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Goal-Directed Marketing: How Marketers Can Help Buyers Achieve Their Goals

Tony Zambito

Marketing and sales still rely on market segmentation and buyer profiling as it has for the last twenty-five plus years. In B2B commerce, for example, we may have a good idea about segments, roles, key initiatives of organizations, pain points, and criteria related to product specifics as well as purchasing.

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6 Steps to a Successful (B-to-B) Direct Marketing Campaign

MLT Creative

A current campaign I’m involved with got me thinking about my roots in consumer direct marketing. Whenever we launch a campaign that relies heavily on direct, I’m reminded that the rules in business-to-business direct marketing are really the same as they are in the consumer space.

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B2B Lead Gen: Can you do it cheaper and better inside?

ViewPoint

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Top choices include teleprospecting, direct marketing, search engine marketing, website, and trade shows. In fairness, our industry has created the image. Review your options.

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New Approaches To Understand Customers Needed In A Digital Transformation World

Tony Zambito

Relying on a status quo of traditional means such as focus groups, win/loss oriented interviews, surveys, and buyer interviews that are grounded in conventional yet outdated sales and product marketing concepts. Especially as related to the veiled covering of old sales and product marketing methods and presenting as an expert method.

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The Annuitas Group and Harte-Hanks Announce Strategic Alliance

ANNUITAS

HHS), a direct marketing services company that offers the widest variety of integrated, multichannel, data-driven solutions for top brands around the globe. Gary Skidmore, president of Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing, said, “ The Annuitas Group offers powerful insights to benefit clients who focus on B2B marketing.

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Beyond Buyer Profiling To Buyer Personification

Tony Zambito

At the same time, we also saw the prominence of product management and product marketing rise in 1980’s and 1990’s. The jobs of product marketers were to market to customers the product lines of the organization. (Many may remember profiling performed with Miller Heiman blue sheets.).

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Rethinking Buyer Personas In An Era Of Digital Transformation

Tony Zambito

How to design products and services that were user-friendly and enabled users to fulfill their goals. Buyer personas were an outgrowth of this founding principle of understanding goals and goal-directed behaviors. Approaches rooted in old principles of product marketing and purchasing for buyer personas are outdated.