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Is Your White Paper a Sales Pitch in Disguise?

Writing on the Web

It doesn’t matter what you call your information (white paper/eBook, microsite/landing page), what matters is using information wisely to get found, get known and get clients. Is Your White Paper a Sales Pitch in Disguise? When was the last time you read a white paper that added real value to your research process?

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity

But, at the end of the day, they need to generate “leads” that get fed into some kind of offline sales process—just like most b2b [and many b2c] companies do. Additionally, every one of our posts has a quick link to Delicious, Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon. It’s where you rant after sales calls (like this one).

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Why Use a WP Sales Page Template?

Writing on the Web

Last Thursday, I interviewed Suzanne Bird-Harris , a programmer who developed the WP Sales Page template. So when she says this is next to impossible to create a good-looking sales page in Wordpress without using a sales page template, I believe her. Download a free report, white paper, or ebook/ ecourse. Enter a contest.

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Mapping Content to the Sales Funnel AND Buyer types

Buzz Marketing for Technology

You often hear about the concept of mapping content to the sales funnel (especially in B2B Marketing) but it’s not so common in practice. This would include eBooks, Research, White papers, etc. What’s been your experience with mapping content to the sales funnel or buyer types? I would love to know. Email this to a friend?

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Mapping Content to the Sales Funnel AND Buyer types

Buzz Marketing for Technology

You often hear about the concept of mapping content to the sales funnel (especially in B2B Marketing) but it’s not so common in practice. This would include eBooks, Research, White papers, etc. What’s been your experience with mapping content to the sales funnel or buyer types? I would love to know. Email this to a friend?

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How Social Media Changed the Sales Cycle into the Buying Cycle

Webbiquity

Once they developed a short list of vendors for consideration, they contacted the companies (using phones, which were connected via wires) and the companies sent them (printed) sales collateral by mail (postal, that is). Then sales people would contact the prospects and use a “consultative&# sales process.

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

Webbiquity

Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system. Divided into six sections, as an appetizer the book starts off with eMarketing Essentials , the “why&# of using content marketing for complex sales. Share this on del.icio.us.