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New Report: 2011 B2B Content Marketing Trends

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The most popular content formats: case studies, presentations at live events, white papers, online articles and videos. The biggest motivator for content marketing is its ability to drive awareness, leads, and engagement with prospects to compensate where where traditional tactics are falling short.

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5 Steps to Social Media Leads with Content Marketing

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Or it can link to a "content hub page" (for lack of a better phrase) where you present your most relevant and compelling content assets to the prospect in one view. I am a strong advocate of presenting content in the context of the buyer's role and buying stages.

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Put an End to Flying Blind: A Ten-Step Process for Creating a Go-to-Market Tactical Plan

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These three elements will serve as the foundation for every subsequent market sales asset, such as product literature, public and analyst relations material, sales presentations and tools, website content, white papers, educational events, search engine key words and so on. It has been reviewed and approved.

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The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011

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Tom Pisello added a great comment to our B2B Technology Marketing Community , highlighting that a recent survey by IDC found that 24% of B2B buyers found that the sales reps are not prepared for presentations at all, 30% indicate that they are somewhat prepared , and only 29% indicate that they are well prepared.

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A Simple B2B Marketing Framework

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Your marketing activities for this phase focus on providing your sales team with the tools that help them in the discovery process to better understand the prospect’s true needs and to create and present a solution that the buyer finds attractive and selects over competing alternatives. (4)

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The Brave New World of B2B Marketing - Are You Ready?

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Clearly presented, educating the reader along every step of their decision making process. Now imagine the information customers are finding is yours. With compelling content that is relevant, valuable, and of high quality.

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Top-3 B2B Content Marketing Formats & Channels

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Leading the ranking are case studies, live presentations (one could argue this is a content format as well as a channel), white papers, and online articles - these formats are most effective in engaging prospects (all other things being equal).