New to Social Media Marketing (3 posts)

  • Hello All,
    I am new to the group as well as Social Media Marketing. My company is a direct response marketing firm servicing mostly businesses in the financial sector. I am searching for the best way to generate business utilizing social media. I understand the concept of Facebook being a fantastic tool in B2C business but am having a harder time understanding how it can be best used as a B2B tool. How do you target the right audience?
    Thank you in advance,
    Kevan

  • Kevan, I’ve heard that Facebook has targeted groups so you might start providing helpful articles on the group discussions and then include your company contact information in your “signature” at the end — your name, company name and web address, maybe your phone number.

    Even better, I suggest that you use LinkedIn groups to reach your target audience. There are more than 1.4 million groups on there and some of the groups are sure to include the people you want to reach. According to Lewis Howes, nearly 45% of LinkedIn users are business decision makers and according to Hubspot, LinkedIn generates the highest visitor-to-lead conversion rate at 2.60%, 4 times higher than Twitter (.67%) and 7 times better than Facebook (.39%). 

    If we aren’t connected yet on LinkedIn, invite me to connect and see how I use LinkedIn to build my business through the groups. I’m the Kathy Bernard in St. Louis, MO (I’m open to connect with anybody else, too.

  • Thank you Kathy! This is the direction I have been taking so far.  I am spending most of my energy on LinkedIn and having great success.  I would like to broaden my reach to Facebook/Twitter.  I believe that I will find that my time is best spent on LinkedIn as you suggest however am eager to learn more.  I have also created a LinkedIn company site and trying to figure out the best way to create followers there as well.Thanks again Kathy!!


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