The LoDown

Social listening is a recently developed concept, and refers to the activity of identifying and measuring data that justifies social media spending. The idea is […]

The use of social media undeniably optimizes our connections both personally and professionally. These tools we have grown to love and utilize now seem to be working for us while we multitask across platforms. By simplifying the number of clicks we make suddenly Google, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest all appear to be in cahoots with one another.

If you haven’t thought about search engine marketing (SEM) or search engine optimization (SEO) yet, it’s time to jump onboard the search train. Think about some of the goals of your marketing campaigns – building awareness, boosting ROI, and increasing conversions. What do you think your company’s website is for?

It is becoming clear that using social media to simply broadcast marketing messages is not an effective use of the channel. The key to success in social is to garner engagement from your customers. Social media is online word-of-mouth. People interact with content that is interesting, funny, entertaining or helpful to them.

As B2B marketers, we need to coordinate our interactive marketing initiatives to maintain consistency throughout several different channels. Social media enhances the value of email and in return, email maximizes social media efforts. Email campaigns give marketers the opportunity to expose their brands as much as possible. It is the most cost effective interactive tool and increasing in its effectiveness. Email allows marketers to deliver a valuable visualization of their message through the user experience.

Markets compete through superior exchanges of value. Successful marketers are aware of consumer trends and changing marketing dynamics. Customer value is what you get from what you give. In the past, value was focused on demand stimulation. Today to flourish in a B2B world, customization and segmentation are the most important frontiers in business competition.

Facebook may have a serious following of 600 million worldwide but LinkedIn is the number one social media network in terms of growth; 1 million […]

Since its advent, savvy business people have known that there was great value to be tapped by using social media as a way to promote, […]