Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Equip Your Organization with the Right Tools. Marketing automation, paired with a customer relationship management (CRM) system, enables manufacturers to engage with customers and prospects throughout the entire sales cycle with relevant information at the right time. It’s time to invite sales and marketing to the party.

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6sense

MAY 5, 2016

With the rise of predictive intelligence and the ability to make sense of large amounts of customer data, HP wanted to take their marketing analytics to the next level and begin targeting customers in active buying cycles. The Untapped Potential of Customer Data. Why HP Chose 6sense.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 10, 2020

So whether we’re talking about your new house or new marketing platform, the buying journey is just a fraction of the overall prospect experience. And yet, the majority of selling organizations treat every prospect as if they’re in some stage of the buying journey. The math works. They don’t want to talk to your BDRs.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

B2B marketing targets buying groups within businesses. In B2B marketing, decisions are often made by a committee or group within the company that involves several stakeholders who have an impact on the buying decision. This is because B2B decisions tend to be made more slowly by larger organizations with multiple decision-makers.

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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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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2021

And, they might not reach out to your company in person until they are ready to buy. Here are a few stats that highlight the differences in the B2B buyer’s cycle: The B2B buying cycle is six to twelve months, much longer than the few weeks most consumers take to make a purchase. Organic search traffic.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

By knowing what you need, you’ll be in a better position to control the selection process and choose the platform that will most benefit the organization. Or increase revenue by increasing conversion at key stages in the buying cycle? Bring key stakeholders together to establish the organization’s goals. Learn more here.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Or increase revenue by increasing conversion at key stages in the buying cycle? Does management support this purchase?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Lay the right foundation and you can better align ecommerce investments with your organization’s desired business goals. 37% of B2B organizations growing their commerce channel agree that sales roles are evolving. Learn the best ecommerce strategy practices to drive your business forward. Get the B2B Digital Commerce Playbook.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 9, 2016

As consumers, if we are not in an active buying cycle, we are in a passive buying cycle. Like it or not, in the course of our daily lives we are exposed to and consume so much information and content that buying something or acquiring something including experiences, goods, food or resources is always on our mind.

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Martech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

With the buying process not heavily digitized and with people working remotely on a range of devices, lines are blurring between B2C and B2B buying behaviors. “I think the other dynamic is that you’ve got a new generation of buyers who don’t buy like previous generations — on the B2C or B2B level — and they have budget. .

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Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

While this approach works well for roughly 5% of actively in-market buyers, it creates a poor experience for the remaining 95% of future customers who aren’t yet ready to buy. Only 5% of our market , is ready, willing and able to consider buying our product. If they’re in a buying cycle at all. Who are we fooling?

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seo.co

JULY 28, 2020

Organic Traffic 101. + Why Is Organic Traffic Valuable? Organic Traffic as Part of SEO. + How to Measure Organic Traffic. One of the most important concepts associated with SEO is organic traffic—the number of people visiting your site from search engines. Organic Traffic 101. Organic Traffic as Part of SEO.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Complex buying cycles and decision-making structures B2B buying cycles are uniquely intricate, and decision-making structures involve multiple stakeholders across functional teams. Navigating this complexity can be daunting when crafting segmented marketing campaigns.

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Biznology

APRIL 9, 2018

Once there, they can engage with product and service content designed specifically for each point in the buying cycle. The data can also be used to identify where customers are finding this information now and whether your company has the “right to win” those terms organically. Diving deeper with intent modeling.

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The Point

JUNE 23, 2020

Still, in their newest report: “ It Was Never About Leads: Why Adapting to Buying Groups Is a Must ,” the experts at SiriusDecisions make their most compelling case yet for why measuring leads, if not quite dead, may be less relevant than ever. Even cynics like me will find the argument convincing.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Nearly 75 percent of organizations using sales enablement tools say it greatly influenced sales growth over the past 12 months. A sales organization improves its effectiveness when it speaks the language of prospects. Enablement can be seen as the medium for marketing to serve the sales organization. Guest post by Mary Ade.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Despite that, you need e-books, webinars and other information designed to attract leads, walk them through the buying cycle and convert sales. The result is that B2B buyers are more than halfway through the buying cycle by the time they contact a salesperson. Where they are in the buying cycle.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 15, 2010

Anyone can answer; not just the traditional “experts,&# but anyone inside or outside of a vendor organization, including customers. Prospects can ask questions, within or beyond their social networks. Journalists, analysts and other industry influencers have new channels for communication.

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Biznology

APRIL 14, 2017

As the buying cycle may be long, these B2B sales videos can be used at higher stages of the buying cycle or deeper into the funnel. There’s a lot of content within your organization to get started.

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Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Video Marketing Lead Scoring 139

Sales Engine

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Following up on content consumption with “buy from me now” is a strategy that’s destined to fail. It is not reasonable, however, to expect that this person is unsatisfied with their current vendor, has the budget, or has the authority to make a change in the organization. Nurture, nurture, nurture.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Buy 120

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. Misalignment also impacts the launch and adoption of new products , critical factors for achieving organic growth and also important indicators of business success.

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Top of Funnel Planning Buying Cycle Work Management 169

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Shorter sales cycles – Sales cycles are already long for B2B organizations, and automated emails serve as a virtual sales rep to nurture them. Automated emails encourage leads to move from the product research phase into the buying cycle. Identify email campaign goals that pertain to your organization.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

CMOs need buy-in from major players to push the marketing agenda and be effective. Why Marketing is Becoming the Growth Driver for Organizations. Through data that the CTO and tech platforms can provide, CMOs have greater insight into: Customer behavior and buying cycle predictions. Pain points and audience insights.

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Advertising Agencies Planning Paid Search Agency CMO 327

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 16, 2018

They pointed out that adoption came earliest in industries with the shortest, most transactional buying cycles, and then spread quite steadily to industries with longer cycles and higher product costs. On the other hand, viewing CDP utility as a function of buying cycle does make sense.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 16, 2018

Often hot leads are really buying companies that have already been sold by another vendor. They’ve indicated they have a short buying cycle and they’re eager to talk, but what these buyers may be doing is validating a decision already made. Leads at every stage of the buying cycle are essential for a healthy pipeline.

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Influitive

AUGUST 3, 2015

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. The answer: social proof marketing. Social proof is the new marketing.

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Peer-to-peer Marketing Report Buy Process 100

Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

A more nuanced understanding of marketing’s effect on the sales cycles, a better case for increased budgets, and another step forward in the age-old struggle for better sales and marketing alignment. In 2015, they found that 70% of B2B marketing organizations reported the amount of pipeline they sourced as a KPI.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2023

In our Behind the Buzzwords content series, ANNUITAS breaks down the complex jargon you see trending in go-to-market thought-leadership and helps you cut through the noise to contextualize it for your organization. This buzzword has been popularized in the past decade as a way to talk about how customers move through the buying cycle.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Lead Ranking 130

ClickDimensions

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The modern sales process is buyer-led and organizations succeed by meeting buyer expectations, needs and questions. Sales enablement helps sales teams capitalize on those opportunities by reducing friction throughout the buying cycle. Today, there are more barriers than ever to selling. Audit and map content.

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Valasys

MAY 15, 2020

Keeping up with the increase in the consumption of video Google has been adding interactive videos all over the search engine result pages (SERPs) and it can do wonders for your organic SEO, particularly at a time when gaining organic visibility is more important than just ranking for the organic results.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

Factors driving changes in ABM include shifts in buyer preferences and pre-purchase behavior, as well as the development of more sophisticated technology and data products that enable marketers to analyze behavior, identify in-market audiences, and craft experiences for a buying group or its individual members. How B2B buying has changed.

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Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2023

In partnering with ZoomInfo, the company was aiming to align its sales and marketing teams around the same goals and metrics, and to target prospects early in the buying cycle to deliver the most tailored experience possible. And they have started leveraging automated workflows and intent data to tailor their outreach efficiently. “We

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you not only show leads content that makes sense to them, but you get your audiences excited about buying from you. Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. What Is Customer Segmentation?

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Segmentation Account Based Marketing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 204

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This positioning also addresses a fundamental gap in many go-to-market stacks, where organizations are able to do targeting of outbound messages and achieve some level of site personalization, but where true inbound/on-site nurture is not possible. ANNUITAS can cite very few organizations at this level of go-to-market maturity.)

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Ideal Customer Profiles Positioning Marketing Analytics Tools Lead Ranking 130

Tony Zambito

APRIL 10, 2011

  Here is a key issue facing organizations today: each time a new social technology is introduced, it ultimately alters the buying behaviors of the new social buyer persona.  This issue and the surrounding complexities call into question, for organizations today, their readiness for adapting to the new social buyer persona. 

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Martech

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As a result, sales organizations have added enormous headcounts of SDRs and BDRs. In some organizations, the reverse is true. Many organizations have reduced their budgets, leaving managers to do more with less in 2024. Always on” doesn’t mean you’ll catch someone in a buying cycle.

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