Act-On

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Marketing Funnels and Keyword Research As you probably know, there are three stages of the buyer’s journey: awareness, consideration, and decision. At this stage, the marketer is learning, researching, and becoming aware of potential solutions. She has thoroughly researched solutions and is close to making a decision.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2016

McKinsey research shows that B2B buyers typically use six different channels throughout their decision-making journey, and almost 65% will come away from it frustrated by inconsistent experiences. With the increase in communication vehicles and channels, buyer expectations are simultaneously increasing. What’s the way forward?

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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. Watch this webinar to learn about each topic in depth.

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Madison Logic

JULY 20, 2023

B2B buying is a team effort that marketers cannot afford to overlook. According to Gartner, a typical buying committee for a complex B2B solution consists of six to ten decision-makers , each armed with their own set of four or five independently gathered pieces of information.

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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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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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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through.

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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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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 30, 2020

Where do they go to research solutions? Our latest research pulls together essential data about the way decision makers reach their outcomes, giving vendors and demand generation managers the inside track. A small percentage (7%) said they are buying in high volume, with 20+ purchases in a typical business year.

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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. When researching for solutions to business problems, they no longer have to invite salespeople into their cubicles or corner offices. Where they are in the buying cycle.

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NetLine

APRIL 14, 2022

NetLine’s research unearthed dozens of incredible insights into the behaviors of B2B buyers. Here are a few key highlights from this volume: Professionals registering for webinars are 29% more likely to make a purchase decision within 6 months. The Relationship Between Buying Journey and Content Format. Research Report.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In other words, would you only ever want marketing leads from prospects pre-determined to be actively researching your category, solution, use case, etc.? Hunting those prospects “ready to buy,” sure, but also sowing the seeds that will yield a larger pool of opportunities in the long term. My argument: no, you wouldn’t. .

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A jam-packed webinar is a beautiful thing. But you know what’s better than filling your funnel with webinar leads? The key to turning webinar leads into sales is giving your prospects a clear path forward. With this in mind, you don’t want to let these valuable leads languish in post-webinar purgatory.

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Proteus B2B Marketing

MAY 7, 2014

It was an interesting online presentation last week—a webinar on webinars. I attended Content Marketing Institute’s (CMI) “The Webinar Benchmark Throwdown, You vs. Your Industry Peers.” SEO site analytics reveal how buyers now move through the purchase cycle long before you know who they are or the nature of their needs.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Yet more and more marketing leaders faced with larger buying committees and longer buying cycles are realizing the need for a balance and a stronger link between their brand and demand activities. Forrester research finds that 67% of B2B marketers say buyers are taking longer to commit to purchases than last year.

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DealSignal

APRIL 27, 2023

Buyer Personas focus on the buying committee roles of your Ideal Buyers. It consists of behavioral signals such as site visits, webinar attendance, email click-throughs, and downloads. Open-web research is then categorized across 6,000 B2B topics and three million companies.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 25, 2024

With this in mind, Chelsea Madden, VP of Customer Success and Partnerships at SalesIntel, and Kara Smith Brown, CRO & Founder of LeadCoverage , partnered on an in-depth webinar to provide supply chain marketers with key sales and marketing tactics to create a commanding presence market presence in 2024.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Rather, understand where each customer stands in the buying cycle and reach out to them with the right type of content. Things are more complicated when targeting high-value accounts with multiple decision-makers in the buying process. Spruce up your content with verifiable data to make your message more believable.

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6sense

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Today, we’re serving up Part 2 of important highlights from a recent webinar hosted by Kerry Cunningham, our Senior Principal of Product Marketing. The webinar goes in depth into what matters most for launching an effective ABM program and provides actionable tips for sales and marketing teams. Determine the Members of Buying Teams.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Qualified leads can be generated any number of ways: phone calls email, webinars, direct mail and even marketing automation if done well. Instead, reach out proactively and engage the prospect early on in the buying cycle. It's not, however, the quantity of leads that counts. It’s the quality of the leads. Create value.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

B2B buyer personas provide a foundation for accomplishing the research and development of effective online marketing campaigns designed to achieve strategic marketing objectives. SEO and PPC Keyword Research. Keyword research is both a fundamental and critical component of search marketing programs; paid and organic.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Gartner says that only 17% of the buying cycle is spent actually talking to sales. Our research with Drift and Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) aims to identify the biggest challenges for sales leaders today, and to uncover new ways for sales to better engage their buyers and accelerate revenue across the funnel.

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ViewPoint

MAY 21, 2015

Understand the characteristics of the new empowered buyer: Conduct their online research. They’ve already advanced far into the buying cycle by the time they engage with sales. They must be all the more knowledgeable and skilled to convince the buyer of the value they can add to the buying process. Truncated sales time.

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Valasys

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

On the 30 th of September 2019, BrightTALK announced its new insights tool to aid in the level of precision of its buying intent-based marketing product named Intent Leads. The tool helps customers gauze the buying behaviors of their niche-specific prospects.

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Martech

AUGUST 7, 2023

For a reactivation program , your goal is to get previous customers to come back and buy again. It’s essential to understand your regular buying cycle — how often people buy, whether they repurchase at similar intervals but only at certain times of the year and other variables.

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Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Resolution #1: Leverage AI the Right Way Generative AI (genAI) has completely changed the game by offering B2B marketers opportunities to enhance their strategies and streamline time-intensive tasks such as campaign design, audience or competitor research, and content ideation.

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Valasys

JULY 17, 2020

By providing high-quality, relevant information tailored to the pain-points of the prospects, at each stage of their buying cycles, marketers can ensure that ongoing communication is established to nurture the leads down the sales funnel. Consider creating content specific to the specific stages in the buying cycles of the prospects.

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Exo B2B

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In a world where buyers are more informed and demanding than ever before, B2B sales reps must evolve to offer a fluid, personalized buying experience based on trust. Before even contacting a supplier, decision-makers compare, research and inform themselves. The majority of the B2B purchasing process begins on the Web.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 31, 2023

Multiple decision-makers on a purchasing team do their own online solution research when buying a complex B2B solution. Multi-channel ABM helps you meet buying committee members where they are with a persistent and cohesive experience. You can’t dictate where they research and explore solutions.

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Martech

JUNE 4, 2024

They’ve now spent decades gating content assets, conducting webinars and following up with those leads to drum up business. Instead, they want their brand to be at or near the top of mind when their prospect enters a buying cycle. In their mind, a well-educated prospect will come to them when it’s time to buy.

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Lattice

MAY 24, 2016

The engine also now features real-time scoring so you can instantly prioritize your accounts and contacts based on fit (how likely is that account to do business with me) and behavior (where is the account in the buying cycle based on the behavior of the different contacts in that account). for all key buyers at your target accounts.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 29, 2017

Formalizing the process by implementing an official ABM program helps you to make it part of the corporate culture, obtain executive buy-in (and the budget that goes with it) and set performance parameters for its success. Examine historical data to get the value of former “good” deals and the typical length of the buying cycles for each one.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 12, 2018

Prospects that have gotten that far in the buying cycle are likely to be extremely interested in the product and want to see how it can work for them specifically. Webinars: These live presentations are usually about an hour and are a great way to engage current and potential users in real-time online.

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Valasys

JULY 14, 2020

You need to understand and prioritize their pain-points and preferences at each stage of their buying cycles. You can use a sales funnel tool to customize your website pages, form, or webinars according to your requirements in no time. Now the question is: how does that happen? Your prospective customers have needs.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. Going purely from “your gut” or from exclusively internal research to create personas misses the point. What would trigger them to enter a buy cycle?

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. Going purely from “your gut” or from exclusively internal research to create personas misses the point. What would trigger them to enter a buy cycle?

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Demand Generation Work Management Marketing Management 100

Valasys

JANUARY 13, 2020

Buyers like to have complete sovereignty in the methods they research about the potential solutions to their problems through specific products or services, engage with the pieces of content being delivered at various stages of their buying cycles & in ways they interact with the salespeople before they decide to close a business deal.

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