Marc Divine

B2B Marketing Marc Divine

How do you analyze a B-to-B company ecosystem and select a business model? How do you initiate and manage R& D with the product portfolio? How do you design a distribution network? How do you choose the media to enhance customers' experience and support the sales staff? This book is a toolkit dedicated to B2B marketing managers and students who want to join this community. It details 16 strategic and operational decisions and proposes 86 tools to guide decision-making. Example tools include the Role Map of Business Field Actors, the Purchase Process Model, the Ideation Sources and Impacts, the Offerings Cube, the Priority Pricing Method, the Dealer Category Matrix, the CRM Content and Use Map, and the Customer Facing Triangle Method. Based on the experience of over 150 managers, this book also includes the most popular tools identified in the academic literature, such as the IMP, ARA, Ansoff, Porter, BCG analysis models. This book offers a thorough means to evaluate a company's B-to-B marketing approach and helps to select tools to make practical decisions.