Tony Zambito

MAY 1, 2011

  The Fortune 500 is jumping on board with nearly 70% actively pursuing social networking as a business benefit for their buyers ( McKinsey , 2009).    Marketing, as we know it today, will see its’ percent of activities devoted to social marketing increase past 50% over the next two years. 

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markempa

OCTOBER 27, 2014

80% of marketing leads are lost or discarded, according to a MarketingSherpa presentation delivered at B2b Marketing Summit 2009. Improve your lead qualification process to increase “sales ready” lead conversion rates. Improve Sales, marketing systems and process alignment. The biggest reason?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Because B2B and industrial buyers tend to be more sophisticated in the use of online content in making their decision over the entire buying cycle. BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

In the video below, Holly explains their process. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? All I can say is WOW!

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Here are seven content marketing strategies that you can use to engage your prospects and move them forward in their buying cycle. Valve sizing programs – these are great and easy to use tools for any manufacturer of valves for chemical, hydrocarbon and industrial process, power, water and wastewater industries.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your online content needs to play a much more active role in moving site visitors along in his/her buy decision.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Even though more than half of the marketers saw their roles expanded well into the sales process, 58 percent of those surveyed met with sales just once a month or less and 8% or nearly 1 out of 10, admitted to never meeting with their sales counterparts.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

ThomasNet study, 2006) For IT solutions in excess of $50,000, the most wanted data in the early stage awareness was price ( Source: Joint study done by MarketingSherpa and Enquiro , 2007) Today, a majority of industrial buying decisions begin online. We can only provide prices after a formal RFQ process 5.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The “Mapping Marketing to the Transforming Buying Process,” report released by DemandGen Report revealed serious disconnects. It is not just a matter of measuring better ROI metrics or using the tools of marketing automation du jour. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO. How about you, do you see the disconnect?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

For example, at Sopheon , a software provider, measures qualified leads by their source, their region, volume per region, the speed of aging, movement through the sales cycle and other metrics. These metrics are all linked to 10 stages in Sopheon’s sales process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. One-size-fits-all site content will not help you engage.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. Not every action or behavior needs to be tracked and measured. Determine in advance who will be responsible for measuring and who will decide on what fine-tuning actions need to be taken.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. You do a great job of showcasing your experts at Emerson Process Experts. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

They eat, breathe and sleep factor of safety or safety factor (used to provide a design margin over the theoretical design capacity to allow for uncertainty in the design process). Lesson #5: Path of least resistance Engineers are taught to find the path of least resistance.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

You want your business blog to become the hub that attracts traffic, establishes your credibility and ultimately, moves those readers forward in their decision making process and become paying customers. Both are free to download and will automate some of the SEO chores. How do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

He explains it very well by saying, “Thus, for every feature about my company, the product that we use, the equipment that we operate or the process that we follow when completing work, I must transition the featured aspect into a believable benefit to the customer. According to Brad, the most important piece of the puzzle is the transition.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Interview them and then connect all the dots to develop compelling content that will move the visitor and/or the prospect in their decision making process. However, they may not be good at articulating those benefits and features. Be a ruthless editor – business owners and product developers are passionate about their offerings.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Marketing automation has the ability to benefit almost every B2B company and industry, but are there benefits specific to open source companies? What aspects of the buying cycle are most important to open source companies? The entire buying cycle is important.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2011

2009 and 2010 became the years of analytics, where marketers began to realize the necessity of possessing activity intelligence. The idea behind activity intelligence is gaining the insight into what potential buyers are doing throughout their research processes. Enter the recession. Things are speeding up, no doubt.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. Within digital marketing, analyzing the allocations from 2009 to 2010, IDC found that 2010 spending on digital marketing programs is not changing dramatically year over year. Content is King?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

But the problem is not “why sales cycles are getting longer&# , its why buyers are taking longer to make decisions. Understanding how to facilitate this buying lifecycle, especially how to connect and engage todays economic-focused executive, is a key to sales success, and establishes a roadmap for sales enablement.

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Velocity Partners

APRIL 16, 2024

As a disclaimer, Jon is a serial Velocity client, someone we’ve had a relationship with since 2009 when we supported him back in the day in producing the iconic Definitive Guide series for Marketo.) Note: Ross was an early employee at Salesforce where he built the enterprise sales team and process. SW : Hi Jon. Cold Calling 2.0

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential. Death of a Salesman?

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Tune and refine the buying process. You’ll see shorter buying cycle times. Because a complex sale inherently has a longer buying cycle, marketing must not only focus on generating sales opportunities, but on the progression of prospects across those buying stages.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. Many vendors will also need to consider adding “buy it now&# options for solutions they would never have thought to have this for in years past.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

These findings were consistent across most B2B industries with complex, multi-touch buying processes. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

So I commend Eloqua on their next generation of marketing software and their efforts dedicated to the process of making marketing more accountable. It seems that many marketers believe that automated lead management and lead scoring is something only for large companies with large budgets and plenty of resources.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 17, 2009

What I have done is reviewed the tweets from the latest SiriusDecisions Summit 2009 and captured points that I thought were interesting and categorized them. Process drives productivity - start with process then implement technology. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to go (not without trying!)

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Monday Marketing Term: Content Mapping - Marketing Genius Blog , April 26, 2010 Content mapping is the process of understanding and organizing the flow of content for your website, nurturing campaigns or blog, so it can be presented to your audience ( personas ) based on their needs and stage in the buying cycle. April 12, 2010.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

The chart below shows how engineers and industrial buyers use the Internet in work-related purchases ( Source: 2010 GlobalSpec Industrial Buy Cycle Survey ). Manufacturers and industrial companies have now realized that the vast majority of their target audience is online during a major portion of the buying cycle.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Another year has come and gone and if anyone thought that 2009 was the year of the B2B marketer, then 2010 may have trumped it. Secondly, it is vital to create a map for each profile’s buying cycle. It’s truly understanding the buying journey of each persona to whom your organization sells.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Using this content, buyers are taking control of the buying cycle from direct / channel sales, making the content that marketing delivers more important than ever in driving shorter sales cycles and increasing the number and value of transactions. Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enabl.

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