Top Rank Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The products we sell are highly complex, the clients we sell to are highly exacting, our buying cycle is (much) longer, there are fewer customers to go around, and our competition is fierce. The opportunity: Clearly, B2B buyers are primed to appreciate your marketing innovations.

Enterprise Management 98

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management B2B Marketing 98

SalesIntel

MAY 13, 2024

This scenario is all too common in B2B sales, where complex solutions and lengthy buying cycles can lead to frustrating interactions. Decision-Making: B2B buying involves multiple decision-makers. According to a Gartner study , the typical buying group for a complex B2B solution involves 6 to 10 decision-makers.

B2B Sales 52

B2B Sales Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 52

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Even if you, personally, know your buyers, can you say the same of every team member who could benefit from that knowledge? It’s true that it takes a village now more so than ever to make a purchase, but that buying committee does have a limit, and personas will help you narrow your focus to those audiences. Personas create focus.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Demand Generation Work Management Marketing Management 100

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Even if you, personally, know your buyers, can you say the same of every team member who could benefit from that knowledge? It’s true that it takes a village now more so than ever to make a purchase, but that buying committee does have a limit, and personas will help you narrow your focus to those audiences. Personas create focus.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Demand Generation Work Management Marketing Management 100

Sana Commerce

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Personalization is great for the buyer because it improves the buying experience and overall convenience for your client. Simply put, personalized marketing uses customer interests and behavior to personalize the buying journey from start to finish. Does personalized marketing really work in B2B e-commerce?

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Personalization B2B Sales Qualified Leads Business 98

ANNUITAS

MARCH 8, 2016

Even if you, personally, know your buyers, can you say the same of every team member who could benefit from that knowledge? It’s true that it takes a village now more so than ever to make a purchase, but that buying committee does have a limit, and personas will help you narrow your focus to those audiences. Personas create focus.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Demand Generation Buying Cycle Work Management 100

Marketing Interactions

JULY 31, 2022

I’ve seen it and continue to see it morph into ever more confusing loops and detours as new channels come online, uncertainty increases with impending economic challenges, supply chain disruptions—you name it, the challenges continue to shift how buyers approach buying. In addition to environmental challenges, buyers have changed.

B2B 75

B2B Buyer's Journey Gartner B2B Sales 75

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Even if you, personally, know your buyers, can you say the same of every team member who could benefit from that knowledge? It’s true that it takes a village now more so than ever to make a purchase, but that buying committee does have a limit, and personas will help you narrow your focus to those audiences. Personas create focus.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Demand Generation Buyer's Journey Buying Cycle 100

Mereo

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Sellers have a greater opportunity than ever to become a trusted advisor to their buyers. What exactly is sense-making — and what do buyers need made sense of most? Sellers Should Identify and Make Buyers’ Pains Clear. 1 thing buyers need clarity on are their pains. In a recent Gartner Inc.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The Rule of Seven harkens back to a day when the salesperson was in control, when buyers did little to no research before talking to vendors, and when marketing was simply a string of pitches extolling the virtues of a company’s product. They engage with sales people later in the buying process. Or it could take months.

Demand Generation Agencies 100

Demand Generation Agencies Validation Demand Generation Rules 100

NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2013

Coming up with really good long-tail keywords for your SEO or pay-per-click campaigns can sometimes be daunting if you don’t understand how buyers use Google, what buying cycle they are in, and how your content or offers align with those search terms people use to look for what you do. Google’s keyword research tool.

Adwords 100

Adwords Keywords Work Management Paid Search Agency 100

Biznology

AUGUST 10, 2015

With the majority of research being done online, the use of business online video production is increasing every day because video helps decision makers get the information they need very quickly. In June 2014, Aberdeen Research published a study called “Analyzing the ROI of Video Marketing.” Two of the stats revealed.

Top of Funnel 80

Top of Funnel Buyer's Journey Video Marketing FAQ 80

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It may even hurt us in the buying process. Because our buyers are too smart. They are looking for brands that put buyers first. Content marketing meets the needs of your buyers across ALL phases of the buying cycle: There is the largest number of potential buyers in the early stages.

Content Marketing 100

Content Marketing Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Content 100

KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

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. 76 percent of B2B buyers use three or more marketing channels for research. B2B buyers are exploring a number of different channels when conducting vendor.

Marketing Budget Creation 120

Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget Budget Programs Enterprise Management 120

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 11, 2011

But I think the role of Marketing in B2B should be much more than creating product brochures and buying print ads in the magazines the sales folks read. This is about more than research and surveys. At the core is the knowledge we gain from speaking to our customers to understand their needs, their fears and the reasons they buy.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Marketing Management B2B 100

The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Try going back to the research to see if it can be retooled. If you think your personas contain many critical buy-cycle insights, confirm that your sales team is aware of how and when to use them. It depends on how specialized buyer needs are for your industry. Do you see those rates go up significantly?

Buyer Personas 84

Buyer Personas Account Based Marketing Demand Generation Agencies Work Management 84

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Exciting time to be a marketer, but challenging as well!

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40

Tony Zambito

APRIL 7, 2008

So herein lays a few reasons why sales forces must change today: Buyers research more than ever today. The Internet has made most of the information a buyer needs to know available at their finger tips. Buyers want to engage in the buying cycle on their own terms. What changes do they make?

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Buying Cycle Comparison Buyer Personas Marketing Management 100

DealSignal

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As SiriusDecisions’ Senior Research Director, Kerry Cunningham, explained when unveiling the model, “These are the fundamental units of demand that we really need to go out and identify, attract, engage and qualify if we want to sell anything.”. Beyond your addressable market…who’s in market: intent. Read the full case study.

Account Based Marketing 61

Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles ABM Work Management 61

Valasys

AUGUST 19, 2019

Furthermore, the personas are also segmented based on their demographics, technographics, firmographic, psychographic, ‘fit-data’ as well as the methodologies opted by them for researching about their buying preferences and based on their past buying habits. Tools such as Google Keyword Planner, KeywordTool.io. &

Lead Generation 40

Lead Generation Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Buyers are: More frugal, reeling from two economic downturns in the past decade, and forced to “do more with less”. Content marketing provides a means to break through the noise, providing the consultative diagnostic and financial advice today’s buyer needs. But this is not the only way to get started.

Marketing Management 40

Marketing Management Peer-to-peer Content Marketing Buying Cycle 40

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Here she expounds on the shift in technology buying processes I outlined in a previous post, How Social Media Changed the Sales Cycle into the Buying Cycle. Buyers today expect to be able to gather the vast majority of the information they need to make a purchasing decision without ever talking to a sales rep.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions. With marketers who seem more focused on gaming the channels themselves than in the value of the dialogue being created, buyers are now inundated with more product related and meaningless offers than ever.

Interactive Marketing 40

Interactive Marketing Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Buying Cycle 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice.

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Internet Fuels IT Buying Cycles According to a recent survey of 500 technology decision makers and influencers, Internet access to content is changing the way IT solutions are purchased, with buyers using on-line research to drive substantial portion of the decision making cycle on their own.

Paper 40

Paper Personalization Buying Cycle Ideal Customer Profiles 40

Inbox Insight

JULY 31, 2020

They must also know how their buyers think, how they manage the purchasing process, and exactly what makes them tick when it comes to vendor partnerships. Our latest research combines Insights for Professionals (IFP) readership data with survey data to shed the light on the HR tech buyer’s journey. When do buyers plan?

Work Management 89

Work Management Marketing Management Research Top of Funnel 89

Golden Spiral

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A caution before we begin: your product launch will not live up to your expectations unless grounded in two things: You must fully understand your Buyer Matrix — who your buyer is, what motivates your buyer, and the real, career-challenging problem your buyer needs to solve. back to school, new fiscal year, etc.).

Product 90

Product Webinar Metrics Cross-Selling Planning 90

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.

Forrester 40

Forrester Lead Ranking Cross-Selling Peer-to-peer 40

Content4Demand

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You’ll find some valuable insights into changing B2B buying behavior in the recent Demand Gen Report 2020 B2B Buyer Behavior Study. One interesting finding is that 30% of the B2B professionals surveyed have actually accelerated purchases to meet changing business needs. B2B buyer behavior has changed this year.

Research 90

Research Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy B2B Thought Leadership 90

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 3, 2012

This is not imagined, but proven by research, and called the Status Quo Bias - a cognitive pre-disposition for maintaining the status-quo. Most sales professionals will readily admit that buyers have taken control of the buying cycle, and are demanding a different more value-based sales approach. Raise awareness 2.

Tools 40

Tools Paid Search Agency Buying Cycle Work Management 40

NetLine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

5 Steps B2B Marketers Should Take to Sync Up with the Buying Cycle In this post, we’ll look at the steps B2B marketers should take to align their sales content and assets with buyer activities and where they are in the buying cycle. Gong.io) that analyze interactions with buyers.

B2B Sales 52

B2B Sales Intent B2B Marketing Digital Asset Management 52

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 4, 2015

We have white papers for every buying stage, but we just can’t get enough people to download them.”. A Content Map plots your buyer personas against your buyer journey for their information needs at each stage. What their information needs are at each stage. Information Needs. 35% said four to six people.

Content Marketing 100

Content Marketing Buyer Personas Buying Cycle Demand Generation 100

Webbiquity

JANUARY 3, 2012

Social media, content aggregation and curation , user-generated content and other developments have dramatically changed the B2B buying cycle over the past few years. Prospects often don’t surface until much later in the buying process than they did just a few years ago. Addressing Changes in the B2B Buying Cycle.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management B2B Sales Top of Funnel B2B Marketing 100

Sales Engine

APRIL 20, 2016

They need help getting in the door. They need marketing. But the reality of the situation was that the buyer needed us much more than we needed them—and that was the real reason that we were successful at generating new appointments. Many of us who grew up in sales thought that we were awesome at prospecting.

Lead Ranking 218

Lead Ranking Lead Gen Lead Scoring Leads 218

Kapost

APRIL 5, 2017

Organizations that use a mapping program to manage buyer and customer journeys average a 79% increase in cross-sell and upsell revenue, marketing research from the Aberdeen Group reveals. In the new B2B marketing landscape, buyers are in control of their journeys. The Easy-to-Convince Buyer. The Linear Model.

Top of Funnel 81

Top of Funnel Buyer's Journey Digital Marketing Funnels Buyer Personas 81

Sales Engine

AUGUST 23, 2016

Intuitively, you probably know this, but because people are doing their own research about products and solutions to their problems, they don’t have to talk to sales person until they are ready to engage. In fact, Forrester says that as much as 90 percent of the buying process is complete before the prospect engages with a vendor.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel Process B2B Thought Leadership Work Management 120