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Thursday, September 2, 2010
If we've said it once, we've said it tons of times here on the Savvy B2B Marketing blog – to connect with today's B2B buyers, you need to produce and make easily accessible a range of content that guides prospects through the buying cycle. After all, it's where the research process often begins.
 
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Whether it’s a case study, best practice guide or white paper, PDFs are great for sharing content on the web. Mapping your marketing to the b2b buy cycle [link]. More cycle mapping for you again, this time making sure your marketing is in line with your customers’ decision stages. Top Tweeting. 8211; [link].
 
Thursday, August 19, 2010
With an educational goal in mind, it was natural to create a microsite offering a diversity of content in several formats, such as podcasts, video, eBooks, and white papers. Did you map these to the buying process? First and foremost, the site is largely educational so it's geared toward the early stage of the buying decision.
 

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One of the key principals he shared was the process of mapping content to the way your customers buy.  One of the things I did at Aplicor was develop buyer personas, map the buying process, industry, and other factors.  Today, Find New Customers hosted a webinar with Jon Miller, VP, Marketing at Marketo.  would have. 
Here's the question on my mind: How are ebooks different from white papers, and how do you decide which one to use? Ebooks seem to be all the rage, but I am strong proponent of a (well-written) white paper as well. In many ways, white papers and ebooks are similar: Both should be targeted to a specific reader.
Here's the question on my mind: How are ebooks different from white papers, and how do you decide which one to use? Ebooks seem to be all the rage, but I am strong proponent of a (well-written) white paper as well. In many ways, white papers and ebooks are similar: Both should be targeted to a specific reader.
thought it would be helpful to show how a buyer persona comes into play when creating a specific content asset, in this case a white paper. When I ask clients about the audience for a white paper, I sometimes hear: "the technical and business decision makers" (i.e., Align with the buying stage.
They can brainstorm titles for white papers all day, but not be confident that one content theme will be any more effective than another. Tags: B2B Buying Cycle Business to Business (B2B) Content Strategy I talk with B2B companies who are on board with content marketing as a concept, but don't know where to start.
A survey by Spiceworks reveals that IT pros--key influencers in B2B buying cycles--are increasingly resistant to downloading white papers, because of the registration forms. Tags: lead generation thought leadership white papers
Want to increase your email open rate, white paper download rate, or registrations at your next speaking gig? Tags: B2B Buying Cycle Better Corporate Writing Create a catchy title by turning the problem you solve on its head. read more.
Seems basic enough, but is this really common practice with white papers? Jonathan Kantor provides a list of white papers each Friday in his blog, The White Paper Pundit. They are not B2B white papers, but it's still an interesting exercise. So what did I find? What makes a good call to action?
In Is The White Paper Dead for B2B Marketing? Paul summed up a conversation he had with the Bloom Group, which is telling its clients to stop producing white papers. Paul goes on to propose microsites and eBooks as alternatives to white papers. Eccolo Media 2009 B2B Technology Collateral Survey Report 3.
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.