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Why Innovation Reigns Supreme in 2023 B2B Marketing

Top Rank Marketing

Here are four reasons why B2B marketers will have to innovate to survive in 2023 – along with some analysis on how to turn these challenges into great opportunities to innovate. In fact, as the unstable economic climate continues, marketing budgets seem to be caught in the crosshairs once more.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

It is best to look at what tools are needed to address each stage in the buying lifecycle, and have tools specifically designed to help move the decision making from initial engagement to delivery. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998).

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

For the IT buyer, business benefit assessments (34%) and financial assessments (26%) were both highly important to making a purchase decision, greatly exceeding, by more than 2x, the vendor relationship (14%) as a decision driver. Is this digital spending allocation aligning with buyer needs? Content is King?

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

For example, this could include methodologies, presentations, white papers and assessment tools to help sales professionals identify and illuminate buyer issues, benchmark buyers versus competitors and best practice leaders, and create / drive solution roadmaps to help resolve the most pressing customer issues.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Do White Papers Still Engage? They do if.

The ROI Guy

Research from MarketingSherpa and KnowledgeStorm, shows that targeted content is more effective, viewed by buyers as more valuable in the decision making process when customized for Industry (82% more effective), Role/job function (67%), Company size (49%), and Geography (29%). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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B2B Category Creators Episode 5 Transcript

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Elissa Fink: So, we ended up in a platform that Gartner renamed from business intelligence to business analytics. ” Elissa Fink: So, yeah, for us, it was that kind of motion for category creation, so to speak. But it was all about the category creation. We need categories, so that we know how to compete.