2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2015.07.002
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Harnessing marketing automation for B2B content marketing

Abstract: a b s t r a c tThe growing importance of the Internet to B2B customer purchasing decisions has motivated B2B sellers to create digital content that leads potential buyers to interact with their company. This trend has engendered a new paradigm referred to as 'content marketing.' This study investigates the organizational processes for developing valuable and timely content to meet customer needs and for integrating content marketing with B2B selling processes. The results of this single case study demonstrate … Show more

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“…also helps to leave traces on the internet so that people who search for Jojonomic on the internet are also able to see jojonomic traces on the internet. According to Järvinen, J.,& Taiminen, H.(2016) study also showed that integrating content marketing and marketing automation efforts can generate high-quality sales leads and increase efficiency levels by overcoming a cumbersome selection process for prospects (see, e.g., Moncrief & Marshall, 2005;Trailer & Dickie, 2006) through automated classification. So content marketing is effective to gain high quality sales leads to increase sales for the company.…”
Section: Content Maketingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…also helps to leave traces on the internet so that people who search for Jojonomic on the internet are also able to see jojonomic traces on the internet. According to Järvinen, J.,& Taiminen, H.(2016) study also showed that integrating content marketing and marketing automation efforts can generate high-quality sales leads and increase efficiency levels by overcoming a cumbersome selection process for prospects (see, e.g., Moncrief & Marshall, 2005;Trailer & Dickie, 2006) through automated classification. So content marketing is effective to gain high quality sales leads to increase sales for the company.…”
Section: Content Maketingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is a well-established practice that marketing department defi nes the values for lead-scoring modeling, based on the: Some of the good experiences with lead scoring, refl ected some common values and were drawn from: ◆ marketing's experience about the eff ectiveness of particular channels that has led to actual conversions ◆ the aspects that express a deeper involvement should naturally be scored higher in the model ◆ cross-functional teams consisting of both sales and marketing employees should give inputs through several iterations of campaign management, especially in the retargeting stages of the campaign It is critical that the CRM is fed not only from the digital sources, but also from the offl ine points of interaction with the leads, especially considering that the modeled lead-scoring is supposed on bettering organizational processes for developing valuable and timely content to meet customer needs and for integrating content marketing whit B2B selling processes [10].…”
Section: Practical Application Of a Lead-scoring Model Applied To A Mmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Wider analysis of different content marketing definitions allows noticing that the main goal of implementing content marketing is to create and distribute valuable and consistent content to the target audience in order to stipulate the profitable consumer action. Depending on this goal, the main task is creation of relevant and useful content, which meets customer specific needs (Järvinen, Taiminen, 2016). Generally speaking, content marketing concept is based on the assumption that when enterprises provide valuable information for the customer, they can expect a useful customer response.…”
Section: Content Marketing Conceptmentioning
confidence: 99%