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A Framework for B2B Customer Segmentation – Part 1: Why Segment Your Market?

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Many companies don't segment at all, segment only superficially, or copy segments that seem to be working for their competitors but without really understanding the rationale for selecting target segments. Marketing Automation Drives Renewed Focus on Segmentation Market segmentation is experiencing a renaissance.

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The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011

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Now, with the emergence of marketing automation tools and lead scoring technologies on one side, and tougher requirements for demonstrating program ROI on the other side, look for lead quality to become a critical performance metric in 2011. This flood of leads overwhelmed sales and distracted from the selling part of their jobs.

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8 Tips for Marketing SaaS and Software in the Cloud

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What matters to the business user is the business value the solution delivers, the process it helps automate or enable, the cost it reduces or the opportunity it unlocks. Pick the predominant segment in your market and focus on growing it instead of trying to be all things to all people – that hardly ever works. (7)

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Leveraging Actionable Customer Data for Revenue Growth

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Focusing on the profitable sources of revenue takes ensuring your organization, especially your marketing team, has the data mining tools, customer research, marketing automation software, and the ability to perform customer analytics. Delving deeper into what matters to your customers is the key to growing revenue.

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5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success

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Step 5 - Invest in Marketing Automation One size fits all mass email blasts, for example, don’t provide the level of return you are looking for. Marketing automation will allow you to have very targeted digital conversations with your audience triggered by prospect profile and behavior, driven by their buying cycle.

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The Brave New World of B2B Marketing - Are You Ready?

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The effectiveness of traditional push marketing is rapidly declining, marketing budgets and headcounts have been slashed over the last few years (while output expectations have increased), and the availability of new technologies for marketing automation is leaving many B2B marketing professionals scratching their heads.

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A Simple B2B Marketing Framework

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The framework starts at the bottom with the “Market Knowledge Layer” - the foundational aspects of understanding the market opportunity and customer problem - and then works its way up to tactical execution of marketing programs along the customer life cycle.