Utilising customer segmentation in social media advertising is an effective way to market to, and convert business-to-business customers. Through strategic research, validation of audience mapping to social media and carefully selecting social media targeting options, marketers can reduce irrelevant clicks, preserve budgets and influence sales.
Keywords: social media; sales; pay-per-click; targeting; demographics; customer segmentation; advertising
The full article is available to subscribers to the journal.
Melchior, Erica (2017, March 1). Blurring the lines between sales and marketing: Influencing sales through customer-segmented social media marketing. In the Journal of Digital & Social Media Marketing, Volume 5, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.69554/MNDL8781.
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