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6 ways millennials are reshaping B2B marketing as they move into leadership roles

Sword and the Script | B2B

The consulting firm surveyed 200 B2B marketers in the US, UK, France and Germany, and conducted some two dozen interviews, to produce a report that describes how B2B marketing is being reshaped. This means selling cycles are long and getting longer , and typically involve more stakeholders. This shouldn’t be a surprise.

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32 Influential B2B Social Media Profiles (People) to Follow on Twitter

KoMarketing Associates

Twitter in particular proved to be the strongest performing platform for generating leads through social media. Optify’s data shows that Twitter contributed to 82% of social media generated leads, beating out Facebook and LinkedIn 9 to 1. Twitter is one solution. “Content marketing consultant for B2B high tech.

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Top 50 B2B Marketing Influencers On Twitter

Marketing Insider Group

Who are the top B2B Marketing influencers on twitter? To answer this question, I looked at a variety of factors including twitter followers, profiles that included “B2B marketing,” the focus of their tweets including the hashtag # B2BMarketing , as well as a variety of social scoring tools using the keyword. New York, NY.

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How Social Media Changed the Sales Cycle into the Buying Cycle

Webbiquity

Then sales people would contact the prospects and use a “consultative&# sales process. Tools like LinkedIn, Twitter and blogs not only enable sales pros to learn more about their prospects before the sale, they also raise the expectation that sales people will do so. This is not necessarily bad news for sales.

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Five Sales Enablement Tactics B2B Marketers Need to Master

Webbiquity

Map Content to the Buying Cycle. Position your organization as a problem-solving one by empowering your sales people to share information freely and direct customers on how to proceed at each point on the buying journey. This helps to position your company as an authority and an empathetic consultant.

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How Intent-based ABM Helps Optimize Your Go-To-Market Strategy

DealSignal

Boosting the buying cycle The use of downstream intent data can accelerate the buying cycle by enabling brands to score, segment, and prioritize accounts based on recent behavior. Ultimately, this can help speed up the buying cycle and drive higher conversion rates. Follow Michael on Twitter @Michael_R_Levy.

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Top 5 Lead Generation Tips in Management Consulting

Hinge Marketing

Among professional services firms and especially within the management consulting niche, there are many factors involved with getting the next contract. Understanding that you ignore your online presence at your own business development peril, how should a management consulting firm address its strategy? On Twitter or LinkedIn?