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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Marketing needs to develop content and assessment tools to help sales professionals add value earlier in the sales process, helping to morph current product / solution sales methodologies towards value selling engagements. Evidence of this shift can be found in IDC’s 2010 Customer Experience Survey.

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Understanding the New Roles in Marketing

Hubspot

Roles under this subset include community managers , customer experience designers, and customer communications officers. It's no news to us, but recent research from SiriusDecisions underscores the shift that B2B companies are making toward inbound marketing as a core strategy, and the need for more inbound marketing talent.

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14 Key B2B Marketing Reports to Inform the Strategic Budgeting Process

KoMarketing Associates

For B2B marketers, the key takeaways are how search will become more personally valuable, and move away from text to a visual, more interest-based experience. This information is timely because many organizations are thinking about budgeting and planning marketing objectives for the new year.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

Now, in B2B, we have seen a similar dramatic shift towards prospects taking charge of the buying cycle, using on-line content marketing, resources and tools to drive research, comparisons and purchase decisions. Content Marketing and the Forgotten Sales Professi. How Do You Get Started in Content Marketing?

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Engaging Multimedia Content: Making a Human Connection

B2B Digital Marketer

Focused on B2B marketing for over 20 years, Lee is both a digital marketing practitioner and creative content entrepreneur. 02:06 – Lee’s background in B2B Digital Marketing. 08:03 – The importance of sales being in tune with marketing. 09:02 – Lee’s passion in B2B Digital Marketing.

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B2B Marketing Predictions For 2011

Marketing Insider Group

Too many marketers and business executives still question the value of social media (mostly in private). Inbound marketing spend will grab more share of the marketing budget but will stay far from a majority in most B2B companies. More and more marketing is at the table for big corporate decisions.

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Top 60 B2B Marketing Posts and Hottest Topics November 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

I highly recommend you take a few minutes to start creating your Product and Services page, even if you can’t fully optimize the look and design yet. Content Strategy and the Dying Art of Execution - Junta 42 , November 4, 2010 Don’t get me wrong, content marketing strategy is critical to the success of a content marketing project.