue in b2b marketing automation, b2b lead generation and sales efforts that fail to achieve the desired results is the failure of leadership. Typically management has  spent the initial budget and, perhaps due to poor expectation setting used to get the program’s initial approval, now is expecting the results to immediately flow.
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How Social Media Marketing Is Like Yoga

yoga.jpgA great post by Julia Campbell, Principal and Founder of J Campbell Social Marketing. If you know me on a personal level, you know that I love doing hot power yoga. Hot power yoga, the way I prefer it, is in a large studio heated to at least 95 degrees. Bliss = an hour and a half and my yoga mat.
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3 Tips for Implementing B2B Marketing Automation

darts-closeup.jpgThe best way to figure out how to make marketing automation work for your B2B company is to learn from top performers, companies that have adopted marketing automation technology and have seen marked improvements in per-lead costs, customer acquisition rates, and return on marketing investments. Read more…