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

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This way, vendors can optimize their product offering, marketing, and sales approach to meet the specific requirements of the segment better and more cost efficiently than the competition. With tighter segmentation, vendors can better satisfy customers and produce more revenue in shorter amounts of time, at lower cost.

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5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success

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By Holger Schulze Major shifts are taking place in B2B marketing that started a few years ago but have accelerated in recent months – in the marketplace as well as inside vendor organizations. Prospects and customers are becoming more sophisticated and better informed than ever before. And today’s customers are busier than ever.

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Lead Generation Checklist - Part 1: Conversations, Not Campaigns

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The previous transactional approach isn't working anymore, prospects dont want to be sold to but engaged in a conversation about their challenges and learn how a vendor can help solve problems. Lead generation tactis are changing rapidly. Think of lead generation as a series of conversations with your audience, not campaigns.

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

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It is now harder than ever for B2B vendors to get the attention of our audiences. Power Shift Knowledge is power, and the balance of power is clearly shifting from vendors to the customer. They educate themselves on the nature of their business problem, possible solution options, available vendors and products.

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The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011

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8 – Focus on marketing intelligence Marketing automation, online marketing, and CRM systems create tons of data that is revealing buying patterns, customer preferences, and insight into what is working and what is not. You want to be the source buyers are flocking to for this high-value content.

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8 Tips for Marketing SaaS and Software in the Cloud

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3) Create buyer personas For many software vendors who have been selling traditional on-premise solutions to customers, this focus on the business buyer and their unique requirements should not be new. Nobody has the right answers and best practices, so try new things and see what works.

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A Simple B2B Marketing Framework

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This way you increase customer centricity and make sure that strategy and tactics are mapped to the buying process your customers perform (stages: unawareness, pain recognition, understanding how to solve the problem, identifying and selecting the right solution and vendor, validating the choice and acting on it).