Marketing Interactions

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B2B Tech Marketers Make the Shift From Funnels to Lifecycles

Marketing Interactions

Interactive content and personalization are two tactics that are high on marketers’ goals lists. Think about how customer retention programs that employ those tactics can also inform your customer acquisition strategies. When marketers focus on keeping customers for life, they are engaged with their customers continuously.

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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. For a litmus test, ask whether your content is valuable enough that your buyers would pay to have access to it.

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B2B Content Marketing > Going Bold or Fading to Beige?

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You’re familiar with FOMO (fear of missing out) and now FOMU (fear of messing up) and have used those tactics to ground marketing content. Emotions: The Gusto in B2B Content Marketing Tapping into emotions helps B2B buyers create mental shortcuts to make decisions more quickly.

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The Destructive Lack of Commitment in B2B Marketing

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B2B buyers overwhelmingly want control over a simpler, convenient experience unencumbered by pushy tactics and self-interested vendors. This shouldn’t be a news flash > Buyers are driving and they’re choosing the open highways, rather than the vendor-operated toll roads.

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Quit Poking the Bear with Gated B2B Content

Marketing Interactions

And search is one of the primary tactics’ buyers use to find content they’re interested in consuming, hence, your company. Making access to content easy also has benefits for both parties. Benefits of Ungated Content. SEO for organic search that’s not available to content behind a gate. Shareability and the data that goes with it.

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Revenue Teams Must Deconflict B2B Messaging

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Product managers focus on tactical product features and “cool” things they want everyone to know about—sometimes to the exclusion of the value of the outcomes from the features—which is what buyers and customers care about.

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The Value of ABM Goes Beyond Marketing

Marketing Interactions

We have all these meetings and mandates about what the company wants to accomplish and rally our teams to create strategies and execute tactics to achieve them. Even if we say we’re putting the customer front and center, usually we’re not really walking the talk.