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B2B vs. B2C Marketing: Four Myths, Six Differences, and One Key Similarity

Webbiquity

Business-to-business (B2B) marketing is a passion to those of us who’ve devoted our lives and careers to it. It’s often (wrongly) assumed that B2C marketing is much bigger than B2B because 1) it’s much more visible to most people, and 2) there are a lot more consumers than businesses in the market buying stuff.

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3 Ways To Connect With Today’s B2B Buyers

Tony Zambito

Depending on surveys from such sources as IDC , IDG Connect, DemandGen Report , Forrester , and more, we know that buyers are remaining invisible to B2B businesses and spend only a quarter of their time talking directly to sales when making purchase decisions. Descriptive Buyer Segmentation Based on Buying Behavior and Opportunity.

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. Customer Segmentation using Google Analytics You can use Google Analytics for very sophisticated customer segmentation. The trick is to learn how to use all its power.

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The Opportunity Social Media Offers Manufacturers

MLT Creative

This is largely because it can be difficult to see how social media plays into the larger business-to-business (B2B) marketing strategy. Acccording to a Forrester report released in March 2011, 30 percent of global manufacturers intended to increase social media investments in 2012. That, however, appears to be changing.

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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content. The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. And they use different sources to get their information.

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Why Digital Marketers Need to Get More Personal

Buzz Marketing for Technology

According to Forrester, Web personalization is “creating experiences on websites or through interactive media that are unique to individuals or segments of consumers.” Yes, they’ve thought about segmentation, recommendations and retargeting, but these techniques are only a fraction of what technology now allows.

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What Does Salesforce Do?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

You can quickly and easily make data-backed decisions about new customer segments you want to target. The business problems we’re helping to solve. Artificial intelligence (AI) integration helps your team plan and optimize every customer interaction. Learn more about Sales Cloud here.