Modern B2B

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When the economy isn’t favourable, it typically makes new business acquisition tough, so naturally, we turn to existing customers. The overwhelming response was that Forrester’s thinking was definitely food for thought, but they were at odds on how to implement any of it. What was more worrying was the 4.4%

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Seismic

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This week Forrester released The Forrester Wave TM : Sales Content Solutions, Q4 2022 report in which Seismic was named a leader. Forrester looks at three major categories – market presence, strategy, and current offering. The Forrester Wave : Sales Content Solutions, Q4 2022. Market Presence.

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ClickZ

JULY 18, 2019

Forrester evaluated and scored the top 11 B2C commerce suites in late 2018 in their Forrester Wave report. Business user empowerment, considering not just functional capabilities, but how well a platform attracts and incentivizes customers and responds to shopper demands. Of those, SAP and Salesforce led the pack. out of 5.0)

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Allocadia

MARCH 6, 2020

“Allocadia provides best-in-class money management capabilities… Allocadia was founded specifically to help marketers run marketing like a business — from budget planning to ROI and spend optimization.” ” Forrester Wave. Download Now.

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Resource Management Forrester Marketing Management Class 52

Allocadia

MARCH 6, 2020

“Allocadia provides best-in-class money management capabilities… Allocadia was founded specifically to help marketers run marketing like a business — from budget planning to ROI and spend optimization.” ” Forrester Wave. Download Now.

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Resource Management Forrester Marketing Management Class 52

Influitive

OCTOBER 21, 2015

That’s what Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Laura Ramos has found in a new report, Advocate Marketing Creates B2B Customer Relationships That Last A Lifetime. . 2) How advocate marketing harnesses this goodwill to create real business value. Match business goals with advocate benefits.

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Martech

JANUARY 23, 2024

Global martech spend is projected to surpass $215 billion annually by 2027, up from $131 billion in 2023, according to a Forrester forecast. In 2022, annual growth peaked at 16.7%, according to Forrester. Martech vendors continue to proliferate, with the number growing to over 11,000 in 2023. over the coming years.

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Marketing Management Marketing Budget Budget Programs Forrester 93

Martech

APRIL 12, 2024

The current business environment — increasingly omnichannel but with a heavy reliance on digital — requires successful marketers to capture, analyze and leverage data to deliver timely personalized interactions across every customer touchpoint. Fully 75% of global 100 organizations say CX is a top priority, according to Forrester Research.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing AI 95

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A recent Forrester report found that Millennials and Gen Z make up 64% of business buyers. Millennials, born between 1981-96, account for more than half of all business buyers. In fact, 90% of Gen Z and Millennial survey respondents say they were dissatisfied with a vendor, compared to 71% of Gen X and Baby Boomer respondents.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Rated as a leader by The Forrester Wave Report™: Financial Services CRM , Salesforce knows service — of any kind. Get top industry CRM insights See how The Forrester Wave™: Financial Services CRM, Q3 2023 report evaluates financial services CRM platforms – and why Salesforce is a Leader. Level up with Trailhead 4.

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Work Management Marketing Management CRM Service 102

Vidyard

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

According to Forrester Research, a revolution is coming for account-based marketing. While many companies claim to be experts in ABM, Forrester has found that a lack of connectivity between marketing and sales, combined with a deluge of tools with similar feature sets are holding back real ABM success.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In GTM, data helps businesses find the right people and companies to sell to and make sure they’re reaching them in the right way. This is why I was pleased to see Demandbase’s inclusion in Forrester’s recent landscape report on B2B marketing and sales data providers. Don’t take the provider’s word for it.

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Vidyard

MAY 9, 2017

So we wanted to share this brand new Forrester report to help you make informed decisions about the future of martech – with advice from the experts! Download the report and learn: What technologies can create a significant advantage for your business in 2017 and beyond.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

JANUARY 23, 2024

Forrester analyst Lori Wizdo wrote those words eleven years ago. 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.”

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Martech

JANUARY 17, 2024

Meanwhile, the boom in artificial intelligence and machine learning is driving vendors to enhance the capabilities of these platforms, making the value proposition even more attractive. Fully 75% of global 100 organizations say CX is a top priority, according to Forrester Research.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

. “To find, keep, and grow your customers, you must know your customers,” wrote Forrester’s Amy Bills in an overview of customer community platforms. Community is tremendously important moving forward for businesses,” Mike Rizzo, founder of the MO Pros community, told us just two years ago. ” Why we care.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Communities 94

ViewPoint

MARCH 12, 2013

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. Forrester does a great deal of buyer journey research on sources of influence in a lot of other dimensions: First, buyers do like to talk to vendors early in the process.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

Last year, Forrester Research found the average number of buying interactions occurring during the purchase process soared by 10 to 27 in 2021. The vendors respond. Another notable development among ABM vendors is the move to consolidate ABM with demand generation. Consolidation of ABM and demand gen. More M&A.

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Valasys

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Engagio has grabbed the number one position among the top 20 Account-Based Marketing vendors deduced from 1,500 manager surveys, analyst opinions & vendor evaluations. In a press release by Research In Action GmbH, Engagio ranked first on the matrix & outlasted the other Top 19 global vendors.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Account Based Marketing 51

ClickZ

JULY 3, 2019

Business ecosystems are nothing new. Moore pioneered the idea of a business ecosystem in the Harvard Business Review. Looking around today, you’ll see that business ecosystems exist all around us and come in a variety of shapes and sizes. What does today’s ABM business ecosystem look like? Back in 1993, James F.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

MAY 17, 2022

“Buyers now exercise more due diligence than ever before, conducting more research and engaging in more conversations with vendors and third parties,” according to Forrester. Forrester conducted a “buyer’s survey” in the years 2017, 2019 and 2021. B2B buyers require more interactions from sales and marketing.

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Sales Cycle B2B Sales Studies Marketing Management 75

Sprout Social

AUGUST 26, 2021

We’re excited to announce that Sprout Social was named a strong performer in The Forrester Wave™: Social Suites, Q3 2021 report. Forrester evaluated the nine most significant social suites across 36 criteria and gave Sprout the highest possible scores in 13 criteria including onboarding and account management, performance, and usability.

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Marketing Management Research Forrester Customer Satisfaction 109

Leadspace

DECEMBER 7, 2021

December 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Leadspace, the industry-recognized AI-powered B2B Buyer Data Platform, has been named a Leader by Forrester Research in its recent report The Forrester New Wave : B2B Customer Data Platforms, Q4 2021 authored by analysts Steven Casey and Katie Linford. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.,

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Only B2B

JUNE 30, 2023

However, with the advent of B2B purchase intent data, businesses now have access to valuable insights that can revolutionize their marketing and sales strategies. By leveraging intent data , businesses can identify the specific topics or keywords that indicate buyer intent, enabling them to deliver targeted content and solutions.

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Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2022

Defining your market today — and understanding where your business can grow in the future — helps go-to-market teams focus on the right customers and competitors at the right time. TAM = $(Total # of Accounts) x ACV For example, suppose you have a beverage company that could sell lemonade to 1,000 vendors on the West Coast.

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Enterprise Management Analysis Marketing Management SMB 130

Zoominfo

MAY 8, 2020

Withers emphasizes the importance of creating “fences” or boundaries around your business opportunity, which allow your team to focus on the areas of greatest opportunity and narrow the environment in which your company operates. I can calculate TAM for my lemonade: 1,000 vendors multiplied by $1500 equals a total market of $1,500,000.

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Enterprise Management Marketing Management Analysis Marketing Analytics Tools 273

The Point

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

These comments align with industry studies (most recently: Forrester ) bemoaning the inability of B2B marketers to fully leverage marketing automation to its full capability, most specifically in areas like lead nurturing and customer marketing. What can be improved? It’s not enough to simply train a client how to use the technology.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 29, 2017

End-of-the-year predictions are a dangerous business. As buyers sit paralyzed by the deluge, vendors scramble to stand out. Enter self-service, which essentially means more sophisticated business intelligence tools that feature ease of use along with speed and power. This is nuts — and ripe for consolidation.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 27, 2022

But the path to reliable business intelligence is not always straightforward. often means the vendor with the most records wins and the one offering the highest quality data gets overlooked. often means the vendor with the most records wins and the one offering the highest quality data gets overlooked.

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Martech

JULY 25, 2022

One of marketing’s greatest challenges is proving its value to the business. Without demonstrable proof that marketing initiatives are driving business results, marketers’ budgets are easy pickings for leaders seeking to improve profitability or just keep the business afloat during challenging times. A consistent user interface.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

So I recommend people tie the results of their programs to business metrics the executive team and the board care about: the number of customer referrals and the resulting sourced revenue, influenced revenue (through attribution), changes in customer acquisition costs, and the LTV of happy, engaged customers.

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Vidyard

JUNE 9, 2016

Even Forrester Research Analyst, Nick Barber, said so in his latest report, Online Video Platforms for Sales and Marketing : If you think “doing video” means having a YouTube channel, then you need to up your game. Vendor Landscape: Online Video Platforms for Sales And Marketing. And no, this isn’t just a B2C thing. Get the Report.

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Biznology

MAY 4, 2020

The conference and event business has been turned upside down, so my annual post covering the must-attend events of 2020 is due for a refresh. A strong event, made even stronger after Sirius’s purchase by Forrester. All about B2B ecommerce business and strategy, co-founded by Andy Hoar, formerly Forrester’s top analyst in the category.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Forrester research finds that 67% of B2B marketers say buyers are taking longer to commit to purchases than last year. They’re also more digital and self-guided when exploring solutions to their business problems. Thirty percent of VPs and other functional leaders spend more than seven hours a week reviewing business topics and trends.

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Paid Content Advertising Agencies Demand Advertisements 52

Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

SiriusDecisions, the analyst firm now part of Forrester, had entered the conversation, pioneering the marketing funnel that became a staple of B2B marketing for the next 15 years. They barely trust vendor websites at all. Business email address Subscribe Processing. Tracking prospect activity on our website. It was empowering.

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Marketing AI Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Marketing 112

eTrigue

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Market conditions might show that your business needs your partners more. Vendors need more business value from partners and might need new ones. Yet Forrester in a 2021 report states: “Nine of ten new partner/vendor relationships fail to return value, should you need them”. Automate the above campaigns.

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