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How Younger Generations are Disrupting B2B Buying

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There’s a seismic shift happening in B2B buying, and it’s being driven by a powerful force — generational change. That’s why it’s important for companies to understand the needs of their younger buyers to avoid costly customer discontent. Buyers want to be known and understood in both B2B and B2C buying situations.

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Build vs Buy Your Customer Data Platform?

Customer Experience Matrix

The build vs buy debate has existed as long as packaged software itself. That discussion, in turn, usually leads to a recommendation that companies build software which will create unique competitive advantage and otherwise buy when a satisfactory option exists. This work is the same whether you’re building or buying.

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The Impact of Peer Engagement on The Customer Buying Journey

Vision Edge Marketing

This trend has certainly added more twists and turns to the buying process. 84% of B2B buyers are now starting the purchasing process with a referral, and peer recommendations influence more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions. ? Peer Influence and its Effects on the B2B Buying Process. Hence the importance of peer engagement.

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Why Enabling Buyers To Buy Is The Future Of B2B

Tony Zambito

We are in that moment of hesitation when it comes to the future of how B2B buyers will engage in buying. Various studies from McKinsey, Gartner, Forrester, Salesforce, and others show increasingly that B2B buyers want seller-free buying experiences. Today, a third to 40% of buyers want a seller-free buying experience.

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Your Recipe for Inbound Success

Speaker: Jen Spencer, VP Sales and Marketing, SmartBug Media

Jen will dive in deep how she did this at a fast-growing SaaS company that shows, among many other things, how you can use buyer personas and establish a cadence to ensure that your content is seen at the right stage of the buyer's journey. How to secure organizational buy-in (and cooperation!).

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Seven Ways B2B Tech Buying Behavior is Changing [Research]

Webbiquity

The way B2B technology buyers conduct research make buying decisions is changing. Marketers who understand how these behaviors are evolving can set up their companies for success in the coming decade. As the report concludes, “Expect to see more millennials taking part and taking charge of buying decisions.

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How Buying Signals Rise from Layers of Data

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Layering various customer buying signals on top of each other is a reliable, data-based approach to predict when a prospect is facing a business challenge that your product can solve. Buying Signals Reveal Interests. Figure 1 : Real-time buying signals can boost various sales and marketing activities.

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Seven Things Marketers Need to Know About Lead Generation

Speaker: Douglas Burdett, Host of The Marketing Book Podcast, Founder/Principal of ARTILLERY

Lead generation is the process of attracting and converting strangers and prospects into someone who has indicated interest in your company's product or service. Lead generation has become much more important because the buying process has changed, and marketers need to find new ways to reach buyers and get heard through the noise.

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6 Steps to Optimize Your Media Buys

It’s also an opportunity to innovate, lead, and rethink the way your company uses media. In this media optimization guide, you will learn: 6 key steps to plan and pace your media buys. How to optimize your media buys with a data-driven approach. Ways to be more efficient and drive growth from every investment.

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Buyer Intent Data Guide: How to Find Prospects Already Looking to Buy

Intent data can also be utilized to help hone the scope of the companies that you target with your marketing efforts, helping to eliminate hours spent calling prospects who are uninterested in buying your product or services. Download this special eBook to dive deeper into: Why intent data is crucial in B2B selling & marketing.

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Developing a Conversational Approach

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, CEO & Founder of VisumCx

B2B buyers are more sophisticated than ever before, from the customers’ initial discovery, to the moment they commit to buy. With information at their fingertips, the chances are that potential customers have already met you, judged you and have a firm impression on your company and products.

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AI for Marketing: What It Is, Why You Need It & What You'll Lose Without It

Speaker: Chris Newton, VP Marketing & Business Development, Intellimize, Mark Kilens, VP Content & Community, Drift, Nick Edouard, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, PathFactory, Randi Barshack, CMO, RollWorks, & Lucas Welch, VP Corporate Marketing, Highspot

In this rapid-fire webinar, you’ll hear from powerhouse marketers at companies Intellimize, Drift, PathFactory, RollWorks, and Highspot. How to build conversational experiences that accelerate the buying process. It’s time to lower the barrier of entry around AI and empower marketers to take control of their future.

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Essential Guide to Sales Engagement – Overcome the Challenges of Remote Selling

Sales teams are trying to prospect, connect, and manage an effective sales cycle, yet many companies are falling short of hitting their sales numbers. It further works to ensure that these efforts are part of an excellent buying experience that leaves the buyer feeling confident that you are the vendor for them.

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How to Improve Demand Generation with Empathy

Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO & Founder of markempa

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to go beyond rational-logic-based sales/marketing and adjust your strategy to understand better how buyers feel so that you can connect and help more customers buy. Learn how a company increased sales opportunities by 303% by being uber helpful to buyers.

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Three Simple Ways To Increase ROI From Your Current Sales Process Immediately!

Speaker: Donald Kelly, Founder & Chief Sales Evangelist at The Sales Evangelist LLC

How can any company truly thrive? During this session, you will learn: How to minimize the time it takes for your prospect to commit and make a final buying decision. Now add the fact that we're facing a global pandemic and it could add an extra 2 - 3 months or more to a sales cycle. It seems impossible but is it?