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New Report: Improve The B2B Buying Process With Social Proof Marketing

Influitive

With the wide array of technology options available, and the ability to easily get opinions from peers online, buyers have a lot of choice and information at their disposal. The study found that 80% of respondents were doing more research, and, as a result, 53% said the purchasing cycle had increased in length from the year prior.

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Are Community Forums Good for Manufacturers and Industrial Companies?

Industrial Marketing Today

Blogging and mainstream social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube get all the attention these days. What about good ol’ community forums? Community forums have been around a lot longer than the newer social media channels. A community forum overcomes this challenge because new content is user generated.

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Celebrating 10 Million AppExchange Installs and Trailblazer Success

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

It’s a win-win for the entire ecosystem and leads to less friction in the sales and buying cycle. As the world’s largest and longest-running business cloud marketplace, AppExchange is the trusted enterprise for the most incredible and innovative companies in the world. AppExchange helps Trailblazers work smarter.

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How B2B Buyers Have Changed- and the Role of Content & Social Media

NuSpark Consulting

Information is available free (or close to it) today that you couldn’t buy for any amount of money five years ago. The astounding growth in social media usage by B2B buyers reflects an accelerated tendency to eliminate salespeople from the early stages of the buy cycle. Replace ABC with ABH (Always Be Helping).

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The One Thing Your Account-Based Marketing Strategy Is Missing

Influitive

The best ABM campaigns leverage social proof to capture the attention of your target accounts and validate purchasing decisions among buying committees. Together, these two strategies deliver a powerful one-two punch that results in higher engagement, shorter sales cycles and more revenue. Advocacy comes in many forms.

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How B2B Buyers Have Changed- and the Role of Content & Social Media

NuSpark Consulting

Information is available free (or close to it) today that you couldn’t buy for any amount of money five years ago. The astounding growth in social media usage by B2B buyers reflects an accelerated tendency to eliminate salespeople from the early stages of the buy cycle. Replace ABC with ABH (Always Be Helping).

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A B2B Webinar About B2B Webinars

Proteus B2B Marketing

I attended Content Marketing Institute’s (CMI) “The Webinar Benchmark Throwdown, You vs. Your Industry Peers.” SEO site analytics reveal how buyers now move through the purchase cycle long before you know who they are or the nature of their needs. CMI Founder Joe Pulizzi moderated and Mark Bornstein, Sr. That we can attest to.