Martech

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

“Think in terms of what you can do to translate and transform these elements to be account-specific kinds of support.”. With better collaboration, and an open mind about what ABM entails, marketers can make a better impact with their B2B strategies. Defining ABM broadly. Not only that, but the same opportunity applies for email marketing outreach.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Value Added Resellers (VARs) – The tools that vendors use to match how customers increasingly want to discover, buy and manage – self-service, online, and in context to their specific problem – are the same tools that resellers and the channel need to manage your customers on your behalf. The short answer is: critically!

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Martech

MARCH 10, 2022

More and more, the buyer journey is conducted digitally: Two-thirds of B2B buyers say they are now “self-serving” more information before contacting vendors. 62% say they can now develop selection criteria or finalize a vendor list — based solely on digital content. Here’s a guide on how to do that.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 15, 2013

Executives continually point to the need for Sales and Marketing to align, with 90% of Senior Marketers indicating to Forrester that indeed alignment is a high or very high priority. At this later stage of engagement, it’s usually a Bakeoff between vendor offerings– a vicious shootout on features, function and especially price.

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6sense

MAY 23, 2016

Don’t all predictive vendors provide the same predictive score based on thousands of data points about a company?”. If you want to talk more, stop by the 6sense booth at the SiriusDecisions Summit and ask for Amar Doshi ! It’s also helped me uncover some four common misconceptions about predictive intelligence. Now Acme Inc.

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6sense

JUNE 14, 2016

It goes a little something like: “Okay, I get how you are different, but I’ve spoken to other predictive vendors that provide a score using thousands of individual data points about a company. Don’t all predictive vendors provide the same predictive score based on thousands of data points about a company?”. Now Acme Inc.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Access Markets International (AMI) Partners ( www.ami-partners.com ) published “Mid-Market CRM: Vendor Strategies for a New Frontier”, which found only 35% of mid-sized companies have an existing CRM installation. The study looked at both hosted and on-premise products. Click here for more information.

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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 17, 2015

For example, Forrester Research reports that B2B marketers who implement marketing automation increase their sales pipeline contributions by 10%, and organizations like the Cleveland Caveliers professional basketball team have used marketing automation to increase sales and enhance the customer experience while simultaneously reducing costs.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 2, 2016

Forrester Research states that less than 1% of leads turn into revenue generating customers. FlipMyFunnel published an ABM stack outlining more than 900 technology vendors to assist the ABM marketer. Author: Charm Bianchini What happens when B2B marketers from leading companies gather for a day? The Funnel Must Be Flipped.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. Sources: 1) SiriusDecisions B-to-B Buyer's Survey 2010 2) New Realities about B2B Buying, Jeff Ogden, SandHill.com Blog, Jun.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Even though some vendors have been around for almost 10 years, Marketing Automation is still relatively new. According to Forrester, only 2-5% of B2B firms have invested in full-featured Marketing Automation. Optimization & A/B testing, Continuous improvement. But that percentage is rapidly growing.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims. Matter of Trust - although the research indicates that buyers truly rely on vendor content to help drive purchase decisions, with so much noise, buyers have become skeptical of vendor claims. Death of a Salesman?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Personal IT Organization Enterprise Partner/Vendor. Partner/Vendor. Vendor Management. Advice & Opinion. Research & Analysis. Infrastructure Applications Development Architecture. « Virtualization. VMware, MS Battle Over Virtualization Management. TECHNOLOGY. Infrastructure. Network Monitoring. Energy Efficiency.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

During the B2C Internet revolution many a vendor’s world was turned upside down by failing to recognize and invest in the fundamental shift towards empowering consumers with content and buying tools. Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? The Death of a Salesman?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

With ready access to an unprecedented wealth of on-line information, and skepticism toward vendors as a result of direct marketing overload, buyers have revolted and taken the buying cycle into their own hands. As a result, buyers now suffer from Information Overload. These three issues are having a measurable impact on marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 6, 2020

Attending a marketing conference is a great opportunity to learn about up-and-coming trends and new technology in the industry, network with peers, brands, and vendors, and just stir up a bit of new inspiration and enthusiasm for your work. I’ll also be speaking at a number of these events. Forward Marketing Summit Sydney.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

IT Spending on the Rise, But Executives Remain Economic-Focused A recent IT spending survey from Forrester confirms that 2010 remained a tough year for IT. As could be expected, Forrester indicates that the majority of 2010 IT spending went to support existing operations – essentially “keeping the lights on&#.

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Integrated B2B

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

In this interview with Brian Walker, former Vice President with research giant Forrester, now Senior Vice President of Strategy at commerce software vendor Hybris , we discuss the changing face of B2B buyer behavior and what B2B companies need to do to stay ahead. But how frightened should B2B suppliers really be?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Frugalnomics Changes Everything According to Forrester analyst Scott Santucci, "Go-to-market models always change during periods of disruption, and this economic downturn has been deep, long, and might not even be over. The more buying organizations are a forced to do-more-with-less they adopt different business patterns.”

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

Assessment tools enable vendors to engage with customers to realize and prioritize issues they may not even know they have, and provide intelligent product/solution roadmaps and recommendations. Posted by Tom Pisello at 10:33 AM Email This BlogThis! Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Alinean Powers Diagnostic Assessment Tool: the Sag.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. In fact, 88% said Web sites were important in helping them decide what to buy. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 7, 2014

Forrester suggested that a B2B buyer’s journey could be anywhere from 65-90% complete by the time he or she contacts the vendor to move forward with a sale. Lead nurturing is a critical part of a marketer’s job, especially in the B2B space. Multi Channel Lead Nurturing from HubSpot. Use the Right Tools.

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Madison Logic

JANUARY 25, 2024

As a result, b rand-building typically takes a back seat to demand generation, as marketers prioritize short-term initiatives to achieve quarterly revenue objectives. B2B buyers are taking longer to commit to purchases and often end up selecting a vendor from their day-one shortlist. But the days of “quick wins” are dwindling.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Today, it is a mature, widely accepted practice in both helping buyers analyze ways to reduce costs, and for vendors to make the case for change, or prove competitive advantage. Vendors of technology are competing not only with each other for new spending, but with the entrenched operating costs of the status quo.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

For the IT buyer, business benefit assessments (34%) and financial assessments (26%) were both highly important to making a purchase decision, greatly exceeding, by more than 2x, the vendor relationship (14%) as a decision driver. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Buyers, Fueled by the Internet, Firmly in Control With a wealth of information from vendors, analysts and peers, buyers are doing more research on-line. Sales teams will need to analyze the buying cycle, understanding the key steps buyers take to make decisions, and implementing engagement methods and tools to help facilitate the process.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010 Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 2011 according to new Harte-Hanks research Technology marketers are challenged today with handling proliferating marketing channels to reach and engage more overloaded, skeptical and frugal buyers than ever before.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Server virtualization is one of the best ways for IT managers to meet cost savings goals, and most are well underway with thier virtualization programs. It should be noted that license discounts are available from Microsoft and the competition and should also factor into your own analysis.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Now, over 90% of B2B buyers require quantifiable proof of bottom-line impact from any significant purchase, and over 81% expect vendors to create and deliver the financial business case for most proposed purchases (IDC). However, it is getting harder to connect and engage effectively with these overloaded, skeptical and frugal executives.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 9, 2010

“70% of the buying process of IT is completed before consulting the vendors” “buyers are in control in today's b2b digitally powered world” “What are the most prevalent emotions in B2B buying? So much great content was tweeted and retweeted that this relatively small conference became a Global Trending Topic !

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

A reallocation or retirement of existing servers and elimination of on-going server maintenance and support costs b. That leaves a scant 14% on average for innovative investments that can give the business a true game changing competitive edge. Most servers do not come close to peak operating capacity on any given day. by 2010 [2].

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B2B Digital Marketer

OCTOBER 19, 2020

There’s no doubt that having a book published is a great way to establish authority in the domain you are in. However, actually having a book published may not be as easy as it seems. In this episode of the B2B Digital Marketer Podcast, Raza Imam shares how you can publish your own book using content that you may have already published!

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Engagio

JULY 30, 2018

A few years ago, Engagio published our ABM Market Map, which was the first comprehensive listing of all the categories and vendors in ABM. Some vendors use predictive models to help you identify the best accounts for your business. Now, don’t be overwhelmed. These are the core essential technologies to support ABM.

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Leadspace

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

There was the recent Forrester report , the dramatic increase in RFPs and customer adoption of CDPs and even Salesforce’s recent announcements about the pivotal nature that CDPs will play in their future business strategy. There has been a lot of evidence in the last few months that the B2B Customer Data Platform (CDP) category is maturing.

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Content4Demand

MARCH 21, 2019

Read the full piece to learn the six traits of the modern B2B seller that Mary Shea, Principal Analyst at Forrester , shared – plus the three principles Chris Orlob, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Gong.io , says salespeople should rely on for what to say, do and write during customer conversations. “And Storming Sales.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 17, 2017

The greatest benefit of attending Summit is the iron-sharpens-iron dynamic that happens when you’re surrounded b y the best minds in marketing. Author: Katie Pope In just a few months, thousands of people will descend upon San Francisco for the Marketing Nation Summit. Learning and Career Growth. Advice from Marketo Champions.

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Albert

AUGUST 17, 2018

In fact, according to Forrester’s AI: The Next Generation of Marketing report, a mere 6% of marketers believe that their current technology stacks are capable of dealing with the complexities presented by modern marketing. Marketers’ tech stacks aren’t only ineffective, however — they are themselves overly complex. Audience Targeting.

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