Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

How do you concisely convey the information you want to present in your white paper? How long should a white paper be to convey information and yet hold readers interest from start to end? " Anything less than 5 pages is just too short to be a white paper " Michael Stelzner's Bio.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 27, 2009

In honor of the event, they sponsored a white paper by Yours Truly on the general topic of, um, why it’s important to make it easier for salespeople to review prospect behaviors that are captured by the demand generation system. At a minimum, it keeps the company in the consideration set during the early stages of the buying cycle.

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Eloqua Paper Profiling Marketing Automation Services 120

Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

The amount of research and comparison done before making a purchase decision is also often much greater in business contexts due to a need to make an informed choice with long-term implications. Buying Cycle In B2C marketing, the purchase decision is often made quickly by an individual looking to satisfy a specific need or desire.

Work Management 217

Work Management Marketing Management B2B Marketing B2B 217

The Point

JULY 17, 2017

IMPACT : Ensure that your content library includes relevant late stage content that proves demonstrable ROI (ex: ROI calculators, ROI white papers, case studies). IMPACT : It may feel self-serving or even disingenuous to create content that explicitly provides a business case for buying your product.

Paid Search Agency 241

Paid Search Agency Demand Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer 241

NetLine

APRIL 14, 2022

Since 2016, we’ve published our annual content consumption report with a few core pieces of information with the goal of improving upon the prior year’s efforts. Consumption within the Information Technology industry—the largest audience across NetLine’s platform—increased 7.1%. eBooks Were Requested 484% More Than White Papers.

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Intent Webinar Metrics Peer-to-peer Intent Data 97

The Point

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Engaging earlier in the buying cycle also puts you in a position to build brand credibility, inform buying criteria, and educate the buyer before he/she even decides to start looking for solutions. Effective demand generation. is a mix of hunting AND gathering. No, they won’t.

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Intent Data Demand Generation Agencies Intent Paid Social Agency 149

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. How can you accomplish all that?

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The Point

APRIL 22, 2020

However, as much as it has a reputation as a way to generate “guaranteed” leads, content syndication is not a cure-all, and indeed, more than most demand generation channels, is likely to generate sales leads that gravitate towards the early stages of the buying cycle. A Nurture Strategy for Content Syndication Leads Click To Tweet.

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking CPL Cost per Lead 162

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Overcomes Marketing Information Overload, Transforming Traditional White Papers into Dynamic, Personalized Engagement Tools Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today launched a new demand generation tool for B2B marketers – Alinean Interactive White Papers.

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Paper Enterprise Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring 40

Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

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. Map Content to the Buying Cycle. This helps to build trust as customers value organizations that share information.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel B2B Sales Tactics 220

ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Rather, understand where each customer stands in the buying cycle and reach out to them with the right type of content. You can tell a lot from a prospect’s purchase readiness by looking at the resources they access: webinars, white papers, newsletters, or landing pages.

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Account Based Marketing ABM Tactics Top of Funnel 95

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Often, based on the user’s role and stage in the buying lifecycle, the call to action within the Interactive White Paper can be custom configured to provide proper / better guidance.

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Paper Ideal Customer Profiles Buying Cycle Profiling 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Interactive White Papers are designed to quickly personalize white paper content for relevancy. This occurs automatically on program launch, and means the user does not have to retype important profile information.

Paper 40

Paper Ideal Customer Profiles Profiling Peer-to-peer 40

Stevens & Tate

JANUARY 31, 2022

Every consumer will go through different steps of consideration and purchase throughout the life cycle of a brand or service. In the past, the consumer buying cycle was explained by four stages: awareness, interest, evaluation, and purchase. As such, consumer journey mapping is a vital part of your marketing strategy.

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Buying Cycle Touchpoints Custom Publishing Education 115

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Internet Fuels IT Buying Cycles According to a recent survey of 500 technology decision makers and influencers, Internet access to content is changing the way IT solutions are purchased, with buyers using on-line research to drive substantial portion of the decision making cycle on their own. Content that Matters Most?

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Paper Personalization Buying Cycle Ideal Customer Profiles 40

Industrial Marketer

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It starts with a scenario where we are asked to provide our name, email, and perhaps another piece of information in order to read a white paper, Read more » The post 5 Things You Can Do to Prepare for Account Based Marketing appeared first on Industrial Marketer.

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Account Based Marketing Paper Lead Generation Order 98

DealSignal

APRIL 27, 2023

ABM intent data is about ABM marrying Ideal Customer Profiles, Buyer Personas, high-quality contact information, and intent data into a strategic go-to-market strategy for B2B firms. Bombora’s intent is based on activity such as keyword searches, article views, and white paper downloads.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Account Based Marketing ABM Intent 52

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Typically for an Interactive White Paper , as a rule of thumb, you don’t want more than 4 or 5 profile questions. However, you do want to have enough profile information and pivot points to enable the content to be intelligently customized and relevant.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Paper Order Profiling 40

Circle Studio

AUGUST 23, 2018

Research reports and white papers. Firms with highly technical expertise have a great opportunity to publish research reports, technical briefings, white papers and other long-form content that speaks to a particular subject matter. Perform sitewide AND on-page search engine optimization (SEO).

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Traffic Marketing Websites Case Studies Case Study 99

Trade Press Services

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Content such as blogs, articles, webinars , videos and white papers serve as valuable resources for demonstrating expertise and success. Buyers want to know if the time is right to make a purchase and are influenced by industry trends, market conditions and their own buying cycles. Timing is crucial in B2B sales.

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Lead Ranking Buying Cycle B2B Sales Pricing 52

Launch Marketing

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s easy to view these reports only at a surface level, but a thorough analysis and periodic verification of the marketing data you collect and report on is important to ensure your actions are informed by the best information possible. They appreciate consuming relevant content and information that helps them take the next step.

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Tips Marketing Analytics Tools Buying Cycle B2B Sales 93

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This information can be gathered through existing contact forms, sign-ups for special offers, and newsletters. They also have special needs –– they require information that is technical, addresses “fear of failure” concerns, and is validated by other engineers. And the buying phase often requires their sign-off.

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Lead Generation Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Scoring 174

The ROI Guy

JUNE 22, 2010

And it dawned on me that this is the greatest challenge for the next 10 years– Information Overload. One of the best ways we have found to connect with customers one-on-one is through interactive white papers. Its no longer good enough to have a one size fits all approach to white paper content.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Buying Cycle Peer-to-peer Paper 40

Madison Logic

AUGUST 9, 2023

For example, when targeting top-of-funnel accounts, they can leverage thought leadership pieces and white papers to those buyers. T-Mobile for Business’s multi-channel approach with ABM Content Syndication and ABM Display Advertising allows their content to be where buyers need it.

Account Based Marketing 52

Account Based Marketing ABM Top of Funnel Enterprise Management 52

NuSpark Consulting

MARCH 9, 2014

Gated” means web visitors who want to read your e-books, white papers, and more fill in a form with their contact information as payment for downloading it. And if it’s a webinar for prospects deeper into the buying cycle, ask for some contact information. Not so fast. But you’ve locked it away.

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Madison Logic

JULY 20, 2023

According to Gartner, a typical buying committee for a complex B2B solution consists of six to ten decision-makers , each armed with their own set of four or five independently gathered pieces of information. Each buying group member will go through the buyer’s journey at their own pace.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Posted in Buying Cycle Conversion Conversion Optimization Customer Customer Experience Personalization Strategy. And it’s obvious why: buying cycles are longer, buyer mentalities are different, and products typically require more investigation before a purchase. 4) Employ deeper search and sort capabilities.

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B2B Marketing B2B Buying Cycle Paid Search Agency 100

NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

So, in other words, we’re talking about where they are in the buying cycle. Buying Cycle Stages. Before we go further, let’s agree on our buying cycle stages for the sake of this discussion. Classifying Your Website Pages and Offerings by Buying Cycle Stages. In what stage are they?

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Marketing Websites Buying Cycle Marketing Analytics Tools Sales Qualified Leads 100

Litmus

APRIL 11, 2022

Using form-protected content like ebooks, webinars, or white papers that sit behind a “gate” helps you collect first-party data. We’ve moved it towards trying to collect more information about subscriber interests–like who they are, and where they work,” says Mistry. Reimagine your preference center.

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Email Marketing Planning Webinar Metrics Click Rate 83

Valasys

JANUARY 17, 2020

To perform a better job of selling their products to the B2B customers, marketers must understand how to talk to them & help them at the individual stages of their buying cycles. Brands need to effectively propagate their message, propagate their vision, key features, & other relevant information that needs to be displayed.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 60

Tomorrow People

APRIL 25, 2012

This will inform the ‘where’ as well as the ‘what’ of your content – i.e. seeing where your prospects spend time on the internet will give you valuable information on where to distribute your content as well as understanding what it is they want to know about. Turn the transmitter off. The result?

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Copywriting Buying Cycle Inbound Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles 120

Sana Commerce

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We all have a place in the brain (the reticular activating system, or RAS) that acts like an information filter. Making relevance an attractive trait in information. Key differences between B2C and B2B buying behavior B2C shoppers tend to buy mostly based on emotions, personal tastes and opinions.

Personalization 98

Personalization B2B Sales Qualified Leads Business 98

markempa

OCTOBER 27, 2014

When people ask for information, they expect a rapid and personal response. Remember, people buy from people. It can be things like giving them extra relevant content they didn’t expect or, if they attended a webinar, giving them a follow-up executive summary or an extra white paper that’s relevant. Serve them.

Conversion Rate 120

Conversion Rate Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles 120

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Ask yourself and answer these questions: Do I understand my buyers’ buying cycle? You need to be able to map out your typical buyer’s buying cycle. It is the basis of any good nurturing campaign since you will building your nurturing campaign content and messages on each step of the buying cycle.

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