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Know Thy Audience: Business and Technical White Papers

Ambal's Amusings

Do you know your white paper audience? Are those concerns being addressed in your white papers? We asked white paper experts " How should a white paper that is addressed to a Technical Decision Maker be different from a white paper that is addressed to a Business Decision Maker? What are his/her top concerns?

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How Many Ads Per Day Do You See? Fewer Than It Seems (I Think)

Customer Experience Matrix

I thought I’d found a legitimate exception when writing a recent paper for QuickPivot (available here ) about the continued value of direct mail marketing. Well, I certainly thought so when I wrote the paper. So competition has been tough for as long as anyone now living can remember. The table below shows what I came up with.

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Understanding the "Non-Rational" Dimensions of B2B Buying

B2B Marketing Directions

In 2008, two books - Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely and Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein - raised public awareness of behavioral economics and put it on the radar screens of business and marketing leaders. A paper recently published by Google provides several fresh insights about how people make buying decisions.

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Avoid Getting Caught in the Next B2B Marketing Crisis

Rev

While some blow off the talk as just that, we’ll never forget what surprised us in 2008. To the point where if you continued taking that medicine, you not only lose the money you used to purchase it but actually risk the health you need to actually carry on your day-to-day job? But have you ever experienced crazy side effects?

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Technical Writer or Technical Copywriter? What's the Difference?

WriteSpark

White Papers. « Technology PR Sessions at 2008 PRSA Conference | Main. Note: Technical copywriters may use different labels, such as technology writer, white paper writer, technical articles writer, case study writer, success story writer, content writer, or technical marketing writer.)   Technical Copywriter.

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The information processing view of humanity

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Ross Dawson, April 7, 2008 3:20 AM US PT. The trip was centered on speaking, client work, and meetings to prepare for the Future of Media Summit 2008. Bests, April 8, 2008 1:30 PM. Jun 24, 2008 — Australian Financial Review — Social networking comes of age, sort of. June 2008 (12). May 2008 (17).

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Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

I downloaded a white paper called “Understanding the Industrial Buy Cycle: How to Align Your Marketing with Your Customers’ Buying Process” from GlobalSpec that has done a very good job of explaining the four stages of the industrial buy cycle and how to match your marketing content to each stage. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.