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How Performance Marketing Accelerates B-to-B Prospecting

Biznology

Every time you turn around, a new “performance marketing” opportunity turns up for B-to-B marketers. There are scads of ways performance marketing is being applied across the B-to-B go-to-market spectrum. Where is performance marketing in B-to-B headed? Photo credit: Wikipedia. What a treasure trove!

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Using Buying Groups to Accelerate Your Sales Process

InsightSquared

The inbound philosophy advocates publishing content through digital channels to entice qualified individuals to consume the content and enter the sales cycle. Understanding the buying group journey is crucial for creating marketing and sales strategies that work.”. A few years ago it was “Inbound Marketing.” How Do You Measure Success?

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

Biznology

Just as no one buys a car anymore without first checking prices and features online, business buyers now research and educate themselves online, months—even years—before ever seeing a sales person. So a sales person was in a nifty position to educate—and influence—the buyer from the earliest stages of the process. But there’s more.

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Five Ways to “Get Real” With B-to-B Social Media

Biznology

Today, 89% of B-to-B marketers in the U.S. are using social media, says a study conducted by iTracks and the Business Marketing Association (BMA). In fact, B-to-B use of social media may have even eclipsed that of consumer marketers, according to another report from White Horse Productions. First, get busy on LinkedIn.

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To Gate or Not to Gate, That Is the B-to-B Content Marketing Question

Biznology

There’s a spirited debate in B-to-B marketing about whether it’s best to give away information (aka “content,” like white papers and research reports) to all comers, versus requiring web visitors to provide some information in exchange for a content download. So that’s my argument for gating content in B-to-B marketing.

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How to Diagnose if Inbounditis is Killing Your Sales Pipeline

ViewPoint

Lured by the promise of easy money — "sales-ready" leads pouring in — many well intentioned b2b marketers have jumped on the "inbound marketing" bandwagon with both feet. Management is measuring marketing on the number of leads turned over to sales and on a cost-per-lead basis. These measurements drive low-quality leads to sales.

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Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media

Online Marketing Institute

Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media. Data shows about 40 percent of b-to-b brands aren’t using social marketing. Of 548 b-to-b marketers surveyed by Eloqua, about 40 percent say they are not yet using social media marketing. CMS Insights.

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