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How to Validate Your Messaging and Positioning to Vet Your Story | What’s Your Edge?

Vision Edge Marketing

A successful story demands more than creative flair—it requires rigorous research , customer-centricity, and validation. Business too can harness the power of validation research, a form of feedback and testing, to ensure key messages resonate with the intended customers and prospects.

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How to Create an Effective B2B Case Study

KoMarketing Associates

In fact, data shows that “89% of B2B researchers use the internet in their research process and they conduct 12 searches prior to engaging on a specific brand’s site.”. Enter: case studies. But, how do you create a B2B case study that supports your content marketing strategy ?

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Two Ways To Make Your Case Studies Stand Out

B2B Marketing Directions

Earlier this month, Michael Brenner published a great post at the Marketing Insider Group blog describing how to create compelling customer case studies. However, recent research suggests that the value potential buyers ascribe to case studies has declined. That was down from 72% in the 2016 edition of the survey.

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How to map your selling process to the way your B2B customers buy: A case study

Martech

Buyers do most of their initial research online instead of directly talking to a supplier. They also produced a stream of helpful content, like white papers and case studies, intended to demonstrate Finish Thompson’s expertise and help customers and prospects learn how to solve their fluid movement problems.

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CASE STUDY: Contact Discovery Helps Elementum Eliminate Manual Research

DealSignal

Case Study: How Elementum Eliminated Manual Contact Research with DealSignal. It was challenging because their target buyer can vary greatly from industry to industry and even company to company, so the team was wasting a lot of time on manual research. Read the case study. Marketing Manager, Elementum.

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Four Steps to Creating Stronger Customer Case Studies

B2B Marketing Directions

Customer case studies have been a core part of the B2B content marketing mix for years. In the latest content marketing survey by the Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs, 61% of the B2B respondents said they are using case studies in their content marketing program. How difficult or complex was it?

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27 Content Distribution Ideas to Promote Primary Research

Hinge Marketing

“How can I use research as marketing content?” Today, about 1 in 5 B2B companies are publishing primary research and using it to reach new audiences, generate leads, and as validation for their services. With so few companies taking advantage, primary research can be the secret weapon in your content strategy.