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Traditional White Papers Don’t Work Anymore! Driving More High Quality Leads with Interactive White Papers Tom Pisello CEO & Founder The ROI Guy Twitter: @tpisello @AlineanROI

Traditional white papers don't work anymore

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White papers are still used extensively to connect and engage early stage prospects, serving as the fuel for many demand-gen campaigns. However, the effectiveness of traditional white papers is on the decline. Today, your prospects are more empowered, skeptical and frugal than ever before, and as a result, dismissive of typical product pitches and traditional one-size-fits-all white papers. Your prospects' require content that is more relevant, concise, compelling and value-focused. Are you effectively meeting this new challenge? This webinar examines a new interactive evolution to white papers to help evolve this traditional content into an effective selling machine. In this webinar you will learn about: How interactivity can help make traditional white papers more personalized, concise, insightful and value-focused How to best select "content pivot points" – the dimensions of qualitative and quantitative personalization What interactive white papers look like, and best practice examples.

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Traditional White Papers Don’t Work

Anymore!

Driving More High Quality Leads with

Interactive White Papers

Tom Pisello CEO & Founder

The ROI Guy

Twitter: @tpisello

@AlineanROI

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Did you know ….

Of B2B vendors need significantly more

leads in order to generate the same

amount of sales (IDC)

Increase in the number of marketing

campaigns buyers receive (SiriusDecisions, over

past 5 years)

Of marketers think their content

marketing is ineffective (CMI)

62 %

32 %

59 %

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In Control

Skeptical

Overloaded

Frugal

Stakeholders

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84% of buyers leverage white papers

35% 23% 10%

Bad News: Utilization and frequency of use are DOWN year

over year…

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Differentiated Enough? Concise Enough?

Personalized Enough?

Rational Enough? Emotional Enough?

Insight & Intelligence?

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Evolve

• Differentiated

• Concise

• Personalized

• Emotional +

Rational

• Customer

Intelligence

Alinean Interactive White PapersTraditional White Papers

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Pivot Points

Industry

Location

Size

Challenges

Costs

Assets

Risks

Business Opps

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Personalized Content

Case Studies

Solution

Recommendations

Improvement Opportunities Cost of Doing Nothing

Benefits

TCO Advantages ROI & Payback

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Proo

f More leads than traditional white paper

fueled campaigns

Average increase in qualified leads per

campaign

Amount of customer intelligence captured

and leveraged via MAP / CRM

3 x

150 %

4 x

Evolve