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3 Tips to Help Content Marketers Understand Sales Cycles

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Simply posting a blog per day won’t amount to anything if you’re not taking your customers’ sales cycles into account and adjusting your marketing strategy accordingly. Therefore, the sales cycle will be much longer. In the simplest of terms, you must create a sales funnel. Middle of the Funnel.

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The 4 B’s of Buyer Experience Innovation (2nd Rendition)

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia.   It is fair to say that many organizations are adopting specific buying strategies whereby decisions are often made well ahead of any sales involvement and the decisions are more about who to purchase from versus what to purchase.  Buyer Personas.   Buyer Experience Design.

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A Conversation on 7 Buyer and Sales Trends to Watch in 2011

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia.   By the time they get to sales folks, whether it is in person or on the phone, they already are armed with enough information to help make a decision.    More information and more expertise are what buyers are expecting.    And thank you Mr. .  What do I mean? 

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3 Ways To Connect With Today’s B2B Buyers

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia. Part 1 and part 2 of this series pointed out that conventional funnel thinking is woefully inadequate in today’s B2B buyer landscape and is limited in the ability to address new and evolving complexities. Slow Death of the Funnel: Why Buyer Choice Matters to Revenue (buyerology.com). Follow @tonyzambito.

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Sales Enablement: Focus On Customers To Lower The Cost Of Sales

Marketing Insider Group

According to wikipedia , Sales Enablement is: The process of arming an organization’s sales force with access to the insight, experts, and information that will ultimately increase revenue. Tools can then be brought in to help drive the content customization each buying process requires. Collaboration.

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Content Marketing ROI: How to Measure Your Content Marketing Campaign Performance

seo.co

The SMART criteria is always a good standby here, even though there’s some variability in what “SMART” can actually stand for ( Wikipedia says they stand for specific, measurable, achievable, relevance, and time-bound). It’s something that should be revisited, modified, and adjusted as you gather more information about your campaign.

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Google Algorithmic Update: SEO Best Practices for B2B Brands

Valasys

The algorithm looks at words before & after entities & context pre-trained on Wikipedia & is essentially bi-directional in nature. Also, the marketers should keep in mind that the users are driven by multi-intent at different stages of their buying cycles & accordingly, should route their content strategy.

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