Tomorrow People

MARCH 8, 2018

If you wanna be the best marketer with the greatest content marketing strategy in town, you should get a load of this. Start with the basics and work your way to content superstardom. What’s this content marketing strategy thing all about? Content is one of life’s essentials. Sounds great.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 9, 2023

Your content marketing strategy must connect your audience and your brand. This means continual planning, creating, publishing, and sharing of content. ” A content marketing strategy must not be stagnant. A flexible content marketing strategy helps to improve audience engagement. The result?

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Here are a few stats that highlight the differences in the B2B buyer’s cycle: The B2B buying cycle is six to twelve months, much longer than the few weeks most consumers take to make a purchase. The discovery phase of the buying cycle is when businesses realize they have a problem and begin looking for a solution.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 20, 2018

The goals of the modern marketer are timeless: create new opportunities to grow sales while keeping your existing customers happy and coming back for more. And content marketing plays a big role in this. Here are three ways that content marketing and marketing automation go hand in hand: 1.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 23, 2016

I thought it would be interesting to revisit some content marketing predictions for 2016. Especially the discussion of quantity over quality, which was a big theme for this year’s Content Marketing World … The following is a repost of an article that was published in January of 2016.

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Navigate the Channel

JULY 27, 2023

As we delve into the realm of content and database marketing, we’ll explore key insights and recommendations that can help your building product organization thrive in this dynamic digital age. Content Marketing: Crafting Customer-Centric Messages Gone are the days when generic marketing messages could sway B2B customers.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 31, 2023

By Karla Sanders , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing In the fast-paced world of B2B marketing, businesses often face difficult times characterized by slowing win rates and longer buying cycles. These challenges can be particularly daunting, but they also present opportunities for growth and innovation.

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Exo B2B

JUNE 26, 2023

You’ve probably heard a lot about B2B content marketing. According to the Content Marketing Institute’s 13th annual study (2023), 71% of B2B content marketers say B2B content marketing is more important than it was last year. B2B content marketing.

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Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

“ If you're serious about your content marketing strategy, you have to realize you're writing for an ever-changing audience , says Jaime Bailey, Vice President of Marketing at VHT. That means content that is not only well sourced, but displays a deep technical understanding on a specific topic.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2020

While companies have relied on traditional marketing strategies for decades, some are still wondering, what is content marketing really? Content marketing, when you peel away all the layers of techniques, trends, and possibilities, is a business opportunity. What Is Content Marketing Really?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

As such, B2B marketers must make sure that their campaigns seek to build trust rather than just focusing on the immediate sale. Decision Making The decision-making process for B2B and B2C marketing differs greatly, primarily due to the type of customer each is targeting.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Sales Engine

MARCH 31, 2016

As technology and connectivity advances, marketers have had to move away from mass media targeting campaigns towards producing more real-time, contextual content that creates one-to-one interaction with potential buyers. What is Contextual Content? What does contextual marketing look like?

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The first step towards preventing a mistake is knowing about it early enough to avoid it, so on that note here are some common content marketing missteps (with some advice on how to avoid them). Photo credit: sxc.hu.

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Biznology

JUNE 22, 2016

So, if you’re looking to up your game and be more productive and efficient in your content marketing strategy, then you should look at a “Video 1st” content marketing approach. Why a Video First content marketing strategy makes sense. How to execute a Video 1st content marketing strategy?

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The straightforward ramifications of content marketing include attracting & engaging the prospects along with the sales cycles & ultimately driving sales conversions. At least, this is what the marketers think of in first place & this is where the majority of the marketers align their focus on.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This year Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs published their 7 th B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends – North America study. It was surprising to me to see that 55% of organizations have small teams (some only one person) that are responsible for serving the entire organization with content.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This year Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs published their 7 th B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends – North America study. It was surprising to me to see that 55% of organizations have small teams (some only one person) that are responsible for serving the entire organization with content.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This year Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs published their 7 th B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends – North America study. It was surprising to me to see that 55% of organizations have small teams (some only one person) that are responsible for serving the entire organization with content.

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Sales Engine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Because the search engines like Google have changed their algorithms in the last few years, the role that search engine optimization (SEO) plays in content marketing is causing a lot of confusion. First and foremost, content marketing IS marketing. Now what if we add “Buy SaaS-based accounting software”?

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Influitive

AUGUST 3, 2015

In fact, the 2015 B2B Buyer’s Survey Report (sponsored by DemandBase and Demand Gen Report), found the top three resources that buyers rely on when researching potential vendors were: In addition, access to all of this information is making the buying cycle longer. Social proof is the new marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 24, 2015

Whether you are new to content marketing or not, developing a successful content marketing strategy can be very challenging and time-consuming. How do you know if the content you’re producing will reach your target audience and generate more leads or sales for your business? Step # 1 : Get Buy-in For Your Plan.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 29, 2015

CEOs and marketing leaders often stand on opposite sides of a deep chasm in terms of their belief in the power of B2B content marketing. While marketers recognize that content marketing can boost ROI, many corporate leaders still live in a worldview where traditional direct marketing campaigns rule.

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The Point

JUNE 23, 2020

Content marketing is dead. * Change in marketing is an evolution, not a coup. Email, as one example, plays a very different (and less dominant) role in the marketing mix than it did only a few years ago, having migrated from acquisition to nurture and customer marketing. Cold-calling is dead. The MQL is dead.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Here is a process to get you started on the right track. Ask yourself and answer these questions: Do I understand my buyers’ buying cycle? You need to be able to map out your typical buyer’s buying cycle. Confirm your thoughts on the buying cycle with them. This is extremely important.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It may even hurt us in the buying process. Only 10-20% of a company’s website content drives 90% of its Web traffic, and only 0.5% of a website’s content drives more than 50% of its traffic. The answer is easy: content marketing. Late stage content is still needed. Because our buyers are too smart.

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EMagine B2B Blog

JANUARY 6, 2019

Content marketing personas are not new, however, tightly integrating these personas with SEO strategy and tactics is relatively new to most companies and organizations. What is a Content Marketing Persona? What is a Content Marketing Persona? Stage in the buying cycle or customer journey (B2C/B2B).

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Sales Engine

JULY 13, 2016

Marketing automation software allows you to map out exactly who your potential buyers are and what their purchasing process looks like. By feeding them content tailored to where they are in that process, you can nurture them through it to the next step.

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Sales Engine

JULY 13, 2016

Marketing automation software allows you to map out exactly who your potential buyers are and what their purchasing process looks like. By feeding them content tailored to where they are in that process, you can nurture them through it to the next step.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We’ll always preach quality over quantity, but even with a strong focus on quality, sometimes coming up with the right content can be a challenge. Here are a few tips for making that part of your content marketing process easier. Chances are, you’ve got great content at your fingertips. Your Outbox is a Goldmine.

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The Point

JULY 17, 2017

This year’s report (download a copy here – registration required) is striking in the degree and pace of change reported, since only last year, in how B2B buyers describe their research and purchase processes. FINDING : 63% of respondents said they noticed ads from the solution provider they chose during the research phase.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2023

This buzzword has been popularized in the past decade as a way to talk about how customers move through the buying cycle. Go-to-market professionals will often map out the stages of their customer’s experience, creating strategies to help them progress onward through each stage. What’s the Problem?

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 28, 2014

Once again 2014 will be a year that Content Marketing is front and center for a majority of B2B marketing departments. While the buzz about content marketing continues, it still seems to be quite a challenge for most marketers. Content must be scored according to where in the buying cycle it is consumed.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 31, 2023

By Karla Sanders , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing In the fast-paced world of B2B marketing, businesses often face difficult times characterized by slowing win rates and longer buying cycles. These challenges can be particularly daunting, but they also present opportunities for growth and innovation.

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WriteSpark

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

A study conducted by the Content Marketing Institute about content marketing efforts in the computing and software industry presents interesting data on how technology marketers use different promotional techniques and their perceptions of the effectiveness for each. Has your company made this analysis?

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WriteSpark

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

A study conducted by the Content Marketing Institute about content marketing efforts in the computing and software industry presents interesting data on how technology marketers use different promotional techniques and their perceptions of the effectiveness for each. Has your company made this analysis?

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