Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? Michael Brenner Jul 12 2010 Hi Sandi, I am so happy you agree!

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Share: Read more from Strategy 2 Comments Post a comment Denise Williams Nov 4 2010 Great info Michael. We have also had success with creating specific content around each step in the buy cycle on each landing page. Michael Brenner Nov 5 2010 Thank you Denise. It is so important to map content to the buyer journey.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Share: Read more from Strategy 2 Comments Post a comment Denise Williams Nov 4 2010 Great info Michael. We have also had success with creating specific content around each step in the buy cycle on each landing page. Michael Brenner Nov 5 2010 Thank you Denise. It is so important to map content to the buyer journey.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Relevant marketing content – key to thought leadership Positioning your company as a thought leader is critical in complex technical sales that have long buying cycles with many decision makers involved. In the later stages, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That’s more than 40 times the amount they invested in 2010 (Source: Mckinsey ). Here are some benefits of using email marketing in edtech marketing: Targeted communication : Email marketing allows you to send targeted and personalized messages to specific segments of your audience, based on their interests or behaviors.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on September 27, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Industrial Websites , Sales Strategies , Social Media Marketing Remember the very first music video ever played on MTV? The first type uses a self-serve model and is typically completed in the very first sales interaction, be it in person or online.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Internet Fuels IT Buying Cycles According to a recent survey of 500 technology decision makers and influencers, Internet access to content is changing the way IT solutions are purchased, with buyers using on-line research to drive substantial portion of the decision making cycle on their own.

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markempa

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Do you have to understand the customer buying cycle? Do you have to understand the customer buying cycle? Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 The brief interview covered the following topics: Who are the right people to engage?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Influence: This is a measure of the likelihood of a person recommending your company or brand. 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

JUNE 15, 2010

Success story #3: Consultant specializing in accelerating business growth for global companies Redesigned his business website with personal branding and highlighting his expertise using an online article library. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your peril by Achinta Mitra on January 26, 2010 in Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development Is you current website an asset or a liability?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 14, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing Even though “content curation” is not a common phrase, there’s plenty of discussion to be found on the Internet. Rohit may be the first person to have coined the term “content curator.”

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Tony Zambito

MAY 13, 2011

While this second report highlights the continuation of the changes noted in the 2010 report, there is definitely a “more of” aspect that is revealed and a few surprises.  Facebook, while a wonderful personal and consumer social platform, remains questionable as a B2b marketing and selling platform in my mind. 

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. I’m assuming you want your business blog to be more than just a personal journal.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Re-purpose - The same content can be modified for use with different personas and verticals to increase relevance and personalization rather than relying on general, one-size-fits-all content to meet the needs of a variety of audiences. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Refresh - Content gets stale over time.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

REVEAL Adding a personal experience helps to humanize your content. 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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Web 2.0 Copywriting Content Buying Cycle 60

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 6, 2010

My personal experience is that marketers definitely want to (and in some cases, are planning to) deploy lead nurturing of some kind. Define Your Buyer Profiles & Buying Cycle. that has nothing to do with your business, your interests or where you are with regard to potentially buying a product or service.

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markempa

JUNE 21, 2006

Create content thats relevant for each stage of the buying cycle. Create content thats relevant for each stage of the buying cycle. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Focus on the data points you REALLY need to measure in your CRM. Is your value proposition clear?

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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. Better content targeting and personalization is required to end the “carpet bombing” techniques and make meaningful connections.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 5, 2010

As a result, most buyers have taken charge of the buying cycle , engaging with sales representatives later and later. As a result, Internet fueled buying cycles have required B2B marketers to deliver more content and tools over more and more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 14, 2005

In the complex sale, the length of the buying cycle make the connection between on-the-web activity and the off-line decision to purchase much more difficult to trace. In the complex sale, the length of the buying cycle make the connection between on-the-web activity and the off-line decision to purchase much more difficult to trace.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 22, 2010

Carone is that “Marketers must “break through the barrier” of simple personalized communications into more relevant one-to-one interactions with customers.” Other marketing tools such as peer referrals, webinars, e-mails, user events, analyst reports and case studies all lag considerably in early and middle stages of the buying cycle.

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Enterprise Management Buying Cycle Peer-to-peer Paper 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The question any marketer needs to ask - Are your marketing efforts adding to the clutter, or driving a valuable dialogue and as a result, connecting meaningfully with prospects to advance the buying cycle? These three issues are having a measurable impact on marketing.

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Interactive Marketing Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Buying Cycle 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? 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. The Death of a Salesman?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Successful demand generation programs are uniquely challenged today, and must address a changing landscape where: Economics are driving more decisions; The Internet is fueling a prospect driven buying cycle, and; Prospects are faced with information overload resulting in shorter attention spans than ever.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 25, 2010

Re-casting How We Think About B2B Marketing Automation I was analyzing results from our recent B2B Marketing University series , which Silverpop launched this past Fall, and the data seem to point to an eye-popping, potential ‘banner year’ for marketing automation in 2010. Is their definition the same as mine?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You need to determine why your company should be social, for whom your efforts are intended and where your audience is in the buying cycle, and how you’ll measure success. Things I Don’t Want to Hear Anymore in 2010 =-. Things I Don’t Want to Hear Anymore in 2010 =-. Things I Don’t Want to Hear Anymore in 2010 =-.

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Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 149

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. In TechTarget’s recent report, Similarities in Brand Reception and Media Consumption of IT and Personal Technology Buyers , 60% of buyers reported being receptive to branding ads or email, and 40% to both.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Quality of leads delivered” was considered as most important by 464 respondents from the manufacturing sector as reported in Trends in Industrial Marketing 2010 released by GlobalSpec. Marketing automation is good at supporting a self-service model that B2B buyers are accustomed to from their personal online experiences. It scored 8.6

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010. In 2010 you’ll start to hear about marketing methods. At Marketbright, we believe Agile Marketing will emerge as a popular methodology so marketing professionals can adapt and survive in 2010. Manticore Technology wishes you a full-funnel in 2010.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Overcomes Marketing Information Overload, Transforming Traditional White Papers into Dynamic, Personalized Engagement Tools Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today launched a new demand generation tool for B2B marketers – Alinean Interactive White Papers.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

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. The Bottom Line Buyers are clearly in control of the buying cycle and are more frugal than ever before.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

Empowered Buyers: Fueled by the Internet, with access to a wealth of resources, research, discussions, product and pricing information, buyers are self-empowered to drive the buying cycle, inviting sales later and later into the decision making process, if at all. Commodity sales professionals are being disinter-mediated.

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 19, 2010

  My recent post entitled Seven Buyer and Sales Trends to Watch in 2011 is one of those instances for me personally.    By the time they get to sales folks, whether it is in person or on the phone, they already are armed with enough information to help make a decision.    And thank you Mr. . 

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