Rule #10 is to keep it real. Just be you! Feel empowered to speak personally and with authority when posting on social media. Every little interaction helps people know and trust you as a person, which helps them buy from you down the road.

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Rule #9 is to value patience. Because buying cycles are so long in tech and services, client education and industry relationships are more valuable for B2B organizations. Often the tech evolves more quickly than hospital leaders' ability to understand its value, so it's even more important to see yourself as a resource to help the evangelists influence decision makers, rather than forcing them down a funnel. 

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Rule #8 is to lead with curiosity. Curiosity is necessary in this pivotal time in marketing because of emerging technologies such as generative AI. Successful marketing leaders don't wait for all of the answers before taking the first step. 

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Rule #7 is to ungate your funnel ... OK, well most of it. If you force every buyer down the same road, they often won't make it to your destination. Considering the benefits of opening up some of your content rather than gating it can help you simplify your sequences and improve your overall win rate. 

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Rule #6 is to meet buyers where they are, and that means to evolve your content strategy. For effective B2B marketers, the days of expecting your public-facing content to do the heavy lifting are gone. Buyers want more social proof than ever, and that means they're looking for recommendations in more "dark" channels -- Slack channels, Discord communities, and other private groups of their peers. 

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Rule #5 is to educate your buyers at scale in order to reduce the buying cycle. Healthcare leaders are flooded with noise everyday, so you can expedite the road to a sale by focusing on the buyer's journey as opposed to your selling journey. When you see your role as educating rather than forcing someone down a funnel, you create moments of trust that lead to faster results. 

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Rule #4 is to modernize your value proposition. Healthcare and health tech brands tend to tout their solutions as the answer to lots of problems, but that's hard to convey to a busy buyer who might just care about one thing. It’s one thing to tell yourselves that you’re seeing the problem from the customer’s point of view; it’s another thing if the customer agrees! 

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Rule #3 is to over-index on creating demand and find a better balance between generating demand and capturing it in order to better reach today's B2B buyers and ultimately win their business. 

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