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5 Ways B2B Can Learn from B2C Marketers

Buzz Marketing for Technology

But the reality is that B2B buyers are very similar to B2C consumers— whether it’s buying a new car or new enterprise software, consumers want to be educated and informed. Just because you aren’t a retailer doesn’t mean your site has to follow a typical design pattern that most B2B sites are known to follow.

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Defining a Strategy To Use Content In B2B Marketing

Mindjumpers

Although it has no use to see this as a novelty and certainly not as yet another silo when we want to have a cross-channel, data-driven and customer-centric holistic marketing strategy, it is worth taking a look at what experts in the area of B2B content marketing advice. What is often missing in B2B content marketing is a strategy.

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20 Ways to Generate ROI from a Corporate Blog

Webbiquity SMM

Corporate blogs can operate in a similar fashion, except that the sole sponsor or advertiser is the company itself. Promote white papers / eBooks / reports for lead generation. According to MarketingSherpa (and many other sources), generating qualified leads remains the top priority for B2B marketers. Here are 20 ideas.

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Ron Strauss On Knowledge Sharing As A B2B Strategy

Diva Marketing Blog

many in the B2B space. Businesses have been employing white papers for eons to set this in motion. However, add social media tools such as blogs, live podcasts, social networks and even Twitter, to the mix and you go beyond what could be a white paper yawn. Nothing new here.

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How To Promote Your Blog With Content That Will Grow Your Traffic, Links, and Shares

ProBlogger

And to be more targeted, we’ve divided up the list between general writing advice, B2C, and B2B best practices. If you are a B2B blog, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Facebook are your top platforms. If you are a visual B2C brand, such fashion or foodie blogs, you will want to leverage Pinterest, Instagram, and Facebook.

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Blog #6.2: Narrative Storytelling Enhances Sales Performance

SalesChoice

B2B Sales productivity has hit an all time low in performance, and has dropped by 15% over the last ten years, now running on an average of in field productive face-to-face customer time at roughly 30% (Accenture, 2016). As a result, B2B sales organizations are struggling on multiple fronts.

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The Top B2B Marketing Trends for 2018 – A Meta-Analysis

Webbiquity SMM

Yet another post about 2018 B2B marketing trends? This piece compiles and analyzes the predictions of more than 100 B2B marketing professionals as published in 10 highly-ranked posts over the past month (best!). . ” — 2018 Trends: B2B Marketing , Edelman. Yes, but wait—this one is different.

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