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A Buyer Persona Template for the B2B Marketer

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Buyer Personas for the B2B Marketer. Another interesting development that is shaking the B2B space is the increase influence of social media in buying decisions. Buyer Persona Insights makes a good argument when it says that buyers in B2B marketplaces are becoming more social in their interactions.

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B2B Marketing Summit Shows Old Problems Persist

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According to their post: “Last week in San Francisco, 211 business-to-business marketers spent two days sharing insights, case studies and advice on social media marketing, lead generation, Sales and Marketing alignment, and other hot-button issues on the West Coast swing of MarketingSherpa’s seventh annual B2B Marketing Summit.&#

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B2B Marketers Hold Off on Killing Traditional Media

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Their latest study points out that “The majority of B2B organizations are increasing marketing budgets for inbound marketing tactics, including social media, virtual events and webinars, SEO and PPC&#.

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B2B Email Design – Gallery 2 « The Effective Marketer

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking B2B Email Design – Gallery 2 Last week I started an email design gallery containing a series of HTML emails I received. Is good to see what’s out there, what is working and what is not.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Product Demos

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We have all seen how online demos for B2B SaaS products can become terrible hour-long sessions that don’t lead to any interesting conclusion and it might be time to re-evaluate how your own sales reps are handling their own demos. My newest post on Medium covers what you may consider the seven deadly sins of product demos. yrgg4z958.

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The State of Demand Generation

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Best Practice B2B Company Rates: Inquiries to MQL: 9.3%. The problem, though, is that marketers have to face the realities of the B2B Buying Cycle: You control less. Centralized responsibility for content strategy is becoming a requirement for highly effecitve b2b marketing. The Complete B2B Persona. MQL to SAL: 66%.

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Email Adoption High But Lacking Best Practices

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A Forrester Research “ How US Maketers Use Email &# Report sheds some light into the use of email by B2B and B2C companies. In the B2B space, adoption at 71% is also very high but different from their B2C counterparts, 16% of B2B companies don’t plan on using it within the next 12 months.