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The 2014 Content Marketing Imperative

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is the process of creating content that our customers actually want or need. Content marketing meets the needs of your buyers across ALL phases of the buying cycle: There is the largest number of potential buyers in the early stages. It is aligned with buyer needs.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. Is this digital spending allocation aligning with buyer needs? We call this the “Internet fueled buying cycle.&# Content is King? The End of Sales as we Know It?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

These buyers need a reason to engage – and delivering personalized, proprietary and consultative benchmarks, insight and advice is essential. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. However, it is getting harder to connect and engage effectively with these overloaded, skeptical and frugal executives.

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

The ROI Guy

The good news is that todays buyer wants to be engaged, with 9 out of 10 actively relying on vendor provided information on their way to making a purchase decision. Instead of being engaged, buyers are now inundated with more meaningless product information and offers than ever before, creating "marketing fatigue".