3 B2B Content Marketing Mistakes That Cost You Sales
Let me guess… You’re a B2B content marketer who puts lots of effort into writing and strategizing, but you still aren’t getting the results you want. And now you’re frustrated. You might even be ready to quit creating content altogether. It doesn’t seem to be working anyway, so why waste your time? Stop right there.…
Positive Thinking Is the Key to a Successful Marketing Plan
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” ~ Zig Ziglar In 2015 did your marketing strategy turn out the way you had planned? Don’t allow failures or not meeting all of your goals discourage you. The beauty of a new year is that you can begin a fresh strategy, learn…
The State Of Buyer Personas in 2016
In 2016, we will mark the fifteenth year since buyer personas were first introduced. The journey, however, continues towards professionals and organizations gaining a true understanding of what buyer persona development entails. What is clear is buyer personas are now entering the mainstream of dialogue when it comes to overall customer understanding. Incorporating Survey Data…
Do B2Bs Know Their Target Market?
Many B2B companies embark on sales and marketing efforts with nothing short of a shotgun approach to the market. Understanding your specific target market buyer journey and specific personas of your prospects are both incredibly crucial elements that are often overlooked. Unfortunately, half of all business-to-business firms who DO NOT create buyer personas and buyer journey maps say they have a…
Mapping Buying Experiences To Align With Buyer Goals
Engaging new buyers and repeat customers are the lifeline to achieving growth. While the context of these fundamental challenges has changed via digital technologies, they nevertheless are constant pressures. Recent surveys of CEOs by IBM, PWC, and KPMG all point to major concerns and priorities in expanding the lifeline to growth. Creating distinctive and engaging…
How To Make B2B Content Marketing Effective
B2B brands in all industries are utilizing online marketing as part of their online lead and demand generation strategies. A recent Content Marketing Institute study found that over the last three years a staggering 86% to 93% of business to business brands are currently deploying content marketing. Unfortunately, their results vary greatly. Only about one-third said “their use of content marketing is effective”, while…
How B2B Marketers Can Help Buyers Achieve Their Goals
Many CMOs today are faced with a dilemma. As digital interactions and media become more intertwined into everyday life, marketers need to respond. Respond with content and media that fits into the new world of digital commerce. Yet, as CMOs invest and allocate more to content and digital media, the returns are not occurring as…
Social Platforms Move at Warp Speed – How to Get Heard
By Lee Traupel No business can grow in today’s always on Digital Eco System unless you are a social platform competent brand. Marshall McCluhan was prescient beyond his years when he published: “Understanding Media: The Extension of Man.” Platform and message are symbiotic. Your brand story has to be optimized for each platform, with visuals…
These 3 IT Secrets Can Boost Your SMB
(Disclaimer: These things are far from secret within IT! But the word “Secret” gave the heading a way better emotional score than “Skillset”!) What Can IT Teach My SMB? The Systems needs of very large companies, can be huge. I work on various aspects of systems, which can involve multiple departments, spread over 3 continents.…
The Connection Between Emotions & Goals In B2B Buying
By Tony Zambito For most of the past few decades, leading up to the advent of the Internet and digital technologies in the 21st century, there has been an accepted paradigm regarding B2B buying decisions. This paradigm consisted of an unquestioned notion that B2B buying decisions were disciplined, rigorous, process-based, and rational. In essence, a…
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