Marketing Interactions

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Buyer Context is the Key to Engagement

Marketing Interactions

Complex Buying Processes Require Small Shifts. If your buying cycle is 6 months, buying is obviously not the shift you’re looking for out of the gate. When you’re working on mapping out your content marketing strategy, start with the action you want them to take and then back into it.

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Why Is B2B Marketing So Hyper?

Marketing Interactions

Natalie Petouhoff says this about ABX (Account-Based Experience) – “ABX is being able to know where the customer is in the buying cycle and using intelligent insights to know when to engage, with what content, and what to say to each and every account.”. Blurring the Lines in Meaning. Is this an example of hyper-relevance?

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Why You Need to Revisit B2B Buyer Personas and ICPs

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Further, the downsides of regret are many, including slower buy cycles, frustrated teams, and lower retention or growth for those accounts. But an even bigger indication that your buyer personas may need a refresh is that Gartner also found that 67% of people involved in technology buying decisions are not in IT.

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The Destructive Lack of Commitment in B2B Marketing

Marketing Interactions

And never forget that if your campaign is shorter than the buy cycle, you’re abandoning your buyer with a dead-end. If it’s built around the distinct value your company provides to the specific markets you serve, then it’s primed to scale, shift and morph without need to start over. Room for adjustments exists.

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Closing the Gap Between B2B Buying and Selling

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This determines the length of their buying cycle. How many deals have stalled or ended in no decision? What if that outcome began to diminish? People are going to do what they need to do to manage change—with you or without you. The encouraging part of this is that the process of change involves the same steps, no matter the problem.

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The State of the B2B Conversation: Disconnected

Marketing Interactions

The survey was based on the impact of this buzzworthy stat that surfaced a few years back: Buyers are 57% of their way through their buying cycle before they interact with salespeople. The result is its State of the Conversation Report. What Corporate Visions learned is that 78% of survey respondents agreed with the stat.

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B2B Marketers Go for a Win with Customer Retention

Marketing Interactions

Just as your marketing programs nurture net-new buyers across lengthy buying cycles, retention programs must kick in after onboarding and continue across the customer lifecycle.