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Beyond Beige: Ardath Albee’s Blueprint for Buyer-Driven B2B Strategies

Content Standard

According to Forrester, a whopping 85% of marketers say their content doesn’t deliver business value. Ardath attributes this massive disparity between brand messaging and buyer needs to the “kiss of beige” in B2B marketing – a tendency for B2B companies to play it safe, generalize their audiences, and avoid taking a stance.

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Five Sales Enablement Tactics B2B Marketers Need to Master

Webbiquity

More than 75 percent of prospects feel the sales professionals who contact them lack knowledge of their specific business, role and responsibilities at work, or even the issues they’re trying to resolve, according to research from Forrester. You also get to understand their abilities and properly map them to your buyersneeds.

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[Book Review] An Important New Model of the B2B Buyer Journey

B2B Marketing Directions

Source: Kogan Page Limited Understanding how business people actually make buying decisions on behalf of their company is vital to B2B marketing success. The earliest I've found is a 1972 book titled Organizational Buying Behavior by Frederick E. Wade devotes a separate chapter to each phase of the buyer journey framework.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 318: Q & A with Alan Gonsenhauser @agonsenhauser

Heinz Marketing

Today, featuring the founder and CEO of Demand Revenue, former SiriusDecisions and Forrester Analyst, Alan Gonsenhauser. Obviously, if you have been following SiriusDecisions or Forrester for a long time you’ve probably seen Alan’s name in research or content. Alan, thanks for joining us. Nice to do one of these with you.

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3 Key Metrics that Will Have a Profound Impact - a Report from Forrester’s Sales Enablement Forum

The ROI Guy

T his week, leading sales enablement professionals met to share issues, best practices and success stories at the Forrester Sales Enablement Forum. Today’s more resource constrained, risk averse and frugal buyer needs significant convincing as to “Why Change?”, “Why Now?” and “Why You?”

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

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. White Papers are Influence Kings, But Need Persona.

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Value Selling and the Buyer’s Journey: 3 Conversations to Get "Do Nothing" to "Yes"

The ROI Guy

Fail to provide that guidance and the purchase decision likely stalls (where 58% of the deals end up according to Sales Benchmark Index) or the decision goes to your competitor who does a better job at facilitating the buying decision. The key question the buyer needs answered: “ Why Now? ”.