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What Are the Top-10 Marketing Books?

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Moore) Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind (Al Ries, Jack Trout) Marketing Management (Philip Kotler, Kevin Keller) Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant (W.

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Before you jump into social media, ask yourself: Do you know who speaks on your behalf?

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What is the one sentence that best states your competitive positioning? Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and several other sites provide a unique opportunity to build relationships with your customers – previously, one message was sufficient to promote a product or service. Do you want your website included?

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B2B Market Segmentation – Part 2: How to Approach Segmentation

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What are the specific use cases of your product to realize the value customers are looking to unlock? Are there innovative or "exotic" uses of your products that you observe with new customers that might indicate a new or bigger market segment that is currently untapped? What value driver represents your best opportunities?

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

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Step Four: Foundational Elements Armed with your market entry strategy, there are three foundational elements that need to be developed to support the GTM plan: Your value proposition (why they should buy from you), your positioning (how are you better and different), and your message map that communicates your unique value proposition.

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5 Ways to Better Marketing Performance with Marketing Operations

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No wonder you get a culture clash between marketing, often focused on activities without clear link to the bottom line, and sales determined to make quota by selling product. Contrast this with your sales organization - typically the most measured and performance oriented part of the company.

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