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Why you should use social media Aisling Foley Marketing Marketing consultant for B2B tech companies

Why B2B tech companies should use social media

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Why you should use

social mediaAisling Foley Marketing

Marketing consultant for B2B tech companies

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www.aislingfoley.com

B2B companies

Technology companies

Software companies

Start-ups with B2B focus

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Your customers are using it

Informally interact with customers and

prospects

Supports company brand

Gives company an online voice

Join in in conversations related to your

products

Create brand awareness

Acquire new customers

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Twitter 2013 survey

Sales: 72% are more likely to purchase from you

after following

Reach: 70% will retweet if they like your content

Word of mouth: 82% are likely to recommend an

SME they follow to friends

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Account profiles (Facebook About, Twitter bio)

indexed and help improve search results

The more social media accounts including co

URL, the more external links will point to your

website

Twitter- search engines look at how many

people you follow, how many follow you

This can add some weight to a listing in regular

(organic) search results

Friends and followers are important

Your authority becomes reflected in theirs

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Keywords in tweets can improve ranking

Topic focus and relevance are important –

become authoritative in niche topic, even with

low follower number

Public posts on Google Plus are treated by

Google as any other web content and indexed

for search

Crawled and indexed by Google immediately

Studies show a powerful correlation between

search rankings and the number of Google

+1’s received

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Aisling Foley Marketing blog

Why you should use social media

Hubspot blog on Google Plus for SEO value

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Marketing consultancy for tech companies

Planning and strategy

Marketing communications planning and implementation

Training and mentoring

Marketing audit

Investor pitches Brochures

Website redesign Copywriting and messaging

Newsletters Social media and blogs

PR Analyst relations