Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Posted in Buying Cycle Conversion Conversion Optimization Customer Customer Experience Personalization Strategy. And it’s obvious why: buying cycles are longer, buyer mentalities are different, and products typically require more investigation before a purchase. 5) Allow product reviews.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 31, 2023

Here are some common pitfalls that can derail your efforts and waste your time and resources: Indeterminate Business Goals: Approaching multi-channel campaigns without a clear business goal aligned to your strategy leaves you aimlessly targeting buyers and creating content without a purpose. We’ll supply examples in the next section.

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Tomorrow People

APRIL 25, 2012

What resources do you need to create the impact you want? Turn your thinking about your content on its head so that you address your customer’s buying cycle rather than your own selling cycle. diagram for planning content marketing based on a website visitors buying cycle]. How will you get there?

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Exo B2B

JUNE 26, 2023

You’ve also probably read that it needs to be strategically researched, developed, optimized, shared and promoted. And yet, the resources needed to support this growing importance have yet to materialize. It speaks to your customers, guides them through the buying cycle, or customer journey, and acts as a powerful SEO magnet.

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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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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Understand the power of social media and search engines in the buying process; and do consider more time/resources/financial allocation towards inbound marketing and demand generation strategies that attract prospects to your funnel. Laser-focus your solutions to the target audiences most likely to buy from you.

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Outreach

APRIL 22, 2021

There are myriad other theories that estimate the minimum number of times a customer must engage with your brand before they make a purchase: While the actual number of interactions needed is debatable, there's no doubt that customer engagement is essential for moving prospects through your buying cycle. Some would argue even more.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 30, 2020

Some other interesting stats from the report: Search engine marketing (SEM) remains the top paid advertising method B2B marketers use to distribute and promote content, and is voted the most effective promotion tactic. White Papers. White papers need to be some of your best content.

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Valasys

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Let’s face it – we all draw our inspirations from several people and resources – whether online or offline. Leveraging an exclusive, well-researched & diversified content strategy Valasys Media has a treasure-throve of content in the form of top stories, journals, white papers, case studies & e-books.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The question any marketer needs to ask - Are your marketing efforts adding to the clutter, or driving a valuable dialogue and as a result, connecting meaningfully with prospects to advance the buying cycle? These three issues are having a measurable impact on marketing.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 21, 2011

To influence the multiple Buying Circle members, and get to them early, you need to know who they are. Here are some resources for gaining access to prospect data , and keeping your database clean. Here’s where marketing automation becomes an important resource for B-to-B marketers. A deliberate contact strategy.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

For the proposing new tactics and ideas, it is critical to have resources on hand in the investigative process and to provide support in development. Over the past year, 83 percent of respondents said that they have turned to white papers for research. Content Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

An industry analyst report, a technical white paper, and a short customer case study are enough to build out a lead nurturing campaign. An investment into a webinar and complementary white paper would give you the opportunity to promote the live event and promote the archived event for months after.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Hundreds of marketers have built robust lead nurturing programs, ranging from simple drip campaigns to sophisticated lead life-cycle campaigns , using only a few white papers or webinars. Unfortunately, they only have enough money for one white paper to be written, created and produced. What can they do?

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 15, 2021

For other marketing departments, the belt is tightened; the budget has to be tweaked, poked, and prodded to make it work with the available resources while simultaneously getting the job done. Do you want to speed up your average buying cycle? What are you looking for your next marketing campaign to achieve?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

This will include an understanding of what white papers, opinion posts, product data sheets and case studies already exist and could be leveraged, and most importantly, will highlight what is missing. To promote understanding of what you have covered and where there are gaps, content should be categorized.

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QuanticMind

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If your bottom line is not moving upwards and right on the metaphorical — or literal — line graph, then the investment of both time and resources cannot be justified. Now, this all sounds relatively straightforward; and it is (providing you have the resources). Second, your landing pages.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Content that is most effective today included discounts, special offers, giveaways, recommendations / advice, webinars, videos, white papers, articles designed to deliver value, new ideas, credibility, personalization and entertainment. The more independent the content, the more credible it is.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Email is a critical element of marketing, providing an opportunity to promote follow-up content to prospects. Commonly known as landing pages or microsites, jump pages are unique web pages designed to complement an advertising or paid search campaign to promote an offer, survey, or promotion for lead capture. J- Jump Page.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

Of that group, some should raise their hands every month (or whatever time period is most appropriate to your buying cycle) and say, “now I’m ready to engage with sales.”. At Marketo, we split our content into three different categories that correlate with the three stages in a typical B2B buying cycle: Early-stage content.

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Terminus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

But with digital advertising, it’s difficult to segment out your message based on where an account is in the buying cycle without creating a lot of manual work. For our Open stage tactic, we’ll target all IT personas with general awareness messaging that leads to a resource page. Open Opportunity Stage.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

Empowered Buyers: Fueled by the Internet, with access to a wealth of resources, research, discussions, product and pricing information, buyers are self-empowered to drive the buying cycle, inviting sales later and later into the decision making process, if at all. Commodity sales professionals are being disinter-mediated.

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Online Marketing Institute

APRIL 4, 2011

Ideas and recommendations for developing these types of posts: Create aggregate lists showcasing important resources and/or publications relevant to the industry. Dianna Huffs post on improving website strategies is a collection of tips and resources from fellow bloggers and a great resource for her readers. Newsletter problems?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2010

These are emails that promote your social media presence hoping to gain friends, followers, or other social media connections. It was simply stated that social media and email can help B2B companies become an authority or become a friend (not just a resource) to those using them together. . Fine-tune over time. Site stats.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 20, 2009

It's a volume business, operating on a daily sales cycle. When I joined ShipServ, it was clear that we needed to better align our selling cycle to the buyers' buying cycle. We needed to focus our sales resources on the sales-ready leads, whilst not neglecting the longer-term opportunities.

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 18, 2010

Longer sales cycles due to more complex products and services and business purchasing processes often require more information. When assessing B2B client resources for optimization, most marketers focus on web pages and increasingly, digital assets and social media content. We hope to see you there! out of 5) Loading.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 4, 2017

Pull up your target buyer persona and look at where they are in the buying cycle. Take a look at the content you’ve previously created for that stage of the buying cycle. Any successful piece of content, no matter where it falls in the buying cycle, will have value to your audience. What worked?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 3, 2012

Most sales professionals will readily admit that buyers have taken control of the buying cycle, and are demanding a different more value-based sales approach. Overcoming this bias is important to increase sales tool adoption and usage, vital to meet evolving buyer expectations, facilitate buying cycles and fight Frugalnomics.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Third-party resources and content can also be effectively utilized to bring you an aspect of credibility through the halo effect. Keep your emails brief, relevant, helpful, informational, but not promotional. White papers — Discuss industry trends and challenges, and solutions. Touch 5 — Relevant white paper via email.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 30, 2011

Empowered: Fueled by the Internet, with access to a wealth of resources, research, discussions, product and pricing information, buyers are self-empowered to drive the buying cycle, inviting sales later and later into the decision making process, if at all. Commodity sales professionals are being disinter-mediated.

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seo.co

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The technical definition of B2B marketing is the promotion of products and services to other businesses, typically involving more complex products, longer sales processes, increased sales volumes, and multiple decision makers. After all, don’t they both involve the same goal of promoting a product and eventually closing a sale?

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

For example, your strategy may put you on a big account’s radar, but the metrics may not reflect the results if it’s not in a buying cycle. Even if the client buys from you 18 months later, you may have trouble attributing the success to the appropriate campaigns. to reach as many people as possible.

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Sales Engine

APRIL 7, 2016

To marketing, though, that person looks good enough on paper (or rather, in the CRM) to be designated “marketing-qualified” and handed off to the sales team for follow-up. Somebody who downloaded a white paper may not have the budget, timeframe, or commitment to follow through. They might love their current vendor.

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NetLine

JULY 17, 2023

The skills and competencies needed to get the most value out of intent data B2B marketers are faced with what seems like an ever-changing landscape where buying cycles are longer and often more complicated. Launching tailored campaigns and content promotion based on intent activity.

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BenchmarkONE

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Share and Promote Links to Gated Content. Content is one of the most important parts of the buying cycle. You can (and should) gate content like white papers, reports, videos, and research. You will, of course, need to set this up on your own site, but you can use social media to draw in leads to promote it.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 3, 2017

With almost a 1/10th of a company’s entire budget going toward marketing, it pays to know the difference between B2B and B2C to make sure the resources are well spent. As they move into interest and evaluation, they will often download a white paper or study from the company’s website. Target Audience.

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