B2B Social Media Marketing
Social media plays an important role in B2B marketing. An effective B2B social media marketing strategy attracts attention from your target audience. It is an effective channel to promote your blogs, company news, products, and services.
It also enables companies to humanize their brand by associating faces and names with the people behind the company.
Benefits of B2B Social Media Marketing
Utilizing social media for B2B offers several benefits compared to other marketing channels. Like email, it enables you to have a direct line of communication with your audience and followers. However, it is in a more public space, so more users can find you and interact with your business. This helps boost your brand awareness beyond the people who are already connected with your company.
Brands that leverage social media see higher levels of customer and prospect engagement. Posts that share blogs and other content from your website help drive traffic to your website pages, enabling you to convert visitors to followers, followers to leads, and leads to clients.
Strategies for B2B Social Media Marketing
As with any marketing channel, you need to know your target audience. Specifically, you need to know what social media platforms are most important to them and what type of content they are most likely to engage with. For most B2B companies, the obvious choice is LinkedIn. But some B2B companies also have success with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and even Pinterest. YouTube is another great platform to utilize for hosting, embedding, and sharing company videos or tutorials.
Once you know which platforms are best for your brand, you can create a content calendar to share a mix of original and curated content that will educate your audience. That’s easier said than done of course, and can take a lot of resources. Our clients often need assistance in maintaining a regular social media posting schedule, and it is something we are very experienced with.
Best Practices for B2B Social Media Marketing
Speaking of consistency, it is important to post regularly. This helps your company not only stay at the forefront of your industry but also helps cast a wider net and lure more of the right people to your brand.
Social media accounts offer analytics and reporting features you can use to gain insights about how your posts are performing. Over time, you can hone your social media strategy accordingly to make it more effective.
Engaging with followers and responding to comments, as well as interacting with other pages and people, is an important aspect of managing a brand’s social media account. Again, this helps humanize your company and can create opportunities to make positive impressions.
How Creative Stream Can Help with
B2B Social Media Marketing
Creative Stream Marketing has helped many clients create, manage, and update social media profiles for close to two decades. We leverage scheduling software to ensure new content is posted to all social profiles.
We can also help reinforce your branding on your social accounts by making custom banner images, profile images, and more.
Our team stays up to date on best practices and times to post on social media, and we consistently measure our efforts to maximize exposure and engagement.
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