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Your Content Focus: Narrow vs Wide

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” Startups who are strapped for cash and resources want to know if they should go wide, trying to reach more industries or segments, or if they should narrow their focus and create additional content materials to go deeper into the segment they have already started to work with.

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How to Include Webinars in Your Content Plan

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Focus: One or more customers of your product tell their story of how it helped them overcome a problem that others in their industry also face. The longer webinars (more than 30 mins) can later be chopped down into easily digestible segments and posted on your Youtube channel. What: Case Study.

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The State of Demand Generation

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Enable (help reps increase productivity, both for sales and marketing-sourced demand). Accelerate (help sales move deals more quickly through the pipeline). Understanding the buying cycle and the key needs buyers have at each point can help marketers and sales reps. This all leads to a few things. Content Creation Challenges.

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10 Do’s and Don’ts of Partner Marketing Programs

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Be proactive and reach out to your partners to get feedback and to provide help in planning campaigns. Help your partners with tips on best practices for list segmentation (who’s a good target based on your experience) for your solution.

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Marketing Automation is More Than Technology

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The report breaks down companies into three segments: No Marketing Automation, and no processes. But how are processes helping make sure the system works? . “Companies using technology alone to solve their demand creation issues may actually experience negative return where it matters most&#.

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Why Timely Content Always Wins

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Being urgent or a hot topic doesn’t help much though, unless the content meets the needs of the reader. We’ll approach them in the next segment, when we talk about creating content that solves problems. Timely Content Perspectives. Content that answers a need will always win. Want some shortcuts ?

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A Primer on Sales Competitive Battle Cards

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So for the purposes of this post I will focus on the marketer or product marketer that has been tasked with coming up with a competitive analysis to help sales. Over the past few years I have created my share of battle cards, so let me try to codify the process I follow to help you out. My process is the following: 1. Structure.