Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

You’ve done your customer research, made prospecting calls, and connected with a potential buyer. But do they really want to buy, or are they just window shopping? Put another way: It all comes down to being able to read buying signals. Catch a buying signal? Here are five buying signals to look out for: 1.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 22, 2021

With every update, we prioritize helping you understand each new feature and how it can be of use to you and your team. She shows you how to use these features to streamline your prospecting and candidate sourcing. We’ve introduced a new feature called Buying Committee to our ZoomInfo for Sales platform.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 2, 2021

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. These data points flesh out ideal prospects that you can target. Real-time buying signals can boost various sales and marketing activities.

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Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2022

It wasn’t long ago that sales as an industry was driven largely by volume — more leads meant more prospects, which sometimes translated into more revenue. One of the most common questions among prospective buyers of sales engagement platforms is what kind of return on investment (ROI) they can expect.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It forces you and your team to get very, very specific about the people within an account who buy and to define and measure your wins. Allowing every salesperson to define their buying group differently, and record it differently in the CRM, no longer works in ABM. Defining your buying group. Start with your limiting factors.

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Navigate the Channel

JUNE 27, 2023

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. In general, your customers are likely to buy from you for one of three reasons. Show how your customer service follow up and expertise can help alleviate this pain point.

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Champion Communications

AUGUST 8, 2023

B2B buying is hard. Gartner’s recent research on B2B buying groups found that the typical buying group for a complex B2B solution contains “six to ten decision-makers, each armed with four or five pieces of information they have gathered independently and must de-conflict with the group.” Check out this case study here.

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Champion Communications

AUGUST 8, 2023

B2B buying is hard. Gartner’s recent research on B2B buying groups found that the typical buying group for a complex B2B solution contains “six to ten decision-makers, each armed with four or five pieces of information they have gathered independently and must de-conflict with the group.” Check out this case study here.

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Cintell

JULY 3, 2018

Part of customer-centricity involves truly connecting with prospects before they become customers. The 2018 B2B Buying Disconnect Report highlights the difference between how B2B technology buyers and vendors view the purchase process. Unfortunately, most vendors fall short in helping buyers through this process.

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LeanData

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

So when the average cost per lead at a trade show is $811 , every prospect counts. . So here’s a better approach: map out a digital-first buying journey supported by a connected RevTech stack. As the prospect engages with marketing content, personalization increases. Maybe they just wanted some of your awesome swag.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In the B2B space, this process has naturally evolved into buying group marketing, which focuses these tactics toward multiple decision-makers within accounts. And in the B2B space, treating business prospects as buying groups can help brands work toward that goal. B2B as a buying group. And, the data backs this up.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Have you been in a situation where you have a great idea to optimize an internal process or strategy but could not get buy-in from your organization? B2B marketers preach it is important to understand your prospect’s buying committee in order to successfully move that account or lead down the sales funnel.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

APRIL 18, 2023

In the process of downloading content, the company also polled 38,000 respondents to ask about the buying process throughout 2022. It’s really hard to argue their salesy approach to content isn’t going to land with prospects, so you have to let the content fail in order to create a learning opportunity. Second, content goes stale.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 25, 2018

Since there’s no crystal ball capable of divining a buyer’s mind, the only thing left to do is to take a step back and try to understand that which drives the buying decision in the people you’re selling to. B2B customers don’t fly solo when making buying decisions. Trade show buyers tend to come prepared.

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SalesIntel

JULY 21, 2023

Effective prospecting often relies on having direct dial phone numbers to reach prospects. While purchasing phone number lists can provide a convenient solution, weighing the pros and cons before buying is essential. Increased Reach: Buying phone number lists help you to expand your reach and target a broader audience.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This massive disruption to traditional buying behaviors also impacts the effectiveness of go-to-market and selling tactics. During the traditional B2B buying journey behaviors of the 2010s, B2B companies would expect an inbound lead to be at the consideration stage. This new path has quickly become the preferred journey.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This massive disruption to traditional buying behaviors also impacts the effectiveness of go-to-market and selling tactics. During the traditional B2B buying journey behaviors of the 2010s, B2B companies would expect an inbound lead to be at the consideration stage. This new path has quickly become the preferred journey.

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Anteriad

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In B2B today, there is rarely a unilateral buying decision. Because your focus shouldn’t be on just one buyer—but a buying group. While individual targeting is not entirely lost, you’ll get farther faster by identifying and marketing to the entire buying group. What is a buying group?

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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. Additionally, teams that harness the buying cues benefit from more precise and efficient sales cycles.

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6sense

APRIL 29, 2020

6sense will run a set of customer-provided keywords through its platform to provide a list of accounts actively researching a company’s solution, giving sales and marketing teams the confidence to prospect in uncertain markets. The post 6sense Helps B2B Revenue Teams Prospect With Certainty During Uncertain Times appeared first on 6sense.

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SalesIntel

JANUARY 26, 2023

Companies use B2B data to understand other firms better, make better decisions, develop new business prospects, and support marketing and sales teams. Whether you are just exploring B2B data or thinking about buying it, this article will help. It is critical to have accurate information on your prospects and leads.

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SalesIntel

JANUARY 15, 2024

Companies use B2B data to understand other firms better, make better decisions, develop new business prospects, and support marketing and sales teams. Whether you are just exploring B2B data or thinking about buying it, this article will help. It is critical to have accurate information on your prospects and leads.

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6sense

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

6sense , the leading Account Engagement Platform, today announced the beta release of Next Best Actions, an advanced capability that uses AI to present business development representatives (BDRs) with a prioritized list of recommended actions to engage the buying team within a target account. 24 – 28, 2020. .

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Biznology

JULY 13, 2018

Which is good, because not all prospects are interested in the same things. The different prospects I’m encouraging you to focus on are really the same prospect at different stages of his or her buying journey. The stages will vary depending on the prospect’s own internal process and to some extent on your industry.

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Martech

AUGUST 22, 2023

B2B buying has changed dramatically in the last decade, and marketers need to change with it. Industrial buying behavior has changed dramatically with the rise of countless online platforms in recent decades. All this was designed to establish Finish Thompson as a helpful, reliable and trustworthy partner. Source: RH Blake 2.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 30, 2018

As marketers strive to deliver content that best suits their customers’ needs, new research indicates that B2B customers still prefer to consult a wide array of assets during the buying process. According to the “2018 B2B Buying Disconnect” report from TrustRadius, B2B buyers consult 4.9

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Act-On

APRIL 10, 2024

Lead scoring helps organizations move prospects along their buying journey in a structured, strategic way — which is especially helpful considering how complex buying journeys have become. And it takes an average of 20 touches with a brand before a prospect becomes a potentially successful lead for the sales team.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Securing C-suite buy-in is essential to getting any new project off the ground. After creating a brand ambassador program with the help of Sprout’s Advocacy platform, the organization reached 16 million people on social media in the first month. To communicate your vision in a clear and concise way, you need to lead with numbers.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 7, 2016

B2B selling is a complicated affair, but you can simplify your marketing strategies dramatically with buying process analysis. This means that you lay out your prospect’s buying process, stage by stage, and then develop a selling process that maps to it. What content do you need to move the prospect from one stage to the next?

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G2M Solutions

APRIL 26, 2023

As a B2B salesperson or marketer do you feel sorry for your leads and prospects? Buying B2B solutions for your organisation is a long hard slog. Gartner says the median B2B buying group consists of between 6 and 10 people. Each of these people need four to five pieces of information to help them. Here's how.

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DiscoverOrg

APRIL 14, 2017

According to a CSO Insights survey, 82% of sales teams feel challenged by the amount of data available and the time it takes to research a prospect before making a call. According to a CSO Insights survey, 82% of sales teams feel challenged by the amount of data available and the time it takes to research a prospect before making a call.

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Velocity Partners

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

For complex B2B businesses, one common move is to try and make it easier for customers to buy by simplifying your offering. Prospects will wander into the wrong shop by mistake — meaning you’ll waste valuable sales time working out whether they are in the market for your solutions, and they’ll be frustrated at your lack of specificity.

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