Madison Logic

AUGUST 2, 2023

B2B buyers need more attention and information to make a purchase decision, ideally, a personalized buying experience. Why Personalization Matters Today’s buyers no longer want a personalized experience; they demand it. That’s where account-based marketing (ABM) comes in. And it works.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 23, 2014

In their 2012 study End of Solution Sales , the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) revealed that 57 percent of a typical B2B purchase decision is made before a customer even talks to a supplier. CEB states the following as part of the study: “ The hardest thing about B2B selling today is that customers don’t need you the way they used to.

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Madison Logic

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Retargeting ads Think of these as follow-up ads to target buying group members who visited your page, previously interacted with another ad, or took another action within a specified time frame. Use data to target the right accounts Any ABM strategy requires you to speak directly to buyer needs.

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Madison Logic

JANUARY 18, 2023

Research from Gartner shows that meaningful personalization boosts the chances that a customer will make a high-quality purchase by 9%. You may think you know what buying groups are looking for and what they care about, but here are some trends to pay attention to: . Where are they in the buying journey? . Who are they? .

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Madison Logic

MARCH 13, 2024

According to Forrester research, millennial buyers aged 25-44 are increasingly shifting into purchase decision-making roles and are expected to make up three-fourths of business buying teams in 2024. What distinguishes millennials buyers from older committee members is their digital nativity.

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Seismic

DECEMBER 9, 2021

B2B buying and selling have become reliant on digital technologies, and sales enablement software has graduated from a “nice-to-have” part of the tech stack to “must-have” for businesses aiming to keep up with the rapid pace of change. They’re more of a sherpa, guiding and educating their buyer throughout the purchase decision.

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Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Unfortunately, most marketers don't know how their customers feel about advertising, according to Forrester. You need to know who they are, what motivates them to buy, and what type of purchasers (impulsive or conservative) they are. Today’s buyers research purchases to an incredible extent.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2017

Although buyers leverage digital more than ever in their decision making process, and as a result appear to engage with reps later in the decision making process (up to 57% of the way through), sales reps still have a big impact, ESPECIALLY if they can intersect early in the buyer’s journey, and with value.

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Scoop.it

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Because many organizations don’t understand why sales reps need content and what types of content to provide them to help them win more deals. Why Do Salespeople Need Content? According to Forrester , 62% of buyers prefer to finalize their list of vendors or even decide on a solution based solely on digital content they consume.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 7, 2013

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?” in order to advance through the purchase decision.

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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. For most buyers it’s easier to do-nothing, than to change.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 16, 2014

As your prospects begin and advance through their purchase decision making process, at each stage they have different motivation and need progressive guidance to advance through each step. The key question the buyer needs answered: “ Why Now? ”. At this stage, the question to answer is “ Why Change? ”.

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Mereo

MARCH 26, 2020

And over time, your buyers’ needs you first set out to alleviate change. According to LoSasso research, 34% of B2B buyers say their purchase decisions are driven most by features, while 27% say price and only 39% say brand. They go by the command of the leadership rather than the calls for needs and wants from the buyer.

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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. Commodity sales professionals are being disinter-mediated.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2013

“Providers have long been accustomed to defining not only what customers will buy (the product), but also how they will buy it (the sales model).” Their advice now is to redirect efforts towards connecting customers to their desired offering through their desired purchase experience. According to Ms.

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PathFactory

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

According to recent Forrester Research, 73% of millennials in the workforce are already involved in purchasing decisions for their firms and that millennials will comprise 44% of the total US workforce by 2025¹. To offer a more “outside-in” customer experience, your brand must let buyers call the shots. Resonate emotionally.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

According to IDC, over 90% of IT buyers are economic buyers / economically focused; Technology marketers are focusing more investments on digital channels, and this is good because executives and economic buyers favor on-line research and content.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The question any marketer needs to ask - Are your marketing efforts adding to the clutter, or driving a valuable dialogue and as a result, connecting meaningfully with prospects to advance the buying cycle? Rounding up the challenges, recent studies indicate that 9 out of 10 of buyers say that when they are ready to buy, they find you.

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Martech

MARCH 16, 2022

A vendor like Drift is well-positioned to support that kind of purchase trajectory. “Translating click-based engagement into buyer-led enablement across interactions requires conversation design that senses and responds to spoken and unspoken buyer needs across complex and connected buying journeys. .

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 11, 2024

About $3 trillion — that’s Forrester’s estimate for B2B sales by 2027, almost double what it was in 2021. If you want to be successful in B2B sales, you need to understand the difference between B2B and B2C sales strategies. Because of this, the path to purchase is also shorter.

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Sana Commerce

OCTOBER 4, 2021

B2B buying and selling has changed. Where there once was a battle between the salesman and the e-commerce site, both fighting to be the essential tool enabling a seamless purchase, we’re now seeing a united front. Data from Forrester shows that two-thirds of businesses today meet customer expectations, but only 3% exceed them.

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Televerde

AUGUST 30, 2021

The B2B purchase decision process is complex, and it almost always involves multiple decision makers. To effectively move potential buyers through the decision process and convert them into sales, B2B companies need to tap into the influencing factors behind buyer decisions. Quick Takeaways. Early Engagement.

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Crimson Marketing

MARCH 16, 2015

Online shopping, predicted by Forrester to exceed $370 billion by 2017, will still account for just 10% of all USA retail sales. While a number of factors are at play, the driver that may be changing consumer expectations the most is that buyers interact in unique new ways with multiple marketing channels before they purchase.

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Seismic

MAY 24, 2019

Because buyers are savvier and more educated, they expect salespeople to present them with content that is relevant to them in their buying journey. A recent study of B2B buyers found that 95% of buyers chose a solution provider that “provided them with ample content to help navigate through each stage of the buying process.”.

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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. Other Tips for Creating a Buyer Journey. The Linear Model.

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 23, 2016

We may not have liked talking to salespeople, but it’s how we got the information we needed in order to evaluate a purchase. Today, B2B buyers start with an anonymous Google search, which then leads to the consumption of white papers, webinars, videos, blogs, and so on. For sales, knocking on doors isn’t really an option.

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Sales Engine

OCTOBER 8, 2015

We may not have liked talking to salespeople, but it’s how we got the information we needed in order to evaluate a purchase. Today, B2B buyers start with an anonymous Google search, which then leads to the consumption of white papers, webinars, videos, blogs, and so on. For sales, knocking on doors isn’t really an option.

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Delivra

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Forrester has predicted that spending on marketing automation will hit $25 billion by 2023 , signaling a 14% annual growth rate since 2017. Buyer personas are a critical component of a successful B2B marketing automation campaign. Throughout every phase, you need to keep your focus on buyer personas.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 8, 2019

But nobody buys an iPhone or iPad because Apple’s accountants are so skilled. They buy because of the company’s innovation and, yes, marketing. Actually, the B2B market is about twice as large, according to Forrester. This makes sense when you consider the number of layers in the production-to-purchase process.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 2, 2020

” — Jeff Mamula “What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.” ” — Shane Snow Audience Engagement Quotes “Behind every tweet, share and purchase, there is a person. ” — Pam Moore “You cannot buy engagement.

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Martech

APRIL 15, 2022

The B2B buyer journey is evolving rapidly as it becomes more digitized, less predictable, and more complex. The challenge for B2B marketers is to support what is now largely a self-guided journey involving numerous personas on accounts and increasingly expanding buying teams. What are the key differences between B2B and B2C marketing?

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 1, 2015

Citing sources from their own research and that of Forrester and Corporate Executive Board (CEB ) that show how the majority of B2B buying cycles are self-driven, digital endeavors, Sirius then showed additional research that said these research backed statements – including their own – may not be completely accurate.

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6sense

AUGUST 24, 2017

The Forrester Wave naming us the leader in the space completely validated my instincts. So to answer your question, any B2B company with a considered purchase is our market opportunity. Because buyers’ needs and timing are constantly shifting, 6sense’s ability to provide daily updates as buying intent involves is crucial.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The good news is that todays buyer wants to be engaged, with 9 out of 10 actively relying on vendor provided information on their way to making a purchase decision. Instead of being engaged, buyers are now inundated with more meaningless product information and offers than ever before, creating "marketing fatigue".

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Jason Widup: So, I’ve got, it’s pink, you can’t quite tell, but it’s a strawberry habanero scratch margarita that I buy from this bar down the road. We need categories, so that we know how to compete. Udi Ledergor: That’s funny. And they marinate the tequila and habanero.

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