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Crossing the Divide: The Art of Closing the Sale

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Educate me with new ideas or perspectives Producing educational content for your audiences pulls a lot of marketing weight -- and it contributes to sales, too. Say you’re a small accounting firm that works primarily with small businesses. This may feel an awful lot like giving away your knowledge for free.

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Why Your Technology Firm Needs a Content Marketing Strategy

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The key to marketing success online is educating prospects. If a technology firm is going to have a successful online marketing campaign, it needs to revolve around the educational content being produced. The firm that does the best job educating them is often the one that wins the business. Content is king. Why, you ask?

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5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success

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In the “old days”, the mainstream marketing approach was to interrupt and engage prospects, educate them on the vendors offering and move them through the sale cycle towards a transaction – a very vendor and product centric approach. This has profound implications on marketing and the way companies engage with prospects.

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The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011

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Our B2B marketing community agrees that providing sales with not only the right leads, but compelling content, sales tools, and education is going to be more critical as a competitive weapon in 2011. Your competitors are catching up on the latest lead generation and nurturing tactics.

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The Brave New World of B2B Marketing - Are You Ready?

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They educate themselves on the nature of their business problem, possible solution options, available vendors and products. Clearly presented, educating the reader along every step of their decision making process. Power Shift Knowledge is power, and the balance of power is clearly shifting from vendors to the customer.

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A Simple B2B Marketing Framework

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The framework starts at the bottom with the “Market Knowledge Layer” - the foundational aspects of understanding the market opportunity and customer problem - and then works its way up to tactical execution of marketing programs along the customer life cycle.

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Put an End to Flying Blind: A Ten-Step Process for Creating a Go-to-Market Tactical Plan

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Step One: Working from an Ecosystem Map The first step is to understand the lay of the land. About Laura Patterson Laura Patterson’s marketing and sales career spans nearly 30 years having worked for both large public companies such as State Farm and Motorola and as well as start ups. Enabling the sales team for success 9.

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