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

Martech

At the time, Host Analytics, now Planful, had focused all its energy on one reviews platform, G2. 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. A different kind of B2B buyer. Let us know!

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Marketing KPIs are changing. Here’s why.

Zoominfo

A more nuanced understanding of marketing’s effect on the sales cycles, a better case for increased budgets, and another step forward in the age-old struggle for better sales and marketing alignment. Data from Forrester Research shows how rapidly marketing metrics are changing. In 2020, that figure was down to 47%.

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Demandbase CEO on Coming Sea Changes

Engagio

Buying Groups: As big as the shift from leads to accounts If you were around before the days of ABM, you know how massive the change was from lead-based marketing to account-based marketing. Analytics provided accountability and enabled data-based decision making. Marketing automation had been a huge step forward for the industry.

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

Contently

For the majority of brands, the cost of implementing new technologies for user tracking and attribution analytics, and integrating them within existing tools is prohibitively high. Forrester research tells us that executive buyers look at an average of 17 pieces of content before signing a contract. They’re certainly not alone.

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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. The vendors respond.

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How to Choose the Right Predictive Analytics Tool for Account-Based Marketing

NuSpark Consulting

Predictive analytics is the process of mining large data sets to identify trends and patterns that help companies understand their target audiences and identify risks and opportunities. Benefits of Using Predictive Analytics. With multiple different tools to choose from, it’s difficult to find the right one for your requirements.

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As B2B Customer Data Platforms Come of Age, an Exciting Opportunity for Marketers Everywhere

Leadspace

With B2B marketers struggling to stay afloat in a sea of data, businesses are fast abandoning the old methods of list buying and data/analytics point-solutions, in favor of a more holistic, sophisticated, integrated approach to data. Earlier this year, I predicted that 2019 would be the year of the B2B Customer Data Platform (CDP).