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Making Sense of Owned Media

Harvard Business Review

Loyalty and reward programs provide this type of context for B2C companies, while strategic account and relationship management programs do the same for B2B companies. RFID technology in the lift tickets track the locations of skiers and their friends on the mountain, and their times on the various runs.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

Harvard Business Review

The AIDA model and its variants are the basis for sales funnels at many B2B firms. In fact, B2B buyers report that, compared to other sources of information, these interactions are the most influential in their decision making process: The source considered the least influential is social media. Don’t believe the hype.

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