In Episode 2: B2B Marketing on LinkedIn, we discussed ways to optimize your profile to target the professional audience you are seeking to grow, and increase your connection rate. Now, it’s time to think about how you can increase your engagement on LinkedIn. In this...
If you’re a B2B trying to spread word of mouth about your business, LinkedIn is a proverbial gold mine with 61M senior level influencers and 40M users in decision making positions. Your goal is to grow your network of professionals, but, before you start sending...
When you hear the phrase ‘word of mouth’ you probably think of a naturally occurring instance where people are talking about or referring to a person, place, product, etc. Word of mouth marketing takes the work you’ve done building your brand, creating products, and...
If you’re thinking about what your long-term B2B marketing strategy is, there are three big goals you should be aiming for: Build your audience – the most undervalued asset in every business is your audience of clients and prospects. Getting great at capturing this...
Bill Bice is a programmer at heart. At 18, he created ProLaw Software, the first integrated ERP for law firms. After selling the company to Thomson Reuters, Bill became a VC as a founding partner in the Verge Fund, investing in high tech, high growth companies in the...
Neil Patel says it best when it comes to posting on LinkedIn’s social feed: “Repost with abandon.” If this scares you, like it did me at first, it’s because we’ve been trained via other social platforms like Facebook that this is a big no-no because marketers have had...
“People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch hole.” – Harvard marketing professor, Theodore Levitt As Seth Godin puts it, “People don’t want what you make.” Don’t worry, people don’t want what I make, either. No one really wants to...
Tommy Noonan got tired of finding fake reviews on Amazon. He’s not a software engineer by trade, but he created ReviewMeta.com, which has analyzed 203 million reviews on Amazon and found that 11.3% of reviews (22.8M) are fake. In some product categories, like...
Sramana Mitra with 1Mby1M, the first global virtual accelerator, just interviewed me for her podcast. A LinkedIn Top 10 Influencer, Sramana’s mission is impressive: Nurture one million entrepreneurs in reaching at least one million dollars each in annual revenue and...
I’ve started networking without the empty calories, to make sure you’ve got a great LinkedIn profile. Now it’s time for the virtual meet and greet. How do you connect with the right contacts on LinkedIn? It’s time to start searching for connections. You’ve got two...
