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What Your Buyers Think About You (And What You Can Do About It)

Trade Press Services

The B2B sales journey is complex, typically involving multiple small decisions about your brand that lead to a decision to purchase. Five Decisions That Impact Whether a Prospect Makes a Purchase Chitwood’s timeless advice still guides today’s salespeople. Focus on understanding the buyer’s problems, not just making a sale.

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The Top 8 Takeaways from Social Media Guru Paul Gillin’s FIR B2B

ViewPoint

Read more about how B2B marketers will be able to directly reach customers and prospects via email on mobile devices. A survey of B2B buyers revealed what they want to see on vendor websites: detailed contact information, case studies, white papers and articles. Voicemails work.

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Is Your Web Content a Marketing Liability?

Marketing Craftmanship

The standard marketing approach – particularly among B2B firms – is to create a brochureware-esque “Who We Are / What We Do / Why You Should Select Us” web presence, which forever serves as a handy repository for press releases, case studies, white papers and other expressions of thought leadership.

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CMOs: Wield Powers of Influence to Gain a Seat at the Executive Table

ViewPoint

Stephanie Tilton is a content-marketing consultant who helps B2B companies craft content that engages prospects and customers, nurtures leads and advances the buying cycle. She has produced hundreds of white papers, case studies and eBooks for a range of organizations, including some of the world's leading technology companies.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

ViewPoint

These are the five essential channels you can rely on for generating a steady stream of inquiries that you can then convert to qualified leads, and have a prayer of closing enough sales to meet your revenue quota. Your website The source of your cheapest and most qualified sales leads is right at your fingertips: your company website.

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Blog Posts Most Valuable B2B Marketing Content [Data]

Hubspot

Because of the longer B2B sales cycle, marketers must diligently fill the sales pipeline and continuously support sales by keeping prospects engaged with the brand during the sales cycle through the use of multiple touchpoints, like email or campaign nurturing programs. Free Ebook: Better Business Blogging in 2011.

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Does Chasing Content Marketing ROI Cause Us to Lose Sight of the Long Game?

Content Standard

” There’s a traditional notion in marketing practice that 40 percent of your work should be “activation”—that is, actively pulling in sales—while 60 percent should be branding, the more long-term work of building a brand story and engaging that loyal audience. But the sales funnel is more complicated than that.