The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

In the face of frugal buyer sentiment, a majority of B2B vendors are now requiring more leads to generate the same amount of sales and are reporting a substantial increase in buying cycle time. The inability for sales to engage buyers with value messaging has currently been cited as the number one reason for sales not making quotas.

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6sense

JANUARY 31, 2022

And many historical buying committee models have focused on individual roles, needs, preferences — mostly from a business and function context. . New research from TrustRadius, Gartner, Forrester, and others adds a new, critical layer of understanding to the buying committee mix: generational differences. . The rest is online.

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Conversica

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Forrester Research reports that 74% of business buyers conduct more than half of their research online before making an offline purchase. Furthermore, a Topo blog post on best practices for building a revenue machine cites a SiriusDecisions poll of 300 sales leaders that found: “The top third of the sales cycle has gone away.

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Televerde

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Having the right technology, and knowing how to use it, is the essential first step in getting the kind of results attributed to modern marketers in a Forrester survey of marketing decision makers which shows, among other things, that 94% of modern markers attain significant market share, with 49% holding the market-leading position. [1].

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

From our social media ROI studies, analyzing the investment, popularity, practices and results of social media marketing for the Fortune 500, and select small / medium companies, a key indicator to social media ROI success was level of engagement. Jump to a higher level without having a proper foundation and the strategy collapses.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 8, 2018

Email open rates are five times higher for companies using personas (Forrester). We have three strategies to get you there: good, better and best. Let’s start at the top: The 5 Rings of Buying Insight for Buyer Personas. BEST (the gold standard for persona creation). High-level buy-cycle insights.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 26, 2020

What has changed are the best ways to achieve better ROI. Forrester Research Principal Analyst Mary Shea predicts that because of COVID-19 and social distancing, face-to-face interactions in a sales cycle will decrease to 5-15% of the total engagement a seller has. Three Tools, Two Positive Outcomes.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to a prediction by Forrester by the year 2021, 48% of the B2B marketing organizations will be organized to support customers’ journeys. Trends in dynamic B2B marketing topics & sales best practices are often ephemeral, vanish-able & capable of surfacing up like phoenixes from the ashes every now & then.

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Integrated B2B

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

While applauding these achievements, however, we also can’t help wondering how much stronger results companies similar to these could achieve if they adopted 10X sales and marketing practices! Bigger B2B buying centers. Bigger B2B buying centers. What if they were able to win a greater percentage of deals? We’re in 2020 now.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2022

That’s changing, as one of the key ABM trends for brands is uniting the two practices. This finding aligns with a Forrester SiriusDecisions survey that found over 50% of participating marketers’ “desired future state” was to be “‘broadly aligned’—sharing people, processes, and tools” on ABM and demand gen. .

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 30, 2011

Marketing luminary Seth Godin indicates that "No business buys a solution for a problem they don't have." According to Forrester’s Scott Santucci, “Buyers are stratifying their suppliers into a caste system, increasingly delineating strategic vendors from commodity providers.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters. That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Transforming that concept into an actionable reality is a very different story.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In fact, a 2020 Forrester survey finds that 77% of B2B marketers are using intent data in their ABM programs, with 11% making plans to implement it in their future ABM campaigns. . Personas are only your best guess to target—laying buyer intent data on account personas answers that “who should we target and how” question.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 30, 2023

11 AI Predictions in Sales for The Next Year Forrester predicts that AI-powered platforms will grow to $37 million by 2025. Additionally, AI can adjust the subject lines, CTAs, and body texts based on industry best practices. Only 21% of the respondents are optimistic and confident that AI will not wipe out their roles.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2014

A recent Forrester study showed that of 25 different tactics listed, B2B organizations are using on average 15 different tactics in their demand generation mix. It is not the quantity of the content that is the issue, it is the quality of the content and where this content is used in the buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

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Terminus

MAY 8, 2020

Numbers a CRO Will Love: According to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on the Total Economic Impact of Terminus, a sample set of Terminus customers reported 60% more meetings scheduled by SDRs. The quote above is from the same Forrester Consulting study we referenced earlier. million and an ROI of 313%.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The question any marketer needs to ask - Are your marketing efforts adding to the clutter, or driving a valuable dialogue and as a result, connecting meaningfully with prospects to advance the buying cycle? These three issues are having a measurable impact on marketing.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

Empowered Buyers: Fueled by the Internet, with access to a wealth of resources, research, discussions, product and pricing information, buyers are self-empowered to drive the buying cycle, inviting sales later and later into the decision making process, if at all. Commodity sales professionals are being disinter-mediated.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It is a fact of life that the bulk of your site visitors and/or conversions from landing pages are not ready to buy now. This is because of the prevalent trend of industrial buyers using online resources to go deeper and deeper into their buying cycle before engaging with your sales people.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Understanding how to facilitate this buying lifecycle, especially how to connect and engage todays economic-focused executive, is a key to sales success, and establishes a roadmap for sales enablement. The Bottom Line Buyers are clearly in control of the buying cycle and are more frugal than ever before.

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Delivra

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

To get the best results, you must navigate massive amounts of data while managing numerous channels, deliverables, and campaigns. Forrester has predicted that spending on marketing automation will hit $25 billion by 2023 , signaling a 14% annual growth rate since 2017. What are the best practices for B2B Marketing Automation?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Here are seven content marketing strategies that you can use to engage your prospects and move them forward in their buying cycle. The best example of an expertise blog that I know of is the Emerson Process Experts blog moderated by Jim Cahill. How do you shift the focus from you or your company to your prospects and customers?

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. From our research and best practices work with leading B2B sales and marketing groups, Alinean provides its top 5 predictions for 2011: 1.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Successful demand generation programs are uniquely challenged today, and must address a changing landscape where: Economics are driving more decisions; The Internet is fueling a prospect driven buying cycle, and; Prospects are faced with information overload resulting in shorter attention spans than ever.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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. Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

A 2010 study by Forrester research found that online viewing now equals that of TV viewing. They have become the drivers of the buying cycle rather than passengers on the sales train. 5 B2B Marketing Tips for Using Press Releases was posted at Modern B2B Marketing - Marketo Best Practices Blog. | [link].

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Valasys

JULY 29, 2019

Writing blog posts after researching the most common keywords being searched for by the prospects during their buying cycles helps the marketers in evoking positive emotions such as trust in the minds of customers. According to Forrester, brand equity is considered an important metric by 15% of the B2B executives.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

At a recent webinar with Cory Munchbach, analyst at Forrester Research, and Jon Miller, Marketo’s co-founder and VP of Marketing, the two speakers clarified exactly that. But to customer obsessed organizations, there’s nothing “random” about this new buying cycle. Have questions about customer obsession, or lifecycle marketing?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

At a recent webinar with Cory Munchbach, analyst at Forrester Research, and Jon Miller, Marketo’s co-founder and VP of Marketing, the two speakers clarified exactly that. But to customer obsessed organizations, there’s nothing “random” about this new buying cycle. Have questions about customer obsession, or lifecycle marketing?

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Ideal Customer Profiles Multi-Channel Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 48

Hubspot

OCTOBER 11, 2011

You need to know where they are in the buying cycle so you provide them with the correct, relevant content they want and/or need. Place the lead personas you developed in #1 into the buying process stages as they appear to fit. You can determine which type of content is appropriate based on the lead's stage in the buying cycle.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. These buyers seek diagnostic advice to help proactively uncover issues, recommend improvement roadmaps, quantify benefits and assure best value. We call this the “Internet fueled buying cycle.&#

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

But how can you best develop and deliver these tools effectively to fight Frugalnomics? It is best to look at what tools are needed to address each stage in the buying lifecycle, and have tools specifically designed to help move the decision making from initial engagement to delivery. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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Madison Logic

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And be sure to d ownload our comprehensive 2024 B2B Marketing Predictions eBook for a deeper dive into these predictions and advice on crafting practical strategies to capitalize on them. Marketers must now build multiple nurture paths for members of a company’s buying committee—which can include upwards of 14 people.

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Engagio

JUNE 20, 2023

Leads were clearly not the best approach. We needed technology to be able to map individual leads to accounts, to aggregate individuals’ behavior at the account level so we could recognize the difference between a single interested person and an account in a buying cycle. Enter ABM technology to overcome these challenges.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 12, 2013

The More Things Change, the More they Remain the Same When asked to change a certain behavior or practice, science tells us that people tend to resist change naturally, even when there is a compelling and logical reason to change. The tribe member is often best a respected sales professional or leader.

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Single Grain

MARCH 9, 2021

In this article, you will learn how B2B SEO is different from B2C SEO, why B2B SEO is important for your business, and the best B2B SEO techniques to improve the visibility of products. It may be simple, but it’s the best place to find keywords. 70% of B2B search queries are made on smartphones. Difference Between B2B SEO and B2C SEO.

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