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The Need for a Demand Center

eTrigue

The concept of a “demand center” has emerged at the core of successful marketing organizations as a hub for shared marketing services, infrastructure and process to enable organizations to bring programs to market that leverage key corporate assets and best practices.

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14 Brilliant B2B Marketing Strategy Guides

Webbiquity

Today’s b2b buyers are typically 70% of the way through their purchase process before they contact a vendor’s sales team. The old “sales funnel” model is giving way to more sophisticated analytical frameworks. Everything We Thought We Knew About B-to-B Marketing Is Wrong by Forbes.

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Exciting new tools for B2B prospecting

Biznology

Early examples of this exciting new trend in prospecting were Jigsaw, a business-card swapping tool that allowed sales people to trade contacts, and ZoomInfo, which scrapes corporate websites for information about business people and merges the information into a vast pool of data for analysis and lead generation campaigns.

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B2B Digital Marketing is About Relationships and Trust

B2B Digital Marketer

Today as CEO of midwest-based Proteus, Knecht’s focus is on leveraging technology to empower and engage buyers in complex B2B sales cycles. The company’s newest product, ProteusEngage helps sales leaders take guessing out of the previous “dark-out” periods that so often slow or kill the sale between qualified to close in the process.

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18 of the Best Content Marketing Strategy Guides of 2013

Webbiquity

As the title implies, Jayson DeMers here outlines a solid content strategy-building process based on five questions (starting with “Who Are You Writing For?”) ”) and five guidelines (among them, “Review Your Data to Develop Great Content”). Content marketing: What is more important than strategy? by GO Marketing.

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

Because of Frugalnomics, an environment where buyers now demand bottom-line value from every investment, B2B sales teams are challenged more than ever to deliver expected results. Sales enablement seeks to address these challenges, providing the practices, resources, training and tools needed to help fight Frugalnomics.

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28 Tweetable Moments from Sirius Decisions Summit #SDS12

Marketing Insider Group

The event gathered together more than 1,000 sales and marketing professionals from companies of every shape, size and location. Sales and Marketing Alignment Still # 1 Issue: Sirius Decision mentioned that sales and marketing alignment is still the # 1 issue for us, but the Twitter traffic replied: “just get it done.”