Tony Zambito

MAY 12, 2011

Without question, while B2B Marketing is focused on developing its new prominence in the early stages of the buying cycle via content strategy and content marketing, B2B Sales is caught flat-footed on how to adapt to changing buyer behaviors.    What do these new buying cycles look like? 

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

This typically takes more time than in the case of individual consumer purchases where one person makes a simple decision based on their own needs and wants. Purchasing Habits Customer purchasing habits differ significantly between B2B and B2C environments.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Your Top Ten Questions About B2B Buyer Personas. Recently, we partnered with Demand Gen Report to present a webinar about the power of personas. If you think your personas contain many critical buy-cycle insights, confirm that your sales team is aware of how and when to use them. Mobile App Development.

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Tony Zambito

JULY 10, 2011

In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on how it is important to leave some of the major misconceptions about buyer personas behind in order to peer into the future.    Without a doubt, we are seeing the most dramatic change in buyer behaviors since post World War II. 

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MarketJoy

JULY 27, 2018

I’m sure you’ve heard that buyers have more power now than ever before because of all the tools and information at the buyer’s disposal. The maturation of the internet has changed the B2B buying cycle forever. Long gone are the days where buyers relied on salespeople to be their sole education channel.

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Exo B2B

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In this world where every purchasing decision can involve multiple stakeholders and take months of deliberation, understanding the nuances of B2B personas and the complex journey of the B2B buyer is not only useful, it’s essential. 3- What information does he or she need to move the decision forward?

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DealSignal

APRIL 27, 2023

ABM intent data is about ABM marrying Ideal Customer Profiles, Buyer Personas, high-quality contact information, and intent data into a strategic go-to-market strategy for B2B firms. Use Ideal Customer Profiles to define your best-fit buyers An Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) simply defines who is your best-fit customers (i.e.,

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

To be successful, a go-to-market strategy must be comprehensive enough to capture the breadth of a company’s sales, marketing, and customer success efforts, meeting highly empowered, informed buyers on their terms and focusing on their needs above all. Support: How can you offer greater support during the buying cycle and beyond?

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Sales teams are in the best position to inform marketers of the language prospects are using, while marketers are best able to create and develop messaging that takes the language into consideration. You also get to understand their abilities and properly map them to your buyers’ needs. Map Content to the Buying Cycle.

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Valasys

JUNE 8, 2020

Strategic content mapping is an orchestrated plan to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time to help customers sail through the specific stages of their buying cycles and to figure-out the opportunities to better address the pain-points of your customers. Helps in Creating a Buyer Persona.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

For example, if a user searches and reads an article about “cloud computing” and “big data,” that means that they have an interest in, and potentially the intent to purchase, services related to those topics. Opening and/or engaging with emails with subject lines and body content that indicate possible purchase intent.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 9, 2016

As consumers, if we are not in an active buying cycle, we are in a passive buying cycle. Like it or not, in the course of our daily lives we are exposed to and consume so much information and content that buying something or acquiring something including experiences, goods, food or resources is always on our mind.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Even if you, personally, know your buyers, can you say the same of every team member who could benefit from that knowledge? Personas create focus. It’s true that it takes a village now more so than ever to make a purchase, but that buying committee does have a limit, and personas will help you narrow your focus to those audiences.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A prospect who has consumed the information on your website and then contacted you is already highly interested in your offerings. Make sure your web content synchronizes with your buyer personas. Segment your buyer persona according to parameters like company size, annual turnover, etc.

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Seismic

MARCH 7, 2023

There’s added pressure to ensure that every purchase will deliver business value so leaders take added time and consideration to reach a final decision. As a result, the average B2B buying cycle has become even longer and more complex than it was in 2020. Never stop growing.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 29, 2017

For many years now, B2B marketers have spent time and effort carefully crafting buyer personas based on demographic profiles, needs analyses and former sales results, among other criteria. Examine historical data to get the value of former “good” deals and the typical length of the buying cycles for each one.

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Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Forrester Research predicts that poorly personalized content will degrade the purchase experience for 70% of buyers over its failure to demonstrate an understanding of their business needs. Personalization is no longer a nice touch—it’s a buyer demand. Request a demo to learn how we can help.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 9, 2023

To increase engagement and create more opportunities for sales, their marketing campaigns needed to target decision-makers and buying personas with more relevant and personalized content that would move them through the funnel faster.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 8, 2016

Even if you, personally, know your buyers, can you say the same of every team member who could benefit from that knowledge? Personas create focus. It’s true that it takes a village now more so than ever to make a purchase, but that buying committee does have a limit, and personas will help you narrow your focus to those audiences.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 19, 2013

You don’t know the buyer JACK”! Yes, a lot has been written lately on the use of buyer personas, or how content marketing “starts with the buyer, or the importance of mapping the buyer journey. It includes information such as their background, daily activities, current pain points, and what’s important to them.

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Sales Engine

JULY 13, 2016

They expect you to be an expert in your field and about your solution, as well as to create relevant, informative content about it. Keep in mind that these prospects are better informed than ever, and have probably already done some research about your industry, product, or solution before they ever reached out to you in the first place.

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Sales Engine

JULY 13, 2016

They expect you to be an expert in your field and about your solution, as well as to create relevant, informative content about it. Keep in mind that these prospects are better informed than ever, and have probably already done some research about your industry, product, or solution before they ever reached out to you in the first place.

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

.  It is fair to say that many organizations are adopting specific buying strategies whereby decisions are often made well ahead of any sales involvement and the decisions are more about who to purchase from versus what to purchase.  Buyer Personas. Buyer Journey Mapping and Design.

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Valasys

MAY 3, 2019

Intent data is a buzzword for B2B marketers & it reflects on the purchase intent of the potential customers at the different stages of their respective buying cycles. 2) Tracking the journey of a buyer persona: Not all who research a website are potential buyers. Sources of Intent Data.

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

.  It is fair to say that many organizations are adopting specific buying strategies whereby primary decisions are often made well ahead of any sales involvement and secondary decisions are more about who to purchase from versus what to purchase.  Buyer Personas. Buyer Journey Mapping.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 1, 2023

Faced with increased competition and shrinking budgets, marketers must navigate larger buying committees and more complex buying cycles. And if you have a specific buyer persona in mind, you can hyper-target and prioritize those decision-makers at scale across LinkedIn.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 10, 2018

A poorly constructed persona can seem a lot like a stereotype, such as all millennials want information delivered via mobile devices,” says Kevin Smith of Kevin W. The key to powerful buyer persona development comes down to three important factors: grounded in fact, functional, and more than demographic data.”.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 13, 2011

.  The Basone Buyersphere Report surveys approximately 1,000 businesses, heavily comprised of UK and European firms and ranging from small to multi-national enterprises, on the steps they take in making purchases.    The annual report is aimed at surveying the changing B2B buyer behavior.

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The Mx Group

MAY 5, 2017

Buyers’ needs, not yours, drive the purchase process. And your buyers demand an engaging experience. Because today’s buyers self-direct their purchase journeys, they choose what information and experiences to interact with. Brands that do this will successfully move buyers through the purchase journey.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 30, 2017

The leads who show more interest in your product/service offering and those who fit your ideal buyer persona will end up getting the highest scores. Alignment of marketing and sales - as both departments are given the opportunity to make well-informed decisions based on gathered data. Criteria Setting. Define your target market.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 30, 2017

The leads who show more interest in your product/service offering and those who fit your ideal buyer persona will end up getting the highest scores. Alignment of marketing and sales – as both departments are given the opportunity to make well-informed decisions based on gathered data. Criteria Setting.

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PureB2B

MARCH 25, 2020

To illustrate, one of the foundations of this process is creating quality educational content, which is considered the gateway to the buyer journey your prospects will follow. However, there should be a wide variety of content to adapt to different buyer roles in different stages of the buying cycle [2].

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PureB2B

MARCH 25, 2020

To illustrate, one of the foundations of this process is creating quality educational content, which is considered the gateway to the buyer journey your prospects will follow. However, there should be a wide variety of content to adapt to different buyer roles in different stages of the buying cycle [2].

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NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You’ve likely heard the information technology gurus. First, you have to understand your buyers and develop buyer personas. 57% of a buyer’s journey occurs before he or she contacts a vendor. How can you possibly know what’s going on in the front end of the buying cycle when you’re not involved?

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Valasys

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The value of each lead is generally characterized by the amount of interest shown by that lead in the company or the stage they are at in the buying cycle. Gather Information – With the help of your sales team gather data that indicates the interest and sales-readiness of your buyers’. Ground Work. Explicit Attributes.

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Everything Technology Marketing

APRIL 4, 2011

Content marketing has emerged as a highly effective strategy to engage the reluctant B2B buyer who is actively searching for guidance and information online before making a complex purchase decision.

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