Over the past couple of years, I’ve heard a growing drumbeat of complaints about marketing in the IT channel. I’ve heard it from channel managers, field marketers, partner marketing and sales teams. I’ve heard it phrased a dozen different ways. I’ve heard it applied to email, digital, events and telesales. But the message is always the same: “We’re not getting the traction from marketing programs we’ve always counted on.”
Today, SocialRep is launching a new chapter. After years of engineering and product development on social data systems, analytics and curation, we’re bringing all the pieces together in a single platform focused on enabling social marketing for the B2B channel.
As we’ve previewed our solution with analysts over the past few weeks, we’ve heard it called Inbound Channel Marketing, Through-Partner Social Marketing, and Social Channel Marketing. Whatever label you put on it, we’re proud to deliver the first end-to-end platform that enables businesses to empower their partners to engage customers authentically through social media.
The story that several HubSpot customers and prospects tell is that once they were attracted as an inbound lead, they were handed over to a high-pressure and highly scripted inside sales process.
My post? blasting LinkedIn? last week was a long time in coming. I’ve been working with clients for several years, strongly advocating LinkedIn as a powerful tool for engaging customers and prospects. But time after time, I’ve watched marketers get burned by poor planning, poor communication, and poor decision-making at LinkedIn. Last week I focused on? LinkedIn’s seemingly arbitrary decision to wipe out Product Pages, after thousands of companies invested in creating them, only to replace them with “Showcase” pages, which seem like a really cheap imitation of GooglePlus. I now have customers for whom we built Product Pages and championed LinkedIn asking what they should do, and whether or not LinkedIn should still be a part of their content strategy.
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LinkedIn is the world’s largest social network for professionals. They’ve done a fantastic job of making themselves an essential part of business networking. Just about anyone who wants a job, or wants to connect with other professionals, has a LinkedIn account where they carefully curate their profile. LinkedIn has almost … Read more
From SEO to lead nurturing, businesses are driving toward an automation that takes the human cost–and the human touch–out of the process as much as possible.
If you’re looking for new ideas this year or want to practice spotting trends, try crashing conference exhibit halls. Swimming in raw data is often better at sparking inspiration than any packaged presentation.
Somehow, it’s taken on faith that Big Data will let you capture anything and everything you want, and make sense of it automatically with the magic of technology.
I’m in Boston tomorrow hosting an event at the Microsoft NERD center on social media intelligence with Carol Meyers, our invaluable advisory board member and a true marketing maven.
I was talking to a prospect recently about an innovative social media program we’ve been delivering with great success for one of our clients.”That’ll never fly here,” he said, without even getting past the opening line. Why? “The VP who controls the budget is tired of hearing about ‘social’. Can … Read more