B2B Marketing Traction

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3 New Promotional Product Campaign Ideas for Your B2B Marketing

B2B Marketing Traction

Are you wondering if promotional products or giveaways make a difference? Last week Flora Taub , my friend and promotional products rep for Geiger in Southern California, sent me an email with a fun new idea – selfie sticks! Get some customer-produced video testimonials about your products or services?

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Customer Loyalty, Your Brand and Revenue – The Perfect Storm

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Since today’s buyers rely on the recommendations of other buyers to decide what product or service to purchase, your customer’s recommendation of your brand means more than it ever did before. If, after a purchase, you start slamming new customers with more solicitations to buy more, you risk irritating your customer.

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How to Do Competitive Analysis in a Crowded Industry

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One reason to focus on competitors who are top online search performers is that, by 2010, 93% of B2B buyers started their purchase decision by doing an online search for suppliers ( Booz & Company B2B Marketing Survey ). Chances are that the top search performers are getting most of the market share.

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How to Market to Chief Information Officers (CIOs)

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Everyone wants to sell their technology services and products to CIOs, but many CIOs are expert at avoiding solicitations. The CIO job is to reduce risk and improve productivity while at the same time staying within budget. Therefore, a CIO’s decision to purchase your product or service is not made lightly.

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If There’s One Thing Constant About Marketing, It’s Change

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Someone who wants to buy a product or service now has a whole world to shop in (online) or at least to investigate what they want to buy before they buy it. a visit to a store and a purchase, and 3.) the customer’s experience using the product purchased. Why has marketing changed since 2000? Disruptive Innovation.

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Technology Marketing Has Always Had a Zero Moment of Truth

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Before the Internet, consumers would see an ad (the stimulus), go to the store and buy the product (first moment of truth) and use the product (second moment of truth). One of the key factors of the technology buyer’s purchase decision is a peer referral or review. Why ZMOT is Not That New for Technology Companies.

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How to Love Your Customers with Inbound Marketing

B2B Marketing Traction

Check out HubSpot’s Make Love Not Spam campaign launched today, complete with video, branded items for purchase, eBook, presentation slides, all culminating in a call to attend INBOUND conference in Boston on August 19-22, 2013. (I Differentiate your company and products. I captured key points of the video below.). Be original.