Valasys

DECEMBER 5, 2019

With the proliferation of technology & the Internet of Things (IoT), the B2B marketing world has transformed & evolved. Marching to an ecosystem that is ever-transcendent & dynamic, the B2B marketers need to learn about the amazing B2B marketing trends for 2020. The Key B2B Digital Marketing Trends for 2020.

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PathFactory

MAY 3, 2022

Everyone has a hot take on how the traditional B2B sales model has died, changed, morphed, or remains relevant – alive and kicking. The first is “ Traditional B2B Sales and Marketing Are Becoming Obsolete ” posted on The Harvard Business Review by Brent Adamson, Vice President at Gartner. So, How did we get here?

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Sword and the Script | B2B

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

68% of B2B professionals surveyed say it takes longer to complete B2B sales cycles compared to a year ago They say recessions don’t start trends – they accelerate those that are already in motion. The trend has been more of everything in B2B. Is it directly COVID related?

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The Point

JULY 17, 2017

Demand Gen Report has published the results of this year’s “B2B Buyer’s Survey,” and the trends identified merit close attention for those marketers involved in B2B demand generation and content development. IMPACT : Use ABM strategies to deliver personalized, relevant content to specific buying roles within large accounts.

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Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Our audience values expert content that is well researched, helps them solve a problem, and keeps them abreast of the latest industry trends. You can really understand their pain points, where they are in the buying cycle, and how to solve their problems. And this applies to our content marketing strategy.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

B2B marketers have employed account-based marketing (ABM) for well over a decade, of course, but the space has evolved rapidly over the past two to three years. Additionally, the COVID pandemic accelerated fundamental shifts in the B2B buying cycle by forcing events and in-person meetings to go virtual.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

But as B2B sales gets more competitive and complex, simply knowing who sourced a lead may no longer be good enough. Instead, B2B marketers are turning their attention to key performance indicators that showcase how full-funnel marketing efforts can deliver increased performance.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Demand generation, or demand gen, and account-based marketing (ABM) have traditionally been thought of as two distinct strategies for B2B growth. That’s changing, as one of the key ABM trends for brands is uniting the two practices. The most successful B2B marketers include both as a part of their overall strategy.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. The steps are: 1.

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Exo B2B

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Did you know that 72% of marketing professionals use B2B personas to guide their marketing content? This statistic highlights the growing importance of understanding exactly who the decision-makers are in the B2B world. You can’t rely solely on the perceptions of your sales reps. This is your central persona.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2023

In our Behind the Buzzwords content series, ANNUITAS breaks down the complex jargon you see trending in go-to-market thought-leadership and helps you cut through the noise to contextualize it for your organization. This buzzword has been popularized in the past decade as a way to talk about how customers move through the buying cycle.

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markempa

JUNE 17, 2012

Tweet CSO Insights , which interviews thousands of chief sales officers to benchmark B2B sales best practices, has tracked an alarming trend. Jim Dickie, CSO Insight’s managing partner, says this should make any sales leader cringe. No deal = broken sales cycle. Examine your sales process.

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ClickDimensions

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For B2B businesses, the pandemic acted as a catalyst speeding up slow-growing trends and forcing all businesses to adapt quickly or risk being left behind. Even though the pandemic’s influence has lessened, changed buyer trends have remained and are beginning to evolve.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The B2B marketing world is dynamic & trends here are subject to very negative sentimental connotation – partially because they are ephemeral & partially because it’s very tough for the brands to extract & keep abreast with the B2B marketing trends & studies that every marketer should know about in real-time.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 16, 2018

So far, we’ve seen two main trends emerge: extension of CDP product scope beyond the core of building the customer database itself and expansion into new industries. Financial services and travel/hospitality came next, and adoption has recently spread to B2B, healthcare, education, and telco. In itself, this progression isn’t news.

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Trade Press Services

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The B2B sales journey is complex, typically involving multiple small decisions about your brand that lead to a decision to purchase. By understanding the decisions buyers make throughout their journey, marketers can take strategic actions that meet the needs of today’s B2B buyer. Decision #5: About the time to buy.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 28, 2016

AMAZON BUSINESS : Served as an example of ‘digital customer’ expectations transitioning to the B2B world. Amazon Business launched in April 2015, with over 250 million products and a more holistic marketplace for B2B companies. At Audi City London sales went up 60% from the traditional Audi showroom that previously occupied the site.

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Engagio

MAY 3, 2021

One suite, two acquisitions, three companies coming together, four clouds, and five key B2B data assets! The Demandbase One B2B Go-To-Market Suite consists of four connected clouds. The Demandbase One B2B Go-To-Market Suite consists of four connected clouds. It’s essential to reach out at the right time and to know what to say.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

6sense is one of the best in the biz—their Account Engagement platform has the power to elevate any sales team, showing them exactly which companies are in the consideration and decision phases of their buying cycle. . million B2B websites, Digital advertising impressions, and. I’ve only just scratched the surface!

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InsightSquared

JUNE 16, 2020

Sales rarely follows a linear path. Fortunately, many sales teams are improving coaching and executing using the new Guided Selling technology. While the term is not new, Guided Selling has recently gained momentum in the B2B selling world due to its ability to adapt on demand and scale coaching across an entire sales team.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In most cases, brand-building efforts typically lose out to demand as marketers focus on short-term initiatives to fill the sales pipeline and generate revenue. Forrester research finds that 67% of B2B marketers say buyers are taking longer to commit to purchases than last year.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 15, 2010

Back in prehistoric times (before the Internet, that is), b2b buyers learned about products and services by reading (print) magazines and (printed) analyst reports. Then sales people would contact the prospects and use a “consultative&# sales process. Readers could respond to and extend the conversation through comments.

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Valasys

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In a fiercely competitive & ever-evolving B2B landscape, marketers must optimize their B2B CRM strategies to better interpret the complex nature of customers’ psychologies to optimize their marketing & sales endeavors. How Integrated & Optimized B2B CRM Strategies Benefits Businesses.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 2, 2019

So let me plunge ahead with 7 bets on likely new developments in the world of B2B marketing. My crystal ball is on back order,” as B2B database expert Bernice Grossman is fond of saying. Voice search takes hold in B2B buying, for real. My guess is that some types of B2B social media posts are ripe for automation.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 27, 2010

  Lauren notes that the B2B environment is faced with increasing challenges in marketing to as well as selling to the buyer.    Lauren further adds that a confluence of trends is changing the way buyers experience buying decisions and purchases. 

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

[In this article we’re going to look at buyer intent data, what it is, how it’s collected and, how you can use intent data to supercharge your marketing and sales campaigns.]. You’re probably thinking to yourself ‘if there was such a thing, I’d be closing hundreds of sales per month…’. Enter: intent data.

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DiscoverOrg

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Holger Schulze is an experienced B2B tech marketer and advisor for SaaS, marketing / sales automation and cybersecurity vendors. Recently, DiscoverOrg sat down with Schulze to uncover the momentum sales technology has gained over the past 12 months. We want to see how sales technology is evolving and what the trends are.

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Exo B2B

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The B2B marketing landscape is changing rapidly. Probably the biggest adjustment is in the sales approach. In a world where buyers are more informed and demanding than ever before, B2B sales reps must evolve to offer a fluid, personalized buying experience based on trust.

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Valasys

AUGUST 2, 2019

The B2B industry flourishes by capturing the interests of the buyer personas based on their past buying preferences & researching habits, their demographic, firmographic, technographic & psychographic data. John Jantsch, Marketing Consultant, Speaker & Author quoted the importance of improved personalization as follows: .

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Webbiquity

APRIL 10, 2018

Every B2B marketer knows we are in a period of rapid change. But how can B2B marketers most effectively achieve those results? Sales prospects have high expectations as well. Here are half a dozen insights from 27 B2B marketing stats facts compiled from recent studies, plus one key conclusion no B2B marketer will want to miss.

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NetLine

APRIL 14, 2022

Introducing the 2022 State of B2B Content Consumption and Demand Report for Marketers. NetLine’s research unearthed dozens of incredible insights into the behaviors of B2B buyers. of all registrations), B2B Marketers promoted 20% more White Papers than eBooks. of B2B professionals expect to invest within the next 6 months.

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Seismic

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Customer experience has long been a priority for B2C companies, but it hasn’t been a focus for B2B organizations until more recently. The B2B selling space is evolving, funnel dynamics are shifting, and buyers are becoming better informed. These changes are evident throughout the sales funnel, from awareness to post-purchase.

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Marketing Interactions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

These events in your target markets can quickly make your messaging irrelevant, rendering your marketing programs and sales plays ineffective. Only 16% of B2B marketers rate their current lead nurturing initiatives as excellent, per the 2022 Lead Nurturing & Acceleration Benchmark Survey. Buying committees are getting bigger.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 29, 2017

For many years now, B2B marketers have spent time and effort carefully crafting buyer personas based on demographic profiles, needs analyses and former sales results, among other criteria. It requires a direct, highly personalized sales and marketing program that targets each organization individually. Implementing ABM.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 2, 2020

In an industry heavily reliant on relationships, the reality is that the B2B banking customer’s buying process is typically long, and rarely linear. Not only are bankers limited by the lack of opportunity to build new relationships, but the B2B banking buyer’s decision-making process is changing. Until a trigger occurs.

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Top Rank Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Complacency has never been an option in B2B marketing. The products we sell are highly complex, the clients we sell to are highly exacting, our buying cycle is (much) longer, there are fewer customers to go around, and our competition is fierce. 2023 has created something of a perfect storm for B2B marketing.

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