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5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success

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In the “old days”, the mainstream marketing approach was to interrupt and engage prospects, educate them on the vendors offering and move them through the sale cycle towards a transaction – a very vendor and product centric approach. And today’s customers are busier than ever.

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Download the 2013 B2B Content Marketing Report

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B2B marketers are increasingly using content marketing tactics to engage B2B buyers with compelling content to educate, inform, entertain and guide them along their buying journey. More than 82 percent of B2B marketers are increasing their content production over the next 12 months. Content marketing is going mainstream in 2013.

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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. Marketers often struggle to create magnetic content in the right formats and quantities. In short, they are more profitable.

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B2B Market Segmentation – Part 2: How to Approach Segmentation

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But it doesn't get to the core of why companies are buying and what problem they are looking to solve (don’t get me wrong, demographics are still an important factor in the segmentation process, but they shouldn't drive the first steps of segmentation). How do I know how price sensitive a company's buying center is?

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A Simple B2B Marketing Framework

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Marketing is getting involved in many more areas that touch the customer along the buying process, multiplied by a dizzying variety of new tactics, online communications and engagement platforms. Pragmatic Marketing Framework One of the best known frameworks in product marketing is from Pragmatic Marketing.

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Is Your Content Marketing Program a Success?

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Content marketing is one of the most popular strategies deployed by today's B2B marketers to attract and engage prospects, and guide them through the buying process. Very few respondents rely on product management (16 percent) or external agencies (8 percent) for content strategy. But how do marketers measure content marketing success?

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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. Marketing segmentation is about subdividing markets into segments of customers that have similar needs and behaviors. In short, they are more profitable.