Marketing Interactions

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Stop Asking B2B Buyers to Take Leaps of Faith with Content

Marketing Interactions

If your sales cycle runs 6 months but your campaign runs 6 weeks, in what realm of the universe is providing three content assets and then a request for a sales meeting not asking for a giant leap of faith? Campaigns may be the worst offender of leaps of faith.

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Why Sales Shuns B2B Marketing Qualified Leads

Marketing Interactions

Pre-sales cycle content. Have they accessed pre-sales content that answers their change management questions and helps them decide to fix the problem? Problem-to-solution storylines. Did they read 3 out of 5 pieces that make up a story? Did they read them in the same website session? Increase dwell time requirements.

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11 Content Marketing Insights CMOs Wish Marketers to Adopt

Marketing Interactions

Shortening the sales cycle brings faster turn over for revenue, so put that narrative to work to pull buyers forward. Sales is not your customer. Marketers can add to both the top line and the bottom. Gaining efficiency by eliminating waste contributes to lower expenses which results in an increase in margins, for example.

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