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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Using White Papers for Lead Generation

markempa

If youre involved in marketing to IT or financial buyers, you should consider using white papers or e-books. Im a big proponent of educational marketing, because it allows you to reach people early in their buying process. Ask why they downloaded the white paper.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: White Papers and Lead Generation, Key for BtoB Marketers

markempa

« Webinar: A Multimodal approach to Lead Nurturing for Complex Sales | Main | How to Become a Thought Leader and Attract Customers » White Papers and Lead Generation, Key for BtoB Marketers Complex sales cycles make the development of multi-modal marketing strategies critical.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Lead Generation via white papers and webinars

markempa

« Two new reports on marketing and lead generation | Main | Combine Your Cold Calling Efforts With Email Marketing » Lead Generation via white papers and webinars MarketingSherpa published a great article today on how Redhats Director of Marketing Communications, Chris Grams, broke the rules for distributing white papers and webinars.

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Branding and data – the new alliance

Biznology

Old time B2B marketers would see these two words as polar opposites in the marketing continuum and would define them as: Branding – a market awareness (hopefully positive) of the company, product and/or service achieved through advertising, PR and other forms of communication (e.g. In other words, do they know me now?

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How should B2B content differ for Business and Technical Decision Maker?

Ambal's Amusings

We asked B2B Marketing Experts the following question - "How should content that is addressed to a Technical Decision Maker be different from content that is addressed to a Business Decision Maker? Leading Lights: Marketing and PR Strategist David Meerman Scott – video interview. Ardath Albee Recommends.

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How should B2B brands engage decision makers?

Champion Communications

Mark speaks to those in the industry and looks for examples of success, he says that emails received through direct marketing ‘go straight into the bin’ ” If I am getting insight from an organisation that I have not gotten before, that is helpful. If I feel it is a hard-nosed sales pitch, it gets junked.”

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What Type of Marketing Cry-Baby are You?

Marketing Craftmanship

Cry-Baby: This marketer believes clients and prospects have a genuine interest in her company’s ideas, experience, success, etc. White papers and editorial content are poorly disguised sales pitches, and offer no helpful information or insights. That effort demands two-way conversations, and direct market engagement.