Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

This article explores how conventional martech infrastructure alienates most potential buyers and suggests steps to adapt tools and strategies for better long-term brand affinity and demand generation. Only 5% of our market , is ready, willing and able to consider buying our product. If they’re in a buying cycle at all.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. The steps are: 1.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

An Interactive White Paper dynamically customizes the content of a white paper for prospects based on the prospect’s registration profile (if available), and inputs to a few profile questions.

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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. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through.

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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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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Overcomes Marketing Information Overload, Transforming Traditional White Papers into Dynamic, Personalized Engagement Tools Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today launched a new demand generation tool for B2B marketers – Alinean Interactive White Papers.

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The Point

JULY 1, 2019

For the last decade or more, it’s been an accepted principle – almost a key tenet – of B2B demand generation that business buyers don’t want to talk to a sales rep until the last possible moment. There was once a time when we would generate a lead and our job would be done. Gated & Secondary Offers.

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Martech

AUGUST 10, 2021

I didn’t explore the vendor’s website, download a white paper, or put on a t-shirt saying “Intent!”. That one Google search generated a steady stream of ads for the vendor — but on my personal social media. Marketers know that in many cases digital transformation has shortened the buy cycle. That’s all.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2014

.’ Buyers are not linear in their progression often times so we really believe that to focus on any one area upstream which is Engage, midstream which would be nurture or Conversion, if you just focus on any one of those areas, you’re missing a good part of the buying process.”. How can we STOP DOING lead nurturing campaigns?

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 31, 2023

Multi-channel ABM engages target accounts with a unified content and messaging strategy across the most frequently used digital channels. It’s a proven method for generating higher clickthrough rates, web engagement, and pipeline. You can’t dictate where they research and explore solutions.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Interactive White Papers are designed to quickly personalize white paper content for relevancy. This occurs automatically on program launch, and means the user does not have to retype important profile information.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 9, 2023

As Senior Marketing Media Manager, Janice Barbosa manages paid media, account-based marketing (ABM), and demand generation for T-Mobile for Business’s enterprise and public sector groups. This solution portfolio enables Janice and her team to engage buyers at every stage of the buying journey with relevant content.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Typically for an Interactive White Paper , as a rule of thumb, you don’t want more than 4 or 5 profile questions. Second, buyers expect that an interactive white paper will be customized to match their relevancy needs. Second, buyers expect that an interactive white paper will be customized to match their relevancy needs.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Often, based on the user’s role and stage in the buying lifecycle, the call to action within the Interactive White Paper can be custom configured to provide proper / better guidance.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 23, 2016

If you can create the content that shows that you have insights into the real issues they face on a daily basis, and then help to educate them on the implications of not acting to correct those issues, then you will do a much better job of capturing leads earlier in the buying cycle.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2014

Here are five common mistakes organizations make when automation their marketing and how they can fix them to get more value from their technology investment, as well as a better return on their demand generation. A white paper is developed and marketing decides to launch a “campaign” around the white paper.

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

If you can create the content that shows that you have insights into the real issues they face on a daily basis, and then help to educate them on the implications of not acting to correct those issues, then you will do a much better job of capturing leads earlier in the buying cycle.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Seed this on Newsvine. Add this to Mister Wong.

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6sense

JUNE 16, 2016

Demand Generation Is a Game of Diminishing Returns . Pivotal purchasing decisions in companies are made over the span of many months and include large buying committees. Historically, demand generation marketers have talked about driving revenue by stimulating demand. The missing ingredient was scale.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

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. It is the basis of any good nurturing campaign since you will building your nurturing campaign content and messages on each step of the buying cycle.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

With the right content and the mindset that you can deliver valuable content to your prospects, email can be an effective tool to move your prospects from the awareness, to the consideration, and finally the purchase phase of the buying cycle. This usually requires some prior analytics or understanding of your target audience.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 29, 2014

The problem is that product-centric white papers, webinars, press releases and articles simply are not that interesting to the buyer … and here’s the thing … Google can tell whether or not the audience is engaged by your story, and it will impact your SEO. Author: Jason Stewart @jstewart_1 VP of Demand Generation, ANNUITAS.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

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. In complex B2B sales, people still buy from people.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

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. In complex B2B sales, people still buy from people.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content. What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Demand Generation. Nearly 45 percent of B2B marketers, surveyed by Annuitas, indicated that they are not using buyer personas in demand generation programs and almost half are failing to align content to their buyer’s pain points. source ). >. 76 percent of B2B buyers use three or more marketing channels for research.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2009

Yesterday’s BtoB Leading Edge, Demand Generation in the Digital Age was a great way to make sure your organization’s demand generation programs are best-in-class. LinkedIn gave an impressive demonstration on how they handled demand generation without a robust marketing budget or unlimited marketing staff members.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Because B2B and industrial buyers tend to be more sophisticated in the use of online content in making their decision over the entire buying cycle. BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Whether it is digital marketing, ABM , partner marketing, demand generation, events/field marketing , every marketing organization has a set of “Strategic Metrics” (with different definitions, unique to how a company operates) that it tracks to measure performance.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well Next post: The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 30, 2020

This allows you to be more specific in your newsletter content and helps you target a larger span of your audience, namely those who are looking for content that is more narrowly focused. White Papers. White papers need to be some of your best content. Articles. Ease Buyer Pain.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Focus on Content in B2B Marketing Next post: 7 “Rs&# for B2B Marketing Content Planning FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Relevant marketing content – key to thought leadership Positioning your company as a thought leader is critical in complex technical sales that have long buying cycles with many decision makers involved. Use a social publishing site like scribd.com to gain a larger audience for your white papers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

The first report is titled “2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report” and it is from Michael Stelzner , the founder of WhitePaperSource and the author of Writing White Papers. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your online content needs to play a much more active role in moving site visitors along in his/her buy decision.

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