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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. Sales teams are being engaged later and later in the sales cycle.

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

The ROI Guy

The savvy marketing and sales enablement professional will proactively recognize the issues that the frugal and empowered decision maker creates, using 2011 to reshape the strategies and investments to better engage, dialogue and sell to ever more empowered, skeptical, overloaded and frugal buyers. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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Joe Apfelbaum: Building a Long-Term Relationship with Your B2B Customers

B2B Digital Marketer

According to Joe Apfelbaum, it’s going to take a significant amount of planning. A good relationship with a B2B customer always involves a lot of digital trust, and it requires marketers to be transformational rather than transactional. Um, I don’t understand all this planning and need for the planning.

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Engaging Multimedia Content: Making a Human Connection

B2B Digital Marketer

Focused on B2B marketing for over 20 years, Lee is both a digital marketing practitioner and creative content entrepreneur. 02:06 – Lee’s background in B2B Digital Marketing. 08:03 – The importance of sales being in tune with marketing. 09:02 – Lee’s passion in B2B Digital Marketing.

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Linda Ruffenach: How A Personal Relationship Can Make You Stand Out

B2B Digital Marketer

As a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) and a certified Value Builder™, she provides business owners with the tools to find time to work “on” their business versus always working “in” their business. Uh, when we, when we refer to business to business digital marketing and those longer sales cycles.

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

The ROI Guy

Using this content, buyers are taking control of the buying cycle from direct / channel sales, making the content that marketing delivers more important than ever in driving shorter sales cycles and increasing the number and value of transactions.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Can a Value Selling / Marketing Program.

The ROI Guy

With today’s frugal buyer, sales professionals using TCO comparison tools have driven competitive win rates higher by 50% or more. Delivery credibility to Overcome the Skeptics – Frugal buyers absolutely require vendor assistance in diagnosing issues, developing roadmap/plans, and quantifying the value of proposed solutions.