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How B2B Content Marketing Has Changed and What To Do Next [Research]

Webbiquity

For marketers, that means making the business case, from multiple perspectives, is even more important today for web copy. In terms of content distribution, long-form content like presentation, guides, and white papers saw the biggest gains last year. On the down side, it can also mean longer sales cycles. Conclusion.

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How to find a fractional CMO for your business

The Marketing Blender

Content Review: Analyzing current content and aligning it with the appropriate stages in the sales cycle (awareness, consideration, decision) helps the fractional CMO ensure that assets are being deployed and optimized correctly. This sales mapping process also highlights areas where new marketing deliverables should be created.

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LinkedIn Responsiveness Drops 44% – Why Businesses Are Losing the Social Selling Game

Marketing Insider Group

So, why are sales and marketing teams challenged to build strong social relationships so they can overcome sales plateaus, sales drops, and sales troughs? Then they’ll push out the content to the sales team in hopes that they’ll amplify the message. In fact, in many cases, the sales team had the right connections.

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White Papers are Influence Kings, But Need Personalization to Retain Crown

The ROI Guy

When surveyed as to the most influential content in decision making, white papers remain the stand-out content of choice. Although white papers remain influential, technology media firms such as Ziff Davis Enterprise (ZDE) and others report that white paper downloads are DOWN year over year.

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5 Uses of B2B Marketing Beyond Lead Generation

KoMarketing Associates

The sales funnel for B2B marketing is usually longer than a traditional B2C purchase: Salesforce reports that the average B2B sales cycle takes 84 days. If you want to learn what your company’s average B2B sales cycle is, use this tool from GeckoBoard.

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Video Marketing Best Practices

SmartBug Media

In either case, here are best practices, resources, and lead generation tips to ensure your company benefits from video marketing. Point viewers to your website for a free white paper, more information, or a discount offer. Use the video’s audio to create a podcast for distribution on Apple Podcasts and other podcast platforms.

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What is Sales Collateral? Examples of Sales Collateral for Sales Enablement

Seismic

We have moved way past the days where sales enablement needs to be defended and made the case for. In this post, we put together the different collateral / content types that sales enablement teams should be able to source, create, and provide to give topnotch support to sales. The question now is, what do we need to do?