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Two Reasons Why Companies Might Buy Your Product

When we are selling or marketing in a B2C environment, the products either met a real need, or they satisfy a consumer “want/desire”.  But, in a B2B world, have we ever really thought about why companies buy? Companies may buy YOUR product … Continue reading

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4 Tips for Creating A Killer Product Presentation for Your Sales Team

According to a recent survey by the CMO Council, sales thinks presentations created by marketing are less than useful, with salespeople spending approximately 40% of their time preparing customer-facing deliverables while leveraging less than 50% of the materials created by marketing. … Continue reading

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CASE STUDY: Juniper Cuts Product Demo Costs from $100 to $2.33 Per Minute

Enterprise IT sales are finally starting to show some positive growth, as companies emerging from the down economy are once again starting to look at tools to help improve efficiencies and expand their reach more cost effectively. In this case … Continue reading

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How iPads Revolutionize Medical Device Marketing

How iPads Revolutionize Medical Device Marketing Have you ever tried to present a complex medical device at a moment’s notice? If so, you’ll know how difficult it is to communicate complex product differentiators, workflow and processes without a visual aid. … Continue reading

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Kaon Enhances 3D Product Marketing Applications

B2B Product Marketers Can Now Give Better Visual Product Demonstrations On Mobile Devices, at Trade Shows or for Sales Demos Kaon Interactive, the leading provider of 3D interactive product marketing applications, announced today new enhancements to its Kaon 3D Product Models … Continue reading

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B2B Marketers Top 3 Problems

I’ve been fortunate to attend (and be an invited speaker at) several industry conferences and events this year, and it seems to me that there are some interesting threads that have emerged. In speaking with marketing executives from a wide … Continue reading

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All Your Products in Your Pocket – Virtually

The First Mobile Solution to Make 2 Ton Products Portable The Kaon 3D Product App™ is the latest Kaon innovation providing interactive 3D product models optimized for the iPad and iPhone, without an Internet connection. Mobile devices are quickly becoming the hottest … Continue reading

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Marketers Make Manufacturing Products Sexy

Thanks to programs like Science Channel’s How It’s Made and Discovery Channel’s HowStuffWorks, there’s a new appreciation for the machinery that makes everything from the food we eat to the mattresses on which we sleep. This high-profile introduction into the … Continue reading

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Content Marketing Predictions in 2012

60% of marketers plan to spend more on content marketing in 2012, investing around 26% of their budget. But creating content isn’t enough. You need to develop EXCEPTIONAL and UNIQUE content that breaks through the clutter and differentiates you from … Continue reading

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Kaon App Revolutionizes Interactive Product Demos for iPads and iPhones

Sales and marketing teams deliver visually stunning product demonstrations anywhere, anytime Maynard, MA – March 6, 2012 – Kaon Interactive, Inc., creators of 3D interactive sales and marketing solutions that bring products to life, today announced the launch of the … Continue reading

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iPads Impact on Sales and Marketing

There’s no doubt about it, the iPad is here to stay. According to its Wikipedia site, since its launch in April 2010, and through the end of 2011, Apple had sold more than 15 million units, representing more than 80% … Continue reading

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Marketing should be Sales’ BFF

In a recent article for Inc. Magazine, Geoffrey James makes some (blunt) assertions about how marketers generally don’t help sales people in their mission of closing business. While this is almost a religious argument between ideological factions, it is interesting to note that the very … Continue reading

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Marketing Innovation

Many companies focus on technology innovation: New high-tech breakthroughs for delivering data to global networks; novel approaches to bioscience; original methods for diagnostics or analysis. This all leads to products and services that create more and more value. Ironically, the … Continue reading

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Close the Year on a Positive Note

Execute the Sales Fundamentals Whether the year has been great or not, it’s important to stay focused on the immediate task at hand; booking as much new business as possible in the last few buying days of the year (13 days to … Continue reading

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The Year-End Push & Future Investment

Recently, I have been thinking a lot about my year-end and next year’s strategy for our sales team’s success.  As the current year comes down to those final 30 days our thoughts always turn to “what can we do to … Continue reading

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