Best Practice Report

Organizing For B2B Tech Community Marketing

Social Success Requires New Roles And Functional Changes

 and  three contributors
Feb 03, 2010

Summary

After testing the social media waters through much of 2009, business-to-business (B2B) marketers now realize that successful community marketing requires more than setting up group pages on LinkedIn or posting videos to YouTube. Taking a closer look at how business marketers in the high-tech sector and five other industries organize around — and assign responsibility for — social activity uncovered a lot of room for improvement. To turn social opportunity into marketing advantage, B2B executives should advocate for a centralized core team, led by marketing, that fosters social interaction where it matters most — at the touchpoints that customers choose to use daily.

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