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B2B Content Marketing > Going Bold or Fading to Beige?

Marketing Interactions

85% “I respect brands that aren’t scared to have an opinion and take a disruptive position on the industry.” B2B organizations may think they’re buyer centric but they prioritize product truths over human truths. This is because poor content is perceived as a reflection of the product’s value. Speak to them personally.

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Current B2B Content Marketing Challenges to Beat

Marketing Interactions

Tied for Content Marketing Challenge #5: Differentiating our products/services from the competition (36%). Unfortunately for most of us, the product our company sells is likely not the only one of its kind. So instead of getting mired down in a product bakeoff with your competitors, take a different approach.

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How Marketers Can Help Reps Use Sales Content Effectively

Marketing Interactions

Most marketers treat content like a tactic, not a product offering. Content truly focused on what your buyers and customers need to know becomes integrated with your products—just represented by media that you create and publish. Just as your products continue to be viable year after year, so should your content that relates to them.

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Revenue Teams Must Deconflict B2B Messaging

Marketing Interactions

Marketing creates messaging to position the company in market, draw attention to the brand and create awareness and advancement for prospective buyers and across the customer continuum. Marketing redesigns the website in preparation for a big, new product update. That’s no longer true. Confusion is a problem.

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Put B2B Content in Context Across the Customer Lifecycle

Marketing Interactions

To keep this simple, I posit that every time a buyer or customer interacts with your content, their context shifts. Of course, it’s truly difficult to nail context if you haven’t done the work to understand your buyers and customers at different points in the life cycle. Assumptions are clearly not working. If not, it should.

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B2B Nurturing for Net New vs. Existing Customers

Marketing Interactions

With every interaction, people learn something that shifts their context and comprehension, whether forward or backward, positively, or negatively. It’s subtle, but it’s a difference that your buyers and customers will notice based on context and their familiarity with your product. It’s not a static place in time.

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