Remove marketing-lead

Chris Koch

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How social media will change lead generation in B2B

Chris Koch

The era of the sales process beginning with a lead is over. The number of B2B buyers who are ready to buy as soon as they engage with our marketing is small—and social media will make it even smaller. We are trying to generate demand during this stage, not create leads, because these people aren’t ready to become leads.

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Thought leadership is still dead; long live idea marketing

Chris Koch

Then Gartner did what it always does; it coined an acronym: TLM, or Thought Leadership Marketing. Having been a journalist for years, I know that these acronyms lead even the most feeble-minded of us journos to the next obvious question: What do you mean when you say (insert acronym here)? Idea marketing isn’t easy.