Social Media Marketing
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- Douglas KarrOct 16, 2014
Reasons Why Your CEO Should Be On Social Media
Did you know that only 1 out of 5 CEOs has even opened a social media account? In my opinion, that’s absolutely pitiful given that the core competency of virtually any executive nowadays should be their ability to communicate with prospects, customers, employees, and investors. Social media provides an amazingly efficient means to communicate the vision and leadership you want…
- Douglas KarrOct 6, 2014
How to Use Social Media to Help Your Business
Given the complexity of social media marketing, tools, and analysis, this may seem like an elementary post. You might be surprised that only 55% of businesses actually utilize social media for business. It’s easy to think of social media as a craze that has no value for your business. With all of the noise out there, many businesses underestimate social…
- Douglas KarrSep 19, 2014
How to Measure the Return on Investment of Social Media
We’ve discussed the challenges of measuring social media ROI in the past – and some of the limitations of what you can measure and how impactful social media marketing can be. That’s not to say some of the social media activity can’t be measured with precision, though. Here’s a simple example… the CEO of the company tweets on thought leadership…
- Douglas KarrAug 7, 2014
How Are You Doing Compared to 400 Other Marketers?
We’ve been having some incredible meetings with an enterprise company recently. They have all the challenges you can think of – a small team, enterprise structure, franchises, ecommerce… the works. Over time, they’ve evolved with their small team to a hodge-podge of technology that’s becoming more and more difficult to manage. Our job is to map out their strategy and…
- Douglas KarrAug 7, 2014
The Playbook for B2B Online Marketing
This is a fantastic infographic on the strategies of every successful business-to-business (B2B) online system. As we work with our customers, this is relatively close to our engagements’ overall look and feel. Simply doing B2B online marketing is not going to maximize success and your website isn’t going to just magically generate new business because it’s there and it looks…
- Douglas KarrJun 30, 2014
The 13 Most Popular B2B Content Marketing Tactics
This was an interesting infographic that I wanted to share from Wolfgang Jaegel. Not simply because it provides insight into what content marketing strategies are being deployed by B2B marketers, but because of the gap that I see in what content is being deployed versus what the impact of those strategies might be. In order of popularity, the list is…
- Kelsey CoxJun 4, 2014
What $22 Billion Can Get You: Facebook’s Acquisitions in Perspective
Imagine if your company had so much money that you could spend $22 billion on acquiring other companies. While this would only happen in most people’s wildest dreams, it is the reality for Facebook. In 2013, Honduras and Afghanistan brought in less money than Facebook’s acquisitions. The top 13 big budget blockbuster films combined only total $2.4B, yet that $22B in…
- Douglas KarrMay 14, 2014
The Mobile Marketing Takeover
Mobile phones used to be so alien to us all, and yet now they are completely common place. Smartphones are more advanced and more interactive than ever, and there are still new and exciting developments under way for many large companies. When it comes to branding and advertising it is important to know how to reach mobile audiences as well…
- Douglas KarrMar 22, 2014
How to Generate Value from Digital Marketing
Just this week I was interviewed about the optimization work we do and one of the problems we find central to many of our prospect and clients’ marketing efforts is that they want they don’t build the sites for their prospects and clients – they build it for themselves. Don’t bet me wrong, of course your company wants to love…
- Douglas KarrFeb 25, 2014
B2B Marketing Guide to Drive Sales Results
This infographic from Introhive does a nice job in breaking down tactics to channels for business-to-business (B2B) marketing efforts that drive sales results. I’m not convinced that the advice here should be literally accepted by every B2B organization, but it does supply some great descriptions as to how the channels can benefit your sales efforts. This resource is meant to…