Oktopost

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Hitting targets and meeting sales quotas has become harder for most sales teams over the past year. The impact of the economy has slowed down the pace of B2B sales, leaving sales teams wondering how to meet their KPIs. So, in order to efficiently guide prospects to closed-won, nurturing relationships is key.

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Madison Logic

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Madison Logic ABM Success Series Spotlights Enterprise Marketing Teams Accelerating the Buyer Journey. “The ABM Success Series gives our customers a forum to share how they’ve accelerated the customer journey and shortened sales cycles to positively impact ROI. .

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Seismic

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This week Forrester released The Forrester Wave TM : Sales Content Solutions, Q4 2022 report in which Seismic was named a leader. Forrester looks at three major categories – market presence, strategy, and current offering. So, why do we think this matters to our customers and those considering a sales content solution?

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PathFactory

JUNE 23, 2022

After 7+ years as a SiriusDecisions then Forrester analyst leading B2B content research, I joined PathFactory as SVP of Product Marketing and Research. In its 2021 B2B Buying Study study, Forrester benchmarked that over 80% of B2B purchases involve three or more people in a typical buying group. But they don’t tell the whole story.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 25, 2024

Social media is not just about creating a buzz; it can be a powerful tool for strategically influencing your customers at every stage of the sales funnel. By incorporating social media into a comprehensive revenue generation strategy, B2B enterprises can deepen connections with their target audience and simultaneously boost sales.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

MAY 28, 2024

That mades sense because the cost of sales on an expansion deal ought to be lower than new customers, which means better margins. While the subscription model is changing this view – customer retention has an exponential effect on growth in SaaS – historically there’s been one exception: when the economy gets bumpy.

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Seismic

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Seismic Recognized as a Leader in the Latest Sales Enablement Industry Report by Leading Independent Research Firm. The Forrester Wave : Sales Content Solutions, Q3 2020 report published this week. The day the Forrester Wave comes out is one I always look forward to. Doug Winter, CEO and Cofounder, Seismic.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 12, 2013

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. Some sales professionals even believe that they can't get qualified leads from marketing.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The right data underpins everything from building target account and contact lists to fueling sales prospecting and cleaning existing databases. This is why I was pleased to see Demandbase’s inclusion in Forrester’s recent landscape report on B2B marketing and sales data providers.

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Martech

OCTOBER 28, 2021

“Basically, intent data allows marketing and sales teams to focus on the accounts that are in the market for a product or solution,” said Dan Tabaran, CMO of account-based advertising company N.Rich, in his recent MarTech presentation. Understanding buyer intent. 3 ways marketing and sales teams can generate buyer interest.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Sales enablement is a continuous business development discipline that equips salespeople with the process, tools, and content to help them sell more effectively. According to statistics, sales enablement’s adoption ballooned by a whopping 343% over the past five years. Common Challenges for SDRs. Bad lead quality.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Bruno previously spent almost five years at Forrester on the sales technology and B2B e-commerce beat. “I In his role, Bruno spends a lot of time listening to the B2B sales teams that PROS serves. ” Buyers, Bruno observed, overwhelmingly start their journeys on a digital device. Digitized B2B selling.

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SalesIntel

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The ultimate goal of any sales and marketing team is to increase total sales volume by maximizing the number of lead conversions. Various processes of lead generation and lead nurturing are followed to aid in this process. You can either gather contact information manually or use a sales intelligence platform.

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LeanData

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In B2B, too many professional revenue team members deploy tactics that just don’t work for today’s newly empowered buyers. . Customers Want a Better Buying Journey. The current B2B buying journey is so painful, so filled with friction, that buyers are going to previously unheard of lengths to avoid.

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Hinge Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

So, what does this “Woodenism” (famous insightful quotes from the “Wizard of Westwood”) have to do with sales enablement? It is that consistency that Wooden became famous for and it is why you should be interested in sales enablement. What is B2B Sales Enablement? More Than Just “Sales” Enablement. Predictable.

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Akoonu

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Sales pipeline. Sales funnel. Marketing and sales pipeline. Buyers journey. Pipeline v Funnel v Buyers Journey. These stages, from the naming of them to implementation usually don’t consider the buyer’s point of view. Is a buyer’s journey enough? The problem?

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The ROI Guy

JULY 23, 2015

We recently had the pleasure of talking sales enablement with the Sales Enablement Lab and Thierry v. Tom Pisello, Alinean's CEO / Founder was interviewed about the recent proclamations on the Death of the B2B Sales Rep, and what his thoughts were on the future of B2B selling and sales enablement.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 23, 2018

I repeat: According to the data, the amount of time poured into creating content has no effect on marketing success. Now, if you had instead taken those 20 hours of content creation and put them into creating a piece of content that filled a content gap in your buyers’ journey… that content probably would get you results.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 12, 2021

For B2B, this means buyers expect a personalized, well-developed, enticing customer experience (CX) from first learning of your brand until closing a sale. CX has become an intrinsic part of the B2B marketing funnel. CX is how your leads and customers see your brand throughout your funnel. What makes your CX stand out?

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Valasys

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Forrester predicts that progressive marketers will be more proactive in their engagement with buyers in 2020. There will be some groundbreaking changes in the ways the brands have been engaging with their audiences & driving them to sales. The conventional structure of the buying funnel is dead.

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Hubspot

MARCH 15, 2016

As companies adopt inbound marketing as a way to generate more leads, the importance of having an effective lead nurturing strategy becomes very clear. Implementing an effective lead nurturing strategy can have a huge impact on the results of your inbound marketing strategy. Which lead nurturing tactics work best?

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Content intelligence refers to the use of content AI, automation, and analytics to optimize B2B buyer journeys and customer experiences. It involves leveraging content engagement and performance data to understand buyers’ interests, increase engagement, and conversions.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Content intelligence refers to the use of content AI, automation, and analytics to optimize B2B buyer journeys and customer experiences. It involves leveraging content engagement and performance data to understand buyers’ interests, increase engagement, and conversions.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Sales and marketing teams understand that a core part of their job is reaching the right audience at the right time with the right message. It’s not just industry tactics and technologies that are changing. Even before the pandemic, 68% of B2B buyers preferred to research online independently , according to Forrester.

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 12, 2019

Nurturing your active leads is almost as important as acquiring them in the first place, with a recent Forrester report finding that lead nurturing generated 50% more qualified leads at 33% less cost. Today, B2B front runners are jumping in a lot sooner and are leveraging more pervasive media tactics to engage, motivate and entice audiences.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Lead generation is broken down into sets of marketing activities that correspond with stages of the buyers journey, starting with generating traffic, then converting visitors into leads, and eventually converting those leads into customers. As you learn more about each lead, you can tailor your messaging to move them down the funnel.

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6sense

JUNE 22, 2017

Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave TM : Predictive Marketing Analytics for B2B Marketers, Q2 2017. In the first report of its kind for the predictive marketing analytics space, Forrester named 6sense a leader among predictive analytics providers. So you can reach and engage in-market buyers.

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The original demand waterfall was published by SiriusDecisions (now part of Forrester) back in the early to mid-2000s. Now, there’s another version… released last year under the Forrester brand. They are just far less important to the process than Opportunities. You can see more information about this new version here. .

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Mobile device adoption brings information to the B2B buyer anytime and in almost any location. Naturally, B2B marketers are looking at more ways to capitalize on the sales opportunities found online and look at e-commerce as an opportunity to build the sales and revenue funnel. The short answer is: critically!

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SnapApp

MAY 29, 2018

No matter which way you skin it, an efficient sales process is what fuels the high-growth B2B companies. Product planning, marketing funnels and sales enablement will only get you so far — after that, it’s all about scaling the sales machine. To visualize this dynamic, we say that buyers are on a journey.

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Televerde

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Having the right technology, and knowing how to use it, is the essential first step in getting the kind of results attributed to modern marketers in a Forrester survey of marketing decision makers which shows, among other things, that 94% of modern markers attain significant market share, with 49% holding the market-leading position. [1].

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LeanData

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Throughout the year, OpsStars brings together revenue team operations professionals – across the functions of Marketing, Sales, Revenue, Sales Development and Customer Success – to advance the profession’s collective cause. The digital transformation of Sales is in full effect. Well, Sales is even investing in MarTech!

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Strategic-IC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

How can you drive value at every stage of the buyer's journey, with video content? Our Head of Sales, Fes Askari details how marketing and sales teams can use a variety of video formats at different stages to drive value and help both prospects and customers. Driving Value With Video Across the Buyer's Journey.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 11, 2015

In a recent survey conducted by ITSMA , business-to-business (B2B) marketers worldwide expect that understanding buyers will be their # 1 responsibility in two years (85%). What may come as a surprise is the sudden emergence of “understanding buyers” to a top responsibility in 2016, especially compared to the top duties reported today.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 31, 2021

How does the marketing organization influence the number of sales opportunities and closed deals? How fast are they moving opportunities through the sales cycle? Today, we’re excited to continue delivering our promise of helping marketers unlock the full-funnel visibility that validates marketing’s impact on growth and ROI.

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Sharpspring

JUNE 9, 2017

Omni-channel marketing acknowledges that consumers have ready access to information and will move between devices and channels during the buyer journey. 1) Create Buyer Personas. 3) Align Content With Specific Buyer Journeys. Each buyer’s journey is different and should receive individual attention.

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PureB2B

APRIL 21, 2017

With a holistic understanding of buyer intent, your business can improve the lead qualification process and enhance sales conversions. Buyer intent comes down to knowing what makes a great lead. And this means putting your customer’s needs, wants and interests at the center of all your sales and marketing campaigns.

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