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Survey: B2B Marketers Working Against Longer Buying Cycle

KoMarketing Associates

As B2B marketers look to fine-tune the way they reach out to customers and prospects, new research suggests that B2B buyers are taking more time to think about potential purchases.

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How to leverage intent and engagement in the buying cycle

Martech

Here are three ways marketers can better understand and leverage this valuable intent data to improve the customer buying cycle. Review your brand’s customer buying cycle. The buying (or purchase) cycle is a visualization that tracks customers as they move through the sales funnel to reach the purchasing stage.

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

Martech

I probably buy the most technology out of any buyer here at Planful. We do most of our shopping online before we even start talking to sales reps,” said Tonkin. Said Bhagat, “We help brands like Planful use what we call downstream buyer intent data to target their advertising and sales outreach. Let us know!

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Stop Wasting Time on Poor Leads: Get Access to Contacts and Companies That Are Already in the Buying Cycle

Smarte

Stop Wasting Time on Poor Leads: Get Access to Contacts and Companies That are Already in the Buying Cycle. We can use this data to foster and cultivate relationships with prospects through various marketing and sales activities. As B2B marketers, our primary goal is to generate leads.

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Prove ROI and Make the Business Case for Industrial Content Marketing

Speaker: Achinta Mitra, Founder and President, Tiecas Inc.

It's the plight of an industrial marketer: over the course of a 12-18 month long buying cycle, you make contact with a whole host of influencers who read your content.who may or may not actually work in purchasing. Meanwhile, the purchase somehow takes place, and Sales claims all the glory. buy-in from your higher-ups.

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Use of social networks in B2B marketing (2) The buying cycle!

Exo B2B

I would like to discuss in this post, the importance of social networks in the B2B buying cycle. The buying cycle: “ads” Know your audience, it will be easier to create content that will suit them… Ideally, you will have a good idea of your personas and the value proposition addressing it.

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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.) This study was a survey of more than 340 B2B buyers.