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B2B Content Marketing > Going Bold or Fading to Beige?

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Would it surprise you that a whopping 1% of decision makers believe that B2B marketing shows a meaningful understanding of the human experience? Going back to the stat above – less than 2 respondents find B2B marketing meaningful for humans. If this doesn’t concern you as a B2B content marketer, it should. Read that again.

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Marketers Need a Mindset Reset for B2B Personalization

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Personalization in B2B marketing has been on an upward intention trend for a while now. Despite marketers’ best intentions, nearly half say delivering personalized and relevant content is a top business challenge. Forrester Business Technographics® Marketing Survey, 2020). But it’s not working out very well.

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B2B Brand Marketing & Demand Gen: Better Together

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I just read a recommendation that B2B organizations should allocate 46% of budget to brand marketing and 54% to demand gen. The reasoning is based on an estimation that at any given time, only 5% to 10% of customers are in-market for a category. But I see others breaking the marketing spectrum down like this: Brand – awareness.

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Content-Driven Conversations: The Future of B2B Engagement

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Marketers say one of their biggest challenges is creating content that engages and compels their buyers. Given that Forrester finds that 62% of buyers say they can develop selection criteria or finalize a vendor list based solely on digital content, marketers must use technology to effectively grow engagement with buyers.

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3 Pivots B2B Marketing Strategies Need to Create Compelling Experiences

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This happens because B2B marketing is often based on a set of one-off, one-way interactions defined by what we believe the audience should do, whether it’s fill out our form, register for our webinar, share our blog post, follow us on social media, and more actions focused on us. Why would you ever want to give it to them?

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The Relevance Maturity Matrix Helps B2B Marketers Close the Gap

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According to Forrester Principal Analyst Mary Shea, “Your buyers want contextual interactions with both human and digital assets across a holistic, but non-linear journey.”. 93% of marketers think personalization at scale is attainable but 58% aren’t sure how to do so. A good customer experience must be relevant.

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Quit Poking the Bear with Gated B2B Content

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This is a question that comes up repeatedly for B2B marketers and one we can’t seem to answer definitively. Forrester finds that buyer interactions have increased to 27 (across both marketing and sales) from 17 only two years ago. The post Quit Poking the Bear with Gated B2B Content appeared first on Marketing Interactions.

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