Complete Guide to B2B Marketing, The

“ The Complete Guide to B2B Marketing gives readers practical advice on everything they need to keep up with today’s evolving digital marketing techniques. Kim lays out the key trends, technologies, and how they fit into the larger marketing process. Read this book and become a better marketer!” -- Eric J. Hansen, Founder and CEO, SiteSpect, Inc. (www.sitespect.com) “Kim distills her hands-on marketing expertise into a comprehensive guide of real-world tips and best practices. From brand awareness, demand generation, and organizational enablement to the technology that supports these endeavors, this book covers every facet of today’s B2B marketing function. A must-read for professionals.” -- George Kassabgi, Founder, CEO, and Angel Investor “Learn how to attain visibility, credibility, and preference for your company, solutions, and services in this useful, up-to-date guidebook.” -- Tom Murphy, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Bradford Networks (www.bradfordnetworks.com) “A soup-to-nuts guide on marketing to businesses today. Super helpful, full of actionable advice, and highly recommended.” -- Mark Slater, Entrepreneur and Technology Company Advisor “This is a terrific and practical handbook for any marketer who wants to apply contemporary marketing methods.” -- Jeff Winsper, President, Winsper (www.winsper.com) Today, B2B marketers must excel across all areas, from messaging to demand generation to sales team enablement. New technologies and techniques make excellence possible. This book makes it real. Top B2B marketer Kim Ann King will help you profit from cutting-edge B2B analytics, experimentation and optimization, marketing automation, targeting and personalization, and more. Drawing on decades of experience at pioneers such as SiteSpect, Akamai, and Open Market, she helps you assess fast-changing customers...choose your best tools and options...build a more agile, strategy-driven plan...hire the right team...drive more value from experimentation...accurately estimate spend and ROI. If you’re a B2B marketer, you’ll wish you had this guide years ago. You’ll be thrilled you have it today. As a B2B marketer, you face greater challenges than ever before. You must transform your messages, offers, and channels--continually. You must become fluent with technologies that did not exist a few years ago. And everything you do must tightly align with strategy, so you don’t automate bad marketing and make bigger mistakes faster! Today, success requires new knowledge and new street smarts. Pioneering B2B marketer Kim Ann King delivers both. King reveals what’s now possible and demystifies the key tools and techniques that make it happen. Next, she presents proven strategies, tactics, and best practices for applying them at each step of the conversion funnel. Even if you’re more “qualitative” than “quantitative,” King helps you leverage new tools for analytics, experimentation, marketing automation, and targeting and personalization. You’ll discover new ways to generate demand, build brand visibility and credibility, and empower your entire marketing and sales organizations. Understand the trends New buyers, channels, platforms, tools, and data sources...and no new budget Master the tools Analytics, experimentation and optimization, marketing automation, and targeting and personalization Optimize your marketing lifecycle Plan, program, staff, budget, measure, and more Learn from the experts Get practical tactics and career advice from six world-class B2B marketers Put it all together People, tools, goals, strategies, and tactics: align them all for success To succeed at B2B marketing today, you must excel across all areas: from getting your message out, to generating demand, to enabling sales teams. New technologies and new techniques make excellence possible. Now, top B2B marketer Kim Ann King brings together all the best practices and tools you need to make excellence real. In The Complete Guide to B2B Marketing, King helps you succeed by focusing on the three pillars of cutting-edge B2B marketing: automation, personalization, and experimentation. Drawing on her pioneering experience at companies like Akamai and Open Market, King shows how to: Systematically assess your context and customer, via personas, profiles, and other powerful techniques Choose among today's panoply of marketing options, tools, and techniques Build a more agile B2B marketing organization, and link its goals more tightly to strategy More accurately estimate marketing spend and ROI Systematically optimize demand generation and many other key functions Leverage higher-value approaches to web/mobile, SEO, and customer community-building Gain more value from corporate standards and your creative services vendors Discover what worked and what didn't, and use this knowledge to improve more quickly You'll find comprehensive, actionable resources, including best-practices checklists for every tactic, vendor checklists for evaluating new marketing technologies, a complete corporate marketing plan outline, and a start-to-finish marketing communications case study. If you're a B2B marketer, you'll find The Complete Guide to B2B Marketing invaluable – whatever your company's size, product, service, or industry.