PathFactory

JUNE 23, 2022

After 7+ years as a SiriusDecisions then Forrester analyst leading B2B content research, I joined PathFactory as SVP of Product Marketing and Research. But there is a big hole in the revenue intelligence narrative – content intelligence and the first-party buying signals it creates.

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NetLine

APRIL 23, 2024

Technology and data—specifically buyer-level intent data —take a lot of the guesswork out of sales prospecting, making it more precise. How can intent data help sales teams identify high-potential prospects more effectively? These signals can help later on when your sales team approaches a potential buyer. The good news?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

For years, marketers have engaged audiences with account-based marketing strategies to better align sales and marketing practices and, in turn, provide more relevant, personalized content and messaging. Customers don’t care whether the communication comes from marketing or sales, says Methananda, they just want a “holistic experience.”

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Terminus

MARCH 11, 2024

In our recent webinar, Anne Murlowski VP of Marketing at Terminus, sat down with Seth Marrs, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, to delve into the evolving landscape of how to unify go-to-market strategies. This integration faces challenges however, especially when marketing and sales do not work together as one cohesive unit.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

JANUARY 23, 2024

Forrester analyst Lori Wizdo wrote those words eleven years ago. All these years later, a new report by 6sense, penned largely by a former Forrester analyst, has come to the same conclusion: when buyers first contact a seller, they are “69% of the way through a buying cycle.”

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Only B2B

APRIL 10, 2024

MQL sits at the intersection of marketing and sales. These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. Many marketers view MQL as flawed because less than 1% of these leads typically reach the final stage of the buying process, and even then, there’s no guarantee they’ll convert.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 11, 2021

If your sales team hasn’t dealt with enough upheaval over the past 15 months, get ready for even more adjustments in the upcoming post-pandemic world. Exploring post-COVID-19 sales strategies will be necessary as we bounce back from economic hardships. Evaluate These Changes to the Sales Process. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The right data underpins everything from building target account and contact lists to fueling sales prospecting and cleaning existing databases. This is why I was pleased to see Demandbase’s inclusion in Forrester’s recent landscape report on B2B marketing and sales data providers.

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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. In reality many B2B companies derive substantial revenue from other types of sales. The following diagram depicts the buying scenario model I've used for several years.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 11, 2021

If your sales team hasn’t dealt with enough upheaval over the past 15 months, get ready for even more adjustments in the upcoming post-pandemic world. Exploring post-COVID-19 sales strategies will be necessary as we bounce back from economic hardships. Use buying signals to get in front of newly established businesses.

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Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. But how does it work?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2021

The problem with modern sales and marketing. I see with marketing (and sales) this: we get clinical and treat our customers as objects to convert rather than people who need help. I recently met with a group of sales and marketing influencers and we discussed trends and our projects. revenue, leads, opportunities, etc.).

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

And while it’s not hard to find basic business data — company names, phone numbers, employee counts, revenue, maybe direct dial numbers and email addresses — today’s complicated sales cycles need more than just names and numbers. What is Sales Intelligence? What Do Sales Intelligence Tools Do?

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Full Circle Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Our first official fall webinar focused on uniting marketing and sales to drive revenue growth. I mean, how many times have we all talked about marketing and sales “interlock”? This webinar addresses some of the underlying issues that sales and marketing teams encounter when working together. So many times, right?!

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I learned that the firm: Experiences 12 to 18-month sales cycle on enterprise accounts with most efforts leading to RFP automatically reducing margin growth. Sales Is Calling for More Personal Account-Based, Conversational Support to Win, Protect & Expand Specific Accounts. If manufacturers, retailers, distributors, etc.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Sales enablement significantly drives higher conversion rates and revenue. Nearly 75 percent of organizations using sales enablement tools say it greatly influenced sales growth over the past 12 months. Since it promotes an integrated approach to selling, sales enablement involves both marketing and sales teams.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

MAY 17, 2022

“Buyers now exercise more due diligence than ever before, conducting more research and engaging in more conversations with vendors and third parties,” according to Forrester. More people are involved in today’s buying process as well, with executives playing a greater role than in the past.”. That’s up from 17 interactions in 2019.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. My life would be a nightmare without it,” says Wing, a ZoomInfo global sales manager who focuses on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. But she also knew she needed to get up to speed very quickly. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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Martech

APRIL 18, 2022

At the time of her research, there wasn’t much available for small retailers to facilitate try-before-you-buy (TBYB) programs. One company turned her away because they were only working with brands doing a certain sales volume. . Try before you buy order page. Try-before-you-buy boosts sales.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

However, partnering with a best-intent data solutions company offers you a real competitive advantage in your sales and marketing efforts. Read on, this blog provides you with a step-by-step guide for increased sales and marketing ROI. Put simply, B2B intent data reveals the buying intentions of potential customers.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Channel sales — or selling through partners — represents 75% of the world’s commerce, according to Forrester. This approach helps companies accelerate sales and grow revenue without adding to their headcount, a move that’s increasingly important during economic uncertainty. What you’ll learn: What is channel sales?

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ViewPoint

MARCH 12, 2013

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. Second, behavior changes depending on whether customers think they know how to buy.

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PathFactory

JUNE 7, 2022

Toronto, ON – June 6, 2022 – With more than 20 years of experience in B2B marketing , content strategy, and operations, Christine Polewarczyk joins PathFactory from Forrester where she was an evangelist for content strategy, content marketing , and content operations. . In my role at Forrester, I saw the landscape of players.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The last time sales teams were offered real change in their tech offerings was back in the early 2000s, when cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) systems came into vogue. That technology permanently shifted the way sales teams operated. Types of Sales Automation Tools The reach of this technology is widespread.

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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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Contently

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

There’s a line in Forrester’s latest report on content marketing platforms, or CMPs for short, that I love. In the coming year, we’re planning to build out even more functionality around attributing content and ROI, sales enablement, content campaigns, and more integrations with the martech ecosystem.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This requires sales and marketing to work together to identify and engage buying groups within their target accounts. Enter Buying Group Marketing. According to Forrester , 94% of B2B purchasing decisions are made by buying groups and not individuals. You have to go to the buying group.

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The Point

JUNE 23, 2020

One fixture of B2B marketing for more than a decade is the lead funnel, brought to prominence by the analysts at SiriusDecisions (now part of Forrester.) For those demand marketers promoting complex solutions, with long sales cycles, into large organizations, this is a must read. Even cynics like me will find the argument convincing.

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Martech

MAY 10, 2022

Last year, Forrester reported that about 90% of 650 tech buyers surveyed want vendors to provide content that’s relevant at every stage of the buying journey. I probably buy the most technology out of any buyer here at Planful. “I I probably buy the most technology out of any buyer here at Planful.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Furthermore, buyers also claim that their relationship with a company improves when they have the option to schedule in-person or virtual meetings to ease the buying process. B2B marketers are not always delivering on this front. Customer Obsessed” Marketers See More Success.

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Seismic

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As the global leader in enablement, we’re committed to shaping the role of AI in sales enablement and helping our customers leverage AI now and in the future. How AI presents an opportunity for enablement leaders Forrester predicts that the global demand for AI software will reach $37 billion by 2025.

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The Point

JULY 18, 2014

Over at Forrester Research, Vice President Laura Ramos recently talked to Advertising Age (“ Marketers Still Struggling to Get Results from Content Marketing “) about what she perceives as a general lack of return from the investment so many companies are making in content marketing. They simply want information of value.

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DemandBase

JULY 16, 2020

Phrases like “hyper-personalization” and “personalization at scale” are tossed around frequently in the sales community, but what does it mean and how do you do it? The Demandbase sales team has achieved considerably higher results from personalized outreach than with generic blasting. Personalization: It’s Not Just Jargon.

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Outreach Enterprise Management DemandBase Buy 86

6sense

JANUARY 31, 2022

The future of B2B sales and marketing is — yes — skinny jeans! Buying Committees Before Skinny Jeans . Firstly, let’s start with a big thank you to Brent Adamson and his book The Challenger Customer for, several years ago upon the book’s first publishing run, formally articulated the idea of the B2B buying committee. .

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Forrester B2B

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In his latest blog post for Forrester, Malachi Threadgill shares advice on how to align sales and marketing with the seven must-dos for B2B buying groups. It’s time for a holiday miracle!

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The Marketing Blender

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Which social media platforms drive the most sales? You know that social media is a powerful tool for promoting your business, but you might not know which platforms are the most effective at driving sales. That being said, let’s break down which social media platforms drive the most sales and why. #1 Who We Are. . Resources.

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Martech

JUNE 3, 2022

” Rather than tailoring messages to individual customers, marketers in the B2B space are recognizing the need to adopt account-based strategies to resonate with groups of executive-level buying groups. .” “The other thing that you need to make ABM successful is tight marketing and sales alignment,” Britt said.

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