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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Download it here: [link] ) The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted the 2013 lead generation survey to better understand how B2B marketers are adjusting to new challenges, and to identify new trends and best practices. B2B marketers’ top metrics to measure marketing ROI: Cost per lead, revenue and lead volume.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Earlier this week, I was on a panel at the WIT event "The Intersection of Marketing & Technology" in McLean, VA. One of the discussions was about the dramatic changes happening in B2B marketing today and what the future will hold. The question "Is traditional B2B marketing dead?" ignited a lively discussion.

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APRIL 14, 2010

In my last post “ 5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success ” we established a simple approach to improving success in B2B marketing, starting with understanding your audience, building a strong value proposition, mapping out the buyer’s journey, building compelling messages and content, and finally, investing in robust marketing automation.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Our B2B content marketing survey is the most popular survey we have produced to date. We asked over 20,000 B2B marketing professionals to share their collective insight on B2B content marketing issues, trends, and preferences. In short: why do we care about content marketing? What are the main objectives?

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AUGUST 22, 2010

Marketing segmentation is about subdividing markets into segments of customers that have similar needs and behaviors. This way, vendors can optimize their product offering, marketing, and sales approach to meet the specific requirements of the segment better and more cost efficiently than the competition.

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MARCH 14, 2011

Saugatuck Technology's Bruce Guptill released some interesting market research predicting that by 2014 the majority of new corporate B2B software purchases will be in the form of cloud software solutions (SaaS) rather than traditional on-premise software. Here is why. But let's take a closer look. (1)

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APRIL 8, 2010

By Holger Schulze Major shifts are taking place in B2B marketing that started a few years ago but have accelerated in recent months – in the marketplace as well as inside vendor organizations. They are tuning out a lot of the marketing noise they receive which makes it harder for marketers to reach audiences the old fashioned way.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

One of my recent posts (“ The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011 ”) received a lot of great comments. The number one marketing trend for 2011, according to the 17,000 member B2B technology marketing group on LinkedIn, is the increasing integration of social media with traditional marketing tactics to drive qualified leads.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Last week, we talked about the changing B2B marketing mix (" Is Traditional B2B Marketing Dead? We are currently conducting a social media survey among B2B marketing professionals, and one of the questions is aimed at better understanding what activities marketing teams are doing more or less of than 3 years ago.

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JULY 10, 2010

We often discuss in this blog how B2B marketing is becoming more complex, and how to manage this complexity. Marketing is getting involved in many more areas that touch the customer along the buying process, multiplied by a dizzying variety of new tactics, online communications and engagement platforms.

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MAY 24, 2010

Your B2B markets are changing rapidly. Today's prospects filter out most attempts by companies to interrupt them with vendor and product focused marketing messages and sales pitches. Adapt to Stay Relevant Our entire approach to marketing has to change if we want to stay relevant and add value to the business in this new environment.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

In part one of our segmentation series , we discussed the importance of and rationale behind market segmentation. Let's take a closer look at actual implementation of market segmentation. Go to Market / Buying Preference What is your target markets' preference in procuring solutions, channel/direct preference?

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MARCH 27, 2010

Focusing on the profitable sources of revenue takes ensuring your organization, especially your marketing team, has the data mining tools, customer research, marketing automation software, and the ability to perform customer analytics. All of these initiatives fall into the domain of your marketing organization.

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JUNE 18, 2010

My last post triggered a heated debate (mostly in the LinkedIn B2B Technology Marketing Community ) about the dramatic changes we see in the B2B marketing function. It seems as if the marketing function has only recently caught on to this trend in a major way, though. Is marketing moving to a subscription based model?

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