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How Living in the 57 Percent Will Impact Your Content Marketing Strategy in 2015

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CEB states the following as part of the study: “ The hardest thing about B2B selling today is that customers don’t need you the way they used to. In recent decades, customers have become adept at discovering customers’ needs and selling them ‘solutions’ – generally complex combinations of products and services.

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Holistic revenue performance series III: Solution management

Mereo

Sustainable revenue performance ensures your organization is meeting its goals and finding its success not just here and now but into the future. We have touched on demand generation and solution marketing the past couple weeks. Bringing products and services to market that drive profitable revenue.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

For example, this could include methodologies, presentations, white papers and assessment tools to help sales professionals identify and illuminate buyer issues, benchmark buyers versus competitors and best practice leaders, and create / drive solution roadmaps to help resolve the most pressing customer issues.

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

According to Forrester analyst Scott Santucci, “Today, buyers are looking for business partners that will help them drive business results or outcomes – rather than bundle their products and services into solutions.” At the middle stage, buyers need to understand product features and savings / benefits that can be derived.

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10 Tips for Sales and Marketing Content Alignment

Seismic

When organizations think of sales and marketing alignment, they often focus on demand generation. As content continues to grow as a critical component in successful selling, organizations must now take steps to align around content as well. Like demand generation, content won’t be successful without alignment.

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Inbound Marketing Leads Costs Less

Marketing Insider Group

I will point to some research from Hubspot that quantifies the fact that inbound leads cost significantly less than traditional demand generation. It is typically more persistent or “ always-on ” as the content is placed where buyers tend to go seeking information. Forrester: CMO Mandate: Adapt or Perish.

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Right vs. Wrong – B2B Sales People and Additional Thoughts About the SiriusDecisions B2B Buyer Research

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Citing sources from their own research and that of Forrester and Corporate Executive Board (CEB ) that show how the majority of B2B buying cycles are self-driven, digital endeavors, Sirius then showed additional research that said these research backed statements – including their own – may not be completely accurate.

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