KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 23, 2018

You could afford to invest $2,000 on a piece of super-high quality content that filled that gap in your sales process/buyer’s journey. And remember, too: This isn’t the general audience of B2B content marketers we’re talking about here. That’s still (even in 2018) only 80 percent of B2B content marketers.

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B2B Marketing Directions

JUNE 11, 2023

Source: Kogan Page Limited Understanding how business people actually make buying decisions on behalf of their company is vital to B2B marketing success. About a decade ago, the B2B buying process model developed by SiriusDecisions (now part of Forrester) became widely popular with B2B marketers.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Welcome everyone to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Madison Logic

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Display advertising has a bad reputation, due to common misconceptions about its limited value in B2B campaigns. In fact, research suggests that B2B display advertising is projected to surpass traditional search spending for the first time. Here, we’ve rounded up the most popular display ad formats for B2B marketing.

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Madison Logic

JANUARY 18, 2023

Because buyers, not sellers, have all the power in B2B. While they appreciate our clever wordsmithing and attractive graphics, these mean nothing if we’re not giving them the experience they want in the buyer’s journey. They expect us to understand who they are, what they need, and when they need it.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2017

A common mantra for many sales strategies is to "Engage earlier and higher". So does this strategy have real merit, and if so, how do you best enable your sales reps to be successful? First, does it really make a difference if sales reps engage earlier? Execs don’t want a sales rep that shows-up and throws-up.

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Akoonu

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Sales pipeline. Sales funnel. Marketing and sales pipeline. Buyers journey. Pipeline v Funnel v Buyers Journey. These stages, from the naming of them to implementation usually don’t consider the buyer’s point of view. In a buyers journey this might be called the Awareness, Inspiration or Learning stage.

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Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Unfortunately, most marketers don't know how their customers feel about advertising, according to Forrester. Learn More: Bringing Technology to the Forefront of the B2B Customer Experience. Buyers tend to distrust the cluttered advertising environment unless the information can help them make a smarter purchase.

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Mereo

MARCH 26, 2020

At Mereo, we have developed a unique approach to revenue performance that leverages the inherently interdependent operational disciplines of demand progression, solution marketing, solution management, sales operations and sales enablement. you have nothing of which to serve your buyer. A past problem is wiped out.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

B2B Marketing Content falls under 2 broad category - 1. We asked B2B Marketing Experts the following question - "How should content that is addressed to a Technical Decision Maker be different from content that is addressed to a Business Decision Maker? Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist. Ardath Albee.

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Today, however, rising buyer expectations and changing buyer communications preferences require new kinds of marketing communications methods that don't fit the traditional campaign construct. For example, Forrester Consulting recently wrote: ".

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts " What do you recommend to marketers that create and market content? What kind of content is most useful in each phase of the B2B marketing cycle? " Match Content to the Buying Process " Ardath Albee's Bio. Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist. Ardath Albee.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 11, 2024

About $3 trillion — that’s Forrester’s estimate for B2B sales by 2027, almost double what it was in 2021. And B2B salespeople are a big reason why it’s growing. If you want to be successful in B2B sales, you need to understand the difference between B2B and B2C sales strategies.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 13, 2024

According to Forrester research, millennial buyers aged 25-44 are increasingly shifting into purchase decision-making roles and are expected to make up three-fourths of business buying teams in 2024. What distinguishes millennials buyers from older committee members is their digital nativity.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

Today’s buyer is more empowered, skeptical and frugal than ever before, providing a greater than ever challenge to sales professionals, and shaking the very foundations of traditional selling models. At Alinean, we have coined this new B2B challenge as Frugalnomics, indicated by: 1. Fight Frugalnomics with Outcome Selling?

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NetLine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Intent data is an essential part of sales enablement. But with the volume of content online continuing to increase, how exactly should B2B marketers highlight the right content for sales teams to use at the right time? After that, make sure you ask your sales team. Gong.io) that analyze interactions with buyers.

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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. Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles.

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Sana Commerce

OCTOBER 4, 2021

B2B buying and selling has changed. In the face of B2B sales’ digital transformation, should your sales strategy follow suit? Lessons learned from the digital transformation of B2B sales. In recent years, many B2B organizations have chosen to embrace digital to get ahead of change ?

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 23, 2016

For decades, the B2B marketer has been a manager of projects. When it’s all over, you ship the booth and collateral boxes home and collect the leads for sales. The world has changed, and the internet is now crushing a sales rep’s ability to generate their own leads. The buyer has WAY more control than they used to.

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Sales Engine

OCTOBER 8, 2015

For decades, the B2B marketer has been a manager of projects. When it’s all over, you ship the booth and collateral boxes home and collect the leads for sales. The world has changed, and the internet is now crushing a sales rep’s ability to generate their own leads. The buyer has WAY more control than they used to.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Is this digital spending allocation aligning with buyer needs?

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Televerde

AUGUST 30, 2021

The B2B purchase decision process is complex, and it almost always involves multiple decision makers. To effectively move potential buyers through the decision process and convert them into sales, B2B companies need to tap into the influencing factors behind buyer decisions. Quick Takeaways.

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Seismic

MAY 24, 2019

When organizations think of sales and marketing alignment, they often focus on demand generation. Because buyers are savvier and more educated, they expect salespeople to present them with content that is relevant to them in their buying journey. Sales and marketing must work together to deliver on the promise of alignment.

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Kapost

APRIL 5, 2017

Organizations that use a mapping program to manage buyer and customer journeys average a 79% increase in cross-sell and upsell revenue, marketing research from the Aberdeen Group reveals. In the new B2B marketing landscape, buyers are in control of their journeys. Mapping the Buyer’s Journey to the Sales Funnel.

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Delivra

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As a B2B marketer, reaching your target audiences may seem impossible. Forrester has predicted that spending on marketing automation will hit $25 billion by 2023 , signaling a 14% annual growth rate since 2017. More than half of B2B marketers are using marketing automation. Enhancing the ability to identify sales-ready leads.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The B2B marketing automation industry will reach $325 million in revenue in 2011. Make Room for Complex Buyer Motivations. It’s hard to diagnose buyer needs in a vacuum. A 2010 Forrester Research survey reported that 88% of online shoppers have abandoned their shopping carts at one point or another.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 2, 2020

.” — Jonathan Lister “Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.” ” — Unknown “Strong customer relationships drive sales, sustainability, and growth.”

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Business-to-business (B2B) marketing is a passion to those of us who’ve devoted our lives and careers to it. Here’s how to combat those myths and explain B2B marketing in a way that’s actually interesting to those outside the profession. Actually, the B2B market is about twice as large, according to Forrester.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 1, 2015

The B2B marketing and sales world was abuzz a few weeks ago when SiriusDecisions reported that the decline in importance of the B2B sales person, which has been reported by many, has been greatly exaggerated. And with that, the B2B Twittersphere went wild and all B2B sales people breathed a huge sigh of relief.

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Martech

APRIL 15, 2022

The B2B buyer journey is evolving rapidly as it becomes more digitized, less predictable, and more complex. The challenge for B2B marketers is to support what is now largely a self-guided journey involving numerous personas on accounts and increasingly expanding buying teams. Key points covered include: What is B2B marketing?

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6sense

AUGUST 24, 2017

We sat down with David Simon, our new Chief Revenue Officer and Sanjay Kini, our new Vice President of Sales Engineering to hear more about their plans to help 6sense transform marketing technology and empower sales and marketing teams with the power of big data and artificial intelligence.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Do White Papers Still Engage?

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

B2B Category Creators Episode 5 Complete Transcript Jason Widup: All right. Welcome to Episode Five of B2B Category Creators. That’s a tactical thing for a large sales organization. And would this appeal to the senior sales leadership? Hey, everybody. I’m guest hosting today. My name is Jason Widup.

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