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How To Use the Hero’s Journey for Content Marketing: A Good Story Goes A Long Way

Marketing Insider Group

But facts alone do not persuade companies to pay big money for software, consulting services, or other high-value items. Companies are made of people with emotions and desires. If you build out these brief narratives with more detail, you can tell the entire story of your company or product, why it exists, and for whom.

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A sales-side view of marketing, automation and AI

Martech

John Leonelli is head of sales, B2B Americas, at Babbel, a company that provides subscription-based language learning software and an e-learning platform. Founded in Berlin, Germany in 2008, the company started a European business-focused division five years ago. Are you able to personalize your marketing?

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How Buyer Behavior Will Change Amid COVID-19

Tony Zambito

In the last 100 years, the Great Depression, War World II, 9/11, and the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis come to mind. Pandemic Persona. Since founding the concept of buyer personas for B2B in 2001, there has never been a need for a new type of persona. Forward-thinking companies will get ahead of this evolving development.

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How to Sell in a Recession: 3 Tips Based on Experience

Zoominfo

Companies evaluate prospective new technologies with greater scrutiny or postpone such investments entirely. I spoke with Lou Wolf, VP of sales at ZoomInfo, to learn how he survived the recession that followed the dot-com crash of 2001 and the financial crisis of 2008. triggered the world financial crisis of 2008.

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Your B2B Marketing Budget Playbook for 2021 Success [Research]

Marketing Insider Group

Most companies have learned that B2B marketing budgets are much more important than they thought – and that their existing marketing strategies, well, kind of sucked. The digital marketing landscape looks totally different than it did in 2008 during the last crash. Enough with the negativity and cliches. Salesforce. Mobile Mindfulness.

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Event Marketing Leads Plummet Due To Coronavirus Cancelations

Smashmouth Marketing

Amid the day to day progression of the coronavirus, companies are seeing one of their major lead generation programs dry up – event marketing. Add to that the fact that many prospects are cancelling face-to-face sales meetings as companies mandate social distancing. Companies obviously have to prepare. Virtual Events.

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How customer-hero stories help you connect better

markempa

Mike: Well, it’s interesting because, I think today, it’s incredible how cloud technology is forcing companies to be more empathic in their sales and marketing. Do the math on that for most companies: it’s a lot of money. One buyer persona would be a VP manufacturing who’s missing his shipment schedule.