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

Biznology

Business buying processes are getting longer, and—most important—involving more parties than ever before. The so-called Buying Circle in large enterprise B-to-B—the influencers, specifiers, users, decision-makers—comprises as many as 21 people, according to Marketing Sherpa. But there’s more.

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Business Value of Social Networking

Industrial Marketing Today

Even though the use of social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is growing exponentially, there is a raging debate about measuring its ROI. I use LinkedIn and Twitter quite a lot in my online networking and sure, I’ve grown my network in a short period of time.

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

The ROI Guy

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. Prospect driven buying cycles mean that buyers research solutions on their own, and do their own due diligence, engaging sales much later in the sales cycle.

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

The ROI Guy

At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets.

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

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The Kern Organization did an impressive presentation about B-to-B offer strategies that keep your pipeline filled with the best leads.      Offers need to be relevant AND appropriate for the prospect's place in the buying cycle. .      Direct mail may not be dead.

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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.

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Latest B2B Marketing Trends From SiriusDecisions Summit 09

Anything Goes Marketing

but as you’ll see from the comments below, some great stats and thoughts have been captured by attendees via Twitter (yet another reason to use Twitter). Thanks to all of the twitters who passionately twitted at the conference and gave people like me some semblance of being there. amyblack : # sds09 how do you increase adoption?