B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The predominant view of B2B buying is that it involves expensive and/or complex products or services, large buying groups and long buying cycles. That's why marketing leaders should define relevant buying scenarios as part of their planning for 2022.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 17, 2021

An effective marketing strategy and sales business plan are essential to drive growth. Revenue marketing tries to close the gaps between sales and marketing by combining closed-loop data feedback and automation to ensure no money is wasted. Here are six ways revenue marketing can positively impact your business.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 3, 2023

By Win Salyards , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing Developing an accurate and actionable understanding of the B2B buying committee and the buyer personas that make it can be challenging, especially when your buying cycle is complex. Action What are the steps they take during the buying process?

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B2B Marketing Directions

JULY 30, 2017

New research reveals what influences B2B buying decisions and explains why the B2B buying process is getting longer. Fifty-eight percent of respondents said that the length of their purchase cycle had increased compared to a year earlier, while only 10% said that the length had decreased. Top image source: Demand Gen Report.

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Navigate the Channel

JULY 27, 2023

Content and database marketing have emerged as indispensable tools in the modern marketing landscape. As we delve into the realm of content and database marketing, we’ll explore key insights and recommendations that can help your building product organization thrive in this dynamic digital age.

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Martech

AUGUST 9, 2021

Consumer insights and market research platform Toluna announced the addition of new research-related tools, or methodologies, available within their Toluna Start suite. With these new tools, marketers can tap vetted consumer panels for marketing strategy as well as product development. Why we care.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Author: Peter Bell The swift digitization of the manufacturing sector continues—it’s no longer just focused on technologies that improve production and system efficiencies. The Sales and Marketing Blind Spot. This change has created a new reality for business buyers and manufacturers alike who are both becoming digitally savvy.

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6sense

MAY 5, 2016

As the Vice President and Global Head of Marketing Analytics for HP, Kevin Bolden is always looking for that extra edge that data-driven insights can offer his marketing and sales teams. HP, like many advanced B2B organizations, has used firmographic data, segmentation and buyer profiles to improve their marketing and sales outcomes.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You’re armed with your prospect’s buying signals, right? What Are Customer Buying Signals? By definition, buying signals are the actions potential customers take that indicate they’re close to making a purchase. They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Author: Maggie Jones Marketing consumer products with a long buying cycle can be a blessing and curse. On one hand, there’s a bigger lag between your marketing efforts and an actual purchase – if you’re marketing a car, for example, it might take weeks for a buyer to make her decision.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In addition to incremental changes, such as the shift toward mobile devices, B2B marketers must also contend with a rapidly changing workplace and online world. The end of third-party cookies by companies like Apple and Google can make it more difficult to visualize which sales or marketing strategies work — at least for now.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 2, 2020

In an industry heavily reliant on relationships, the reality is that the B2B banking customer’s buying process is typically long, and rarely linear. The Traditional Buying Process for Financial Institutions. Traditionally, B2B banks face a long buying process. COVID-19 Impact on Financial Institutions.

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The Point

JUNE 23, 2020

B2B marketing has seen a dramatic change in the last decade, driven by radical advances in marketing technology and the emergence of new channels. Content marketing is dead. * Content marketing is dead. * Change in marketing is an evolution, not a coup. Cold-calling is dead. The MQL is dead. . The MQL is dead.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. How can you accomplish all that?

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The Point

MAY 17, 2021

Whatever demand gen channels you use to generate marketing leads, there’s value in always promoting a mix of content and other offers that span the entire buying cycle: early-stage, mid-stage, and late-stage. In fact, a failure to align offers with ad groups can be a prime culprit in poor conversion (click-to-lead) rates.

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ClickDimensions

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For B2B sales and marketing teams this meant adjusting customer journeys to match the 100% digital-first requirements as in-person meetings, events and more became a thing of the past. . Here are 3 key facts you need to know about changing B2B buying behaviors and how you can use them in your customer strategies. .

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

For a proper, thorough assessment, ask yourself about how you currently go to market. How frequently do customers order products? Keep in mind that only 15% of B2B buyers want to speak to a salesperson when repurchasing the same product or service. Align sales and marketing with your ecommerce goals.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 18, 2024

Image credit: Mikael Blomkvist on Pexels This also applies, of course, to B2B marketing. Ideally, marketers focus their time on performing high-impact tasks that need our knowledge, expertise, and experience. So, why not let B2B marketing automation take care of the rest? What is B2B Marketing Automation?

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Unfortunately, it’s something that’s all too familiar to B2B marketers. Despite that, you need e-books, webinars and other information designed to attract leads, walk them through the buying cycle and convert sales. But what if you knew exactly who was in the market for your product, and what they wanted to read or view?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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Act-On

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Lower funnel keywords are an often neglected SEO strategy for marketers. One thing is for sure, though: search intent isn’t aligned with marketing automation, which is what we do here at Act-On. One thing is for sure, though: search intent isn’t aligned with marketing automation, which is what we do here at Act-On.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Since it promotes an integrated approach to selling, sales enablement involves both marketing and sales teams. Here are five tactics your B2B marketing team needs to master to empower sales people to close deals faster. Determine Product Messaging. And for marketing, that’s your sales team.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 31, 2023

By Karla Sanders , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing In the fast-paced world of B2B marketing, businesses often face difficult times characterized by slowing win rates and longer buying cycles. These challenges can be particularly daunting, but they also present opportunities for growth and innovation.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

With new trends, customer behaviors, and technologies transforming the industry at top speed, there has never been a better time to be in marketing. Just think about where marketing sat five years ago. It was mainly responsible for product launch campaigns and advertising initiatives. That was marketing’s main function.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 8, 2021

Buyers use their buying decision process to figure out how to resolve their problem with the least disruption.”. She’s been working to expose and close the gaps between buying and selling for years—and to share a process for helping people through their uncertainties so they can become buyers. They are sales-driven, not buyer-driven.

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Martech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

.” Colby Cavanaugh, VP of Product Marketing at Integrate, was reflecting on the rapidly changing B2B marketing environment. We describe what B2B marketers are trying to do as ‘precision demand marketing.'” And that’s where a lot of marketers find themselves today,” he said.

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Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

Martech has exploded in recent years, with over 11,000 solutions available to help marketers automate and optimize operations. However, much of this martech stack is designed to convert prospects into leads and track them through the marketing funnel. Only 5% of our market , is ready, willing and able to consider buying our product.

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Biznology

APRIL 9, 2018

Most companies conduct various types of research to understand the needs of the market. In addition to those, digital capabilities come with their own sources of real-time digital insight to help keep customers’ needs and experience in focus as you plan and execute your marketing efforts. Content is keyword. Listen and learn.

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Biznology

APRIL 14, 2017

Business decision-makers LOVE online B2B marketing videos because it gives them the most amount of information in the shortest amount of time. So now that you are on board with the benefits of online B2B marketing videos, what does video content marketing really mean?

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6sense

JANUARY 31, 2022

Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing co-hosts these dynamic, illuminating conversations with 6sense CMO Latané Conant. . The future of B2B sales and marketing is — yes — skinny jeans! Buying Committees Before Skinny Jeans . And what do millennial and Gen Z professionals crave in the new buying experience? .

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Contently

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With the complex marketing strategies most of us design today, models like “multi-touch” and “omni-touch” are crucial to genuinely mapping ROI to every piece of content in the buyer’s journey. So why use single-touch attribution in a 21st-century marketing context? Why Use Single-Touch Attribution?

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Vision Edge Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Despite the continued emphasis and variety of approaches to accelerate the business-to-business (B2B) buying cycle, many organizations remain challenged. One of the primary reasons is that Marketing and Sales are not in synch. How to Evaluate Your Sales and Marketing Alignment. We market and sell to customers.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. Instead, B2B marketers are turning their attention to key performance indicators that showcase how full-funnel marketing efforts can deliver increased performance. In 2020, that figure was down to 47%.

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Influitive

AUGUST 3, 2015

In the B2B software world, it’s a buyer’s market. In fact, the 2015 B2B Buyer’s Survey Report (sponsored by DemandBase and Demand Gen Report), found the top three resources that buyers rely on when researching potential vendors were: In addition, access to all of this information is making the buying cycle longer.

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The Point

JULY 17, 2017

Demand Gen Report has published the results of this year’s “B2B Buyer’s Survey,” and the trends identified merit close attention for those marketers involved in B2B demand generation and content development. IMPACT : Use ABM strategies to deliver personalized, relevant content to specific buying roles within large accounts.

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Brandpoint

JULY 1, 2021

For sales and marketing, it will be known as the year that everyone got serious about digital. However, before the pandemic, there were still many businesses that approached their marketing and sales like it was 1995. This is especially true when it comes to marketing and sales. What Does This Mean For Marketing?

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