Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Author: Maggie Jones Marketing consumer products with a long buying cycle can be a blessing and curse. But on the other hand, a lengthy buying cycle means you’ll have more opportunities to communicate. Here are 4 ways to use a longer buying cycle to your marketing advantage: 1) Score Your Buyers.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 17, 2021

You can develop a detailed buyer persona to map out what people need at different points in the buying process. When someone is ready to buy your goods or service, they go through a buying cycle, which is a set of decisions they make before they buy. Integrate Your Sales and Marketing Teams.

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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. How can you accomplish all that?

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 10, 2020

So whether we’re talking about your new house or new marketing platform, the buying journey is just a fraction of the overall prospect experience. And yet, the majority of selling organizations treat every prospect as if they’re in some stage of the buying journey. The math works. They don’t want to talk to your BDRs.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

This blog post explores 10 key differences between B2B and B2C marketing, providing valuable insight into how each approach works and how marketers can leverage them to optimize their brand message. B2B marketing targets buying groups within businesses. 10 Key Differences Between B2B and B2C Marketing 1.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 9, 2016

As consumers, if we are not in an active buying cycle, we are in a passive buying cycle. Like it or not, in the course of our daily lives we are exposed to and consume so much information and content that buying something or acquiring something including experiences, goods, food or resources is always on our mind.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Convert articles and blog posts to video. Your blog reflects your content marketing strategy—right down to the keywords. In the case of tech solution vendors, blogs are full of middle-of-the-funnel stuff that responds to customer concerns with a minimum of hype and marketing-speak. Beef up your video content. Like this post?

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2021

And, they might not reach out to your company in person until they are ready to buy. Here are a few stats that highlight the differences in the B2B buyer’s cycle: The B2B buying cycle is six to twelve months, much longer than the few weeks most consumers take to make a purchase. Discovery stage.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. 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

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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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 2, 2024

Therefore, B2B SEO must align content and keyword strategies with the stages of this elongated buying cycle, nurturing leads through informational, consideration, and decision-making phases. Business decisions typically involve multiple stakeholders and a longer purchasing process. Content tailored for B2B audiences.

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Sales Engine

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Following up on content consumption with “buy from me now” is a strategy that’s destined to fail. Again, this will vary according to your sales process, but in general we are probing for need (and solution fit), commitment level to solve the problem, buying process, and ability to pay. Nurture, nurture, nurture. That’s nurturing.

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MLT Creative

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In developing b2b buyer personas you have to remember their connection to the buying cycle, as different stages in the buying cycle lead to different content. MLT Creative B2B Ideas @ Work Blog. Demographic information is helpful in. Our ideas, musings, thoughts, reviews on b2b marketing topics.

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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. The Traditional Buying Process for Financial Institutions. Traditionally, B2B banks face a long buying process. Create Content for All Phases of the Lifecycle.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 31, 2023

By Karla Sanders , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing In the fast-paced world of B2B marketing, businesses often face difficult times characterized by slowing win rates and longer buying cycles. These challenges can be particularly daunting, but they also present opportunities for growth and innovation.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Complex buying cycles and decision-making structures B2B buying cycles are uniquely intricate, and decision-making structures involve multiple stakeholders across functional teams. The post Overcoming Segmentation Challenges in B2B Marketing appeared first on B2B Marketing Blog - TopRank®.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Despite that, you need e-books, webinars and other information designed to attract leads, walk them through the buying cycle and convert sales. But how can you create white papers, videos and blog posts that your target audience will seek out and devour? Where they are in the buying cycle.

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Madison Logic

JULY 20, 2023

B2B buying is a team effort that marketers cannot afford to overlook. According to Gartner, a typical buying committee for a complex B2B solution consists of six to ten decision-makers , each armed with their own set of four or five independently gathered pieces of information.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 15, 2010

Things began to change when blogging became popular about seven years ago. Blogs were different from other forms of communication: less formal, more matter-of-fact, (sometimes) unbiased, and most importantly, they provided the opportunity for feedback. Established voices (journalists and analysts) had a new channel for expression.

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Act-On

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

We have a Yahoo mail blog that has scored high-traffic keywords for almost a decade. At this point, she might search for lower funnel keywords such as “How to buy a marketing automation solution” or “What to look for in a marketing automation demo.” How to buy a marketing automation platform”). We’ll give you an example.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 18, 2017

Here are some metrics and other factors that help improve blog performance from month to month. Blog Traffic. Before diving into the nitty-gritty of blog performance, you should first understand the content’s impact on site traffic. Percentage of blog traffic from organic search. Blog Trends.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Marketing can use these insights to develop content in the form of a FAQ page, manuals, white papers, blog posts, or other content you can easily share to advance deals. Prospects love this, as research reveals that 87 percent of buyers select a vendor who provided them with relevant pieces of content at each stage of the buying process.

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Biznology

APRIL 14, 2017

If you look at your marketing and sales process you do a mixture of activities like run-advertising and marketing campaigns to build awareness, send out email marketing, create sales brochures, white papers, case studies, and constantly crank out blog posts and new website content.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 9, 2017

It’s up to you, however, to turn the stubborn empty page into a tasty blog post your audience devours. And that leaves you struggling to shoe-horn the creation of a blog post into your not-a-minute-to-spare days. Perhaps you could get away with creating fewer blog posts. You can even use HubSpot’s Blog Topic Generator.

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Conversica

APRIL 9, 2021

AI Assistants conduct outreach on leads that may not necessarily have indicated they’re ready to buy and wouldn’t be a great use of Sales’ time. By touching these leads earlier in their buying cycle, Marketing can often shake deals loose that otherwise may have been missed.

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Influitive

AUGUST 3, 2015

In fact, the 2015 B2B Buyer’s Survey Report (sponsored by DemandBase and Demand Gen Report), found the top three resources that buyers rely on when researching potential vendors were: In addition, access to all of this information is making the buying cycle longer. The answer: social proof marketing. Social proof is the new marketing.

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markempa

DECEMBER 17, 2012

That said, as this is the last blog before 2013, I was inspired by Mr. Kasem to do our own version of a year-end countdown. I compiled a list of the top 10 most-tweeted blog posts from the B2B Lead Roundtable Blog. Four blog posts focused on some aspect of social media. Thank you for reading the B2B Lead Roundtable Blog.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 28, 2017

It’s up to you, however, to turn the stubborn empty page into a tasty blog post that your audience devours. And that leaves you struggling to shoehorn the creation of a blog post into the days when you don’t have a minute to spare. Perhaps you could get away with creating fewer blog posts. Blog Drunk. You try to avoid it.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 31, 2023

By Karla Sanders , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing In the fast-paced world of B2B marketing, businesses often face difficult times characterized by slowing win rates and longer buying cycles. These challenges can be particularly daunting, but they also present opportunities for growth and innovation.

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ClickDimensions

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Sales enablement helps sales teams capitalize on those opportunities by reducing friction throughout the buying cycle. By committing to this discipline, organizations ensure that sales reps have the resources they need to boost conversions and drive prospects through the buying cycle. Audit and map content.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you not only show leads content that makes sense to them, but you get your audiences excited about buying from you. By nature, ABM focuses on personalization and building long-term relationships with customers — a good fit for B2B’s often complex buying cycles and multiple decision-makers.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

JANUARY 23, 2024

All these years later, a new report by 6sense, penned largely by a former Forrester analyst, has come to the same conclusion: when buyers first contact a seller, they are “69% of the way through a buying cycle.” The report sums it up this way: “Sellers have little influence over” the buying process once they’ve been contacted.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As this generation entered the workforce, their influence on buying decisions grew. The top finding really stands out: “The elevation of digital natives into decision-making roles is leading to a systemic change in buying behavior. This means selling cycles are long and getting longer , and typically involve more stakeholders.

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Strategic-IC

JUNE 13, 2019

Knowing where a potential client is in their buying journey - and engaging with them appropriately - can mean the difference between achieving a sale or losing the opportunity. That’s where buying intent data comes in. That’s where buying intent data comes in. Buying Intent Data - A Brief Outline. Better Targeted Content.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2020

If you haven’t thought about this question, then you should because it matters and impacts if they buy from you. Thought leadership makes a lot of sense in most B2B content marketing scenarios, typically because the buying cycle is longer and may require multiple approvals. Be Consistent on Social Media.

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Exo B2B

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The answers to these questions will help you personalize your communications (blog posts, case studies, demos, etc.) Take the one who determines the budget associated with buying a solution like yours. The key is knowing when to expose them to your target companies in their buying cycle.

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Stevens & Tate

JANUARY 31, 2022

Every consumer will go through different steps of consideration and purchase throughout the life cycle of a brand or service. In the past, the consumer buying cycle was explained by four stages: awareness, interest, evaluation, and purchase. At this stage, the consumer is close to buying your product. Purchase Stage.

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