B2B Marketing Traction

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What Product Lifecycle (PLC) Means for B2B Inbound Marketing

B2B Marketing Traction

One marketing tool to use in determining which marketing strategies and inbound marketing tactics will be most effective in B2B marketing planning is your product or service lifecycle stage. Over the lifetime of a product or service, you go through different stages of introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.

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How to Do Competitive Analysis in a Crowded Industry

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For those industries where the list of competitors seems too large to research and your research budget is small or non-existent, there are cost effective ways to analyze the competition. You can survey your customers to find out which competitors were included in their review.

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4 Reasons Your Marketing Plan Saves You Money

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Approaching your marketing in a one-by-one tactical approach is not cost-effective. You may end up asking for something that is not cost effective, not necessary, or not feasible because other critical tasks need to be done with or before it. With the plan, the vendor’s prices became more cost-effective.

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Does Your Pricing Leave Money on the Table?

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What’s the best way to price your product or service for business to business (B2B) marketing? This is one of the most common questions B2B marketers have, and pricing your product or service wrong can be a disaster. Cost-Basis Pricing. But with cost-basis pricing, you may be leaving money on the table.

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5 Skills Your Marketing Consultant Must Have

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The cost was what he was used to spending when he was in a corporate marketing role, but it wasn’t in the small business’s budget. In another situation, website developers proposed a wide range of costs (thousands) for a simple website update for which my client ended up paying much less. Storytelling ability.

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How Much Should I Spend on My B2B Marketing (Part 2)

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When you budget your marketing dollars, it’s important to understand where you are in your product, service, or company life cycle. In this stage of the product, service, or company, you need to get the word out so that your buyers know you exist and understand the solution you provide. Introduction.

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Why I Hate Fear-based Selling….

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You know, the kind where the seller lets you know one way or another that if you don’t buy their product or service you’re going to lose out. I like the idea of provoking customers if I as the seller have knowledge about reducing risk, costs, or effort that my prospects don’t have. I hate fear-based selling.

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