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Take the 2011 B2B Content Marketing Survey

Everything Technology Marketing

The purpose of content marketing is to engage B2B buyers with compelling content (in the form of webcasts, videos, eBooks, white papers, blog posts, etc) to educate, inform, entertain, and guide them through each step in the buying cycle. The 2011 B2B Content Marketing Survey takes less than 5 minutes to complete - take it now.

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Baseone Buyersphere 2011 Report and the Changing B2B Buyer Behavior

Tony Zambito

Baseone, the London based B2B Marketing Agency, released its 2nd annual Buyersphere Report 2011 this   month.  While this second report highlights the continuation of the changes noted in the 2010 report, there is definitely a “more of” aspect that is revealed and a few surprises. 

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5 Prevalent B2B Marketing Myths to Abandon in 2020

Circle Studio

Arguably the most definitive B2B marketing discipline of the last decade, content marketing is often a victim of numerous mischaracterizations. While Edelman is certainly a respectable organization, this definition of thought leadership sounds an awful lot like the definition of content marketing.

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The Evolution of Content Marketing: How It's Changed and Where It's Going in the Next Decade

Hubspot

In 2011, Google conducted its landmark Zero Moment of Truth (ZMOT) study. It found that 88% of shoppers use what's known as a Zero Moment of Truth — a discovery and awareness stage in a buying cycle where a consumer researches a product before buying it. Google changed the game.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

When companies start to tailor content to different audiences and stages of the buying cycle, they greatly increase the amount of content, and the type of content needed changes&# Marketing Roles Are Evolving Marketing used to have clearly defined roles. How you decide to work with it will determine whether you succeed or fail.

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Three Truths Behind Sales and Marketing Alignment

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

To create the best scoring system, marketing and sales have to combine their definitions of the ideal lead. Automation breaks down the time barrier and allows marketers to determine exactly when leads enter the buying cycle, making it possible to follow up quickly.

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Best Web Presence Optimization Guides and Tips of 2011

Webbiquity

Joel York argues that “A new breed of B2B buyer has arisen, a species that is more connected, more impatient, more elusive, more impulsive, and more informed than its pre-millennium ancestors,” and that marketers need to understand how the B2B buying cycle has changed and adapt to the “new B2B buyer rules of engagement” across (..)