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Connecting the Dots Between Content and Sales

IDGE Connecting the Dots Between Content and Sales

Marketers spent more than $40 billion on custom media in 2011. B2B marketers are allocating one-third of their budgets to content marketing, and more than half plan to increase content marketing spending in 2013. However, as many IT marketers are discovering, content marketing is a complex practice that requires insights not just into what type of content to develop and deliver, but when and how to deliver these assets to ensure maximum engagement.

This whitepaper will provide you with:

  • A better understanding of the role content consumption plays in the purchase process for major technology products and services.
  • Important insights on creating distinctive and high impact content marketing campaigns that create high levels of engagement with IT decision-makers, driving awareness, trust, and, most importantly, sales.
  • Tips on delivering the right content—in context—to make your brand message stand out in an increasingly crowded landscape.

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10 Common B2B Marketing Mistakes You Can Dodge

Chief Marketer

With an influx in digital media, social media and other channels, B2B marketers today have more choices than ever. While this makes it easier to maximize your marketing budget and company awareness during the customer buy cycle, it also can increase the chances for error. Even the most seasoned marketing professionals sometimes fall prey to mistakes in tactics or implementations. Here are 10 of the most common pitfalls and how you can easily avoid them.

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Responsive Web design: Yes or no for b2b marketers?

BtoB

As the mobile Internet continues to grow exponentially, marketers are confronted with an important technical question: Should you use responsive Web design or multiple URLs to reflect your Internet presence? It depends, said Derek Edmond, managing partner of KoMarketing Associates. Responsive Web design is a Web development method that allows website displays to automatically scale up or down in size, depending on the dimensions of the screen being used by the reader. It was developed for mobile platforms, which have much smaller screens than standard desktop computers and don’t display standard, fixed, 960-pixel websites very well.

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Solutions marketing a complex mix for b2b

BtoB 

Motorola Solutions put it in its name. Dow Chemical launched a new ad campaign around it. IBM has made it a core part of its business. Solutions marketing—an approach that focuses on offering a combination of products and services to help solve unique customer problems—is being embraced by all types of b2b marketers. But not everyone understands what it is or how to do it.

“Solutions marketing is incredibly complex. It is not for light-weights,” said Steve Hurley, managing director of Solutions Insights, a solutions marketing consultancy that recently released a study on the evolving role of solutions marketers at organizations. The study was conducted in conjunction with the Information Technology Services Marketing Association.

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Marketers embrace digital content testing – Labs look at everything from user experience to registration forms to optimize content

BtoB

As b2b marketers expand their use of digital content on websites and in newsletters, ad campaigns and social media channels, they are setting up labs and implementing rigorous testing processes to optimize that content.

While testing content is nothing new—in fact, most marketers and agencies perform some sort of testing on creative content before publication—the formalization of such processes has become a priority at many b2b companies.

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ANA survey: TV still top media choice for advertisers

BtoB daily news

New York—An Association of National Advertisers survey released today found that 47% of marketers have boosted their TV ad budgets since 2009. Twenty percent said their budgets declined during that period.

While 64% of b-to-c respondents to the survey said their TV ad budgets rose during that time frame, only 27% of b2b marketers said the same. Also, while 36% of b-to-c marketers said TV advertising had become increasingly important to their marketing strategy in the past two years, only 13% of b2b marketers agreed.

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Is Your Content Marketing Program a Success?

Everything Technology Marketing, 4/28/11

Content marketing is one of the most popular strategies deployed by today’s B2B marketers to attract and engage prospects, and guide them through the buying process.

But how do marketers measure content marketing success? We asked 20,000 members of the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn what metrics they use to measure the success of their content marketing initiatives. Over 500 people responded – and here is a preview of the results.

Leads, leads, leads
With 73 percent of all responses, leads are the number one metric used to gauge content marketing success. This is followed by content views and downloads with 53 percent, and inquiries with 52 percent of responses respectively (multiple selections were allowed).

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Media Power 50: Technology Brands

BtoB, 5/2/11

The Media Power 50 list was created in 2000 in part to display the variety of outlets available to b-to-b marketers to help reach their audiences with advertising messages.

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Mobile and social marketing: The dynamic duo

BtoB, 4/20/11

Christina “CK” Kerley is a writer, speaker and adjunct college professor at Rutgers University who specializes in guiding b2b companies on using emerging media for marketing purposes. In her B2B Mobile-Marketing Guide, she makes a case for aggressively pursuing mobile platforms as a way to reach business customers. In this interview with BtoB columnist Paul Gillin, she summarizes several recommendations.

Social Media Marketer: Mobile marketing has generally been considered the domain of the b-to-c sector, which relies upon discounts, free trials and events to draw customers. Why should b2b marketers pay attention?

Christina Kerley: There are 5 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, 72% of the U.S. workforce uses mobile devices and more than 70% of under-40 executives consider their mobile devices to be their primary communications tools. Also, when was the last time you saw a business professional without a mobile device or attended a meeting in which people weren’t constantly checking them? Mobile devices are actually the media most used by business executives.

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Top 10 B2B Companies on Twitter

Social Media B2B, 1/5/11

As more B2B companies start using Twitter to communicate with their customers, prospects and industries, they look for examples of companies that are already using the platform. Part of Twitter’s success has been based on its simplicity, and that has given people and companies a wide range of options how to use it.

So B2B companies could have a definitive reference point, we wanted to rank B2B companies based on their use of Twitter. We will review this list on a monthly basis to see how it changes. This is not just a ranking based on number of followers or other single criteria, but a series of measures, which also include using outside measure tools. The list of potential companies are ranked by each of the factors listed below, which are then combined to create a total score.

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