I want you to stare at that picture for a minute.
Let it soak in.
That’s a Venn diagram of how SageRock gets conversions.
That is a screen capture of our multi-channel conversion report from Google Analtyics.
I think the circles should be pretty self explanatory.
But what I want to point out is the social circle. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
Here’s the same report for March 2012:
In March social contributed 16% of our conversions.
Today social has contributed 23% of our conversions.
In 3 months that’s a huge jump.
What I can tell you is this:
SageRock has a brutally long sales cycle. Months to years it takes to convert. Getting someone to trust us is a slow, long process. Winning someone’s trust to invest in us is all about the relationship.
We are a B2B play that is very difficult to close. Social media is crucial for us in building that trust.
This is what I’m saying to you: Social media is ideal for a long sales cycle business to business company.
And here’s the thing: most of our social traffic comes from Facebook – not LinkedIn.
Facebook is ideal for a B2B company. To think otherwise is probably misunderstanding how you get sales in the first place.




From SageRock Blog: : How I know Social Is Working http://t.co/BiMjCEtw
Great blog post and great article by Greg, thanks. FB never seemed like a good media to build b2b clients that need printing of postcards & brochures but more & more I’m becoming a believer.
I’m in exactly the same camp. I was suspicious of Facebook for quite some time. But now I believe in it whole heartedly.
http://t.co/BiMjCEtw I’m in exactly the same camp. I was suspicious of Facebook for quite some time.
Notice how I used keywords in my comment
you taught me well!
Very clever!
I would have thought that Facebook was not very useful for B2B. I love this article. Succinct. Clear. Now, when are you coming to Milwaukee?