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18 of the Best Content Marketing Strategy Guides of 2013

Webbiquity

Noting that “The old adage — build it and they will come — doesn’t work for content marketing,” Laurie Sullivan reports on Forrester Research guidance on building a content distribution strategy to overcome the glut on content online. Failing Distribution Strategies Smother Great Content by MediaPost.

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Why You Need to Ditch Marketing Campaigns in 2016

B2B Marketing Directions

For example, Forrester Consulting recently wrote: ". The diagram below shows the major elements of a marketing communications plan, which is similar in several ways to the B-to-B Marketing Campaign Framework developed by SiriusDecisions.

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

Customer Experience Matrix

A Forrester chart, posted on CNET shows five years of data on time spent per week with major media. Forrester and Marketing Profs report B-to-B Marketing in 2009 shows that business marketers most commonly use their company Web site, email, public relations and trade shows. Where are marketers moving their budgets?

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Death of the B2B Sales Rep? An Interview with the Sales Enablement Lab

The ROI Guy

Forrester reports that this shift to digital buying is real, and as a result, there will be a 22% decline in the number of B2B sales reps over the next 5 years. Andy Hoar, Principal Analyst at Forrester , reported these findings at their last Sales Enablement conference and Thierry, you and I were both there.

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

The ROI Guy

As a result, buyers now suffer from Information Overload. Making the information overload issue worse, two economic downturns in the past decade have made these inundated buyers more frugal than ever. Reaching out has never been easier, but making meaningful connections has never been harder.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

This requires the right content at each stage of the buying cycle; Information Overload –buyers are inundated with more marketing messages over more channels than ever before, becoming overloaded and confused, leading to stalled decision cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

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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. The influence of vendors as a trusted source of information lags dramatically, at only 8.1% this year, an increase from 3.1%