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Digital B2B Marketing

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Marketing Is NOT About Relationships

Digital B2B Marketing

Develop a relationship. Relationships take time. You talk about relationships as a marketer. However, you don’t really mean a relationship. Business Relationships that Matter In the vast majority of enterprise B2B companies, relationships that matter are between people.

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Has Your Passion Been Lost In Your Marketing Process?

Digital B2B Marketing

That is what relationship marketing should be about. As personal relationships in your business are replaced by machine-personalized communications, your passion has been lost. In B2B marketing, you build relationships around knowledge and a common interest. Wow, that is making a connection.

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4 B2B Marketing Myths

Digital B2B Marketing

The purpose of B2B marketing is not leads, relationships, content or branding. Business and personal lives are blending and as business people we are always connected. Marketing is About Relationships Again, marketers are focusing on the journey. Marketing is not about relationships. Yeah, content is like that.

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Selfless Giving and Selfish Companies: A Social Media Conundrum

Digital B2B Marketing

Just like personal gifts with strings attached are not as appreciated, when we see the strings attached, they lose their impact. Companies need to give of themselves in order to earn the relationship they desire from individuals. A fuss is made about the return on social media because return is, in fact, expected.

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A Brief Marketing Break: #NicheAmnesty and 14 Things About Me

Digital B2B Marketing

Stacey Herbert started a Niche Amnesty challenge on DIYBlogger last week and asked bloggers to share a more personal side for a change. In my personal life, I’m always running behind. I believe social media should be about being social and developing relationships. The one I choose was a digital agency, and it just fit.

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A Nontraditional Application of Triberr: B2B Marketing

Digital B2B Marketing

One of my personal goals in social media is to engage with people interested in modern B2B marketing. When I read someone’s blog AND they read mine, comments and discussion have more context and better relationships are formed. No, despite the reputation Triberr has with some people, these points are not contradictory.

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Selling your Lead Generation Content

Digital B2B Marketing

note: I do not have a relationship with Riverbed or, to my knowledge, any of Riverbed's competitors]. Personally, I would not, here are a couple reasons why this fails the content selling test. Link to the registration page. Would you pay $39.99 for this report? It immediately looks like it is out-of-date information.