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12 Essential Benchmarks for Understanding The B2B Buyers’ Journey

KoMarketing Associates

The B2B buyer’s journey is evolving rapidly. The benchmarks and strategies that worked just a few years ago might not have the same impact today. In addition to incremental changes, such as the shift toward mobile devices, B2B marketers must also contend with a rapidly changing workplace and online world.

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An Opportunity-Based Marketing Framework for ABM

The Point

While there’s little debate about the value of a well-planned, well-executed Account-Based Marketing (ABM) strategy, where many B2B companies struggle – and where ABM initiatives tend to stall – is in that phase between planning and execution, where strategy and account planning meet tactics, plays and content.

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How Has B2B Sales Changed in the Digital Era?

Heinz Marketing

Now, in the throes of digital transformation and workforce innovation, B2B companies are faced with a future-defining decision: sink or swim. Gartner says that only 17% of the buying cycle is spent actually talking to sales. The imperative for B2B companies to enable their buyers has never been stronger.

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9 Questions for B2B Buyer Persona Success

Heinz Marketing

So you have an understanding of your buying committee and how to market to them , now it’s time to build out your buyer personas. Creating an accurate and actionable B2B buyer persona means asking the right questions about your targets, the outcome of an effective buyer persona isn’t a grouping of stereotypes or uninformed assumptions.

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Why You Need to Revisit B2B Buyer Personas and ICPs

Marketing Interactions

Only 16% of B2B marketers rate their current lead nurturing initiatives as excellent, per the 2022 Lead Nurturing & Acceleration Benchmark Survey. Further, the downsides of regret are many, including slower buy cycles, frustrated teams, and lower retention or growth for those accounts.

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B2B Content Marketing – It Takes A Village

ANNUITAS

This year Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs published their 7 th B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends – North America study. According to CEB , in a typical B2B buying cycle there are on average 6.8 It Takes a Village-. The other with 59% responded with an unsure or a no.

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B2B Content Marketing – It Takes A Village

ANNUITAS

This year Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs published their 7 th B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends – North America study. According to CEB , in a typical B2B buying cycle there are on average 6.8 It Takes a Village-. The other with 59% responded with an unsure or a no.