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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. Buyers are guiding themselves down the funnel, gathering information and turning to peers before engaging with vendors. “I Combining buyer intent with social proof.

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

The Point

Even if you acknowledge that change as fact, however, it’s easy to become cynical (as I have) when vendors and thought leaders are constantly proclaiming the “death” of the old ways. When Account-Based Marketing (ABM) first arrived on the scene, vendors were quick to pronounce traditional, funnel-based marketing obsolete.

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Study: most B2B tech companies lose sales deals they didn’t even know existed

Sword and the Script | B2B

Forrester analyst Lori Wizdo wrote those words eleven years ago. All these years later, a new report by 6sense, penned largely by a former Forrester analyst, has come to the same conclusion: when buyers first contact a seller, they are “69% of the way through a buying cycle.”

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What is account-based marketing today and how has the space evolved?

Martech

Factors driving changes in ABM include shifts in buyer preferences and pre-purchase behavior, as well as the development of more sophisticated technology and data products that enable marketers to analyze behavior, identify in-market audiences, and craft experiences for a buying group or its individual members. The vendors respond.

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Why Connected TV Advertising Is Key in Your Brand and Demand Strategy

Madison Logic

Yet more and more marketing leaders faced with larger buying committees and longer buying cycles are realizing the need for a balance and a stronger link between their brand and demand activities. Forrester research finds that 67% of B2B marketers say buyers are taking longer to commit to purchases than last year.

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Why account-based marketing continues to grow

Martech

Although inbound marketing remains critical to B2B lead generation, many marketers are increasing their use of account-based marketing (ABM) to take back some control of the process and speed up the buying cycle. A wide variety of technologies enable ABM strategies, and ABM tool vendors are benefitting from spending increases.

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Five Sales Enablement Tactics B2B Marketers Need to Master

Webbiquity

More than 75 percent of prospects feel the sales professionals who contact them lack knowledge of their specific business, role and responsibilities at work, or even the issues they’re trying to resolve, according to research from Forrester. Map Content to the Buying Cycle. Nurture Your Sales Team like Customers.