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Vendor Selection: Writing a Good Requirements Document

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This means they’re facing more change and a less clear future than other types of buyers, and they’re less experienced with purchasing technology. But don’t think you’re writing the document for vendors. So the carefully structured, professionally managed selection process is a thing of the past. Marketers are marketers.

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B2B Marketing University Part 2: Marketing Content Has to Work Harder

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Summary: As marketers add more content to meet needs throughout the purchase cycle, they must work harder to ensure prospects actually read it. One of the emergent themes at Tuesday’s session of the B2B Marketing University was the growing importance of marketing “content”. This isn’t really a contradiction.

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VEST Report: Analytics Tops List of Upgraded Marketing Automation Features

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But the elation lasted about two minutes, since I then had to write a press release announcing it. The challenge with that is you need a “news hook”, meaning something that gives reporters a reason to write about your story. I’ll probably circle back and write a bit more about the latest data in another post.

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Blueshift Offers a Simple B2C Customer Data Platform

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It’s just over two years since I started writing about Customer Data Platforms. One thing that’s become clear since then is that only big companies will purchase a marketing database by itself. But even the B2C CDPs rely on external systems such as email agents and Web content managers to deliver the campaign messages.

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Monetate Adds Machine-Learning Based Real Time Ecommerce Personalization

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I’ve been meaning to write about them for some time but when we finally connected late last year they had a major launch coming this April, so it made sense to hold off a little longer. Customer browsing and purchase behavior are matched against this catalog. The content itself is dynamic so it can be personalized for each visitor.

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Venntive Adds Communities to Small Business Marketing Automation and CRM

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One problem with writing about a system like Venntive is evaluating its huge number of features. In some parallel universe where sleep is optional, I would have explored each function in depth before writing about it. Each score predicts visits to a different Web page, typically representing a stage in the purchase process.

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Balihoo Offers "Local Marketing Automation" for Channel Partners

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content distribution with pre-packaged campaigns in email, direct mail, mobile, online ads, print, and broadcast media. In addition to one-off campaigns, local marketers can subscribe to on-going programs such as a recurring “new movers” mailing based on purchased lists. Either is a big step beyond basic content distribution.