For Technology Product Management & Marketing Professionals (Length: 19 pages)

February 20, 2009

The Social Technographics® Of Business Buyers

How Technology Buyers Engage With Social Media

This is the first document in the "B2B Social Media Strategy" series.

by Laura Ramos, G. Oliver Young

with Peter Burris, Josh Bernoff, Bradford J. Holmes, Zachary Reiss-Davis


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Social media give a voice to buyers who can now describe their experience and disappointment to a global audience. And, wow, are they saying a lot. Forrester surveyed more than 1,200 business technology buyers and found that they exceed all previous benchmarks for social participation. B2B marketers, eager to know how social media fits into the marketing mix, can use the Social Technographics® Profiles of business decision-makers to design marketing programs that not only capitalize on emerging social behaviors but also fundamentally change the nature of the marketing relationship between B2B buyers and sellers.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemB2B Marketers Struggle To Set Social Strategy

itemUnderstanding How Buyers Participate Is The First Step

itemProfiling Social Behavior Helps Fine-Tune Marketing Strategy

recommendations

itemUse Buyers' Participation To Set Social Strategy Now

WHAT IT MEANS

itemIn B2B: Social Participation Models Morph Into Group Profiles

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester surveyed IT and business decision-makers in the North American And European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey, Q4 2008.

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Analyst: Laura Ramos
Technology: B2B Sales & Marketing, Corporate Strategy, Customer Experience, eBusiness/eCommerce, Interactive Marketing, Marketing & Advertising, Social Computing & Web 2.0, Sourcing & Procurement, Tech Marketing Tools & Best Practices
Industry: Business-To-Business eCommerce, eBusiness/eCommerce Adoption
Geography: Europe, North America

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