Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

White papers are powerful sources of lead generation. We asked our panel of white paper experts "What are the top 2 components of a white paper that is most effective to generate leads?" He is also the author of the White Paper Pundit blog. " Read on to get their insights.

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KEO Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If you’ve ever published a white paper, you’ve probably experienced one of the most challenging aspects of white paper creation: choosing the right topic. A white paper’s success strongly correlates with how many people download it and how your audience reacts to the insights it delivers.

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Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 8, 2009

What impact does this have on the readers of our white papers? How do we ensure that our white paper is not only read but also acted upon? Jonathan Kantor addresses this question and more in his new book Crafting White Paper 2.0: Crafting White Paper 2.0 Tell us about The White Paper Company.

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Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In a perfect world, sales and marketing would be tightly aligned , working toward the same goals and achieving the best possible results. But marketers and sales teams know this isn’t always easy. From this challenge, sales enablement was born. As a result, B2B companies are investing heavily in sales enablement tools.

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Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 11, 2010

Many companies are producing video white papers as online presentations based on information that would normally go into a printed white paper. We asked our panel of white paper experts "In what scenarios should video white papers be used? What are components of a good video white paper?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 11, 2023

Sure, it’s all important for your sales pipeline, but the truth is, your customers might not care. Because let’s face it, the shorter the buyer’s journey and sales process, the better for everyone involved. Help Self-Educating Customers. 9 Ways To Help Customers Manage Paid Content 1.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 6, 2010

We asked white paper experts: " How should marketers balance the need for free content (helpful for prospects decision making) Vs. the need to have content that produces a steady flow of good leads (that can directed to sales team)? He is also the author of the White Paper Pundit blog.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

How do you concisely convey the information you want to present in your white paper? How long should a white paper be to convey information and yet hold readers interest from start to end? We have invited White Paper Experts to shed light on the following question: "What is the ideal length of a white paper?"

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 24, 2013

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. Short attention span theater – The typical white paper is just too long.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

AI technologies are also creating key internal opportunities that drive better alignment between marketing and sales resulting in an increase in revenue and a healthy pipeline. Let’s look at five ways AI can help marketing and sales continue to tear down silos. Support Sales with Relevant Customer Experiences.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 27, 2009

In honor of the event, they sponsored a white paper by Yours Truly on the general topic of, um, why it’s important to make it easier for salespeople to review prospect behaviors that are captured by the demand generation system. There’s nothing new about demand generation systems making prospect behavior available to sales people.

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Only B2B

APRIL 10, 2024

MQL sits at the intersection of marketing and sales. These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. It means missing out on important buying signals, wasting money on generating leads, and ultimately losing out on potential sales. But simply generating leads isn’t enough.

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Marketing Craftmanship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Here’s why: Most firms still don’t understand that marketing content is NOT about sales. White papers lost their credibility many years ago, because so many companies turned them into self-promotional sales brochures. Most firms still don’t know how to extract or showcase their own intellectual capital.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

White papers come in all shapes and forms. Our Panel of White Paper Experts have written and reviewed thousands of white papers over the years. Which white paper stands out in their mind? Michael Stelzner's Favorite White Paper -- The Expanding Digital Universe. Jonathan Kantor.

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Content Standard

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

A new report suggests that while email maintains several critical features that drive its value, white papers prove two times more effective at driving audience conversions. White paper content is one of three forms of information that more than half of B2B buyers examine when researching a purchase. billion in sales.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

If you know content can help you reach more of your target audience, there are some ways you can increase the value of your content. Require an email address or contact information for big pieces of content, like ebooks and white papers. Gathering Leads for Sales. Ebooks & White Papers.

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Act-On

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Email nurture campaigns help you build affinity with both customers and prospects. And here’s something else to consider: Research shows that while most businesses make sales to between 5% and 20% of new customers, they close deals with 60% to 70% of existing customers. Of course, this is a quick summary of the process.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 10, 2021

Maybe this situation sounds familiar: A company with a sales team of 50 reps decides its data is stale and its customer relationship management (CRM) features don’t meet business needs. So the company begins defining requirements for new CRM software, and two months later selects a vendor.

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Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

But there are a lot of factors littering the path of lead conversion [time, sales, team, and more]. However, lead generation and lead qualification are often used interchangeably- they represent distinct yet interconnected stages within the marketing and sales funnel.

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BOP Design

JANUARY 4, 2022

As an experienced B2B marketing agency , we thrive on innovative ideas and are always on the lookout for new trends, strategies, and approaches to help our clients better connect with their target audience. Sales Pitches Disguised as Blogs. When they are looking for these bits of information, they aren’t looking for a sales pitch.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 5, 2023

The main goal for Marketing in B2B companies is to generate leads for sales teams and increasingly to deliver direct revenue. And this problem drives a deeper wedge between marketing and sales. The Bottom Line: When marketing gathers up new names from contact forms and dumps them over to sales, no one wins.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 1, 2023

Here are nine helpful strategies. To generate measurable ROI, make sure you are driving paid-click visitors to a clear and relevant call to action, such as downloading an ebook, white paper, or report; registering for a webinar; or subscribing to your email newsletter or blog posts. Fresh Content Google loves fresh content.

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NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

These incentives can take many forms, such as e-books, webinars, white papers, checklists, templates, and more. The idea behind a lead magnet is to provide value to the potential customer and to establish a relationship with them, which can lead to future sales. So, why are lead magnets the best lead generators?

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Overcomes Marketing Information Overload, Transforming Traditional White Papers into Dynamic, Personalized Engagement Tools Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today launched a new demand generation tool for B2B marketers – Alinean Interactive White Papers.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

For example, your team might tackle a set of social media posts for a retailer for the first half of their day, while during the next half, they dig into heavy research to craft a white paper for a medical equipment manufacturer. Here’s why: Image via The Center for Sales Strategy. Tightly regulated content.

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Biznology

JUNE 4, 2018

“ Tech Providers Will Pay Far More Attention to Sales Enablement” was one of “ 10 Fearless Predictions for B2B Tech Sales and Marketing in 2017 ” from Gartner technology marketing analyst Todd Berkowitz. The need for mid- and late-funnel video for sales enablement. Your sales people need to help them.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Iron Mountain needed to better connect and engage with busy executives, to help these prospects understand the potential risk mitigation and costs savings from improving eDiscovery best practices. Alinean worked with Iron Mountain subject matter experts to create the Cost Savings Advisor Interactive White Paper.

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The Point

APRIL 19, 2017

Here are 8 simple questions to help you decide whether that content is good enough. Does the topic help to qualify the prospect as someone suffering from a problem or pain point your product/service can solve? What’s the problem or challenge that your content purports to help address? There is no one, definitive answer.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 27, 2023

To help your company build practical and long-standing client retention strategies in 2023, here are some proven approaches to get started. On the marketing side, this means creating inbound content that will answer the questions of target audiences, such as informative blogs, videos, white papers, e-books, or email campaigns.

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Navigate the Channel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

B2B companies are finding success on LinkedIn by using sponsored InMail to invite prospects to webinars, posting white papers on Dynamic Ads to reach high-level decision makers. Attribution helps you narrow your focus. LinkedIn is the most effective platform for B2B leads. It makes sense to go where the leads are.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In uncertain economic times, Market Development Funds (MDF) can be a precious resource for channel partners (resellers, distributors, ISVs) looking for budget to fund sales and marketing activity. Weaving that story into content, ads, and other campaign assets will help your company stand out. Or an ad on LinkedIn.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 24, 2023

The practice of content marketing allows companies to consistently put noteworthy content out there about what they do best and how their solution(s) can help consumers solve their problems. The answer is fairly straightforward: Answer their pain point with helpful and engaging content that points them straight toward you.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

You download that white paper, and because it’s gated, you’re required to fill out a lead capture form – your name, email address, Company, title, location, phone number, name of first born…Worse, you know you’re immediately going to get that lame phone call or email follow-up: “I see you downloaded our white paper, want to talk?”.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

Some examples include: Driving Awareness Blogs Guides Social Media Lead → Customer Conversion eBooks & White Papers Customer Stories Sales Videos Email Nurture Sequences Customer Retention Help Centers Interactive Webinars Customer Newsletters Longevity of Content The value of content extends far beyond the initial investment.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 15, 2012

To fuel the demand generation program, Alinean developed the Better Way to Go Mobile Interactive White Paper , which unlike traditional static white papers, leveraged the prospect’s profile to completely personalize the white paper content, creating a customized analysis as to the prospect’s return from mobile strategy.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sales and Marketing Alignment Maintaining a clear and efficient communication line between your marketing and sales teams in ABM takes a lot of work. Factors like sales enablement and CRM work behind the scenes, carving a clear path to winning highly valuable accounts. Create personalized landing pages.

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