Posts Tagged ‘B2B marketing’
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Yesterday’s Journal of Participatory Medicine published an article entitled Evidence that Engagement Does Make A Difference. The study found that “patients’ decisions not to have the operation were associated with lack of confidence in the accuracy of the diagnosis, poor communication with their doctors and fear that the operation would erode their quality of life”.
Evidence shows that patients often forego treatment that could save their lives
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Can B2B marketing strategies for the complex sale help improve health outcomes?
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Tags: B2B marketing, behavior, communication, complex sale, credible, engagement, evidence, health care, health outcomes, healthcare behavior, patient behavior, powerful
Posted in health care, How to, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 29th, 2010
This is the third in a series of three posts on insights I gleaned from a conversation with Dave Wieneke, who blogs on the future of digital marketing. The first post described how B2B marketers can set up digital signals to help them monitor marketing performance against their business goals. The second post described actions marketers can take to figure out what’s working and what’s not.
This post discusses what Dave sees as the four steps to digital marketing: Segmentation, Integration, Automation, and Optimization. In it, I will tie together all three posts, and return to the questions I raised on behalf of B2B marketers at small companies at the beginning of the first post.
Tags: B2B marketing, digital marketing, digital marketing campaign, editorial calendar, integrated marketing campaigns, marketing goal, marketing performance, social listening, web analytics
Posted in Internet marketing, Marketing strategy, Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Paul Gillin, author of The New Influencers and a leading authority on B2B marketing, just published a draft of the first chapter of his upcoming book, Social Marketing to the Business Customer on his blog. He had me on the second page when he spelled out what I’ve always seen as the differences between B2B and B2C sales–but have never been able to articulate as clearly. 
The points Paul makes –about buyers’ focus on value, group decision-making, and sales cycle length especially resonate with me as someone who focuses on marketing IT products and professional services to corporations.
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How search and social media will shorten the B2B sales cycle.
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Tags: B2B marketers, B2B marketing, B2B marketing consultant, B2B sales cycles, buying behavior, buying decision, communications, data collection, keywords, long sales cycles, Paul Gillin, pay per click, sales cycle length, search, shortening the sales cycle, social media, target audience, targeted communications, value
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
A lot of what we read and hear about social media focuses on how businesses can use it to market to consumers (B2C). Yet, as a business-to-business marketing consultant, I’m far more interested in its B2B applications.
This is perhaps the main reason I was looking forward to Paul Gillin’s breakfast seminar at the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council last week. The other reason is that Paul has an uncanny ability to connect the dots in ways that add new meaning to any topic that he addresses.
B2B Marketing differs from B2C marketing
Tags: B2B marketers, B2B marketing, business-to-business marketing consultant, Facebook Like, Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, Paul Gillin, sales cycle, social influence, social media, social media tactics, value
Posted in social media, social media marketing | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
A quick search on Google indicates that surveys about business-to-business (B2B) marketing priorities tend to concentrate on tactics–rather than strategy. They also tend to focus on investments in various types of promotional activities, rather than the greater marketing picture. As for strategy, at least one survey seems to indicate that in a tight economy, B2B companies rank demand generation first and then raising awareness.
What happened to the focus on the customer?
The irony is that gaining deeper insights into customer, or prospect needs, rarely shows up as a priority, let alone a high priority. Why not?
Tags: B2B marketing, customer case studies, customer intimacy, demand generation, lead gen, listening tools, marketing priorities, marketing research, sales, sales enablement, social communities, social media, surveys, usability testing, win/loss
Posted in Buying process model, Internet marketing, Marketing communications programs, Marketing strategy, social media | 2 Comments »
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