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Forrester: The Accelerating Death of the B2B Sales Rep

The ROI Guy

I n this session, Forrester boldly predicted that 1 million B2B salespeople would be displaced by 2020, as B2B buyers by-pass reps who just take orders or pitch products, instead favoring digital self-service and more value-added interactions with a select group of more capable, consultative sales reps.

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Beyond Beige: Ardath Albee’s Blueprint for Buyer-Driven B2B Strategies

Content Standard

Delivering the content we ‘think’ our customers want has proven ineffective. According to Forrester, a whopping 85% of marketers say their content doesn’t deliver business value. Ardath is the CEO of Marketing Interactions. The result is generic, uninspiring marketing that fails to resonate with buyers.

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How to Create the Best Content For Your Marketing Automation System

KoMarketing Associates

Most content marketers have two core beliefs about content: That “good” content (high-quality content) will outperform “bad” content every time, i.e. that good content gets more results. That good content takes more time to create than bad content. Ever heard of “random acts of content”?

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3 Practices You Should Follow to Build Killer Content for Your ABM Strategy

Madison Logic

Content marketing is the way we speak to our customers about our brand and our solutions. Because buyers, not sellers, have all the power in B2B. While they appreciate our clever wordsmithing and attractive graphics, these mean nothing if we’re not giving them the experience they want in the buyer’s journey.

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3 Key Ingredients for Marketers to Provide Content that Sales Reps Love

Scoop.it

Content marketing is no longer a new fad. In fact, 65% of brands who report being successful with content marketing have gone through the time and effort of documenting their content marketing strategy. Why Do Salespeople Need Content? What Is Content for Sales Enablement.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

This requires the right content at each stage of the buying cycle; Information Overload –buyers are inundated with more marketing messages over more channels than ever before, becoming overloaded and confused, leading to stalled decision cycles.

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How should B2B content differ for Business and Technical Decision Maker?

Ambal's Amusings

At the risk of being obnoxious, my answer is that whether the decision maker is on the business side of the house or the IT side isn’t what defines the differences in how the content is written. What determines the differences is the problem the content is addressing and the perspective of the person concerned with solving it.