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Top-7 Challenges for B2B Marketers

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Especially the top-3 challenges have grown significantly from 2009 to 2010: 1) Generating high-quality leads (from 69% in 2009 to 78% today) - Today's B2B marketers are tackling this issue with processes and technologies such as marketing automation and lead scoring in an attempt to only deliver qualified, truly sales ready leads.

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

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Adapt to Stay Relevant Our entire approach to marketing has to change if we want to stay relevant and add value to the business in this new environment. Steps to Surviving the Transition - And Thriving in the New Marketing World So while the idea is pretty simple, execution is not all that trivial in complex B2B environments.

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A Simple B2B Marketing Framework

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The goal is to attract interest that converts into qualified leads which you can follow up with and/or nurture over time. (2) 2) Lead Nurturing – Leads that are not sales ready need to be nurtured with the goal of guiding prospects through their buying decision process with educational and actionable content.

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5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success

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A simple 5 step program can help you refocus your marketing efforts and adjust to the new requirements for B2B marketing success: Step 1 – Understand Your Audience Customer focus begins with understanding your customer and their market environment. What business problems do they face?

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Before you jump into social media, ask yourself: Do you know who speaks on your behalf?

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But, even before you get started and promote your company in this new online environment and create customized conversations with your customers and other stakeholders, you must consider who can “speak” on behalf of your company. By Debbie Laskey The topic on everyone’s mind these days is social media this and social media that.

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B2B Market Segmentation – Part 2: How to Approach Segmentation

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For example, how do I know whether an organization is an early adopter or laggard without investing a tremendous amount of research (that often leads to ambiguous answers anyway)? Location Are customers in certain locations more likely to buy, based on ease of access, local market conditions, regulatory environments?

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8 Tips for Marketing SaaS and Software in the Cloud

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With powerful content assets that lead, just like breadcrumbs, from problem to solution. (4) The cloud environment makes it easier for you than ever to test your approach in real time and make tweaks - take advantage of it! This path needs to be made painfully easy for prospects to travel along.