KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

The most significant challenge B2B marketers face is in effectively communicating with target audiences and prospective buyers. B2B buyer personas provide a foundation for accomplishing the research and development of effective online marketing campaigns designed to achieve strategic marketing objectives. Final Thoughts.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through.

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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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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Here’s the thing, by the time your ideal customer gets to your website or sees your product post on Twitter, they’re self-educating about what they need. For instance, according to Gartner, B2B buyers spend only 17% of the total purchase journey with sales reps. Awareness Stage: Grab (and Keep) the Prospect’s Attention.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Sana Commerce

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Many B2B companies worry that turning to online sales will hurt their long-standing customer relationships. Personalized marketing in B2B e-commerce is a great way to maintain these business relationships by treating your buyers as individuals online — just as you would offline. So clearly expectations are not being met.

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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. Prospects can ask questions, within or beyond their social networks.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 26, 2010

People buy from people they know, like and trust. Using Twitter can help B2B marketers reduce “time-to-trust” with prospective customers. When prospective customers follow you on Twitter, you are increasing your touch points with them. But, be careful as you use Twitter for B2B marketing.

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KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Content is critical for B2B business to attract potential customers, capture leads, and guide those leads toward conversion. Different types of content, of course, play their unique parts in the buying cycle. However – the mantra “ quality over quantity ” is particularly important for B2B content marketers.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Here’s the thing, by the time your ideal customer gets to your website or sees your product post on Twitter, they’re self-educating about what they need. For instance, according to Gartner, B2B buyers spend only 17% of the total purchase journey with sales reps. ACTION TIP: Send your prospect the demo video while you’re on the phone.

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DealSignal

APRIL 27, 2023

ABM intent data is about ABM marrying Ideal Customer Profiles, Buyer Personas, high-quality contact information, and intent data into a strategic go-to-market strategy for B2B firms. Buyer Personas focus on the buying committee roles of your Ideal Buyers. high yield, low churn) by key attributes.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 13, 2016

B2B marketers have always been more resistant to using social media than their B2C counterparts, which is in large part a mind-set issue. Only five years ago, almost half of B2B executives still thought social media was irrelevant to their company, and this attitude has definitely had an influence on slower adoption.

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BOP Design

MAY 29, 2019

For many B2B marketers, attracting and generating leads is often the primary goal. While the inbound lead generation strategy should be unique to your firm, there are several best practices or do’s and don’ts for attracting good quality leads to your B2B website. Have a Presence Where Prospects Are. Do: Be Strategic.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 19, 2016

Whether you’re writing about your imaginary friend in first grade or about a B2B product or service, it is critical to define the audience and then deliver the right content to that audience. The B2B content consumption stats are out there. However, creating content that satisfies B2B buyers’ appetites is no walk in the park.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MAY 30, 2014

I’m still seeing a real reluctance on the part of many B2B businesses to get human with their marketing and really tell their story. For too long, B2B marketers have put products and services first, believing that all they had to do was “build it and they will come.” People buy from people they like.

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LeadSquared

MARCH 11, 2021

B2B marketing is different from B2C marketing in several ways. However, a deeper understanding of B2B vs B2C marketing can help you build campaigns that truly resonate with your target audience. In this article, we will discuss ten key differences between B2B and B2C marketing. What is B2B Marketing?

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The Lead Agency

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The core of B2B marketing is building reputation, demonstrating capability, and showcasing credibility to very specific B2B audiences. B2B marketers have to be acutely aware of their audience. The following are some of the characteristics of the B2B buying cycle that all B2B marketers should know.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 18, 2017

At the end of each month, we use analytics tools to show the impact our content has on driving conversions to the website and generating new prospects in the sales funnel. Get the conversation started by dropping a line in the comments section or connecting with me on Twitter ! should be the driving force behind all efforts.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Content marketing is more important to B2B businesses. Here are 15 B2B case studies. They show how content marketing drives ROI with B2B businesses who: Know their audience. Use specific content solutions to impact different stages of the buying cycle. Who is succeeding and why? Maersk now has more than 1.5m

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 23, 2021

B2B marketers are quite familiar with a variety of marketing dashboards comprised of various spreadsheets, charts and graphs that depict performance and statuses. Marketing data provides a wide range of insights about your prospects and buyers. Prospects are 2.8 Prospects are 2.8 Today, data powers marketing efforts.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

B2B buyers are time deprived and risk averse – and also enormously well informed. From the B2B seller side, ‘beating the bushes’, ‘cold calling’, ‘hunting’… whatever you call it, is less and less effective. Information is available free (or close to it) today that you couldn’t buy for any amount of money five years ago.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 9, 2023

Go beyond Facebook or Twitter posts. The B2B content marketing strategy checklist Unlike the B2C scenario, your business-to-business strategy is less about transactions and more about relationships. The B2B audience has a long chain of command, as well as a longer buying cycle than that of a B2C audience.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 31, 2019

We’ll be ringing in 2022 no differently with a new set of B2B lead generation strategies to consider. The digital marketing landscape is constantly changing, which means B2B lead generation tactics are also evolving. Here are ten effective B2B lead generation strategies that will help you succeed in 2022. Incentivize referrals!

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Valasys

JULY 16, 2019

The modern B2B world businesses are witnessing transcendence – by raising their digitization games to showcase their products or services & by enhancing their web presence leveraging integrated approaches to build full-proof multichannel strategies for their marketing endeavors.

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EveryoneSocial

APRIL 10, 2018

B2B Salespeople + Content. B2B salespeople need to be on social media to connect and build relationships with prospects, but in order to succeed and build a rapport, they also need to be armed with the right type of content. But not even just opportunities, the chance to even build more awareness for your company.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. Drive traffic – Don’t expect your prospects to find your blog just because you’ve built it.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 19, 2013

Building a network in Google+ could be the next critical tactic when it relates to B2B search engine optimization and broader social media initiatives. As such, for B2B marketers specifically, activity on Google Plus could potentially have significant effects on lead acquisition and brand trust.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It is also important for B2B marketers to evaluate new and emerging trends, as well as shifts in the competitive landscape, to help determine where to set budgets and forecasts moving forward. 75 percent of B2B buyers said they research at least 25 percent of their work-related purchases online, even if they made the actual purchase offline.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 18, 2013

Use Twitter to link to your press releases, new product information, or events. You can integrate this data into your CRM system, so you begin to see any effect social media has on your prospects’ buy cycle. Most platforms have automatic statistics programs that monitor reach and engagement.

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B2B Marketing Traction

JULY 12, 2013

After working on one such system yesterday (I will name no names), I popped onto one of my favorite Twitter chats – #B2Bchat. As I looked up the bio of one of the participants, @Nimble, I complimented them on their profile on Twitter. Marketing Soapbox b2b marketing sales social media' “We’re the #unCRM.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your online content needs to play a much more active role in moving site visitors along in his/her buy decision.

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Engagio

JULY 19, 2021

In simple terms, it involves reframing ABM and B2B go-to-market strategy through a distinct customer-experience lens. If you’re not connecting with prospects at a moment where they are ready to. Follow Gerry on LinkedIn and Twitter ! Follow Natalie on LinkedIn and Twitter ! Gerry Moran: Finding Those Magic Moments.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JUNE 2, 2011

Current marketing wisdom says content should be mapped to buying cycles. Yet according to a study from MarketingProfs and Junta42 , 78% of B2B marketers say awareness is an objective of content marketing. Question: Where is awareness most valuable in the buying cycle? No Investment Required. Consumable.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

We nurture our prospects and customers with the goal of increasing conversions and generating revenue, yet many of us are struggling to engage enough of our audience via email. Your prospects are bombarded with pitches from different vendors. The email references the prospect’s interest and provides relevant content.

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markempa

APRIL 6, 2015

However, according to MarketingSherpa’s data , generating “high-quality leads” is the B2B marketer’s No. So, what’s the best way for B2B marketers to efficiently verify the accuracy of their lead data captured online before turning said inquiries over to the sales force? 1 challenge. Photo courtesy of Rudolf Vl?ek.

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The Lead Agency

MARCH 27, 2018

B2B marketing is a process in which a service or a product is introduced and promoted to another company. The term covers several different activities that are all associated with providing information and convincing B2B decision makers that your service or product is right for them.

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KEO Marketing

MAY 26, 2017

Over the past few years, B2B marketers have overhauled their approaches, and many of the most successful have switched to ABM marketing. B2B marketers prefer ABM marketing to other strategies because of its high ROI. Email LinkedIn, Twitter, direct mail, and conferences are common channels for communicating with targeted prospects.

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