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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? These three issues are having a measurable impact on marketing.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

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

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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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Paul Slack: B2B Digital Marketing Has Never Been Easier

B2B Digital Marketer

For more information on Paul’s background visit his LinkedIn profile – [link]. 15:15 – The B2B buying cycle. 15:15 – The B2B buying cycle. Nobody was focusing on, especially in the B to B space, the, the marketing side. Uh, and the tension that they’re trying to buy is here, take our demo.

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Who Do B2B Buyers Trust?

The ROI Guy

Overall, buyers continue to prefer documents such as research briefs, white papers and blog posts as the most important form of content along each stage in the buyer’s journey. The podcasts are effective at providing research insights and education, but quickly fall off as a decision support tool in later phases of the decision cycle.

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts for September 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Social CRM: social media and communities in customer relationship management and marketing - Conversionation , September 9, 2010 Let me start this post with a quote from “Using your customers’ desired actions to increase your sales”, a paper Gerry McGovern and Kristin Zhivago published earlier this year. You have a list. The Results.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Do White Papers Still Engage? They do if.

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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. Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Do White Papers Still Engage?