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When simplification goes wrong: Why unifying your platform and point solutions makes it harder for customers to buy.

Velocity Partners

It’s also cheaper and easier to market platforms and products within one narrative thrust than to tell a bunch of different stories on different fronts. When simplification slows your sales cycle If your unifying story is too simplified, you’ll end up attracting the wrong kind of leads. Every move is a double-edged sword.

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

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Demand Generation In the Face of Frugalnomics and Internet Fueled Decisions

The ROI Guy

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

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. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

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Five Essential Sales KPIs that Enterprise Leaders Need to Track

Zoominfo

For enterprise sales leaders, that means the conventional wisdom around KPIs should be continually questioned — just as companies recalibrate their go-to-market efforts to meet changes in buyer behavior. 5 Enterprise Sales KPIs to Watch in 2023 1.