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Using Buying Groups to Accelerate Your Sales Process

InsightSquared

Yet Another Marketing Buzzword? Every few years there is a new buzzword in B2B marketing. A few years ago it was “Inbound Marketing.” The inbound philosophy advocates publishing content through digital channels to entice qualified individuals to consume the content and enter the sales cycle. Now, we have “Buying Groups.”

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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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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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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. Those who don’t risk misallocating marketing budgets by focusing on the wrong tactics. Mismatched Content Type Priorities.

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Your Recipe for Inbound Success

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

Recent studies have shown what a lot of B2B marketers already know - it’s hard to build a successful inbound marketing program. And while a good inbound program gets started with the marketing department, a great inbound program gets other departments involved. How to secure organizational buy-in (and cooperation!).

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Sales Engagement: Here’s What You Need to Know Before Buying

Zoominfo

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. Today, sales is driven by insights. In an increasingly competitive business environment, organizations of all sizes are turning to sales engagement platforms to manage this workload.

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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. While each generation brings its own set of preferences, demands, and expectations to the market, the report shows that younger buyers are much more likely to voice their dissatisfaction than previous generations.

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How to Improve Demand Generation with Empathy

Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO & Founder of markempa

The highest priority for B2B marketers is effective demand generation (increasing lead quality and quantity). B2B sales are way more emotional than B2C because people’s careers are on the line. Learn how a company increased sales opportunities by 303% by being uber helpful to buyers.

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

Speaker: Ruth Stevens, President of eMarketing Strategy

As a B2B marketer, lead generation is likely your Job One. But guess what: It’s after the sales team has gotten into the act where marketing can have an even bigger impact on results. During this webinar, you’ll learn: The nature of the buying group and how to reach the individual members.

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Best Practices to Boost Marketing Efficiency while Decreasing Cost Per Sale

Speaker: Kristin Hess - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Drift; Will Lyon - Head of Vertical Marketing, 6sense

Join Drift’s Senior Product Marketing Manager, Kristin Hess, and 6sense’s Head of Vertical Marketing, Will Lyon, to learn: Why a digital buying experience doesn’t have to (and shouldn’t) feel so different from an in-person buying experience How to leverage first-party data for better brand experiences How to create more seamless marketing-to-sales (..)

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B2B Distribution Roundtable: The Challenges & Solutions of Buying and Selling

Speaker: Jonathan Meyer, Kyle Mitzner & Jacobi Zakrzewski

In today's B2B marketplace, revenue is generated through sales, marketing, and relationships. The missing links in the buying/selling relationship. How to perfect a buying strategy when dealing with manufacturing data. Carving out a sales path for a product.

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

Teams of all sizes can utilize buyer intent data to more effectively identify where prospects are on their purchase journey, and thus adapt marketing messaging and sales pitches to align with those specific interest signals collected. How intent data is effectively collected (And what to be wary of). 5 effective intent data use cases.

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Prove ROI and Make the Business Case for Industrial Content Marketing

Speaker: Achinta Mitra, Founder and President, Tiecas Inc.

It's the plight of an industrial marketer: over the course of a 12-18 month long buying cycle, you make contact with a whole host of influencers who read your content.who may or may not actually work in purchasing. Meanwhile, the purchase somehow takes place, and Sales claims all the glory. buy-in from your higher-ups.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. Slow-moving compliance reviews. How can you speed it up?

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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

One of the biggest responsibilities and challenges for marketers is generating leads. 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. How inbound and outbound marketing should both be used.