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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. But the discussion changes when Customer Data Platforms are involved.*

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B2B Customer Experience: Balancing the Human Factor with Technology

Vision Edge Marketing

From chatbots to self-service platforms, technology is reshaping customer interactions, enhancing efficiency, improving EBITA, and steering decisions with data. Gartner’s survey reveals a whopping 75% of B2B buyers prefer self-service, versus interacting with sales representatives, during the initial stages of the buying process.

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The Impact of Peer Engagement on The Customer Buying Journey

Vision Edge Marketing

Most business leaders and Marketing and Sales professionals today understand the impact that peer reviews and stories make on the customer bying journey, including the B2B purchase journey. This trend has certainly added more twists and turns to the buying process. Peer Influence and its Effects on the B2B Buying Process.

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How Younger Generations are Disrupting B2B Buying

Zoominfo

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. Modern GTM Index Modernize your go-to-market strategy with custom recommendations.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. We’ll walk you through how intent data can elevate your marketing operation, including how it helps you: Easily prioritize accounts Craft engaging content that converts Retain and upsell customers

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Five Ways to Shorten Your Customers’ Buying Journeys

Sharpspring

Working to shorten your customersbuying journeys is the first step to take. What is a buying journey? A buying journey is all the actions a site visitor takes prior to finally making a purchase. A buying journey may take a couple of minutes or a few months. Why does a buying journey need shortening?

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3 Reasons B2B Customers Buy From You

Navigate the Channel

B2B customers, like all customers , are human and bring human quirks and predictabilities into their purchasing decisions. You can’t begin to understand every motivation or mental purchase process for your customers or prospects, but we have several things we suggest you consider. Our products are less expensive!

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How to Improve Demand Generation with Empathy

Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO & Founder of markempa

Here’s the thing: we have more channels, content, and technology to reach potential customers. That’s why all the automation tools, best practices, data analytics won’t help get better results until you master empathizing with your customers. But connecting with and converting buyers has never been more challenging.

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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 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. Instead of finding customers with mass advertising and email blasts, marketers must now focus on being found and learn to build continuous relationships with buyers.

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

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. In this guide, we will show you how to elevate your sellers’ results and provide you with insights and tips that will also benefit the rest of your customer-facing organization.

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver. So forget your old sales playbook, because the ultimate value proposition is an impactful buying experience that guides people to the best possible decision.

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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. The importance of early engagement.

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Best Practices for Engaging Your Go-To-Market Sales Teams

Speaker: Ruth Stevens, President of eMarketing Strategy

The next step in the process is to provide leverage to sales as they engage with the prospect, close the deal, and then nurture and deepen the customer relationship. During this webinar, you’ll learn: The nature of the buying group and how to reach the individual members.

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Bigger, Faster, Better: Considerations for Scaling Up Your Own Engagement Engine

Speaker: David Pitta, CMO, BrightTALK and John Steinert, CMO, TechTarget

Customer acquisition and growth requires intentional strategy. What’s the impact of passive vs active participation in buying engagement from audience networks. What’s critical in choosing trusted partners to scale through a buy strategy. What are the (5) key ingredients to properly building your own engine.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Larger buying committees. By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster. Longer sales cycles. Slow-moving compliance reviews. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up?