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How Multi-Channel Marketing Enables Dialogue With Sales

Business-to-business sales cycles are long, arduous journeys. Compared to marketing to consumers, the B2B buyer path is a marathon. Long before social media and digital marketing disrupted everything, B2B marketing was all push. The more that companies pushed their sales pitches outward, the bigger and better their sales pipelines became. Then came the Digital Tidal […]

Digital Maturity: Ignite New Revenues, Better Profits, and much more.

In the digital workplace, realizing Digital Maturity is an achievement. It is a quality others notice as a badge of authority. It not only has financial pay-back, it also honors those individuals and companies who have gained the experience to operate using this “Digital Advantage”. Digital Maturity is an emerging concept that originates from a 2012 […]

5 Steps to Successful B2B Lead Conversion

Traditional business-to-business lead generation strategies like cold calling, unsolicited site visits, and email worked a few years ago but will not deliver great results today. Social media, mobile technology and content marketing has changed the B2B landscape forever. Inbound marketing strategies are now generating more demand for business products and services than traditional marketing ever […]

The Difference Between B2B and B2C Marketing

B2B Marketing is a marathon Although both business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing targets people, there is a fundamental difference between B2B and B2C marketing. At the core, businesses that market to other businesses are relationship driven, whereas businesses that market to consumers are product driven. Think of B2C as a sprint and B2B as a marathon. […]

B2B Catching Up to B2C [Infographic]

According to a recent 2012 State of Digital Marketing report published by WebMarketing 123, B2B Marketers are closing the gap on B2C Marketers when it comes to SEO, PPC and Social Media. The infographic below is a snapshot of the report and illustrates a few key nuggets that every B2B company should consider when planning […]

How To Win At B2B Content Marketing

Content marketing is critically important for any company that wants to maintain leadership or position for growth, whether by increasing existing market share or by capturing new markets. B2B companies such as SAP, Cisco and Intel do an outstanding job at offering consistently fresh content that not only builds awareness, but also creates connections that […]