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Are White Papers Dead?

The ROI Guy

Traditional white papers are likely the staple of your content marketing portfolio, and for good reason. According to a recent IDG survey, 84% of buyers leveraged white papers as a key resource to help them make a purchase decision. Your current white papers just don’t have the same impact as they once had … but why?

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Two Cities, One Marketer: Recapping Marketo and Oracle MME in 14 Quick Observations

SnapApp

You might remember it as the week that both Marketo and Oracle/Eloqua hosted their massive marketing conferences, one in San Francisco and one in Las Vegas. . Lead-gated white papers may not be dead, but they are on life support. We gave away 300 Mimosas in about 90 minutes at Marketo. Mimosas for the win.

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How the Heck Do You Calculate the Return from Your Content Marketing Program?

NuSpark Consulting

White Papers and E-Books. The goals for white papers and e-books can be to: Generate qualified leads. You create a landing page that convinces people to give you their contact information in exchange for downloading the white paper. But that’s a subject for another blog post. Goal Assessment.

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Five Keys to Integrating Your Interactive Value Marketing Tools with Your Marketing Automation Platform

The ROI Guy

Shares a copy of the assessment report – We’ve all gotten that follow-up call, “I noticed you downloaded a white paper from our site”. One large database vendor customer leverages a Cloud Business Value Assessment tool to fuel outreach marketing campaigns, resulting in hundreds of new incremental opportunities each month.

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How to increase your conversion rate in email marketing

Conversica

If someone downloaded a specific white paper or viewed a video, reference that action in your messages to them. Leveraging marketing automation tools such as Conversica, Marketo, Pardot, Eloqua and Salesforce to manage email communications and lead scoring will help ensure that you are engaging the most important leads.

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Customer Intelligence: The Secret Treasure from your Value Selling and Marketing Tools

The ROI Guy

As well, this marketing team smartly uses quarterly data mining reports and aggregated customer responses to write research reports, marketing white papers providing proprietary insights and sentiment on the business goals, challenges and risks responses.

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How to Woo B2B Buyers With Interactive Assessments

SnapApp

Rather than asking your prospect to slog through a 30-page white paper, you can offer real-time, personalized results that add value through a 5-question quiz. Any white paper or long-form asset you create can be repurposed into at least one interactive assessment, and probably several. is perfect top-of-funnel content.