{"id":57,"date":"2009-08-31T09:36:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T16:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog-socialmediamarketing\/?p=57"},"modified":"2009-11-08T10:39:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T17:39:48","slug":"social-media-usage-for-b2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/social-media-usage-for-b2b\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media usage for B2B:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is always a concern among the conservatives whether or not to go to the digital media and then to the social networking niche. If the brave marketers finds it difficult to go to this media, the conservative brick-and-mortar trader should not be blamed for being averse to it. But I think forget about the question of if you should or shouldn\u2019t leverage social media for B2B marketing. \u00a0Even forget whether you can see a direct link to ROI. \u00a0If you aren\u2019t blogging, networking, and conversing with your customers and the market through social media, you lost already because social media marketing in B2b is what a website was back in the 90\u2019s, it is the game turner. \u00a0If you use social media you have credibility and authority.<\/p>\n<p>Think of this. Whenever you get a company name, the first thing is you go and check the website. Majotiry of the urban people yuse the internet from office for a variety of reasons. And thus it is a very good place to expand your reach in the easiest of ways.<\/p>\n<p>Customers interaction through websites is the need of the hour. They want to hear your voice. \u00a0They want you to be a thought as a leader in at least one category.\u00a0It is about the exposure you are willing to subscribe to when you engage in social media marketing practices. \u00a0A community, a blog, tweets, they will all help you create authority simply by stepping close to them<\/p>\n<p>The number one role of marketing in B2B is to convince your customers that it is worth spending thousands or millions of dollars on your solutions. \u00a0If you aren\u2019t credible, authoritative, and a leader, chances are slim a customer is going to consider you. \u00a0He has other options at the click of a buton. Just being aware of you as a provider isn\u2019t enough. \u00a0The benefit of social media marketing is that as much as it improves awareness, it ultimately establishes you as a player.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you really have to prove quantitatively that social media marketing is improving ROI, stop looking at awareness. \u00a0Track the movement of your brand across leadership, credibility, and mindshare. \u00a0Chances are, your social media marketing efforts will be paying off here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is always a concern among the conservatives whether or not to go to the digital media and then to the social networking niche. If the brave marketers finds it difficult to go to this media, the conservative brick-and-mortar trader should not be blamed for being averse to it. But I think forget about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}