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Why Your Marketing Plan Needs A Content Strategy, Not Just SEO

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.” With changes made by other search engines (especially Google) this year, websites that have more content and engagement with visitors on the site and in social media will rank higher than those that rely on what are now outdated SEO tricks and techniques. In the hub and spoke system, your website and a strategic blog are the hub.

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Today’s B2B Marketer Must BAT, not BANT

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What is marketing’s role before it hands off a lead to sales? These are things that marketing needed to identify before they could qualify a lead. It turns out others agree with me – see these articles and posts on the downfall and realities of BANT: Why BANT no longer applies to B2B lead qualification.

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7 Ways to Get Better Results from Your B2B eNewsletter

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Add value for your readers by providing business how-to’s? Add value with personal how-to’s such as stress management, leadership, time management and/or health tips? You can achieve many different objectives with an email newsletter. Provide news about your company and employees? Build a relationship with your customers?

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Positioning is Key Factor for Social Media (and All Marketing) Success

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Positioning is one of the basic marketing principles that leads to success. You need to understand what value you provide to your customers and then leverage it. If you understand your competitors’ strengths and weaknesses, you can position your company’s value-add to create a competitive advantage.

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4 Surprising Ways B2B Marketing Campaigns Benefit Business

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The campaigns we’ve done for clients generated leads and revenue, but they also generated energy with the business owners, employees, suppliers and their community. They provide others with jobs and add value through their products and services. Great creative campaigns “raise all boats,” meaning they uplift us all.

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Increase Wallet Share by Engaging Your Customers

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One important question B2B marketers have is, “How can I increase sales to customers (also known as ‘increasing wallet share’)?” Bain & Company’s study also showed that a 5% increase in customer retention can lead to profit increase of 25-100%. Identify points of friction and resolve them!

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B2B Marketing Survey Says Email and Twitter Work

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The survey, the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report by Optify, analyzed over 62 million visits and more than 350,000 leads from 600+ small and medium-sized B2B websites. According to the Optify survey, Twitter leads have a higher conversion rate than organic search. Contact New Incite today.