Sat.Feb 02, 2013 - Fri.Feb 08, 2013

B2B Marketing Traction

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Today’s B2B Marketer Must BAT, not BANT

B2B Marketing Traction

What is marketing’s role before it hands off a lead to sales? Today marketers need to BAT, not BANT. BANT stands for Budget, Authority, Need and Timeframe. These are things that marketing needed to identify before they could qualify a lead. Marketing could pass a lead on to sales if the lead or prospect had the right Budget, Authority to buy, Need for the product or service and an identifiable Time frame in which they would buy.

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Countdown for a Successful Rolling Product Launch

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I recently read and curated a Forbes article that suggested a successful product launch is a rolling launch. It inspired me to write this countdown to a successful rolling product launch. The Forbes article, 10 Steps For Successfully Launching A New Product Or Service , has ten great suggestions for what to do. I’ve included some of them in my countdown.

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