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5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success

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By Holger Schulze Major shifts are taking place in B2B marketing that started a few years ago but have accelerated in recent months – in the marketplace as well as inside vendor organizations. What business problems do they face? Prospects and customers are becoming more sophisticated and better informed than ever before.

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A Framework for B2B Customer Segmentation – Part 1: Why Segment Your Market?

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This way, vendors can optimize their product offering, marketing, and sales approach to meet the specific requirements of the segment better and more cost efficiently than the competition. With tighter segmentation, vendors can better satisfy customers and produce more revenue in shorter amounts of time, at lower cost.

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The Brave New World of B2B Marketing - Are You Ready?

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It is now harder than ever for B2B vendors to get the attention of our audiences. Power Shift Knowledge is power, and the balance of power is clearly shifting from vendors to the customer. They educate themselves on the nature of their business problem, possible solution options, available vendors and products.

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B2B Market Segmentation – Part 2: How to Approach Segmentation

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Because there are so many attributes and dimensions of motivation and behavior based segmentation (such as business pains, adoption patterns, compelling external events such as introduction of new regulatory legislation, etc), it is important to find the most critical dimensions to use as a pivot point and build your segmentation framework around.

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The Top-5 B2B Marketing Trends for 2012

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Segmentation is critical as vendors evolve from technology-focused business models to customer-needs driven product development, sales, marketing, and operations. The benefits of segmentation are substantial.

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The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011

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3 - Focus on new business generation & revenue With many markets making a modest recovery, which is expected to accelerate somewhat in 2011, marketing focus turns away from cost cutting and customer retention and towards growth and new customer wins. You want to be the source buyers are flocking to for this high-value content.

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8 Tips for Marketing SaaS and Software in the Cloud

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1) Focus on the business buyer One of the biggest changes in marketing SaaS vs on-premise software is the makeup of your target audience. One of the biggest factors in the adoption of cloud solutions is that business users can activate the solution quickly, often without having to rely on slow IT resources.