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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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

That’s a shame and here’s why — among the top ten in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2009 , IBM was listed at #2, Microsoft, GE and Intel at number 3, 4 and 9 respectively. As marketers, we need to shorten the industrial buy cycle by producing marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

This Marketing Data and Research Presentation includes data on: Lead Generation Blogging and Social Media Marketing Budgets Twitter and Facebook 50+ pages of marketing charts and graphs from original research Download the report from here.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The guide itself is well-researched, clearly written and highly practical. This changes the role of marketing; instead of generating the lead and moving on, today’s marketers must synchronize their marketing throughout the buying process, providing potential buyers with high quality content that is contextually relevant.&# ( Scott Albro ).

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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. This was second only to downloading product data sheets.

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Valasys

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When thinking about an all-inclusive content strategy, the first thing that comes to our minds is the original ideas generated from deep insightful research. According to research by Forbes, 89% of the companies today compete primarily based on customer experience, as compared to 36% back in the year 2010.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. The good news is that you can use a free tool like Google Analytics to get a very good handle on your customer engagement. The trick is to learn how to use all its power.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

I came across two research studies that answer the last question with a big YES! Link), was a survey of small business owners and found that the two most common tactics used in 2009 were tweeting e-mail newsletters and sending out blog entries to e-mail lists. The first study done by AWeber (aff.

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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. It’s critical in lead nurturing to know where a prospect is in their buying cycle so that helpful information relevant to the need at a specific point in time can be delivered. The biggest reason?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool.

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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. However, they do have a strong influence.

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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. Match the content to the prospect’s buying cycle to ensure you can nurture them around the cycle (see below). Do you have any strategies for this?

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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. Research keywords and phrases used by your prospects and write blog posts with headlines that use those words and phrases.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 Results achieved: The company has seen a 26% increase in engine and automotive shipping customers since the campaign began in 2009 FreightCenter.com exceeded its original goal of a 50/50 split in only 18 months. email campaigns per week, up from 15.4 per week in 2006.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Retrofitting optimization is much harder and it isn’t as effective as creating content from the ground up that is optimized for carefully researched keywords and phrases. Search engine optimization (SEO) and content are two peas in a pod – working with a SEO expert while developing new content is a smart redesign strategy.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

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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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Do a bit of keyword/phrase research before deciding on a topic or a title of your posts. 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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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

For example, if you reference research conducted a year ago, is there a new source that will increase relevance? Refresh - Content gets stale over time. Put it on a refresh schedule and spiff it up to keep it in tune with constantly shifting markets. Change the title, heads and subheads and reword the bullets or key points.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

For the answer to that question, I went to the “The 9 Metrics Every Marketer Must Track” webinar by Megan Heuer, Research Director, SiriusDecisions and Craig Rosenberg , Vice President, Products & Services, Tippit. Here are the key takeaways from the webinar: Don’t confuse marketing activity with results.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Opportunity Development: Research, understand and distill the relevant industry-specific information, key issues and business needs in order to educate the company, especially the sales force, on the specific business requirements of a given market. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

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markempa

NOVEMBER 14, 2005

« Winning the Complex Sales Cycle with Thought leading Content | Main | Embattled CMOs share strategies to improve marketing influence » Google Makes Web Analytics Free but will it help your lead generation? Research shows that the number one priority for B2B websites is lead generation.

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 24, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar The Marketing Mélange A blog on all things Marketing with Strategy & Information Technology focus Blog Archive ▼ 2009 ( 22 ) ▼ June ( 2 ) Strategic Insights from Calculating Lifetime Custo. Buying Cycle – You have a customer – now what?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In this session we discussed some important value selling and content marketing research for technology marketers, much of which extends to other B2B segments, with trends and advice you need to excel in 2011. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

According to IDC’s 2009 Tech Marketing Benchmarks, large enterprises have gotten the message that sales enablement is required to drive sales effectiveness, with more than 80% of enterprises with $5 billion plus in revenue now have a sales enablement role in their organization. So how is the sales enablement role evolving within b2b vendors?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 5, 2011

As a result of Frugalnomics and other market drivers: 62% of B2B vendors indicated they needed more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, 72% indicated an increase in buying cycle time over the past 6 month, The buying cycle timeframe has increased over 10% in the past 12 months. April 2009.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

In our newest B2B marketing thought leadership interview , Mark Fidelman is the EVP of Sales at MindTouch and author of " Open Source Best Practices 2009 " talks about open source success and using marketing automation to achieve it. What aspects of the buying cycle are most important to open source companies?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Sales teams will need to analyze the buying cycle, understanding the key steps buyers take to make decisions, and implementing engagement methods and tools to help facilitate the process. The Bottom Line Buyers are clearly in control of the buying cycle and are more frugal than ever before.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 23, 2009

paid click volume (is) up 18% from January 2007 to March 2009.In Cuts in budgets paired with increased expectations provided an opportunity for search marketers to shine in the first half of 2009. Some of the key findings and observations from the report. Despite the economic downturn, paid clicks are increasing.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. April 2009.

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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. Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims.

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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. From our research and best practices work with leading B2B sales and marketing groups, Alinean provides its top 5 predictions for 2011: 1.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Sources: 1) New Realities about B2B Buying, Jeff Ogden, SandHill.com Blog, Jun. 08, 2010 2) IDC Executive Tele Briefing on Sales & Marketing Strategies for 2010 3) Uncovering The Hidden Costs Of Sales Support, Forrester Research, Inc., April 2009.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MARCH 3, 2010

Almost) 100 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Blog Posts and Articles of 2009 - Webbiquity , February 1, 2010 Social media marketing activity exploded in 2009, and so did coverage of these practices. Conduct B2B marketing research in 15 minutes or less. Best of B2B Marketing. February 2010. Great stuff in February.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Tech Media publishers have seen an exponential shift in buyer behaviour, recognizing that the B2B buying decisions these publications support are now Internet driven , and that buyers are in control of the buying cycle like never before - seeking trusted sources of diagnosis, advice and recommendations.

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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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B2B Marketing Directions

JULY 14, 2019

The 2019 research shows a continuation of trends that appeared in earlier editions of the buyers survey. But high consideration purchases have never represented all B2B buying. Many B2B purchases are fairly routine, where the buying decision is made quickly by a small group of people, or even a single individual.

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