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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. Your sales team must report to marketing and put these leads back into the hopper for nurturing.

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals.

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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

Here’s a short but highly informative slide show that explains how to use content effectively as inbound marketing. Using content for inbound marketing HubSpot , calls inbound marketing as flipping traditional outbound marketing on its head. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Industrial Marketing Today

Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing. How has your role changed? Leave your comments below.

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Two Guys Walk Into a Bar, Talking About Account-Based Marketing

Leadspace

I’ve been a B2B marketer for about 20 years. We’ve never had trouble identifying the unique challenges we face compared to B2C: B2B deals have a much longer sales cycle, there are more influencers and the buying decision is much more complex. “If inbound) marketing, with more than a little success. Enter ABM.

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Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. { As a practitioner in the field of Inbound Marketing Automation, I couldn’t agree more with you, and Mike Gospe’s view points about the need for a strategy before you embark on a quest for Automation tools.