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The Secret Weapon of B2B Marketing: How Influencers Drive Growth

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

The effects of business-to-business influencer marketing are more challenging to measure as it predominantly enhances brand awareness and affinity. Traditionally, B2B marketing has focused on rational decision-making, long sales cycles, and reliance on traditional channels such as trade shows, conferences, and industry publications.

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B2B Blog Metrics: 4 Effective Categories to Measure Success

Sword and the Script

Businesses that engage corporate blogging with professionalism and process can boost visibility, grow a community, and ultimately, have a meaningful influence on sales. The first measure came from a business with a marketing automation system implemented. Components to Effectively Measure a B2B Blog. 1) Measures of Visibility.

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How the Women of Game of Thrones Can Inspire Your Content Strategy

Cision

If you don’t have an end game in mind, how will you determine what actions to take or know how to measure success? However, you will naturally rise in the ranks if you authentically engage with your community and consistently deliver value. Think about what your brand wants to achieve.

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How B2B Marketing Can Get More out of Trade Shows

Sword and the Script

In person events like trade shows and conferences usually rank high on the list of priorities for B2B marketing organizations. A good way to do that is to build relationships through content before the show even begins. Are Trade Shows still a Good Place for PR Launches? Sales people belong in the booth.

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Are Facebook Ads Any Good for B2B Marketing?

Sword and the Script

If people on Facebook engage your content, Facebook will show it to more people. However, if the community hides or unfollows a brand (you can see this in the analytics), as they are likely to do with a hard-sell, it’s virtually impossible to get them back again. This is how a little paid promotion can earn a little extra organic lift.

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Controlled Chaos: 86 Comms Pros Explain How Communications Work Has Changed

Sword and the Script

The addition of marketing, analysis, trade show consultation, managing professional organizational memberships and everything else has made every day a whirlwind of tasks, to-do lists and semi-controlled chaos.”. Pressure on measurement. Real effort into digital and social. Semi-controlled chaos. Additional duties.

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How the Women of Game of Thrones Can Inspire Your Content Strategy

Beyond PR

If you don’t have an end game in mind, how will you determine what actions to take or know how to measure success? However, you will naturally rise in the ranks if you authentically engage with your community and consistently deliver value. Think about what your brand wants to achieve.