B2B Marketing

Recommended Reading

Marketing Automation Unleashed

Marketing Automation Unleashed: The Strategic Path for B2B Growth

The Marketer's Manual to All Things Automated At a time when the importance of understanding the world of automated marketing has never been greater, Marketing Automation Unleashed: The Strategic Path to B2B Growth takes readers on an in-depth exploration of marketing automation and its significant impact on how we do business today. Casey Cheshire employs nearly a decade of experience as a marketing leader and consultant, as well as his in-depth discussions with industry experts, to deliver a comprehensive tutorial on the wide array of strategies, techniques, tools, and uses of marketing automation. Cheshire explains in detail how to build a successful marketing automation campaign by following the "Cheshire Success Index," a ten-step program divided into four distinct phases: Foundational, Growth, Alignment, and Optimization. Each phase leads readers through a series of questions and strategies to aid them in setting up cutting-edge marketing campaigns that are as effective as they are efficient.

ABM

ABM Is B2B.: Why B2B Marketing and Sales Is Broken and How to Fix It

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is the new B2B. It's time to challenge the status quo of B2B Marketing and Sales, and transition to what the business arena already expects as the updated B2B model. A transformation like this can only happen through an account-based approach that unites marketing, sales, and customer success teams (go-to-market teams) as #OneTeam. In summary, the TEAM framework coupled with the account-based approach enables your company to focus on the target accounts, engage them in a meaningful way, activate the sales team with top tier accounts proactively, and finally measure success based on business outcomes over vanity metrics. It's time to take the lead and transition your business to ABM. The process is simple when you have the right book - ABM is B2B. What are you waiting for?

B2B Data

B2B Data-Driven Marketing: Sources, Uses, Results

The world of business has long sought a comprehensive, practical guide to managing and executing business marketing plans and strategies. And now it s here. B2B Data-Driven Marketing: Sources, Uses, Results, by Ruth Stevens and Theresa Kushner, meets that need. In 220 pages the book lays out basic definitions and applications by identifying data sources, setting up an organization s data architecture to best advantage, and managing that data and keeping it clean. The book then shows how busi-ness marketers use their information, how to manage that data on a global scale, and how all companies, from mom-and-pops to multinationals, can manage their data within reasonable cost parameters. The last chapters discuss trouble-shooting problems (with solutions), case studies showing all of the book s principles in ac-tion, and speculation on the future of B2B database marketing. It is the one book that B2B marketing managers and owners will keep close athand."

B2B Marketing

Think Outside the Inbox: The B2B Marketing Automation Guide

Marketing automation has been called the most transformative advancement in sales and marketing since the advent of CRM. Never before have sales and marketing professionals had so much insight into prospects' interests, behaviors, and buying intentions. Many people think of email marketing, and the inbox, as an effective part of online lead generation and nurturing, and it is. But marketing automation provides a complete solution, with the inbox as just one piece of the toolkit. Learn about marketing automation and how it can benefit your business today.

B2B Sales

Unleash Possible: A Marketing Playbook That Drives B2B Sales

Unleash Possible is a how-to guide for high-growth marketing in complex selling environments. Author Samantha Stone, the revenue catalyst, doesn't just tell you what to do, she shows you how to do it, and how to partner with sales to get the right results. There is no shortage of inspiring advice calling you to transform your marketing efforts. They all preach, correctly, that B2B marketing has changed and buyers are in control. The problem is--most advice tells you to transform, but does little to address the practical realities of making changes in organizations that have complex relationships with sales.

B2B Digital Marketing

B2B Digital Marketing Strategy: How to Use New Frameworks and Models to Achieve Growth

B2B Digital Marketing Strategy is a decisive guide to the most recent developments in the field. It gives readers an overview of the latest frameworks and models, and shows how these can be used to overcome the everyday challenges associated with account targeting, data utilization, and digital campaign management. Intensely practical, B2B Digital Marketing Strategy helps readers get to grips with some of the more advanced and complex elements of B2B marketing. It expertly explains how to incorporate the latest digital methodologies into critical processes such as lead generation, customer retention and customer experience personalization.

Market Smart

Market Smart: How to Gain Customers and Increase Profits with B2B Marketing

B2B companies aren't often natural-born marketers. Marketing isn't a core competence or even a comfort zone for many of them. But with more global competition and new ways of doing business, B2B companies now have the opportunity - and the necessity - to get smart about marketing. They have the opportunity to capitalize on marketing to enhance awareness of their products and services, gain new customers and increase their profits. This book is a practical, one-stop resource for achieving B2B marketing success. It is heavy on pragmatism and light on theory. It equips you with the fundamentals of marketing and the tactics that will help you achieve powerful results.

Innovative B2B

Innovative B2B Marketing: New Models, Processes and Theory

Innovative B2B Marketing is a clear, practical guide that demystifies modern aspects of B2B marketing, including marketing models, processes and thought leadership pieces. New customer buying habits, the digital era and the new industry landscape (influenced by the application economy) have all had a great impact, with marketing professionals consequently facing a shift away from traditional practices. The focus of Innovative B2B Marketing is to cut through the noise and make sense of the new models, methods and processes that have recently emerged in the B2B marketing sphere. Authored by Simon Hall, an ex-CMO who brings over 20 years' senior level experience as one of the leading voices in the B2B sphere actively working with the CIM, the IDM, and other major associations, Innovative B2B Marketing brings together a wealth of insight and information sourced from the author's own first-hand experience.