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Things B2B Brands Should Understand Regarding LinkedIn

Why is this applicable to us?” My answer to them is somewhat simple, “They’re humans too.” Website: https://www.exporthub.com/

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<strong>Things</strong> <strong>B2B</strong> <strong>Brands</strong> <strong>Should</strong> <strong>Understand</strong><br />

<strong>Regarding</strong> <strong>LinkedIn</strong><br />

Every time I conduct a workshop regarding <strong>B2B</strong> marketing, I get the same questions all<br />

over again. “But I belong to a <strong>B2B</strong> organization. Why is this applicable to us?” My<br />

answer to them is somewhat simple, “They’re humans too.”<br />

Let’s take a simple example.<br />

When we reach our office, we don’t put our business-to-consumer minded brains in the<br />

drawer and alter it with the conventional <strong>B2B</strong> versions bestowed to us by the HR. If that<br />

over exaggerated and dull white paper is going to put me to sleep as a B2C reader, it’s<br />

not getting my attention at all.<br />

Yes, there are significant differences between <strong>B2B</strong> and B2C marketing. To start, various<br />

stakeholders on an individual level, these two businesses have a lot of things in<br />

common.<br />

With social media booming at an immaculate speed, it has deepened the scope of the<br />

traditional conversations, allowing the users to share and discuss the content which was<br />

once restricted to the personal domain.<br />

Claire Austin, a renowned evangelist in content marketing for <strong>LinkedIn</strong> Australia<br />

believes that we people talk about a lot of things.<br />

“There was never a possibility that my parents would talk about things like the<br />

psychological aftermath of working, mindfulness, or the struggle of getting back to work<br />

after delivering a baby.”<br />

These were the things which people used to ignore and never bothered to talk about. In<br />

comparison to now, these are the things which should be discussed, and we are more<br />

than happy to talk about them.<br />

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“I believe in sharing experiences, so does the people. They want to assist other people.<br />

Help them, inspire them, and most importantly, inform them.”<br />

The Highest <strong>B2B</strong> Social Media Platform – <strong>LinkedIn</strong>:<br />

<strong>LinkedIn</strong> for a long time has been observed as the conventional pinstripe to the<br />

Facebook’s Hawaiian shirt.<br />

According to the research conducted by the Content Marketing Institute, 92 percent of<br />

the marketers in <strong>B2B</strong> use social media networks to distribute their content in different<br />

parts of the world, a rate which is lesser regarding the 93 percent for the usage of email.<br />

<strong>LinkedIn</strong> is being used by almost 97 percent of the marketers who understand the social<br />

media and its worth and take social media action, resulting in double numbers in<br />

comparison to 2010.<br />

However, <strong>LinkedIn</strong> has changed a lot to what it was back in 2003 aimed at creating a<br />

platform for all the business professionals. To answer your question; yes, <strong>LinkedIn</strong> is<br />

older than Facebook, Twitter, and even MySpace. Who would have thought back then<br />

about social media platforms?<br />

<strong>LinkedIn</strong> might have started the social networking website with an aim to find different<br />

career opportunities through networking and job postings for its users, but people are<br />

not using it for just this purpose now.<br />

In today’s market, people go through the content on <strong>LinkedIn</strong> seven times more than the<br />

job postings. It’s not difficult to understand this though.<br />

For years, <strong>LinkedIn</strong> has transformed itself as a platform for publishing content,<br />

integrating and attaining other services for content like the presentation platform<br />

SlideShare, news aggregator pulse, and an online learning firm Lynda.<br />

Not Just for Campaigns:<br />

While the majority of the marketers are still using <strong>LinkedIn</strong> for searching jobs and<br />

placement, some other users are still using the social networking platform as a strategy<br />

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for budgeting, time and allocation of resources, or when there is a product launch or a<br />

significant brand/product launch.<br />

It is essential than ever to be repeated on. It has been assumed that every buyer in the<br />

<strong>B2B</strong> will invest at least ten content pieces during the process of purchase. Therefore, if<br />

anyone is planning to be a part of the contemplation set or want to be in the circle of ten<br />

pieces of content, they need to be noticeable at all times.<br />

<strong>Brands</strong> which are expanding and doing well for themselves are attaining the best return<br />

on the investment and the best performance from their marketing campaigns – are the<br />

kinds of brands which are always ahead on the always-on strategy.<br />

This process is assisting the brand to build an invaluable trust and to have that<br />

anticipated leadership to have focus and start possessing key subjects or keywords and<br />

being known for different themes and topics. With this, they can layer the work with<br />

effective campaigns.<br />

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