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3 Tips to Help Content Marketers Understand Sales Cycles

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Simply posting a blog per day won’t amount to anything if you’re not taking your customers’ sales cycles into account and adjusting your marketing strategy accordingly. What’s a sales cycle, you ask? Understanding Sales Cycles. Therefore, the sales cycle will be much longer.

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Stop Asking B2B Buyers to Take Leaps of Faith with Content

Marketing Interactions

According to Wikipedia , “A leap of faith , in its most commonly used meaning, is the act of believing in or accepting something outside the boundaries of reason.” We set expectations with one piece of content and then fail to deliver the full story to help them advance their thinking. Campaigns may be the worst offender of leaps of faith.

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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

Wikipedia defines content marketing as “an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases.” This white paper aims to change that perception of them. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Outbound vs. Inbound: The Risk Management Issue in the Complex Sale

ViewPoint

His was not a self-educating work style, and there was no way he was going to search blogs or websites to download white papers. But a proven outbound approach is needed when selling a six- or seven-digit enterprise solution with a long sales cycle to a multi-disciplined executive group. Complex internal buying landscapes.

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Making Your Industrial Website Be All It Can Be

Industrial Marketing Today

Source: Wikipedia ). It is only when you provide content (text, videos, white papers, case studies, demos, testimonials etc.) This is very important for manufacturers and industrial companies since their customers’ sales cycles tend to be long and complex with several people involved in the decision making process.

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Every Digital Marketer’s Most Valuable Asset: The Extended Network

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Leveraging your organization’s extended network – those existing relationships that employees have built with their friends, family and business colleagues – can help you shorten the sales cycle. Content should be a mix of original (white papers, ebooks, infographics, blog posts) along with curated.

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Top 35 B2B Marketing Posts for May 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Is The White Paper Dead for B2B Marketing? Buzz Marketing for Technology , May 26, 2010 In a recent conversation I was having with the Bloom Group they believe “the practice of publishing white papers must come to a close because of the utter proliferation of white papers, and the poor content contained within so many of them.”