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CMOs: Wield Powers of Influence to Gain a Seat at the Executive Table

ViewPoint

Stephanie Tilton is a content-marketing consultant who helps B2B companies craft content that engages prospects and customers, nurtures leads and advances the buying cycle. She has produced hundreds of white papers, case studies and eBooks for a range of organizations, including some of the world's leading technology companies.

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CFOs Take More Control: Frugalnomics in Full Effect

The ROI Guy

CFO Control Drives Frugalnomics Further This centralization of power to financial chiefs has important implications for the way the buying cycle is managed, and how B2B sales and marketing groups must navigate these more complex waters. Executives like CFOs do most of their research on-line on their own or via analysts / peers.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims. 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.

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B2B Companies are Really Content Companies, But is Content Publishing Enough?

The ROI Guy

As a result, most buyers have taken charge of the buying cycle , engaging with sales representatives later and later. As a result, Internet fueled buying cycles have required B2B marketers to deliver more content and tools over more and more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers.

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10 Secrets To Help You Succeed In B2B Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Doing so will not only help sell the product but also work toward establishing a better relationship with vendors, partners, and clients. Unlike B2C Marketing, B2B companies have the unique challenge of not always being present in the eye of the customer. Case Studies. Let’s see how. In contrast, only 8.5%

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Re-casting How We Think About B2B Marketing Automation | MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog

Online Marketing Institute

world has fundamentally changed the dynamics of buyer-vendor interaction. B2B buyers not only have greater access to information than ever before, but increasingly, that information comes from industry peers and third parties, versus coming from their vendors or from traditional media outlets. Consolidation is inevitable.

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6 Tips for Symbiotic Sales & Marketing Lead Management

Hubspot

In fact, you need to be constantly expanding the top of your funnel because, as our presentation " Death by Marketing Automation " showed, your email list expires at approximately 25% a year. As a best practice, use marketing automation to nurture leads and send them information only when it is most relevant to their buying cycle.