The 5 principles of growth in B2B marketing: Empirical observations on B2B effectiveness

Presents Les Binet and Peter Field's findings on the core principles of B2B marketing.
  • For over a decade, Binet and Field have advanced a deeply contrarian approach to marketing, an approach based on the idea of balance.
  • Marketers must balance short-term sales activation and long-term brand building, two different types of marketing that require different creative, media, and measurement strategies.
  • Binet and Field show that brand building is a long-term strategy that pays off in years, not months.
  • They also discuss the importance of pricing power and reach, and the relative ineffectiveness of loyalty strategies....

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