Kate McPolin
Kate is a copywriter specializing in B2B marketing. In the summer you can find her boating on Lake Michigan; in the fall, cheering on Ohio State football; and during the winter, counting the days til boating season starts again.
Effective B2B Strategies for Medtech Marketing
For decades, medtech companies leaned heavily on relationship marketing, with sales reps playing a larger role in the marketing process than they do for most other B2B marketers. Healthcare professionals (HCPs) were hard to reach any other way. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, however, HCPs have embraced digital communications in a ...
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Effective B2B Marketing Strategies for Healthcare Professionals
Over the past five years, B2B healthcare marketing trends have included a significant shift away from outbound sales strategies dominated by sales reps. Today’s healthcare executives and clinical professionals are catching up with larger B2B buyer trends wherein the customer initiates the connection, oftentimes via a search engine, social media ...
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What’s the Difference? B2B vs B2C Market Research Explained
Whether you’re engaged in B2B or B2C marketing, the most successful programs start with a solid foundation of data. Marketers gather that data via market research, which examines consumer behavior and trends to help an organization develop its business and marketing strategies. While there are differences between B2B and B2C ...
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5 Hacks for Choosing Engaging B2B Blog Topics
Content marketing, and blogging in particular, is a relatively easy and low-cost marketing tactic that can be well worth the effort—if you can get your target audience to engage. Blogging can help establish your organization as a thought leader, convert leads to customers, increase website traffic, and even attract qualified ...
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Five Features of Compelling B2B Social Media
Social media is a marketing tactic used by 75% of business-to-business (B2B) marketers, according to the latest Sagefrog B2B Marketing Mix Report. And why not? It’s a great tactic for achieving their top marketing objectives:
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You’ve Got E-Mail: Implementing B2B Marketing’s Most Popular Tactic
B2B marketers rely on email marketing more than any other marketing tactic, according to the latest Sagefrog B2B Marketing Mix Report. It’s not surprising given that email marketing is also cited by marketers as a top source of leads (second only to referrals). In fact, the ROI on email marketing ...
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How to Set Your Marketing Budget
A marketing budget without a plan is as incomplete as a plan that has no funding. While the former scenario is no doubt preferable to the latter, the ideal approach involves developing a strategic plan that outlines how much you’ll spend on specific marketing strategies and tactics designed to achieve ...
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How to Use Nurturing to Turn Leads into Customers
The business-to-business (B2B) buying cycle can last months or longer, particularly if the capital outlay is significant. While patience may be a virtue, it’s not an effective sales strategy on its own. To convert leads into customers, you’ll need a documented marketing communication (marcom) plan that includes tactics for nurturing ...
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Measure Your Marketing to Find Qualified Leads
“What gets measured gets done.” It’s a popular business adage, and for good reason. The practice of setting measurable goals has proven effective, time and again, at compelling people and organizations to move initiatives forward.
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Marketing to Multiple Decision Makers? Start with Buyer Personas.
In contrast to much consumer buying, the business-to-business (B2B) buying decision is rarely made solo. Larger purchasing decisions typically involve multiple people within the organization, each with individual motivations and needs. Having a deep understanding of your audience is critical to creating marketing strategies and tactics that lead to customer ...
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Here’s Why B2C Tactics Don’t Work on B2B Audiences
We’re all bombarded with business-to-consumer (B2C) advertising messages, day in and day out. And while some of the B2C strategies and tactics we’re all familiar with can be adapted to business-to-business (B2B) marketing, many can’t. The return on investment on a $1 million Super Bowl ad, for example, would disappoint ...
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Buyers Have Changed. Your Marketing Plan Should, Too.
Most of us have had to make marketing changes over the past year, pivoting to find new ways to reach prospective customers. Gone are the advantages of face-to-face interactions in a retail store, via in-person sales calls, or at a trade show. It’s likely that any marketing plan you crafted ...
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