LeanData

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Another source of buyer mistrust stems from poor interactions with sales reps. In a recent Revenue Generator Podcast , Doug Bell described the fatal imbalance that occurs when a RevTech buyer comes to a demo armed with significantly better information than the SDR or AE selling to them. .

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Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

According to a Gartner survey, a mere 34% of marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) progress to sales-accepted leads (SALs), and only 47% of these SALs become sales-qualified leads (SQLs) , with just over half culminating in successful deals. What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads.

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Televerde

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Millennials make up 59% of all B2B buyers with 30% functioning as the lead buyers at their companies. Personalization, interactive buyer journeys, and a focus on quality data are just a few of the routes B2B brands will take to adapt. B2B buyers are consumers for the 16 hours they spend outside work each day.

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xiQ

JANUARY 30, 2023

According to Gartner: By 2025, 80% of all B2B sales interactions will be digital. Buyers Shifting to Digital and Virtual B2B buyers are dedicating a significant portion of their sales research time, 27%, to independently researching online , leaving limited time, 5%, for interaction with suppliers.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

They’re empowered with self-sourced information that ultimately makes them well-informed buyers. This new path has quickly become the preferred journey. Gartner reports upwards of 70% of B2B decision-makers are willing to purchase without speaking to a representative. It’s time to adapt. This isn’t the case today.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

They’re empowered with self-sourced information that ultimately makes them well-informed buyers. This new path has quickly become the preferred journey. Gartner reports upwards of 70% of B2B decision-makers are willing to purchase without speaking to a representative. It’s time to adapt. This isn’t the case today.

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G2M Solutions

APRIL 26, 2023

Gartner says the median B2B buying group consists of between 6 and 10 people. Each of these people need four to five pieces of information to help them. Usually, around 83% of the time they have gone and sourced this information themselves. Brent Adamson, a Gartner distinguished VP, puts it this way.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

For instance, if a company hires a new Chief Information Security Officer, an intent tool recognizes that one of their next moves might be to search for an integrative cybersecurity solution. According to a Gartner study, by the end of 2022, more than 70% of B2B marketers will utilize third-party intent data to target prospects.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Much of the buyer journey happens without help from a sales rep: According to Gartner, B2B buyers are spending nearly 70% of the buying journey finding and analyzing information without the help of a sales rep. Enter, automation tools. Measure KPIs. A process without an end goal is, well, pretty useless.

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ClickDimensions

JULY 26, 2023

It is a modern, collaborative approach that focuses on the evolving buyer journey to help SMBs succeed with a straightforward account-based sales and marketing process. Get in touch to discuss how we can help you execute the Unified Sales and Marketing Approach for your SMB.

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ClickDimensions

JULY 26, 2023

It is a modern, collaborative approach that focuses on the evolving buyer journey to help SMBs succeed with a straightforward account-based sales and marketing process. Get in touch to discuss how we can help you execute the Simple Account-Based Sales and Marketing Approach for your SMB.

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ClickDimensions

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Without in-person meetings it can be difficult to gauge what information is required to sway a specific buyer in the group and when. . This methodology is what Gartner calls Solution Exploration : . Providing the right information to buyers at the right time, making the selling process much easier” .

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Much of the buyer journey happens without help from a sales rep: According to Gartner, B2B buyers are spending nearly 70% of the buying journey finding and analyzing information without the help of a sales rep. Enter, automation tools. Measure KPIs A process without an end goal is, well, pretty useless.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles Process Optimization 130

Marketing Interactions

JULY 31, 2022

I’m hearing a lot of assertions about the B2B buyer journey. I’m thinking about the differences between what your buyers experience with your content and brand (outside), and what it takes to create successful buyer-driven experiences (inside). Content should be helpful for both customers and buyers…everyone consuming it.

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ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Customers have different needs depending on where they are in the buyer journey. If your content does not provide the information they are looking for in their stage of the buying process, you may get overlooked for another company that has provided the content that aligns with their current needs.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

However, achieving personalization at scale can be challenging, especially as B2B buyers become increasingly anonymous and elusive. Content intelligence refers to the use of content AI, automation, and analytics to optimize B2B buyer journeys and customer experiences. This is where content intelligence comes into play.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

However, achieving personalization at scale can be challenging, especially as B2B buyers become increasingly anonymous and elusive. Content intelligence refers to the use of content AI, automation, and analytics to optimize B2B buyer journeys and customer experiences. This is where content intelligence comes into play.

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SalesIntel

DECEMBER 27, 2021

You can either gather contact information manually or use a sales intelligence platform. Once the lead contact information has been found and added to the database, it is time for lead nurturing. The times when conversions are most likely to happen can also be helpful information to structure marketing campaigns. Get Started.

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Navigate the Channel

JUNE 17, 2022

Build an SEO strategy that optimizes your content’s relevance at each stage of the buyers journey – and thus its effectiveness in B2B marketing. Why Should an Effective SEO Strategy Align With the Buyer’s Journey? The buyer now has the power to seek out information online. Who Are Your Buyers?

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It’s the entire experience surrounding it, from making it easy to find important information to minimizing friction in the sales process. It helps you be present for the buyer at the right time, with the right information that will help you guide them towards the sale. Peer reviews hold immense power.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Understanding the Buyer Journey: It’s All About “Intent” Imagine a customer embarking on a buying journey like a treasure hunt. So how can you use this information? First, they realize they need something (the map). Then, they research solutions (following clues). First-party data is the rescue!

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

But new research from CEB , now Gartner , suggests that things are even worse these days: it’s buying gridlock. At CEB, now Gartner, we’ve been studying sales and marketing for years, which means that we have deep insights into the challenges within these functions. It involves multiple parties over long decision-making cycles.

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PathFactory

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Not just a buzzword: AI is a necessary part of a martech stack According to Gartner’s report Hype Cycle for Digital Advertising , there are four emerging technologies that will have a transformational impact on digital advertising and digital channels as a whole.

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Albacross

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

To meet ideal buyers earlier in the journey and make an impact before your competitors do so, B2B companies need to craft company-wide strategies to dig deeper into the unseen buyer journey. Source: Gartner, 2020). Customers who received helpful information in the buying process were 2.8

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PathFactory

JULY 18, 2022

Now, in 2022, B2B sellers and marketers have endless data at their fingertips which can help them understand things like how interested prospects are in a product or how far along they are in their buyer journey. Engage buyers with content based on their choices rather than an estimated guess on their interest.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

For instance, if a company hires a new Chief Information Security Officer, an intent tool recognizes that one of their next moves might be to search for an integrative cybersecurity solution. According to a Gartner study, by the end of 2022, more than 70% of B2B marketers will utilize third-party intent data to target prospects.

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Content4Demand

JANUARY 7, 2021

Companies can have their own variations of what they mean when they say “intent data,” but I like Gartner ’s definition: It’s an aggregate of observed digital behavior that’s collected through first- and third-party sources before buyers raise their hand to talk to sales. Image courtesy of Gartner. What Is Intent Data?

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Seismic

JANUARY 21, 2021

By 2025, Gartner projects that 80 percent of sales interactions will occur in digital channels. Gartner’s research also shows that, on average, buyers only spend 17 percent of their time meeting with sellers during the buyer journey. The relationship between buyers and sellers is no longer simply transactional.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 11, 2015

Forrester and Gartner support the notion that today’s buyer embarks on an increasingly digital, empowered, and complex buyers journey. Now, the B2B marketing team of tomorrow is a customer experience conductor, orchestrating the various touchpoints that comprise the modern buyers journey.

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Ledger Bennett

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Consumer journeys have changed, and B2B seller interactions have largely moved to remote or digital. According to Gartner (October 2020) , 70-80% of B2B decision makers prefer remote human interactions or digital self-service. Produce video marketing that turns on buyers Create a video that fits your brand and tells an engaging story.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Every time a B2B buyer considers a purchase, they face internal struggles. Inundated with a ton of similar looking and solution-centric content, Gartner reports the average buyer squanders two-thirds of the buying cycle gathering, processing, and de-conflicting information to try to gain consensus and arrive at a purchase decision.

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Cintell

APRIL 30, 2019

This has become a whole lot easier in the digital age with access to big data to inform us and provide guiding insights across a customer’s journey. A tremendous amount of data is available to analyze through social networking channels that can continually educate and inform you about your buyers.

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Strategic-IC

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Today’s buyer is self-educated. Today’s buyer is informed. Today’s buyer does not need a Salesperson to tell them the what, when, how, why, etc. There are numerous statistics that point to this change in buyer behaviors with anywhere up to 80% of the buying journey done ‘ without the involvement of Sales ’.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 16, 2019

It doesn't take long to find frustrated buyers, with a serious case of marketing overload and vendor fatigue. A recent research report from Gartner indicates just how much prospects are struggling with buyer journey friction.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 26, 2020

If you like a technology or would like more information you can request it directly from the video. According to Gartner’s latest CMO Spend Survey we are now spending more of our marketing budgets on Technology (26%) vs 25% on labor. Tech Talks cover 15 key points and include a demo of the key features.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 17, 2019

But research from Gartner shows that buyer journeys are becoming more complex, and are no longer compatible with this model of early sales outreach. However, marketers can combat the costly inefficiency that this system creates by only sending the best leads to sales.

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Mereo

JANUARY 18, 2023

We can agree this indecision is frustrating and harmful for all involved, but we can also come to understand where it stems from given the current B2B buyer journey. In a Gartner report , 77% of B2B buyer respondents rated their latest purchase as very complex or difficult. Buying challenges do not stop there.

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