2. Content Marketing Research
● How brands are using content
marketing strategically
● What is working
● Why content marketing is important
● Current trends
3. Vanishing Sales-Cycle
When buyers engage sales, they have
completed 57% (*or more) of their
purchasing process (CEB/Google 2011)
* More recent research put this as high as 80%+
4. Brand Preference
● When consumers move into an active shopping
state, they’ve already picked their preferred
brand.
● More than 75% will buy from that brand
regardless of any new information they
acquire. (Foundation Capital)