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

The ROI Guy

According to Forrester analyst Scott Santucci, “Today, buyers are looking for business partners that will help them drive business results or outcomes – rather than bundle their products and services into solutions.” How fundamental is the shift from product / solution selling to value selling / marketing?

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Demand Generation In the Face of Frugalnomics and Internet Fueled Decisions

The ROI Guy

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Analysts such as Forrester and Gartner are highlighting “consumerization” of business as a key trend for the next several years, and B2B marketing is one area that will face the ‘consumerization” change, making content marketing and interactive decision support tools more important than ever before.

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

The ROI Guy

Savvy vendors will develop and deliver more content and tools in 2011 to create a “circle of trust&# with skeptical buyers, including independent endorsements, peer and analyst reviews, success stories, and validation needed to create trust. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. They do if they are.

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Writing Your Own Book to Establish Authority

B2B Digital Marketer

But if I’m talking about in a B to B digital marketing process, and I’m the marketer that’s responsible for helping to bring sales qualified leads to the salespeople, how does this really work? Okay, great. Raza Imam ( 03:39 ): I love it. Let’s talk. It’s what I said. There’s a lot of branding.

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Digital Natives in Our Midst | Advice and Opinion

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Publisher emeritus at CIO magazine, Gary Beach, talks with Forrester analyst Erica Driver about the current and future state of workplace technologies. Read Forresters advice for deploying an enterprise mobile solution. Telwares helps firms validate, manage and optimize their telecom spend. Energy Efficiency. Space Management.

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64 B2B Marketing Tools and Resources

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

7 Tips For Practical B-to-B Lead Generation (MarketingSherpa on-demand webinar). There's even a free online calculator to tell you how long it will take your landing page test to return valid results. Tactics To Boost B2B Marketing Results (podcast with Laura Ramos, Forrester Research). blog post). Using Digital, Web 2.0