Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0 60

Marketing Interactions

JANUARY 25, 2022

The beginning of the year is an appropriate time to take a stand about the payoffs of commitment in B2B marketing strategies. Company objectives shift due to market fluctuations, board consensus, or the CEO’s new hyper interest. Regulation’s shift, opening a new market. Almost like you’re starting from scratch.

B2B Marketing 69

B2B Marketing B2B Budget Programs Marketing & Strategy 69

Content4Demand

JULY 7, 2021

According to the recently released 2021 B2B Buyers Survey Report from Demand Gen Report, here are a few of the top trends: Buying committees continue to become more prevalent, and committees are growing larger. The buying cycle is less predictable; some cycles are longer while others are being accelerated based on need.

Account Based Marketing 121

Account Based Marketing Peer-to-peer B2B Content 121

NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 29, 2017

For many years now, B2B marketers have spent time and effort carefully crafting buyer personas based on demographic profiles, needs analyses and former sales results, among other criteria. It requires a direct, highly personalized sales and marketing program that targets each organization individually. Implementing ABM.

Account Based Marketing 159

Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles Budget Programs Enterprise Management 159

Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The same mindset can be applied to your 2024 marketing strategy. Resolution #2: Balance Personalization with Privacy Longer buying cycles and larger buying committees have increased buyer expectations around relevant and customized experiences. Personalization is no longer a nice touch—it’s a buyer demand.

Marketing AI 52

Marketing AI Work Management B2B Marketing Marketing Management 52

Marketing Interactions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As the market shifts, much of what you thought was true about your buyer personas and ICPs may be different. These events in your target markets can quickly make your messaging irrelevant, rendering your marketing programs and sales plays ineffective. A Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise.

Ideal Customer Profiles 80

Ideal Customer Profiles Buyer Personas Marketing Analytics Tools B2B 80

QuanticMind

AUGUST 10, 2023

Each week, our team tracks down the best digital marketing articles, POVs, and reports—so you don't have to. 7 Things to Know About Cannabis Consumer Behavior in 2023 [:05] With more and more states legalizing marijuana, the cannabis market boom is in full swing. Show off your marketing chops with our question of the week.

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Transparency Paid Search Agency Ads Ad Exchange 52

SalesIntel

APRIL 15, 2024

B2B buyers may spend months assessing an issue, researching solutions, and evaluating possible service providers before deciding on a vendor that fits their needs. Closing substantial deals with large decision-making teams results in protracted sales cycles. The B2B buyer experience is more complex and time-consuming than that of B2C.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Management Top of Funnel 52

ANNUITAS

JUNE 9, 2016

As consumers, if we are not in an active buying cycle, we are in a passive buying cycle. Like it or not, in the course of our daily lives we are exposed to and consume so much information and content that buying something or acquiring something including experiences, goods, food or resources is always on our mind.

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Buy Buying Cycle Trigger Marketing Buyer Personas 100

The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I may not be a market analyst, but from what I see working with our agency’s B2B clients , it seems to me that, in the language of technology adoption lifecycles, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) stands at that pivotal junction – what Geoffrey Moore calls the “chasm” – between early adopters and early majority.

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Account Based Marketing ABM Ideal Customer Profiles Enterprise Management 157

NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 2, 2016

To create content that boosts lead and demand generation, you need to construct B2B buyer personas that give you a clear picture of your customer, mapping their journey from when they decide to solve a problem to their purchase decision. Many companies create personas, and not one itsy-bitsy thing changes. But here’s what happens.

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Buyer Personas Conversion Buying Cycle B2B 100

Content4Demand

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We recently gathered 10 intent data experts and power users and collected their tips and insights in The Content + Data Connection: 10 Top Marketing Executives Explore the Rewards of Integrating Intent Data into Content Strategies. Today, we’re speaking with Randy Brasche, VP of Marketing at Folloze. What have they done?

Buyer's Journey 81

Buyer's Journey Intent Data Intent Lead Ranking 81

Oktopost

JANUARY 5, 2021

I speak daily with product, marketing, and sales professionals about the impact that social media can have on developing buyer personas, launching a product, building a brand, or even on individuals standing in their respective marketplace. Developing Your Buyer Personas. That’s Product Marketing 101. Everything!

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Buyer Personas Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Marketing Budget 131

NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

As account-based marketing (ABM) gains momentum, companies clearly see the value of identifying high-value prospects and targeting them with customized content. In the B2B marketing environment, successful ABM is the gold standard companies aim for. Evaluating new market opportunities. ” What to Look for in a Vendor.

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Top of Funnel 100

ViewPoint

MAY 7, 2013

In 2002, Tony established the first buyer persona research methodology designed specifically for B2B marketing and sales. His "Buyer Foresight" approach helps organizations gain predictability by understanding the behavior of their buyers in a changing market. My guest today is Tony Zambito. Understand the Buyer''s Backstory.

Buyer Personas 120

Buyer Personas Peer-to-peer Buying Cycle Sales Qualified Leads 120

PureB2B

JULY 14, 2020

As a marketing leader, you’re expected to come up with a fail-proof plan for allocating your budget for the remainder of this year, and the pressure to drive ROI is continuing to grow. Bigger goals with less budget and resources are “the new norm” for B2B marketing orgs leading into 2020. M: Its not just about engagements anymore.

Demand Generation 62

Demand Generation Demand Planning Allocation 62

PureB2B

JULY 14, 2020

As a marketing leader, you’re expected to come up with a fail-proof plan for allocating your budget for the remainder of this year, and the pressure to drive ROI is continuing to grow. Bigger goals with less budget and resources are “the new norm” for B2B marketing orgs leading into 2020. M: Its not just about engagements anymore.

Demand Generation 62

Demand Generation Demand Planning Allocation 62

PureB2B

JULY 14, 2020

As a marketing leader, you’re expected to come up with a fail-proof plan for allocating your budget for the remainder of this year, and the pressure to drive ROI is continuing to grow. Bigger goals with less budget and resources are “the new norm” for B2B marketing orgs leading into 2020. M: Its not just about engagements anymore.

Demand Generation 62

Demand Generation Demand Planning Allocation 62

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 7, 2019

By Kira Jerome , Marketing Intern at Heinz Marketing. There is a generational shift happening within buying committees. The question is, are B2B sellers making the necessary changes in their approach in order to find success when it comes to engaging a millennial stakeholder or buying committee?

Marketing Management 95

Marketing Management B2B Buyer Personas Demographics 95

DemandBase

MARCH 30, 2020

That’s why businesses partner with agencies, vendors, consultants, etc. We consistently explain to our clients and partners that making the decision to invest in ABM as a key component of your B2B marketing means committing to it end-to-end. Trust in specialization and expertise and see it through. Remember the pin factory.

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Advertising Agencies Account Based Marketing ABM Advertisements 111

ANNUITAS

APRIL 8, 2014

A March 2014 Study by Adobe titled Digital Roadblock: Marketers Struggle to Reinvent Themselves shows that 64% of marketers expect their role to change in the next year and 81% expect their role to change in the next three years. The core reason that marketing’s role needs to change is the way the buyer has fundamentally changed.

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Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation 100

Tony Zambito

MAY 1, 2011

  An even more profound and sobering fact is that 80% of business buyers today say that they found their vendors as opposed to vendors finding them.    Marketing, as we know it today, will see its’ percent of activities devoted to social marketing increase past 50% over the next two years. 

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Planning Buyer Personas Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services 100

PathFactory

MAY 3, 2022

The first is “ Traditional B2B Sales and Marketing Are Becoming Obsolete ” posted on The Harvard Business Review by Brent Adamson, Vice President at Gartner. The trending move to incorporate a revenue-focused position into companies has helped further align sales and marketing. Everyone has pivoted to an ABM/ABX strategy.

Ideal Customer Profiles 59

Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing 59

The Effective Marketer

MARCH 22, 2012

According to Tony Jaros, marketers will typically spend 60% of their budget on demand generation programs. Buying cycle control (you need to facilitate the buying process and understand what is required of you as a result). Enable (help reps increase productivity, both for sales and marketing-sourced demand).

Demand Generation 100

Demand Generation Lead Ranking Demand Marketing Qualified Leads 100

NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

In a nutshell, marketing automation often comes to a grinding halt because of the lack of people and processes to support it. If you choose and implement your marketing automation before defining your processes and the roles of individuals, you cannot move forward. Lack of planning for marketing automation is widespread.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Planning 100

MarketJoy

JULY 27, 2018

The maturation of the internet has changed the B2B buying cycle forever. As a marketer or salesperson, how can you use these tools and channels to your advantage? Whereas consumers have no problem switching from one vendor to the next at the drop of a hat, companies don’t have the same agility. Increase Rewards.

Purchase 64

Purchase Peer-to-peer B2B Buyer Personas 64

KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As we wind down 2015, marketing budgets and planning for the new year begin to take focus. Hopefully, the performance metrics associated with your organization’s marketing programs have yielded success and validation for tactics proposed at the beginning of the year. It is that time in the year again. Demand Generation.

Marketing Budget Creation 120

Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget Budget Programs Enterprise Management 120

Leadspace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Having covering the basic definitions of intent data, together with its key uses and limitations for B2B Sales and Marketing, one thing should be clear by now: intent holds great potential — but only if used as part of a much wider data intelligence strategy. Combine Intent with Predictive and Persona Modeling.

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Intent Data Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Intent 86

SWZD

MARCH 10, 2017

Let’s huddle in here, fellow B2B marketers, and have a moment of honesty. Sometimes in the midst of sales requests, jam-packed campaign calendars, client requests, determining content marketing ROI, data analysis and creative brainstorms, we forget why we do what we do. This week, we took a few moments to reflect. Create to woo.

Top of Funnel 48

Top of Funnel Marketing Management Content Marketing Planning 48

ANNUITAS

MARCH 19, 2013

If Si Robertson , one of the the “Duck Commanders” on A&E’s hit show “Duck Dynasty” , were to assess today’s B2B Marketer on how well they know their buyer, I can imagine he’s sum it up by saying, “Hey! Yet, according to Forrester , only 14% of marketers align compelling content with buyers’ journeys. What is a persona?

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Buying Cycle Forrester Buyer's Journey 100

Lake One

APRIL 23, 2020

One tool manufacturing companies can have in their toolbox, is marketing automation. Marketing automation helps manufacturers simplify complex b2b processes while personalizing and scaling their digital marketing and sales efforts. House of Marketing “Yearly Marketing Survey 2019” (2019). But First, Strategy.

Marketing Automation Services 52

Marketing Automation Services Sales Management Marketing Automation Automation 52

Sana Commerce

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Personalized marketing in B2B e-commerce is a great way to maintain these business relationships by treating your buyers as individuals online — just as you would offline. Personalization is great for the buyer because it improves the buying experience and overall convenience for your client.

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Personalization B2B Sales Qualified Leads Business 98

DealSignal

MAY 15, 2022

When used correctly, intent data can provide buying signals across tens of thousands of websites that will help your team prioritize qualified accounts that are active in a buying cycle, positioning you to be the first in line to make your pitch. How much intent for your product or service has increased in the past week?

Intent Data 52

Intent Data Intent Marketing Automation Services Ideal Customer Profiles 52

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The pressures to build a solid Demand Generation Strategy that is perpetual with content marketing that converts is high. So much so, that at times marketers may resort to tactics that might fall into the questionable practices category. Do you recognize any of the following content marketing misses? One piece to rule them all.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership Content 100

ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2014

the marketing automation space is due to grow by 60% this year and reach overall revenues of $1.2 The continued rise in revenue is indicative of the increased sophistication of the B2B market and the need for marketers to be more strategic in driving demand for their organizations. According to Raab Associates, Inc.

Paid Search Agency 100

Paid Search Agency Enterprise Management Marketing Management Automation 100

Influitive

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s empowered customers expect the interactions they have with your sales and marketing teams to be highly personalized and relevant—which can make striking up valuable conversations with prospects challenging. That’s one reason why account-based marketing has become a popular strategy in recent years.

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Account Based Marketing Work Management Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

Author: Jingcong Zhao At this point, many marketing organizations have adopted a digital marketing platform. Your prospects are bombarded with pitches from different vendors. We created separate nurtures tracks based on industry and buyer personas, and we have learned a lot of lessons along the way.

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Intent Data Intent Email Marketing Social Marketing 129