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Failure to Communicate B2B Market Messages and Customer Preferences Cares about dialogue with customers Honest and open dialogue, which Acts responsibly across supply chain customers considered B2B messages most important, was one Has


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10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Has low prices Corporate social responsibility Shapes direction of the market Has global reach Promotes diversity and equal opportunity Promotes sustainability Is a driver of innovation Provides a broad product portfolio Is a leader in its field Fits well with my values Has high level of specialist expertise Acts responsibly across supply chain Cares about dialogue with customers

B2B Market Messages and Customer Preferences

B2B messages Customer preference

Failure to Communicate

Source: “How B2B companies talk past their customers,” McKinsey & Co., October, 2013

“Honest and open dialogue, which customers considered most important, was one

  • f the three themes not

emphasized at all by the 90 companies in our sample.”

  • -McKinsey
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Circular File

65% 70% 55% 59% 79% 63%

Much of the material is useless Vendors give me too much material Scan and throw away How much do you agree with the following statements about the content salespeople provide?”

IT execs Business execs

Source: “Valuable Message Development For B2B Marketing In The Context Of Sales Enablement,” Forrester Research, September, 2015

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Why content misfires

Aimed at wrong person Aimed at right person in the wrong stage of the buying cycle Poorly matched to buying motivations Poorly described Hard to find Boring Hard to understand Too general

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Match Tools to Customer Type

Offer Newsletter Blog Ebook/ Webinar Tech Explainer Demos Testimonials Community

Awareness Research Comparison Purchase Loyal Customer At-risk Customer

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Segment Customer Behavior

How Best Buy segments its customers

High Low High Low

Leading-Edge Technology Price Sensitivity

Enthusiasts Online Aficianados Practicals Ambivalent Aspirers Deal Drivers

Who are your high-value customers? How do they typically enter your sales funnel?

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Develop Content for Each Stage

Topic: Choosing a Cloud Service Provider

Awareness The Ease and Flexibility of Cloud Computing Research Create Your Cloud Needs Assessment Consideration Questions to Ask Prospective Cloud Providers Purchase Success Stories from the Field Loyal Customer Getting More from You Cloud Investment At-Risk Customer Free Cloud Development Webinars

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Use Multiple Media

Content: What to Ask Prospective Cloud Providers White Paper Blog Series: 10 Questions to Ask Video/Audio Podcast Expert Explains Questions to Ask Media Placement The Questions Businesses Fail to Ask SlideShare 10 Questions PowerPoint Visual 10 Questions infrographic Interactive Checklist and worksheet

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The Content Cube

Buying Stage Content Asset

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Why Not Flickr-ize This Graphic?

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1. Quiz: Test Your Privacy IQ 2. Skeptic: You Don’t Control Your Privacy Anymore 3. Explainer: The Privacy Debate in Plain English 4. Case Study: How One Person Got Control Over Privacy 5. Contrarian: Why Online Privacy Concerns Are Rubbish 6. Definitional: Common Privacy Terms Explained 7. How To: Five Ways to Strengthen Your Online Privacy 8. How NOT To: Five Ways to Screw Up Your Online Privacy 9. First Person: My Personal Privacy Horror Story 10. List: 10 Important Facts about Online Privacy 11. Comparison: How Privacy Protection Services Measure Up 12. FAQ: Your Privacy Questions Answered 13. Q&A: What One Expert Says About Privacy 14. Data: Roundup of Survey Data 15. ‘Man on the Street’: We Ask People Around the Office about Online Privacy 16. Outrageous: There’s No Such Thing as Online Privacy 17. Poetic: Online Privacy Haiku 18. Musical: The Ballad of Online Privacy 19. Historic: What Shakespeare Would Have Said 20. Humorous: Debate in the form of Abbott and Costello’s ‘Who’s On First?’

20 Ways to Tackle a Topic – Online Privacy

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Think modular

  • Defining social innovation in

transportation & mobility

  • 10 trends shaping the future of cities

(series)

  • Impact of changing vehicle ownership

patterns

  • Growth opportunities in rail
  • Defining intelligent mobility
  • Social benefits of smart cities
  • Sizing the market opportunity
  • Video interviews with authors
  • Video summary of results

Each of these is a potential content asset

What you could break out

  • f this white paper

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