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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 Let us know!

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Why B2B Buying Cycles Are So Long

B2B Marketing Directions

Since then, the number of people in the average B2B buying group has increased, and buying cycles are getting longer. New research by the Aberdeen Group explains why long buying cycles are still a fact of life for B2B marketing and sales professionals.) Other findings explain why the buying cycle has gotten longer.

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12 Essential Benchmarks for Understanding The B2B Buyers’ Journey

KoMarketing Associates

B2B buyers have access to more data and information than ever — and that isn’t always a good thing. Buyers can get lost, not just in the buyer’s journey, but also in the overload of information and options they find online. Average visit duration tracks how much time visitors spend on your website. Discovery stage.

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How B2B SEO Differs From Traditional B2C SEO

Marketing Insider Group

Therefore, B2B SEO must align content and keyword strategies with the stages of this elongated buying cycle, nurturing leads through informational, consideration, and decision-making phases. You won’t regret spending money on this – it affects everything down the line, including your search rankings.

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How HP Uses 6sense to Find Customers in Active Buying Cycles

6sense

With the rise of predictive intelligence and the ability to make sense of large amounts of customer data, HP wanted to take their marketing analytics to the next level and begin targeting customers in active buying cycles. We wanted to spend our marketing dollars wisely,” Bolden explains. The Untapped Potential of Customer Data.

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4 Ways a Longer Consumer Buying Cycle Can Work FOR You

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Maggie Jones Marketing consumer products with a long buying cycle can be a blessing and curse. But on the other hand, a lengthy buying cycle means you’ll have more opportunities to communicate. Here are 4 ways to use a longer buying cycle to your marketing advantage: 1) Score Your Buyers.

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Why Attribution Tracking Matters: Enhancing Digital Media Buying Efficiency

NuSpark Consulting

Understanding ROI and Performance One of the primary reasons to track attribution for digital media buys is to measure the ROI and performance of different marketing channels and campaigns. Identifying and Preventing Wasted Ad Spend Another crucial benefit of tracking attribution is the ability to identify and prevent wasted ad spend.