Top 5 B2B Social Media Marketing Myths
Social networking is a large part of most people’s lives. But we don’t always know how to make it a part of our lives as B2B marketers. If you are not on social media or if you are not having strong results, you may have fallen prey to one of these common social media myths. […]
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Take Your B2B Offense Up A Notch
How to Create Effective Presentations and Repurpose Content I am a big Kansas City Royals fan, and I love the game of baseball. The other day while I was watching a game, I realized just what it was that made the Royals such a relentless team. Although it may be better known for its […]
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Learn Something New from These B2B Marketing Accounts
Your B2B Crash Course Is Just a Follow Away Guest Contributor: Jenee Meyer, Office Administrator After 15 years building my career in advertising and account service, I took 14 years off to be a stay-at-home mom. Needless to say, my focus changed dramatically. Snacks and play dates became much more important to me than Facebook, […]
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10 Trade Show Tips That Speak for Themselves
Be in the Know Before the Show When you’ve been in the building products industry for long enough, you learn some valuable lessons about attending a trade show and making the most of your time there. That’s how I know that every year, January marks more than just the start of the new year—it’s […]
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2015’s Top 5 Building Product Dealers and Lumberyards to Follow on Pinterest
Stick a Pin in These Ones—You’ll Want to Come Back to Them Later Just as social media has taken the B2C world by storm, it is already impacting the B2B world—especially in building products marketing, which offers countless content possibilities such as home renovation, inspiration pictures, DIY information, and more. In previous posts (here […]
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2015’s Top 10 Building Product Dealers and Lumberyards to Follow on Twitter (Part 1)
Prepare to Click Follow—A Lot. You’ll hear a lot of people in the building products industry make the claim that social media isn’t important to their marketing strategies. But the truth is that generational dynamics are shifting, putting Millennials and other social media users in new buying positions. It’s not something that’s coming down […]
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Not Ready to Speak? Try Listening.
With Building Products Social Media Marketing, Start by Listening I hear constantly from building product marketers that social media doesn’t apply to their business—that it’s “a B2C thing” or that it’s “for Millennials” and has no use when it comes to generating marketing qualified leads and closing sales. But when someone says this, what they’re […]
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Content Your Audience Wants But Isn’t Getting
Is Your Content Passive or Interactive? It’s no longer enough for content to be good. (Heck, maybe it never was.) It’s not even enough for content to be timely, personalized, well-distributed, or repurposed. What’s also important is that your content is interactive—or at least, some of your content is interactive. In fact, a Customer Think […]
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