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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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This article outlines a ten-step process any size company can use to successfully enter a new market. What are the characteristics of the ideal customer and their buying process? The customer buying pipeline provides insight into how to engage prospective customers to accelerate consideration and preference.

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Why Your Technology Firm Needs a Content Marketing Strategy

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The key to marketing success online is educating prospects. This educational process replaces the old golf course method of developing trust. Online trust is developed through the educational process, and therefore the most trusted firm is the one that gets selected. Content is king. Why, you ask?

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5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success

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Prospects and customers are becoming more sophisticated and better informed than ever before. This has profound implications on marketing and the way companies engage with prospects. Build call to actions into each content piece to encourage your prospect to keep engaging with you as they move through the buying cycle.

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

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Today's prospects filter out most attempts by companies to interrupt them with vendor and product focused marketing messages and sales pitches. As a result, many vendors don't show up on prospects' radars anymore - unless they are actively sought out, they are often simply not invited to the party anymore.

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A Framework for B2B Customer Segmentation – Part 1: Why Segment Your Market?

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This argument is a fallacy that doesn't recognize the impact of dramatically higher conversion rates and capture of higher value customers within target segments, or the opportunity cost of deviating from your strategy and core competencies by going after less than ideal prospects outside of the target segment.

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The Top-5 B2B Marketing Trends for 2012

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Social media will continue to be more tightly integrated into traditional tactics such as email, webcasts, and content assets as an additional channel to broaden the reach of marketing messages and drive conversations with prospects. 2 – Content marketing Content marketing went mainstream in 2011. In short, they are more profitable.

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A Simple B2B Marketing Framework

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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. In my mind, this common thread should be the customer’s buying process (instead of the vendor’s planning hierarchy).