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

Martech

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. It helps us determine who is in different stages of buying cycles and which campaigns we should be offering them,” said Tonkin. A different kind of B2B buyer.

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Report: Why Demand Marketers Should Expand their Focus Beyond the Lead

The Point

Today, ABM is a very real and effective way of driving demand, but even its most fervent disciples would acknowledge that, at most companies, ABM co-exists with other strategies rather than having replaced them altogether. to reflect what they say is the reality of the B2B marketplace and how modern purchase decisions get made.

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How ZoomInfo Helped Three Customers Propel Their GTM Strategies

Zoominfo

Speedy customer acquisition without a hefty price tag is the target, but doing it effectively can be a challenge without the right tools and training. They rely on ZoomInfo throughout their sales cycle for comprehensive data about accounts they’re targeting — and new accounts that can expand their market.

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Forrester thinks Content Marketing Isn’t Working – They’re Half Right

The Point

Over at Forrester Research, Vice President Laura Ramos recently talked to Advertising Age (“ Marketers Still Struggling to Get Results from Content Marketing “) about what she perceives as a general lack of return from the investment so many companies are making in content marketing. 51% responded “somewhat effectively”. •

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Marketing KPIs are changing. Here’s why.

Zoominfo

A more nuanced understanding of marketing’s effect on the sales cycles, a better case for increased budgets, and another step forward in the age-old struggle for better sales and marketing alignment. Data from Forrester Research shows how rapidly marketing metrics are changing. The result?

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Face-to-Face Selling Is Still Effective

Kaon

Even though people are using the Internet to get through the buying cycle before reaching out to a sales person, that does not mean face-to-face meetings are unnecessary. In fact, real data proves that in-person meetings are the most important part of a customer’s buying experience. Even more than digital marketing.

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Top 10 Amazing B2B Marketing Trends to watch out for in 2020

Valasys

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 Key B2B Digital Marketing Trends for 2020.