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Stop Asking B2B Buyers to Take Leaps of Faith with Content

Marketing Interactions

One persona is visiting your website, but your content is written to engage another. Marketing sends an MQL to sales and the rep starts over as if there’s no relationship established with the company. They just can’t make the leap as the context doesn’t apply to them. With all the data we have, this is kind of criminal.

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Why Sales Shuns B2B Marketing Qualified Leads

Marketing Interactions

And, before you start yelling that you “have” to send everyone to sales, I’ve heard this antiquated notion shared by marketers in a variety of companies. Usually, these are sales driven companies that tolerate marketing as the fluffy cost center but don’t trust them with prospects beyond the form fill. Most companies do not.

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The Gap Between Interest and B2B Intent Data in Marketing

Marketing Interactions

Once they engage with your company, the intent score swings to have more weight based on branded interactions—visits to your website, branded keyword search, targeted display ad engagement, and more. No indicated awareness your company exists on their active radar. Unfortunately. The intent data lacks specificity.

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The Importance of Humanness in B2B Content Experiences

Marketing Interactions

How we want people to “perceive” our companies goes to branding, positioning, messaging, and, most of all, our communications and content. As the quest for personalization increases, B2B marketers are told they must focus on the people, not the company. Marketing is all about perception. Don’t Confuse Personalization for Humanness.

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Current B2B Content Marketing Challenges to Beat

Marketing Interactions

Unfortunately for most of us, the product our company sells is likely not the only one of its kind. Most companies have brand guidelines. As a case in point, many sales reps don’t use their company’s website with customers because they feel it’s too much “marketing fluff” that’s not meaningful. (If

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Why Marketers Must Have Customer Conversations

Marketing Interactions

Know your audience has become a rallying cry behind the concept of creating compelling buyer and customer experiences and becoming customer-centric companies. You will need their buy-in to use personas successfully in your company.]. But how many B2B marketers can say they truly KNOW their customers? Data Can Be Misleading.

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Quit Poking the Bear with Gated B2B Content

Marketing Interactions

And search is one of the primary tactics’ buyers use to find content they’re interested in consuming, hence, your company. Given the content they’re viewing on your website, which CTA makes the most sense at that time? SEO for organic search that’s not available to content behind a gate. Shareability and the data that goes with it.

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