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Misconceptions About B2B Buyer Personas

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Proving the ROI from content marketing. But boy are they worth it when you see engagement climb and can prove the ROI of content based on active contribution to pipeline velocity. Year after year I read research where marketers report their biggest challenges include: Knowing who to target and how to engage buyers.

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The Importance of Humanness in B2B Content Experiences

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This doesn’t necessarily mean they have to “do” something like take a quiz or assessment or use an ROI calculator. When you think about participation, consider how to get buyers involved in your content. It could be choosing a pathway of learning to delve deeper into a topic.

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How Marketers Can Help Reps Use Sales Content Effectively

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Marketers intent on proving ROI for content will benefit by lowering the effort for sales reps to find content. In defense against the time sink that causes, many sales reps have downloaded content to their laptops and continue to use what’s worked in the past because searching for new content is unwieldy.

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Buyer Context is the Key to Engagement

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Marketers love to tout the big ROI numbers our customers get. Small steps. Small shifts based on what your buyer already sees to help them see it a bit differently. The less effort, the less of a stretch, the better. The problem is with the visualization for those who have no idea it’s true or what that might look like.

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The Blandscape of B2B Marketing Content Needs a Bit of Emotion

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And most importantly, your job isn’t on the line if the decision doesn’t deliver that ROI you promised. Not to mention earn the willingness to adopt from those 1,000 users. While you can buy a house in a matter of days, it’s likely that buying the technology will take months. Both purchases are emotional—but the emotions are different.

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B2B Brand Marketing & Demand Gen: Better Together

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Yes, buyers must evaluate value, ROI, TCO, implementation, the likelihood of achieving desired outcomes and other more rational factors, but if they aren’t emotionally involved, you’ll lose the deal—or it will stall because they won’t have the confidence to advance. B2B buyers are both emotional and rational. Gosh, I hope not. You need both.

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B2B Tech Marketers Make the Shift From Funnels to Lifecycles

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In this blog, I’ll cover best practices for B2B marketers to make the shift from funnels to lifecycles to increase ROI and help your customers stick with you for the long run. This may seem doable when a company is small, but as customer volume grows, so do those requirements just to maintain a consistency in monthly recurring revenues (MRR).