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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

They expect sales and marketing pros to be using the web as well to understand their problems before the sales conversation even starts. There is a crying need for this. It aligns vendor messages with buyer needs, saving money and corporate reputations. Prospective buyers are overloaded with information.

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How should B2B content differ for Business and Technical Decision Maker?

Ambal's Amusings

"Effective content for either technical or business buyers needs to address issues that keep them awake at night" Tom Pick's Bio. Those that manage innovation most effectively not only grow faster than their peers but are also more profitable and have stronger competitive differentiation. MarketingSherpa.

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Personalize, Challenge & Engage

The ROI Guy

Now, these same techniques are being leveraged by B2B firms to great effect, combining emotional and logical content to achieve more favorable decisions and accelerated sales cycles. In order to break the bias, you need to show how the costs of change are decisively outweighed by 2 times greater potential gains.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

These buyers need a reason to engage – and delivering personalized, proprietary and consultative benchmarks, insight and advice is essential. The tool suite results in over 1,000 leads per month, with estimated 4 to 5% conversion rate of leads to sales. IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales E.

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Value of Assessment ROI & TCO Tools for Demand-Gen and Sales Enablement Campaigns

The ROI Guy

Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques need to evolve to meet these new buyer demands. In 2009, Alinean and IDC updated annual research conducted since 2003 on the ROI from implementing business value tools.

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