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Why Marketing Best Practices May Sabotage Your Results

NuSpark Consulting

I feel comfortable doing things by the book and following marketing best practices. The statistics revealed that buyers are searching the web to solve problems and were more than halfway through the buying cycle before they contacted a salesperson. There is no answer in the back of the book. So question conventions.

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32 Influential B2B Social Media Profiles (People) to Follow on Twitter

KoMarketing Associates

Co-Author of The B2B Social Media Book ([link] Founded [link] (@smb2b)” Follow Kipp at https://twitter.com/kippbodnar. Speaker, Author and Blogger @Forbes and @B2BMKTGInsider.” Author of five books about online communities. that advance the buying cycle: Founding member @savvy_b2b blog.”

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32 B2B Marketers to Add to Your Google Plus Circles

KoMarketing Associates

Ann Handley (MarketingProfs) – Content strategist and author of the best-selling book on content marketing, Content Rules. Michael Brenner (SAP) – Vice President of Marketing and Content Strategy at SAP, Speaker, Blogger and Social Business Marketing Leader. Co-founder, ClickZ.

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Top 50 B2B Marketing Influencers On Twitter

Marketing Insider Group

PaulDunay - Paul Dunay – Global VP of Marketing for Maxymiser, Author, Blogger, Public Speaker and Award-Winning B2B Marketing Expert. Cohen – Dad, Manager of Content Marketing: @ Salesforce @ MarketingCloud , Author: The B2B Social Media Book, Managing Editor: @ smb2b , B2B Social Media Speaker. Boston, MA – [link].

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How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects

Industrial Marketing Today

This timeless classic, one of the first bestselling self-help books published in 1937 and sold over 15 million copies globally is still relevant today. As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle.

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A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

Industrial Marketing Today

Not everyone is a natural born blogger. I found a very helpful presentation on blogging styles by Rohit Bhargava , a founding member of the pioneering 360 Digital Influence team at Ogilvy and author of the award winning new marketing book, Personality Not Included. It takes time and practice to find and develop your own blogging voice.

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Best Website Techniques for Greater Online Lead Generation

Hinge Marketing

However it’s not enough to simply steer someone to your website, for online lead generation to be most effective once visitors are on your site you need to meet them where they are in the buying cycle and provide relevant content to engage them and move them further down the sales funnel. How Hinge Can Help.