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How Are You Spending Your Social Media Budget for 2013?

Last week, BtoB Magazine covered a study that found only 27% of B2B companies had a staff member exclusively devoted to social media. We found that number a little bit surprising given the fact that B2B spending on social media marketing is expected to grow to $54 million by 2014 (just over a year from […]

Better Goal Setting for 2013

If you get our e-newsletter, you already know that we’re turning our attention to goal setting and planning for 2013. We’re willing to bet that you’re doing the same now that we’re officially into the last month of 2012. Goal setting is an essential task for any marketing department, but it’s not always as easy […]

November Faves

Can you believe November is already coming to a close? We know you’re busy getting ready for the year ahead, but hope you’ll take a couple minutes to check out some of our recent favorite B2B marketing content from across the web The CMO Guide to Building a Data-Driven Marketing Team via Marketo Metrics, analytics […]

How to Ensure the Death of Push Marketing in 2013

We all like predictable routines and fail-proof formulas. But sometimes, what worked in the past simply becomes ineffective. Sometimes, we encounter a shift so great that everything we knew to be important in the past simply ceases to matter. Such a shift has been taking place in B2B marketing for the last several years. Last […]

A Few Things We’re Thankful For as B2B Marketers

By this time tomorrow, we’ll all be cooking up big meals in our kitchens, eating turkey and falling asleep while watching football. Many of us will also partake in a Thanksgiving tradition of going around the dinner table and saying one thing we’re thankful for this year. In the spirit of holiday, we’re going to […]

Why Facebook’s New Jobs Feature Isn’t a Threat To LinkedIn

If you’re searching for a job, Facebook probably isn’t the first place you’d think to look. But Facebook wants to change that. Last week, they released their brand new Social Jobs Partnership app, which functions as a job posting aggregator, pulling job postings from other sites like jobvite.com and monster.com. The Social Jobs Partnership app […]

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Opportunities for B2B

With the biggest shopping day of the year just one week away, we have our minds on unique opportunities that exist for B2B companies to take advantage of the spike in shopping and spending that is about to take place. While Black Friday and Cyber Monday are typically thought of as consumer-driven events, we believe […]

A Two-Part Formula for Content Marketing Success

One of the biggest challenges that most companies face when it comes to content marketing is developing enough high quality content to feed their various channels and keep their audience interested. Content creation is a lot of work, and typically requires coordination between several different departments or practice areas. But what if content creation wasn’t […]

Use Social Media to Identify and Learn About Prospects

For most companies, social media is all about generating awareness, building relationships and providing customer service. But for B2B businesses, social can play another important, but often overlooked role. It can help you identify and gather intelligence about your prospective customers that your sales team can use in the field. Any good salesperson knows that […]