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There’s a new B2B mandate

Canadian Marketing Association

OK, maybe not a big surprise, but consider what this means in the context of B2B marketing: B2B buyers are accustomed to the ways of buying for business as they do as consumers (read this as online search often comes first). Everything is evolving to P2P, largely fed by social media. We can thank digital for this.

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Building Content Marketing Strategy – 10 Steps

Marketing Insider Group

The new buying process. The way customers buy today is very different from how they made purchase decisions 15 years ago, of course. The most important difference is that today customers do most of their buying research on their own, with many sources of information, often in real time. B2B customers today use an average of 7.6

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

Webbiquity

But nobody buys an iPhone or iPad because Apple’s accountants are so skilled. They buy because of the company’s innovation and, yes, marketing. Actually, the B2B market is about twice as large, according to Forrester. The more people and departments that will be impacted, the larger the buying team.

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Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble | social crm.

Convince & Convert

This research raises two interesting questions: - Forrester published research earlier this year that said Facebook users (rather than Twitter users) were the source of much of the New Influencer population. One user sees your tweet, clicks through to the blog, and eventually buys $1,000 worth of X from you. Which do you believe?

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