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Five Sales Enablement Tactics B2B Marketers Need to Master

Webbiquity

Sales teams are in the best position to inform marketers of the language prospects are using, while marketers are best able to create and develop messaging that takes the language into consideration. You also get to understand their abilities and properly map them to your buyers’ needs. Map Content to the Buying Cycle.

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Plan Before You Execute

Televerde

Having the right technology, and knowing how to use it, is the essential first step in getting the kind of results attributed to modern marketers in a Forrester survey of marketing decision makers which shows, among other things, that 94% of modern markers attain significant market share, with 49% holding the market-leading position. [1].

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims. Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles.

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The Big O – Outcome Selling

The ROI Guy

Empowered Buyers: Fueled by the Internet, with access to a wealth of resources, research, discussions, product and pricing information, buyers are self-empowered to drive the buying cycle, inviting sales later and later into the decision making process, if at all. Fight Frugalnomics with Outcome Selling?

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

As a result, buyers now suffer from Information Overload. The question any marketer needs to ask - Are your marketing efforts adding to the clutter, or driving a valuable dialogue and as a result, connecting meaningfully with prospects to advance the buying cycle?

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B2B Content Marketing - Less is the New More?

Ambal's Amusings

When planning for content creation, B2B marketers need to take into account the information buyers need at different stages of the buying process. An additional consideration is the different needs among members of the buying committee—influencers. Content has a job to do.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. Is this digital spending allocation aligning with buyer needs? We call this the “Internet fueled buying cycle.&# Content is King? The End of Sales as we Know It?