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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters. That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. And they use different sources to get their information.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

When companies start to tailor content to different audiences and stages of the buying cycle, they greatly increase the amount of content, and the type of content needed changes&# Marketing Roles Are Evolving Marketing used to have clearly defined roles. United States License.

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. The good news is that you can use a free tool like Google Analytics to get a very good handle on your customer engagement.

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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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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

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. Evidence of this shift can be found in IDC’s 2010 Customer Experience Survey.

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

According to sales and marketing analyst firm SiriusDecisions, “Successful reps know that establishing credibility and providing value to a prospect or customer throughout the buying cycle is the difference between closing the deal and losing it. April 2009.

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Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer

The ROI Guy

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.