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How To Price Software Without Just Rolling The Dice

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Too often pricing is guesswork or based only on comparable products in the market, which inevitably leads to a price that doesn't optimize profits overall. Pricing of new software products is one of those things that poses quite a challenge to even the most sophisticated product managers and marketers.

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It's Budget Season - B2B Marketing Budget Trends for 2011

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Within digital marketing, the largest share of the budget will go toward company websites (26.7%), followed by display ads (21.0%), email marketing (18.6%), search ads (13.6%), search engine optimization (7.6%), digital events (7.1%) and social networks (5.4%). of the total marketing mix this year from 20.9% last year.

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Crossing the Divide: The Art of Closing the Sale

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By educating your audience with substantial, useful, and search-optimized content, you raise your visibility online while simultaneously raising your credibility with potential buyers. This may feel an awful lot like giving away your knowledge for free. And that’s because it’s exactly what you’re doing.

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A Framework for B2B Customer Segmentation – Part 1: Why Segment Your Market?

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This way, vendors can optimize their product offering, marketing, and sales approach to meet the specific requirements of the segment better and more cost efficiently than the competition. Marketing segmentation is about subdividing markets into segments of customers that have similar needs and behaviors.

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Leveraging Actionable Customer Data for Revenue Growth

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As we’ve already noted, data is the lynchpin for justifying and optimizing marketing investments. Clean data is imperative to develop valid actionable insight that will improve marketing effectiveness. A customer data management technology that serves as a centralized source for all customer data.

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A Simple B2B Marketing Framework

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The feedback collected in real time at the top of the stack not only informs the tactic itself in order to optimize it, but it also cascades down to inform underlying strategy adjustments at the bottom of the marketing stack.

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How Social Media Boosts Search Rankings (Infographic)

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Most B2B vendors have already optimized their websites for organic search engine rankings. While further optimization can yield some marginal improvements in rankings, B2B marketers have shifted their focus to offsite tactics such as back links on quality sites to deliver a significant impact on rankings and traffic.