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Report:B2B Marketers Prefer To Create Their Own Content Mostly For Lead Nurturing

Effective content marketing is now critical to B2B marketers' success because useful content accelerates potential buyers along their journey. That usefulness is predicated on the content being...

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Report:The Importance Of True International Marketing Content

Tech vendors are likely underperforming in international markets because their central marketing teams do not successfully integrate inputs from their field marketing colleagues about local market...

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Report:Tech Distribution Changes In A Cloudy Industry

Channel Marketers That Understand The Changes Will Develop Best Practices

Our recent channel survey included 19 firms that indicated their "primary function" was technology distribution. Like other channel partners, distributors are realizing that their business models...

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Report:Top-Performing Tech Marketers Use Webinars As A Portal To The Buyer's Journey

Webinars Can Impact The Awareness Phase Even More Than Product Selection

Webinars are now a favored communications vehicle for tech marketers. The most successful tech marketers do more than just "create webinars" and demonstrate products; they position these events in...

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Tool:Social Media Preferences Also Vary By Company-Size Segment

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Report:Automating Your End-To-End Process

Tools And Technology: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

The lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) process calibrates marketing and sales activities around a common success factor — revenue. An optimized process yields bigger pipelines, shorter sales...

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Tool:IT And Non-IT Decision-Makers Tick Differently

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Tool:The Social Technographics® Of BT Buyers Over The Past Three Years

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Tool:Profile Factors And Assessment Elements

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Tool:Components Of The B2B Social Technographics Ladder

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Report:Differentiate With The Five C's Of Community Marketing

Outcome-Oriented Marketing Means A Move Away From The Four P's

Technology marketers must change their product-focused marketing habits if they want to win in the business technology marketplace. Product-based differentiation has lost competitive potency because...

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Report:Channel Models In The Era Of Cloud

Channel Partners Expect A Share Of The Cloud

To identify channel partners' plans, readiness, barriers, and needs as cloud technologies emerge, Forrester Research joined with Outsource Channel Executives (OCE) to survey distributors, value-added...

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Report:B2B Tech Marketers Are The Key To Competitive Success In Customer-Centric European Markets

B2B Social Technographics® Data For Q1 2011 Confirms That Social Media Usage In Europe Continues At A High Level

Forrester has completed its Q1 2011 US And European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey For Business Technology Buyers, which marks the third year we've conducted this survey As in the US,...

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Report:Tech Marketers Are Missing The Social Mark For Senior Decision-Makers

Senior Decision-Makers Are Heavy Users Of Social Media

B2B marketers like yourself must target their marketing strategies — including their approach to social — to their target audiences. When you target senior decision-makers with titles...

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Report:Use Field Marketing To Align Marketing Content With International Customer Needs

Tech Vendors That Sell Globally Tend To Market And Localize Centrally

Tech marketing executives are struggling to strike a balance between the control they need to communicate a consistent brand promise and deliver a consistent brand experience while also being...

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Report:Adapt Your Messaging And Campaigns For A Changing Workforce

Information Workers Are A New Buying Center For Enterprise Technology

Forrester proposed changing the term IT to BT several years ago to reflect the fact that information technology was now so pervasive to businesses that decision-making around the necessary...

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Report:European Tech Marketing Continues To Be Different

This is a deep-dive data update to last year's report, "European Tech Marketing Is Different: Here's How," based on Forrester's Q4 2011 B2B Marketing Organizations And Investments Survey. Most of the...

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Report:The Skills And Structures For L2R Success

Organization: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

B2B marketers are adopting the lead-to-revenue (L2R) concept to ensure that revenue goals are met on time by optimizing the balance among lead value, velocity, and volumes, as well as ensuring that...

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Report:Tech Vendors Need To Make Their Marketing Outsourcing Strategic

Digital Marketing Requires Longer Term Relationships

The Q4 2011 B2B Marketing Organizations And Investments Survey shows that tech vendors outsource much of their marketing work to external service providers, much more than in other industry sectors....

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Report:Transform Marketing With A Revenue-Relevant Customer Engagement Strategy

Executive Overview: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

In 2010, Forrester introduced the term "lead-to-revenue management" (L2RM) to categorize a set of integrated processes, goals, and metrics that frame marketing practices from lead generation to sales...

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Tool:European And North American Tech Marketers Agree On Strengths But Not Weaknesses

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Report:Segment Social Media Behaviors To Improve Tech Vendor Marketing Plans

Forrester's Social Technographics® survey, now in its second year, depicts the social media behaviors of more than 1,000 tech buyers from around the world. Tech marketers can use this data to...

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Report:Content Management Process And Organization Capabilities Assessment

B2B marketers realize that delivering an effective content marketing strategy is now a critical differentiation imperative as they align with the customer life cycle. Review the criteria and answer...

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Report:Content Marketing Is A Key Differentiator For Tech Marketers

Create Marketing Content To Guide Customers Through Their Buying Process

The business technology evaluation and purchasing process is now more than ever controlled by the customer, not the seller. Critical to that process is content that the buyer finds, that the marketer...

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Tool:2011 BT Social Technographics By Age Group