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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. What’s a sales cycle, you ask? Understanding Sales Cycles. Therefore, the sales cycle will be much longer.

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Buyer Experience Innovation: Why B2B CEO’s Must Make It Their Top Priority

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia.   For many B2B CEO’s, they are witnessing the conventional strategies associated with sales and marketing being dismissed and tossed aside by buyers at an alarming rate.  The pressure to achieve top line revenue growth and profitable growth strategies remain as the key challenges B2B CEO’s face today. 

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Macro Trends Transforming the Buyer Experience

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia.   Lauren further adds that a confluence of trends is changing the way buyers experience buying decisions and purchases.    Lauren notes that another key macro trend is that sales cycles are longer in a down economy, a trending that is most likely consistent with other down economy cycles

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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

Wikipedia defines content marketing as “an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases.” Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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HELP! My CMO Is Big on Hacking!

LEADership

Going beyond the Wikipedia definition, Ott says growth hacking actually applies to companies of all ages and sizes. Unlike in the B2C world where larger volumes and shorter sales cycles allow for a large customer base, things are different in the B2B world, as we know. It’s all about the customer’s experience with your product.

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Making Your Industrial Website Be All It Can Be

Industrial Marketing Today

Source: Wikipedia ). This is very important for manufacturers and industrial companies since their customers’ sales cycles tend to be long and complex with several people involved in the decision making process. Carter (he was awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Award for his efforts) when he was with N.

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Top 35 B2B Marketing Posts for May 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Content SEO , May 18, 2010 Longer sales cycles due to more complex products and services and business purchasing processes often require more information. Craft Content to the Buying Cycle: Stage 4, the Invested Buyer - The Content Factor , May 3, 2010 Have you ever been solicited by a company that you already do business with?