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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.” Sales says one thing, marketing messaging says another, and product marketing says something else. Context is a critical weapon to use against leaps of faith.

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How to Keep Your Blog Relevant and Successful — an Interview With Andy Crestodina

ClearVoice

To the contrary, our marketing generates revenue (book sales and event registrations)… roughly 1M+ visitors and 500+ qualified leads per year. It’s the mini-version of Wikipedia for your industry. It’s the mini-version of Wikipedia for your industry.' Tune your frequency to your buying interval and sales cycle.

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Bubble in the Funnel

ViewPoint

At the start of 2016, we were brought in to support a group of sales reps who did not make their numbers in 2015. According to Wikipedia, Root Cause Analysis (or RCA) is defined as “a method of problem solving that tries to identify the root causes of faults or problems. Their “reward”? No more support in 2017.

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Gerhard - The Sales 2.0 Host

Smashmouth Marketing

It was a product configurator application being marketed to the sales industry, and so obviously I got to know the head of Selling Power magazine, Gerhard Gschwandtner , for the first time. Gerhard is passionate about many things, but when it comes to selling, Gerhard is the leader of sales passion. Mike : Sales 2.0 conference?

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Gerhard - The Sales 2.0 Host

Smashmouth Marketing

It was a product configurator application being marketed to the sales industry, and so obviously I got to know the head of Selling Power magazine, Gerhard Gschwandtner , for the first time. Gerhard is passionate about many things, but when it comes to selling, Gerhard is the leader of sales passion. Mike : Sales 2.0 conference?

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Building Your B2B Marketing Database

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. In the mix are employees charged with product specification, users of the product, and purchasing agents, not to mention the decision-makers who hold final approval over the sale. Revenue/sales. Sales and marketing contacts. Your most important tool in B2B is, arguably, the marketing database.