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Keeping B2B Marketing Content “Human”

Women in Consulting

There would be a lot less bad marketing in the world if executives were forced to read all the ineffective, sometimes downright awful, content their organizations produce. Marketing is supposed to put human needs first by sounding like it was created for humans by humans. Marketers know this. Fun and Humor. Vox Humana.

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Consultant Marketing Crafting Identity

Jerry Fletcher

You can do so much with words that some e-mail experts in Business to Business (B2B) situations prefer all text to templates full of color and photos and illustrations. In B2B color brochures are preferred whereas In B2C one or 2 colors is well accepted for transmittal. A couple minutes in I understood what the video was about.

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Report from Social Media Marketing World

The Fearless Marketer

I’ve been at the humungous business conference, Social Media Marketing World since Sunday. Well, since my audience and focus has always been on professional service business (mostly B2B), I’ll share my perspective. How about posting a ton of articles and other great content such as videos online? Same thing. Great ideas!

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B2B sales will never be the same

1 to 1

In the B2B space, where relationships reign supreme, sales organizations found effective and efficient ways to conduct business with a digital-first approach that’s efficient, effective, and won’t go away any time soon. B2B sellers understand they need to change yet face challenges to creating successful digital-first sales experiences.

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84% of B2B Sales Start with a Referral — Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. Meanwhile, 84% of B2B buyers are now starting the purchasing process with a referral, and peer recommendations are influencing more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions. First, three out of four B2B buyers rely on social media to engage with peers about buying decisions.

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How to Design an Offer Consulting Clients Will Love

Consulting Matters

What I want to go over in this quick video is how do you set up an offer that converts? I also want to talk about the difference between B2C offers and B2B offers. Meaning a B2B business is a business that's positioned to help an organization. The reality is content marketing is not dead. This is what's exciting.

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Lighten Up Your Marketing

Women in Consulting

As content marketing explodes, so too, does the volume of noise. To date, there haven’t been many great examples of humor in B2B. It has a very funny video that parodies the ‘awkward’ relationship between a vendor and customer by comparing it to a romantic one! I first wrote about this video back in 2009 when it was fresh.