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How to: use Social media for B2B Lead Generation
January 2, 2011 by admin · 5 Comments
Kipp Bodnar, HubSpot
This post is one of a series of liveblogs MIMA Summit 2010.
B2B social media can be surprisingly successful with a specific focus on lead generation. If social media is to be taken seriously for B2B by marketing decision makers, it needs to keep focus on business objectives and driving sales vs. “fluff”.
B2B companies really are in a much better position to use social media as a marketing channel than B2C companies. They usually have a much clearer expectations for the client does and what they want.
B2B companies also has deep internal knowledge. It is not uncommon for the largest B2B companies employ specific leaders in its sector. However, there is a solid argument for many B2B companies, online marketing and social media may not be a fit.
If you have a small client base (maybe you have only 5 clients).If the people you’re trying to reach cannot access the Internet. many people in regulated industries cannot access the Internet outside of work. (i.e. some military/electrical industry).If you or your organization does not have a lawyer who can help you. Velocity and volume – hard for social media at the beginning. You can potentially create fast but rapid volume would be difficult if you have a lack of resources, you should not become involved in social media outlets. This seems to be a major pain point for organizations.If you don’t have the time or resources makes it difficult to be successful.
It is important to classify what exactly is an advantage. Second Kip, leadership is clear when someone expresses an interest in working with your company.If someone downloaded a white paper and gave full contact information, Kip sorts that a potential customer.
First of all, it is important to have the basics in place.If the site is not usable and there are no initial pages to collect information of lead, media will have much less impact because traffic won’t engage and convert with your content.
The content is the Foundation for all online marketing as a B2B companies need to know how to talk to prospects in a way that is not promotional, solves their problems and provides value to them.
More content, in General, equals more entry points that should lead to greater leads. Content creation correlates with organic growth of lead. A way to perform conversions is to ensure there are action plans along with content.
Takes the result of several social channels depending on the industry and strategy. Discovering where your audience is. remember that the contract is not a goal, is something you do that helps facilitate a goal and must be measured as a KPI, not an outcome.
Blog has been crucial, because it is a platform for creating and publishing content over many different networks and attract new visitors.
Headlines win-never before in history had so much information.People are subscribing to blogs via email, Twitter, LinkedIn, RSS, etc and headlines are the main plan of action for the content. They are the detail all if people read Content or not. HubSpot has found that many of its titles the most successful article have numbers on them because people know they will be scanable.
Always optimize content with keywords that you’re gaining more organic visitors from search engines.
CTA (calls to action) – with a business blog, there are many different ways to get people to become the “leadership” of a visitor.For example: including buttons in the sidebar to speak with a representative or text links within the content to White paper landing pages or download content. HubSpot found successful to add calls to action at the end of the content.
We found that most jobs lead generation have not yet been published recently. older content is generating leads.
It is important to remember that your customers are more important than you are.For example, HubSpot has a client in Virginia that installs the pools and spas. all he does is share what someone might want to know when installing a pool.He does not sell its products directly, but this is good.Even if people aren’t willing to buy, publication of value added content adds them to the account section.
Involve all members of staff in company blog is crucial. people want content of people, not necessarily only companies.Getting different people from different departments – i.e. research or product, enables marketers to expand relevant information discussed on a particular blog to appeal to a larger subset of customers.
Business blogs drives leads and serves as a hub for research and visitors from social media. He did not feel that they are visiting a site that has not yet been updated in years.A blog provides context for a much better deal.
According to research from HubSpot of their own customers, B2B B2C is lagging behind in terms of customer acquisition in social channels direct. B2B is just earn in one tool: LinkedIn, which makes sense. B2B organizations are to acquire customers through social channels, not just at the same rates as B2C.
Email is the final test bench for social media outlets because for most people starting out in social media outlets, e-mail is the greatest example. Email isn’t being replaced by social .you can use it as a testing ground for amplifying the success of other marketing campaigns.CRM tool is essential for tracking. looks like a leadership comes in, as he was converted and how it goes through the sales process By having your system., sales and CRM associated analytics, gives a clearer picture of the visit to lead, which is essential for tracking.Lead source – it’s important to understand what takes you transfer of different online channels to identify what sources are effective or not.Measurement – with analytics to measure and provide insight around lead sources, you can discover where to allocate budget, especially if you can measure the customer visit.Social + CRM is how you should think about ROI. If you can have your Web Analytics and CRM talking, you can have an understanding of how people are coming to your site and how the different channels you are performing, measuring it until the client level.Acquisition cost Reduction:Social media can be equal to more customers engaged and lowest cost.
Thanks to Kipp Bodnar to present the session up during the MIMA Summit 2010. Kipp leads the team in content marketing HubSpot and writes for the blog, Social Media B2B.
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