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eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale [Hardcover]

Ardath Albee
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Book Description

October 1, 2009 0071628649 978-0071628648 1

Turn prospects into buyers with a powerful emarketing strategy!

“Albee shows how smart business-to-business marketers learn about buyers, tell a story, and greatly influence the B2B lead-to-sale process. This is your guide for Web marketing success.”
David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR and World Wide Rave

“A compelling read for both B2B marketing and sales professionals alike, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is a practical and insightful how-to guide that will enable marketers to drive sales conversions and faster sales results.”
David Thompson, CEO, Genius.com, and founder of the Sales 2.0 Conference

“Albee lays out a path to understanding buyer personas, building their trust, and delivering contagious content that they want to read. A must-read for B2B marketers looking to engage with today’s buyers.”
Steven Woods, CTO, Eloqua, and author of Digital Body Language

“If you’re looking for a comprehensive, well-researched, single resource to plan, build, execute, and succeed in your eMarketing efforts, then buy this book!”
Barry Trailer, managing partner, CSO Insights

“New media, content marketing, social networking . . . Ardath cleverly wraps these concepts in a bow and makes this book required reading. . . . Become the expert resource for your customer and watch your business grow.”
Joe Pulizzi, coauthor of Get Content Get Customers and founder of Junta42

About the Book

Web 2.0 has reshaped the role of marketing in the Complex Sales process. Because prospects now have instant access to information about your company and its products—and your competitors—they can make buying decisions without ever communicating with you. Doing what you’ve always done simply won’t work anymore; you must entirely rethink how you attract and compel buying behavior.

With eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale, expert B2B marketing strategist Ardath Albee breaks new ground in the field of digital marketing and new customer acquisition. Albee offers techniques and tools for developing and executing strategies that are guaranteed to generate results.

The Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity for creating trusted relationships with your prospects and customers—before you ever “meet” them. Never before have marketers enjoyed such a wide-reaching and varied communication platform. Yet with all the noise, you have to stand above the crowd. The key is to converse about meaningful and relevant topics with your diverse audiences, to share your perspectives on what matters to them. That’s just what Albee teaches us to do.

eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale shares methods to help you:

  • Create eMarketing strategies based on customer perspectives
  • Use a contagious content structure for competitive differentiation
  • Establish trusted relationships
  • Continuously measure, tune, and improve your effectiveness

eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale also shares proven approaches to collaborating with sales. You can leverage eMarketing to move leads further into the pipeline while focusing sales time and energy on highly qualified opportunities. The results? Reduced time to sales, increased sales productivity, and growing revenues.

eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale reveals processes critical to ensuring that you make a powerful, measurable contribution to the lengthy sales process—and to the longterm success of your organization as a whole.


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Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Ardath Albee is CEO and B2B marketing strategist for her consulting firm Marketing Interactions, Inc. She uses over 20 years of business management and marketing experience to help her clients create customer-focused e-marketing strategies that generate more sales-ready prospects. Her articles have appeared in CRM Today, Selling Power, B2B Magazine, Rain Today's Special Reports, and Enterprise CRM News.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (October 1, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0071628649
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071628648
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1 x 9.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #685,270 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I am adding this book to the must read list for sales people new and old. Reg Nordman  |  7 reviewers made a similar statement
Ardath is one of the very best in B2B marketing today. Jeffrey Ogden  |  3 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Unlike many of the "new marketing paradigm" books, Albee doesn't repeat the viewpoint of "be everywhere, all the time blogging, twittering, [insert latest social media craze here]." Instead, she advocates a more thoughtful approach to content marketing, one that is better suited to the deliberate and complex marketing activity of large B2B companies.

The planning guidelines are very helpful for making manageable a large corporate content effort and measuring the impact of your new marketing efforts. If you want to give your executives a book to help them understand why you are taking your marketing activities in new directions, this is the one.

The book also presents many guidelines for copywriters on new marketing styles, storytelling techniques, and understanding reader's needs for and perceptions of content.

The book has one significant shortcoming, which caused me to rate it as 4-star instead of 5-star: The book presents only a few real-world examples. More examples would help to validate the author's points and add interest to what is sometimes a dry writing style.

Overall, this is a book that you'll want to give a thorough read, mark-up, share with your team, and reference again.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
At last, a thoughtful effective marketing book written on how to accelerate sales! I have waited so many years for a book such as this. ( Recently I was getting resigned to having to write it myself!) I am adding this book to the must read list for sales people new and old. She thinks, talks and writes about things from the buyers perspective. I took forever to read this book, each section was chock full of terrific content and strategies causing me to take copious notes. It just makes so much sense to what we see every day in our practise. So it you take this book , with Jill Konrath's new one and Sharon Drew Morgen's work you will have the trifecta of today's real world sales approaches. Albee also references Brian Carroll's grat work on lead generation. Albee's blogs and sites (more than one) are highly referenced in marketing today. Anyone who has to sell products and services today must buy this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Thought-provoking, thorough January 3, 2013
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Complete and thoughtful explanation of how to drive awareness and engagement. Lots of good ideas and suggestions. The author clearly is writing from experience. If you're looking to use email and other technologies to drive sales, this is worth reading. (Doesn't cover social media much.)
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for emarketing
I found this book extremely useful and relevant to complex sales in laboratory equipment. Will definitely use many of her outstanding strategies.
Published 5 months ago by Cheri Salazar
5.0 out of 5 stars One of The Best emarketing books out there!
As someone who is trying to get up to speed and understand complex sales, I really needed something down to earth that wouldn't use lingo and expert 'speak' that I could relate to. Read more
Published 6 months ago by D. Danch
4.0 out of 5 stars Was not as good as I would have hoped.
This was more my fault than that of the book itself. I was hoping that it covered areas that I WANTED it to cover. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Dr. Lance D. Chambers
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent B2B Marketing Resource
A must read for those working in B2B marketing. The book is focused on "eMarketing" but the principles apply to traditional channels as well. Read more
Published 14 months ago by N. Adams
5.0 out of 5 stars A very practical and easy to read book
The book is very useful with a lot of good examples of hints. It explains what is important, what you need to consider when using eMarketing when selling products or services that... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Gunnar Oskarsson, Iceland
5.0 out of 5 stars The bible for B to B e-Marketing
Ardath has managed to take a very challenging subject and distill the information down to understandable and useable strategies and tactics for the reader. Read more
Published on March 20, 2011 by Owen Blevins
4.0 out of 5 stars Inspired
I teach sales training and I think Ardath does an excellent job showing not just Marketers but also salespeople how important lead nurturing is today. Read more
Published on March 16, 2011 by Michael Harris
5.0 out of 5 stars Content strategies for the complex sale
If need to learn about developing content that generates and nurtures leads. Her books is a road map on the future of demand generation and lead nurturing.
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Published on October 3, 2010 by John David Green
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is helpful for Sales professionals too
The line between sales and marketing is blurring.

If you're in sales - you've seen the trend move from push to pull strategies. Read more
Published on January 6, 2010 by Nancy Nardin
5.0 out of 5 stars The consumate guide to B2B marketing today
I rarely learn much new from books anymore, having studied and lived B2B marketing for years. But the author, Ardath Albee, proved me wrong. Read more
Published on January 4, 2010 by Jeffrey Ogden
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