Vendor Selection Best Practices, Predictive Marketing Explained, Content Marketing Integration, and Other New Papers on Raab Web site

I've just gotten around to posting a  bunch of new white papers in the Resources section of the Raab Guide Web site.  Ordinarily you would need to register to view these, but I spent the whole afternoon putting this together, so I want as many people as possible to see them.  Here you go:

• Technology Evaluation Best Practices describes the challenges that marketers face in selecting the right systems and lists best practices to follow for success.

• What Matters Most In Selecting Marketing Automation explores survey results that highlight common errors when buying a marketing automation system and offers recommendations for how to avoid them.

• Why Modern B2B Marketers Need Predictive Marketing explains why predictive modeling has become essential to B2B marketers and describes specific applications.

• Defining Your Marketing Technology Strategy presents a framework for coordinating your marketing systems and links to an online tool that analyzes your current situations and recommends how to improve your systems.

• Content Marketing Integration Workbook provides a set of checklists to help marketers understand how to integrate content marketing with their other marketing programs at the strategic, operational, and technical levels.

• Questions to Ask When Selecting Your Customer Data Platform helps marketers to understand what a CDP is, whether they need one, and what specific questions to ask vendors when trying to pick the right system.

• The Customer Data Platform describes an emerging class of products that combine marketing database management, centralizing treatment decisions, and integration with execution systems.