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Questions to ask vendors before buying a customer journey orchestration solution

Martech

Decide whether or not you need to engage in a formal RFI/RFP process. When written properly, an RFP will facilitate the sales process and ensure that everyone involved on both sides comes to a shared understanding of the purpose, requirements, scope and structure of the intended purchase. This is an individual preference.

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3 recession-defeating marketing strategies

Martech

Consider this: 17% of companies are planning RFPs this year, according to the 2023 State of the ESP RFP. Rethink that RFP Before you replace or add technology, ask yourself whether you maxed out your current functionality. Consider your segmentation program. Enterprise companies have not slowed down or pulled back.

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3 Reasons Why Your RFP-Driven Firm Needs a New Website

Hinge Marketing

We often speak with prospects in government contracting who have encountered a great divide within their firms — those who desperately want their firm to revamp its website for increased business development opportunities and those who don’t think a website matters because their work comes from RFPs. Ask about it today!

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20 questions to ask marketing automation vendors during a demo

Martech

To start, set up demos with your shortlist of vendors within a relatively short timeframe after receiving the RFP responses to help make relevant comparisons. Don’t hesitate to ask for a demonstration of the specific capabilities that you have identified in your RFI/RFP. Import and segment data.

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How to create winning B2B programmatic ad campaigns

Martech

Programmatic ad campaigns live and die on getting customer segmentation right. If people don’t know who we are or what we do, they aren’t going to reply to our e-mail, send us an RFP or answer our phone call. There are three tiers in this segmentation: Low intent/beginning of the buying journey. For the U.S.

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Account-Based Customer Marketing – How to Stop the Sales Drop with Stronger Existing Customer Growth

Marketing Insider Group

And there were stories that were relevant to P&G such as how segmented visibility resulted in Ryder making suggestions that would slow inventory turns by 50% and put 40% of direct ships at risk for P&G. Backed by stories, the purchasing manager decided it was time to reconsider buying habits. But, they could not define it.

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[Book Review] "The Organic Growth Playbook" - A Proven Recipe for Driving Revenue Growth

B2B Marketing Directions

Jaworski and Lurie argue that a more effective and reliable way to drive growth is to focus on shaping the activities that potential buyers perform as they move through the buying process. They contend that in every buying process, there are one or two activities that decisively shape what product or service the buyer ultimately purchases.