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How Planful uses customer intent to speed up the B2B buying cycle 

Martech

When Rowan Tonkin joined Planful as CMO three years ago, he faced two main challenges. Last year, Forrester reported that about 90% of 650 tech buyers surveyed want vendors to provide content that’s relevant at every stage of the buying journey. A different kind of B2B buyer. They’ll visit brand’s website. Let us know!

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CMO Coffee Talk ‘Aha! Moment’: The New Buying Committee Wears … Skinny Jeans?!

6sense

Editor’s Note: CMO Coffee Talk is an open space for more than 1,300 CMOs to come together weekly with their peers and discuss timely, crowd-sourced topics. Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing co-hosts these dynamic, illuminating conversations with 6sense CMO Latané Conant. . Buying Committees Before Skinny Jeans .

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How ZoomInfo Helped Three Customers Propel Their GTM Strategies

Zoominfo

At the recent Forrester B2B Summit North America, ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck sat down with leaders from Smartsheet, Sendoso, and BlueOcean to talk about the practical ways ZoomInfo has helped them optimize productivity and align their sales and marketing goals.

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Good morning: How do you measure success?

Martech

At its core, claiming that any deal was sourced by marketing depends on a set of arbitrary assumptions that don’t reflect the related impact of interactions with both marketing and sales across a buying cycle. Why marketing sourcing is “a metric built to get a CMO fired.” Brett Kahnke , principal analyst, Forrester.

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CMOs fail to go beyond brand awareness on LinkedIn

Biznology

Xerox CMO John Kennedy mentioned that they are using LinkedIn to share content with their followers. Wiley’s CMO, Clay Stobaugh, mentioned that they’re focused on sponsored updates and sponsored Inmails, since they are getting amazing click-through rates. He’s just focused on leads and getting people into the funnel.

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Sales and Marketing: The technology behind CRM

markempa

He added, “But, we’re seeing the CMOs are starting to own a lot of IT budgets, so it could be the CMO that owns that [technology].”. Heidi Melin, CMO, Eloqua , obviously has a certain amount of vested interest as a MA software vendor, and she pointed out the value of MA for marketers. “By

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CMOs: Wield Powers of Influence to Gain a Seat at the Executive Table

ViewPoint

Stephanie Tilton is a content-marketing consultant who helps B2B companies craft content that engages prospects and customers, nurtures leads and advances the buying cycle. Source: Forrester, Metrics that Matter for B2B Marketers, October 26, 2011. i Source: Forrester, Metrics that Matter for B2B Marketers, October 26, 2011.