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How important is contextual content in the B2B sales process?

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As technology and connectivity advances, marketers have had to move away from mass media targeting campaigns towards producing more real-time, contextual content that creates one-to-one interaction with potential buyers. What is Contextual Content? What does contextual marketing look like?

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From Branding to Demand Generation

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How First Rate Uses Thought Leadership Content to Grow the Business Having the same brand since their start in 1991, First Rate knew they had to make some major changes if they were going to compete effectively and grow in today’s digital era.

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From Branding to Demand Generation

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How First Rate Uses Thought Leadership Content to Grow the Business Having the same brand since their start in 1991, First Rate knew they had to make some major changes if they were going to compete effectively and grow in today’s digital era.

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Content Marketing is More than a Branding Exercise

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Even though companies are increasing their expenditures on content marketing, they’re still unhappy with the results. I believe that’s because they’re approaching content marketing from a perspective of branding instead of demand generation, or in other words, building sales pipeline. How many leads turned into sales?

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The B2B Content Marketing ROI You Should Care About.

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Measuring content marketing’s return on investment in B2B companies can be a complex calculation, especially if your solution is expensive, requires committee-based decisions, and has long and unpredictable sales cycles. Those conversations now have to take place digitally —by people consuming your content and responding with interest.

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4 Simple Strategies to Guarantee Content Budget Approval

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You know content marketing will work for your company—your competitors are doing it, and they’re kicking your butt. Here are 4 strategies you can use to get your content marketing budget approved in 2016. Realize, however, that most large-scale content marketing programs started out by testing the waters with a small pilot project.

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What Can a B2B Marketer Learn From a 150-Year-Old Museum?

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Sreenivasan leads their content marketing arm like it’s a full-blown media company, running a 70-person “newsroom” that focuses on topics he loves: digital, web, social, mobile, video, apps, data, geolocation, email, and more. As with any media company, the Met’s executive team grants some editorial independence to Sreenivasan’s content team.