Vision Edge Marketing

APRIL 25, 2023

Strategy #1: The Power of Keeping Your Best Customers This first strategy focuses on customer retention. This is crucial for B2B companies in tough economic times. This strategy is about keeping business you have with customers you already have. Even so, not all customers are equal: Some customers buy more than others.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2022

B2B marketers are expected to wear many hats. For B2B marketers, staying on top of the latest digital marketing strategies is not just a job requirement, but a matter of corporate survival. Fortunately, there are some strategies that are so effective they’ve become, or remained, relevant and useful across industries.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 15, 2022

Conversion rate optimization (CRO) is just important for B2B companies as B2C businesses. B2B marketers spend a great deal of time, effort, and money on top-of-funnel activities to drive website traffic. Convincing them to take the next step (and ultimately, to buy from you) can be challenging, however. You Use the Right Tools.

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Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

TopRank Marketing has worked with clients in both the B2B and B2C realms over the last two decades. In that time, we have definitely witnessed the much-discussed convergence of these two previously diametric categories; the so-called consumerization of B2B. A company’s SEO content strategy should be built around this core distinction.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 13, 2022

B2B buyers have relied heavily on search for years, but recent research shows that Gen Z and Millennial buyers are 2X more likely than older generations to discover a product by searching online. That makes SEO one of the top areas of investment for B2B marketing teams. Image credit: Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels. Target decision makers.

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Vision Edge Marketing

MARCH 26, 2024

Gartner’s survey reveals a whopping 75% of B2B buyers prefer self-service, versus interacting with sales representatives, during the initial stages of the buying process. Chatbots and Automated Tools: In the realm of B2B interactions, chatbots and automated tools are revolutionizing customer support.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.”. Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. The Most Effective B2B Marketing Strategies.

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The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

A robust B2B digital marketing strategy can and WILL drive growth in revenue, reputation, and resilience for your business. It requires building strong relationships with potential business clients, understanding their specific needs and pain points, and tailoring marketing strategies to address those concerns effectively.

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Vision Edge Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Most business leaders and Marketing and Sales professionals today understand the impact that peer reviews and stories make on the customer bying journey, including the B2B purchase journey. This trend has certainly added more twists and turns to the buying process. Studies reveal significant changes to how B2B buyers select suppliers.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 2, 2024

For businesses, understanding the nuances of B2B SEO is essential, as it significantly differs from B2C SEO. The Distinct Focus of B2B SEO B2B SEO operates within a distinct paradigm, primarily due to the nature of the target audience. Content tailored for B2B audiences. Relationship building and lead generation.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

There’s something interesting you should know about B2B companies and their content strategies. But here’s the catch – not many have a strategy that covers the whole business. If you don’t have a solid, company-wide content strategy, you’re probably not hitting your top goals as effectively as you could.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Eighty percent of B2B buyers prefer digital ordering experiences over in-person sales — even in sectors where field sales models have traditionally dominated. And ecommerce strategy used to involve inter-departmental conversations with stakeholders feeling like they were rolling boulders uphill. Digital commerce has changed.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 23, 2024

In B2B marketing, with the constant pressure to “do more with less,” optimizing return on investment (ROI) is crucial, especially regarding brand awareness. Image credit: Pixabay on Pexels You’ve probably seen studies and statistics on the enormous ROI (return on investment) that email marketing for B2B delivers compared to other tactics.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So, what is the first thing that occurs to you when you start brainstorming about your B2B sales strategy? What are the latest challenges in B2B sales strategies ? The latest B2B sales challenges include: Difficulty in reaching decision makers and engaging with them effectively. Target Audience? Investment?

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 6, 2022

Be they B2B or B2C entities. . Perhaps no “Why” question is more important to B2B or B2C leadership than this: Why do our buyers and customers buy? Spadework involves conducting buyer research, attaining deep buyer insights, assessing what the insights mean, and mapping their strategies to critical guiding insights.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You’re armed with your prospect’s buying signals, right? What are customer buying signals? By definition, buying signals are the actions potential customers take that indicate they’re close to making a purchase. They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 25, 2018

Trade shows are a great place to generate new B2B leads and reinforce existing relationships—and the bigger the show, the greater the opportunity. This means that a generalized, “one size fits all” marketing strategy is arguably a bad approach to selling to the B2B customer. Guest post by Tifany Scifo.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Leverage Buyer Insights To Create Rewarding Digital Buying Experiences For Buyers. One significant outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the increasing desire on the part of buyers for digital buying experiences. Buyers have adapted fairly well to the idea of digital-first and remote buying.

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Webbiquity

MAY 30, 2023

This 65-page report is packed with facts, stats, and insights marketers can use to inform adjustments to their planning and strategy as the year goes on. 1) B2B marketers are faring (a little) better than B2C. Per the report, “B2B teams had the largest marketing budgets.” 6) Event marketing is bouncing back for B2B.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

That’s what we’re aiming for in B2B marketing. Imagine B2B emails that ditch the generic approach for something as personal as a gallery owner’s welcome. Advanced strategies for personalizing B2B email campaigns B2B marketing emails are often lost in the mountain of the daily inbox, but they don’t have to be.

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Navigate the Channel

JUNE 27, 2023

B2B customers, like all customers , are human and bring human quirks and predictabilities into their purchasing decisions. In general, your customers are likely to buy from you for one of three reasons. When you understand the corresponding humanness around those three reasons, you can be a better B2B participant.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

APRIL 18, 2023

A study including behavioral data and a poll of 38,000 B2B professionals finds the more B2B content your “audience consumes, the more likely they are to be closing in on a purchase decision.” B2B content and buyer intent are two of the hottest topics in B2B marketing – and a new study offers some details as to how these are linked.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The traditional B2B buyer’s journey has been overtaken by “self-directed buyers.” B2B decision-makers have more content at their fingertips than ever before. This is a fantastic step forward for B2B consumers. Gartner reports upwards of 70% of B2B decision-makers are willing to purchase without speaking to a representative.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The traditional B2B buyer’s journey has been overtaken by “self-directed buyers.” B2B decision-makers have more content at their fingertips than ever before. This is a fantastic step forward for B2B consumers. Gartner reports upwards of 70% of B2B decision-makers are willing to purchase without speaking to a representative.

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Anteriad

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In B2B today, there is rarely a unilateral buying decision. Because your focus shouldn’t be on just one buyer—but a buying group. While individual targeting is not entirely lost, you’ll get farther faster by identifying and marketing to the entire buying group. What is a buying group?

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Drew Neisser

APRIL 21, 2023

B2B buying trends are changing and the old marketing playbook isn’t working anymore. What does this mean for your marketing strategy?

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Tiecas

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a disruptive and transformative force in B2B marketing for industrial companies. This technological advancement offers unprecedented opportunities for personalization, efficiency, and insight- and data-driven strategies, enabling marketers to meet the complex demands of the industrial sector.

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B2B Marketing Directions

MAY 28, 2023

Most B2B marketers recognize that their toughest competitor isn't usually a company offering an alternative product or service, but rather what their potential buyers are already using or doing. There's no doubt that marketing content can influence business buyers at several stages of their buying journey.

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Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

B2B industrial marketing presents unique challenges compared to other forms of B2B marketing. As the Founder and President of Tiecas, a B2B industrial marketing agency in Houston, TX , I’ve spent the past 35+ years immersed in industrial and manufacturing marketing. Source ] So, what does this mean for B2B industrial marketers?

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Studies prove that B2B prospects now prefer a digital buying journey over sales calls. Understanding their journey is where B2B customer insights come in. In this post, we cover the basics and then move on to the advanced insight strategies for B2B buyer personas that are now possible with AI.

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