A B2B social media strategy should include a conversation calendar. Your conversation calendar lists the media and frequency of all your social media activity. The conversation calendar acts as a dashboard of your owned and earned media and the number of posts anticipated per month. The conversation calendar is especially helpful if you’re a B2B [...]
More B2B marketers are realizing the power of content to engage prosepects as they move through the sales funnel. Content marketing or inbound marketing is especially effective as a B2B marketing communications strategy. Here’s an excellent presentation from VizEdu.com on the power of content marketing. Shameless plug here: content marketing requires good content provide on [...]
If you’re thinking about starting another website, remember the domain name is the first place to optimize for search. Read Choosing an SEO-friendly Domain Name. Akhilesh Gill of SEO Traffic Spider explains whether a dot com is still the best choice, plus shares tips on length and use of special characters.
The question of ROI in social media continues to perplex many B2B marketers. Assuming you have a strong marketing communications strategy, you may need to adjust your metrics to effectively determine the ROI of social media because it isn’t cut and dry. In fact, in many cases we’re using web 1.0 metrics (clicks, conversions, etc.) [...]
Long-tail keywords refer to more specific phrases vs. a general term or phrase. For example, ERP software for discreet manufacturing in automotive industryvs.ERP software. Testing has shown that the long-tail (more specific) search is usually a good indication of a higher level of interest, which leads to better conversion. That said, the total number of [...]
A B2B marketing communications (marcom) plan without SEO could undermine B2B lead generation programs and even worse, generate leads for your competitors. For some reason many B2B marketers don’t see the value of SEO. Often, B2B marcom managers are tasked with short term lead generation at the expense of long term search engine optimization. The harm in doing so is that without SEO, lead generation programs could drive leads to your competitors.
