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Five Ways B-to-B Marketers Need to Change Their Game

Biznology

In the old days—just a few years ago—when business buyers had a problem, they’d call in their vendors for advice on how to solve it. Buyers don’t really want to talk to vendors until somewhere akin to 70% of the way down the road, at the stage of writing RFPs and getting quotes. These days, the sales person has lost control.

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

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? Rounding up the challenges, recent studies indicate that 9 out of 10 of buyers say that when they are ready to buy, they find you.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims. 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.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. The Death of a Salesman?

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Demand Generation In the Face of Frugalnomics and Internet Fueled Decisions

The ROI Guy

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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BtoB Leading Edge: 10 Sharp Tips taken from the Cutting Edge Demand Generation Virtual Conference

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

  Best in class marketers will ‘follow’ the path so th ey know when sales should begin interacting and what information will be most useful to the prospect at a particular time. The Kern Organization did an impressive presentation about B-to-B offer strategies that keep your pipeline filled with the best leads.

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Paul Slack: B2B Digital Marketing Has Never Been Easier

B2B Digital Marketer

15:15 – The B2B buying cycle. Nobody was focusing on, especially in the B to B space, the, the marketing side. And so I guess the, the, the summer to summarize this topic, you know, buying awareness for B to B and super targeted awareness has never been easier than it is right now. Timestamps/Outline.