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Why B2B Marketers are Critical to Revenue Operations

Marketing Interactions

Marketers produce or oversee/govern much of the content used across the customer continuum, including for brand awareness, demand generation, ABM, sales outreach and follow-up, customer engagement, social media, events, advocacy programs, and more.

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The State of the B2B Conversation: Disconnected

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Only 24% say they’ve shifted the way they’re driving conversations in their demand generation and sales enablement content strategies in response. With such a high level of agreement, you’d think that B2B marketers would be moving swiftly to impact and own that 57%—more than half—of the buying process. But that’s just not the reality.

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The Value of ABM Goes Beyond Marketing

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We target them based on what we want to achieve rather than making them the hub from which we pivot. It takes campaigns out of the equation and focuses marketing, sales, and service attention on helping our target list of accounts get the job done—from start to finish. We’re in the same boat. It’s that simple.

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B2B Brand Marketing & Demand Gen: Better Together

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Demand marketing is said to be focused on short-term acquisition – those 5% – 10% of buyers currently in-market. If you’re doing demand generation from a buyer-first perspective, I’d wager that it also serves as brand marketing. This confuses me. Why are the two concepts viewed as silos to be addressed separately?

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Put B2B Content in Context Across the Customer Lifecycle

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Even if we look just at demand generation, marketers say content is much more effective in the early stages than it is at the mid and late stages of the buying process. Yet they’re using it for every phase of the customer lifecycle.

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The Value of Content Operations for Committed B2B Marketers

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Where the demand generation team may need a white paper to generate leads, the sales team may need parts of it to support crucial conversations at specific stages in the buying process.

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The Relevance Maturity Matrix Helps B2B Marketers Close the Gap

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Unfortunately, the following recent research findings indicate not a lot has changed since I wrote my book four years ago: 55% of B2B marketers somewhat or strongly agree that they have difficulty getting their message and content in front of their target audience. Bridge the Gap , 2018, Ytel]. Widen Connectivity Report , 2018.