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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

The focus there is to optimize it for keywords or phrases for people to find your website when searching for relevant terms. Depending on the length of your sales cycle, conditions at your prospect’s end may change resulting in projects being put on hold. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc.

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B2B marketers are stumbling in the dark

Online Marketing Institute

Theres a never-ending dialogue about the difference between B2B and B2C marketing. But one thing does seem annoyingly true of B2B marketing departments compared to their consumer peers: B2B departments dont learn. Maybe the long sales cycle in many B2B markets is the culprit. Theyre missing out on a hugely powerful asset.

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts October 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. Every good social media plan STARTS with a solid marketing strategy but social media efforts are sub-optimized if a company is too wedded to long-term plans and can’t respond to sales opportunities happening RIGHT NOW in front of their noses. This is my final post on the skewed Web.

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Crunchy, salty, nutritious news & views on B2B marketing for technology companies | Velocity - the B2B marketing acceleration agency for technology companies

Online Marketing Institute

I presented a webinar the other day where I stated that while white papers are still the staple of content marketing, they’re getting really stale as a communications vehicle for B2B. The book of the webinar of the movie: The Velocity B2B Content Marketing Workbook. The new B2B marketing is Content Marketing.