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The 2014 Content Marketing Imperative

Marketing Insider Group

We’ve heard it time and time again: according to the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) almost 60% of the buyer journey is complete before prospects reach out to vendors. And then process starts all over again when you analyze what works and use those insights to drive continuous improvement in the next round of content creation.

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The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks A recent article from BtoB Online about email deliverability reminded me of how dangerous this whole thing of email marketing deliverability numbers can be.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Alinean Powers Eight More B2B Assessment.

The ROI Guy

Assessment tools enable vendors to engage with customers to realize and prioritize issues they may not even know they have, and provide intelligent product/solution roadmaps and recommendations. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Drive Budget Planning with the “IT Hierarchy of Ne. It needs to.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

During the B2C Internet revolution many a vendor’s world was turned upside down by failing to recognize and invest in the fundamental shift towards empowering consumers with content and buying tools. The influence of vendors as a trusted source of information lags dramatically, at only 8.1% this year, an increase from 3.1%

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Let the Good Times Roll? IT Spending on.

The ROI Guy

For the IT buyer, business benefit assessments (34%) and financial assessments (26%) were both highly important to making a purchase decision, greatly exceeding, by more than 2x, the vendor relationship (14%) as a decision driver. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink.

The ROI Guy

Overall, the focus of technology buyers is on value – and much less on where marketing often focuses, such as on building vendor-buyer relationships and on brand building campaigns. Advice - Marketers should focus more spending on communicating the value of solutions, and less on brand development and buiding.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: How TCO is a common sense sales and.

The ROI Guy

Today, it is a mature, widely accepted practice in both helping buyers analyze ways to reduce costs, and for vendors to make the case for change, or prove competitive advantage. Vendors of technology are competing not only with each other for new spending, but with the entrenched operating costs of the status quo. They do if they are.