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How Planful uses customer intent to speed up the B2B buying cycle 

Martech

Last year, Forrester reported that about 90% of 650 tech buyers surveyed want vendors to provide content that’s relevant at every stage of the buying journey. Said Bhagat, “We help brands like Planful use what we call downstream buyer intent data to target their advertising and sales outreach. A different kind of B2B buyer.

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Why Connected TV Advertising Is Key in Your Brand and Demand Strategy

Madison Logic

Yet more and more marketing leaders faced with larger buying committees and longer buying cycles are realizing the need for a balance and a stronger link between their brand and demand activities. Forrester research finds that 67% of B2B marketers say buyers are taking longer to commit to purchases than last year.

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Forrester thinks Content Marketing Isn’t Working – They’re Half Right

The Point

Over at Forrester Research, Vice President Laura Ramos recently talked to Advertising Age (“ Marketers Still Struggling to Get Results from Content Marketing “) about what she perceives as a general lack of return from the investment so many companies are making in content marketing.

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What is account-based marketing today and how has the space evolved?

Martech

Factors driving changes in ABM include shifts in buyer preferences and pre-purchase behavior, as well as the development of more sophisticated technology and data products that enable marketers to analyze behavior, identify in-market audiences, and craft experiences for a buying group or its individual members. — to targeted accounts.

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Good morning: How do you measure success?

Martech

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” At its core, claiming that any deal was sourced by marketing depends on a set of arbitrary assumptions that don’t reflect the related impact of interactions with both marketing and sales across a buying cycle. Simple times.

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A Big (Data) Day for B2B

Engagio

For Digital Marketers, Field Marketers, and Advertising professionals: the Advertising Cloud. This is an indicator of an account’s level of interest in your company or category, and trends can show when accounts are entering into an active buying cycle. You tell us where to start.

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Content Value Is Going to Change the Way Marketers Think About SEO & ROI

Contently

By occupying valuable real estate on search engine results pages, content was not only driving traffic to their websites, but also improving brand recognition at the crucial research stage of the buying cycle. Forrester research tells us that executive buyers look at an average of 17 pieces of content before signing a contract.