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B2B Marketing on Social Networks: Engaging the Business Audience

By Debra Aho Williamson
August 2008
17 Pages, 23 Charts



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B2B Marketing on Social Networks:
Engaging the Business Audience

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Business and socializing must mix. In 2008, marketers will spend $40 million in the US to advertise to a business audience on online social networks, and that is just the beginning.

The B2B Marketing on Social Networks report analyzes the growth of business-oriented networks.

Given the popularity of LinkedIn, where the audience has more than doubled in the past year, and the fact that even Facebook has become a de facto business network, as more businesspeople join, B2B marketers are reconsidering the social network environment.

As the number of business users of social networks increases, advertising expenditures will rise accordingly, reaching an estimated $210 million in 2012.

In addition, marketers will spend far more over the next few years to create and manage their own social networks for business customers, partners, suppliers and vendors.

US B2B Online Social Network Advertising Spending, 2007-2012 (millions and % change)

Key questions the “B2B Marketing on Social Networks” report answers:

  • How much will marketers spend on social network advertising aimed at a business audience?
  • What types of B2B advertising can businesses do on social network sites?
  • Why are companies creating social networks to market to business customers, vendors, distributors and channel partners?
  • What are the challenges of developing such networks?
  • And many others…

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