Put Social Selling to Work
Learn how to put social selling and content marketing to work for your business, making your social network a driving force behind bringing leads through the sales pipeline.
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Content Marketing
Buyers Are Moving Out of the Traditional Sales Funnel—How You Can Still Reach Them with the Right Content at The Right Time
The traditional buying cycle is no longer a linear process. Online marketing content has empowered buyers to take a DIY approach to researching and evaluating products without interacting with sales until later stages of the buy cycle. By properly predicting what your prospect wants, and how they desire to interact with online content, it’s still very possible to reach them.
Three Ways to Use Video This Holiday Season
The holidays are an ideal time for communicating your gratitude or well wishes for a joyful season to your clients, partners, prospects and other key audience members. Using video is a sure way to emotionally resonate with your target audience. Here are three quick-start ideas on how to use video in your holiday communications.
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Eight Things to Know About Your Prospects
Today, marketers are digging deeper into understanding their buyers by learning more than what’s on the surface. Identifying characteristics beyond a simple profile can give you insights that can ultimately sharpen marketing messages, streamline your selling process, and optimize your marketing dollars so efforts aren’t wasted on selling the wrong message to the wrong audience.
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Three Golden Rules for Effective Content Marketing
These days, we know that content is essential for building your business. But what kind of content should you create? Infographics or web-based video? Case studies or white papers? Which work best?
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Lead Gen & Video Marketing: The Top Three Questions B2Bs Should Be Asking
In my discussions with marketers about their content plans and lead generation strategies, I find that many ask generalities about the video production process, yet don’t inquire about the actual role of video in the B2B sales and marketing food chain. Here are the top three questions marketers should be asking of themselves, their teams and their video marketing specialist in order to develop content with impact.
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Don’t Pooh-Pooh Podcasts Just Yet
Podcasting has been around for more than a decade, but it just hasn’t caught the same explosive fire as Facebook or Twitter. However, the podcast’s time may have finally come. If your B2B brand has been ignoring the podcast as a viable content marketing tool, it might be time to reconsider.
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Four Marketing Lessons from Television’s “Golden Age”
When I immigrated to the United States from the United Kingdom 34 years ago, I quickly realized that while we share some things in common culturally, in reality, a common language separates us! One of the first differences I noticed, and that still persists today, is how many American pop culture references—from television, movies and sports—creep into business conversation.
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My Name is Marketing, and I’ll Be Your Server
When you dine at restaurants, good servers will converse with you to learn more about your tastes so they can recommend dishes that appeal to you. Unless you are a regular customer, it’s unlikely that they know enough about what you like to provide you with a tailored recommendation. Fortunately, B2B marketing and sales representatives don’t have this problem.
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Keep Marketing Momentum Going In Between the “Big Stuff”
We all have them—those periodic major announcements that give us something to really blow our horns about. But what do you talk about in the lull between the “big stuff” like new product launches, key customer wins or industry partnerships? To augment those major announcements you have a time or two each year, it’s important to generate a secondary, regular flow of interesting content to keep your marketing momentum going in between.
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