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The CMO’s Achilles' Heel

SBI Growth

This is a major weakness heading into 2014. The specialist roles involved in executing world class B2B marketing in 2014 is complex. Moving into 2014 with a vacuum in this capability is Death. Lack of B2B Marketing Passion – Through sheer necessity, B2C marketers often find their way into B2B organizations.

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Digital Marketing Takes Center Stage

Sales and Marketing Management

As B2B companies continue to expand their digital marketing efforts, they can cull lessons from the B2C clashes like that between Airbnb and Vrbo. In the B2B world, you need to adopt the methods that the B2C people use in a different way, and that’s not going to be natural,” Westerman told SMM in a telephone interview.

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Influencer Marketing 101: The Beginner’s Guide

Zoominfo

Proven to increase brand awareness and drive lead generation, influencer marketing is a vital marketing tactic for many B2C brands. In 2014 these two brands enlisted the help of 40 influencers from renowned brands such as LinkedIn, MarketingProfs, and Facebook, to promote the 2014 Content Marketing World Conference.

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Differentiate By Being Useful To Your Buyers

Score More Sales

I had a chance to catch up with best-selling author and modern marketing expert Jay Baer who has been the host of the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2014 Tampa this week. In fact, the SaaS business is perhaps universally the best at this type of marketing, although some B2C brands like Lowe’s are really excelling with it, too.

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4 megatrends for sales organizations from McKinsey

Sales Training Connection

B2C-inspired customer expectations. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC. Companies will need to develop go-to-market models that meet both sets of needs. We have seen a 50% growth in the use of tablets in the enterprise, while 40% of devices used in the enterprise are consumer applications. So how are you going to be bigger, faster, more?

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18 Sales Podcasts Every Rep Should Check Out

Hubspot Sales

Learn about sales team management, creative business development strategies, time-saving sales tools, B2B strategic partnerships, aligning sales with marketing, effective prospecting, negotiation techniques, and more. On this podcast, sales expert Anthony Iannarino interviews well-known sales professionals from both B2B and B2C companies.

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How Enterprises Are Adopting Social Selling

Tenfold

B2C does not need that one to many approach, so I would argue that social selling is more appropriate to B2B for that reason.” A majority of B2B buyers across all age groups rely on social media, according to a 2014 IDC study. It also gives you advice on how to engage… and, allows you to engage with a broad number of people….