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Top-7 Challenges for B2B Marketers

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2) Generating a high volume of leads (35% to 44%) - Certainly a big challenge in an environment of shrinking marketing budgets and declining productivity of traditional marketing tactics. This situation makes persona-based content marketing more critical than ever.

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A Simple B2B Marketing Framework

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Pragmatic Marketing Framework One of the best known frameworks in product marketing is from Pragmatic Marketing. Very clean and structured, it lists all major areas that need to be designed, built, and managed by product marketing and product management.

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8 Tips for Marketing SaaS and Software in the Cloud

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2) Re-focus messaging from product to buyer While more direct access to the decision maker and buying authority may simplify the decision process to some extent, it requires marketing to better understand the underlying business problem the cloud solution is solving. This path needs to be made painfully easy for prospects to travel along.

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The Brave New World of B2B Marketing - Are You Ready?

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They educate themselves on the nature of their business problem, possible solution options, available vendors and products. Today's prospects filter out most attempts by companies to interrupt them with vendor and product focused marketing messages and sales pitches. B2B buyers are more sophisticated than ever.

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The Top-5 B2B Marketing Trends for 2012

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Segmentation is critical as vendors evolve from technology-focused business models to customer-needs driven product development, sales, marketing, and operations. 2 – Content marketing Content marketing went mainstream in 2011. The benefits of segmentation are substantial.

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The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011

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2 – Focus on content marketing (content mapped to personas, buyer's journey, vertical, etc) Content marketing is going mainstream in 2011. This also means that more stringent demands for proof of ROI and revenue impact will be placed on social media investment. You want to be the source buyers are flocking to for this high-value content.

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Put an End to Flying Blind: A Ten-Step Process for Creating a Go-to-Market Tactical Plan

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These three elements will serve as the foundation for every subsequent market sales asset, such as product literature, public and analyst relations material, sales presentations and tools, website content, white papers, educational events, search engine key words and so on. It has been reviewed and approved.

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