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There’s a new B2B mandate

Canadian Marketing Association

According to Forrester Consulting (2014): Almost half (49%) of B2B buyers prefer making work-related purchases on B2C websites. Everything is evolving to P2P, largely fed by social media. Note: CMA Members can download a free copy of CMA's newest paper, P2P Marketing: The New B2B Mandate, off the CMA website.

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Building Content Marketing Strategy – 10 Steps

Marketing Insider Group

sources through the purchase funnel according to Peter Burris from Forrester. Social media can be used to turn a B2B transaction into a P2P relationship. B2B customers today use an average of 7.6 how’s that for an attribution challenge). Think like a publisher.

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B2B vs. B2C Marketing: Four Myths, Six Differences, and One Key Similarity

Webbiquity

Actually, the B2B market is about twice as large, according to Forrester. Regardless of whether one is marketing toothpaste or enterprise software, all marketing is ultimately P2P (person to person). This makes sense when you consider the number of layers in the production-to-purchase process. One Key Similarity.

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Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble | social crm.

Convince & Convert

This research raises two interesting questions: - Forrester published research earlier this year that said Facebook users (rather than Twitter users) were the source of much of the New Influencer population. It's P2P and ONLY “personal&# brands exist in my Twitter stream. Which do you believe? This seems very strange to me.

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