{"id":2981,"date":"2009-02-25T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/data-b2b-buyers-and-technology-decision-makers-use-social-technologies\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T20:07:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T03:07:30","slug":"data-b2b-buyers-and-technology-decision-makers-use-social-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/data-b2b-buyers-and-technology-decision-makers-use-social-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Data: B2B Buyers and Technology Decision Makers use Social Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You’ve heard of demographics (who people are) and psychographics (what they care about) but now, you must be aware of technographics (how people use technologies)<\/p>\n

Forrester is known for it’s success with our consumer social technographic<\/a>s, how buyers use social media in their lives. Just this Monday, we released information on the B2B side, technology buyers and folks often within the enterprise lead by Oliver Young<\/a>, and Laura Ramos<\/a> (read their take)<\/p>\n

I’m going to quote Josh who notes the following<\/a> from the data:<\/p>\n

Some highlights from this research (start by looking at the right two columns):
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  • 91% of these technology decision-makers were Spectators — the highest number I’ve ever seen in a Social Technographics Profile. This means you can count on the fact that your buyers are reading blogs, watching user generated video, and participating in other social media. Note that 69% of them said they were using this technology for business purposes.<\/li>\n
  • Only 5% are non-participants (Inactives).<\/li>\n
  • 55% of these decision-makers were in social networks (Joiners) — despite as mature businesspeople and not college students, you’d think they’d be participating a lot less.<\/li>\n
  • 43% are creating media (blogs, uploading videos or articles, etc.) and 58% are Critics, reacting to content they see in social formats. Again the numbers are very high compared to other groups we’ve surveyed, and again the level of participation for business purposes is also very high<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    The Social Technographics\u00ae Of Business Buyers<\/a><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n
    View more presentations<\/a> from Oliver Young<\/a>. (tags: oliver_young<\/a> laura_ramos<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    Above: Oliver Young has created a slideshare deck, thumb through it to learn more.<\/center><\/p>\n

    If your boss isn’t sure if social media is right for you, forward them this data and check out the full report<\/a>, or download a free copy after registration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Data is a powerful tool (more than a panel of ‘social media gurus’) so use it to make business decisions –go beyond gut instincts and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You’ve heard of demographics (who people are) and psychographics (what they care about) but now, you must be aware of technographics (how people use technologies) Forrester is known for it’s success with our consumer social technographics, how buyers use social media in their lives. Just … Continue readingData: B2B Buyers and Technology Decision Makers use Social Technologies<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forrester","category-technographics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}