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Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Industrial Marketing Today

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. How can you accomplish all that?

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Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through.

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Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Brand and Demand Convergence Required

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Specifically the convergence of branding and demand generation. This leads to 2008 with the emergence of social media. Now in 2011, everything has come together into one conglomerate of automated demand generation, nurturing processes, and active engagement. Enter the recession. Things are speeding up, no doubt.

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2023 Predictions

Conversica

Do you recall that this was during the 2008 Great Recession? Traditional chatbots will officially die (meaning there will be a massive upgrade) when end-users demand it from businesses. There’s not a lot of “glass half full” thinking right now as businesses brace for further economic slowdowns and longer buying cycles.

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Is it Time to Reframe the Sales and Marketing Alignment Debate?

Tony Zambito

  When Meg Whitman left eBay in March of 2008, the company was coming under harsh criticism, mostly from sellers, for the deteriorating buying experiences buyers encountered.      In many ways, eBay's Marketplace can be viewed as a microcosm of the larger economy of marketplaces. 

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Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Industrial Marketing Today

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.