Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The last time sales teams were offered real change in their tech offerings was back in the early 2000s, when cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) systems came into vogue. CRM users on the front lines can’t serve modern customers using only core CRM,” the research firm Forrester said in a 2020 report.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Marketers have traditionally been forced to make hard tradeoffs between their brand and demand activities and decide how to shift budgets when new challenges arise. In most cases, brand-building efforts typically lose out to demand as marketers focus on short-term initiatives to fill the sales pipeline and generate revenue.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 24, 2017

As B2B customers demand more from their products and services, they are also seeking enhanced engagement from marketers during the buying process. According to “The State of Engagement” report from Marketo, three out of four B2B customers think brands must have a deep understanding of their needs in order to successfully engage them.

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Seismic

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This week Forrester released The Forrester Wave TM : Sales Content Solutions, Q4 2022 report in which Seismic was named a leader. Being a leader is important to us, but even more important is how we scored in criteria that we believe really matter to our customers – mission accomplished!

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Metadata

AUGUST 23, 2022

When the Metadata Marketing Team read through the Forrester Wave : B2B Advertising Solutions report, we were…a little surprised. Here’s our hot take on where Forrester got it right and where they missed the mark with B2B advertising. What Forrester got right. What Forrester got wrong. Dear Forrester: what gives?

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Martech

AUGUST 3, 2021

Hear about: Forrester’s latest research into personalization trends Insights and tools to help make the personalization process work from special guest Rusty Warner of Forrester Success stories and lessons learned in determining the right approach to personalization from marketing experts at Sleep Number, Dow Jones, and TIGI.

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Only B2B

JULY 5, 2023

In the ever-changing landscape of B2B marketing, demand generation plays a pivotal role in driving business growth and success. As we enter 2023, it is crucial to adapt to the evolving nature of B2B demand generation and discover effective strategies to generate demand and engage target audiences.

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Madison Logic

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It’s about building positive brand awareness and strong relationships throughout the entire customer lifecycle. We face a changing B2B buying landscape with longer sales cycles and larger buying committees made up of increasingly independent decision-makers. B2B marketing is not just about selling a product or service.

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ClickZ

JULY 18, 2019

Forrester evaluated and scored the top 11 B2C commerce suites in late 2018 in their Forrester Wave report. Business user empowerment, considering not just functional capabilities, but how well a platform attracts and incentivizes customers and responds to shopper demands. Of those, SAP and Salesforce led the pack.

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Martech

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hear about: Forrester’s latest research into personalization trends Insights and tools to help make the personalization process work from special guest Rusty Warner of Forrester Success stories and lessons learned in determining the right approach to personalization from marketing experts at Sleep Number, Dow Jones, and TIGI.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I’ve long observed that B2B marketers focus too much on lead generation, and not enough on current customer expansion and retention, which is, after all, where the bulk of profits lie. When asked, the typical B2B marketer will say that 80-85% of their effort goes to customer acquisition. This is a mistake. What’s that?

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

If you’ve been in the Marketing Operations or Revenue Operations world for a while, you’re probably familiar with demand waterfalls. The original demand waterfall was published by SiriusDecisions (now part of Forrester) back in the early to mid-2000s. Now, there’s another version… released last year under the Forrester brand.

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Porch Group Media

JANUARY 26, 2021

Creating exceptional experiences for your customers and prospects can set yourself from the competition. This can be anything from providing consistent experiences across channels, providing excellent customer service, or recognizing a customer both offline and online. Customers no longer base their loyalty on price or product.

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Terminus

JUNE 14, 2023

With a laser focus on driving sustainable growth by prioritizing customer-centricity, this event provided attendees with a wealth of insights and actionable strategies. To succeed, organizations must build a customer-obsessed growth engine that consistently delivers value across the customer lifecycle.

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Terminus

JUNE 14, 2023

With a laser focus on driving sustainable growth by prioritizing customer-centricity, this event provided attendees with a wealth of insights and actionable strategies. To succeed, organizations must build a customer-obsessed growth engine that consistently delivers value across the customer lifecycle.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2022

This new organizational model represents a complete rethink of traditional B2B sales, marketing and customer service roles, with blended teams, organized around stewardship of customer journey phases. The approach is to operationalize go-to-market around customer lifecycle. Thus, alignment is more critical than ever.

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Rev

APRIL 2, 2019

According to a recent IDG white paper on lead generation , 61% of B2B marketers say increasing demand is the top challenge they face today. In theory, scaling a B2B business just requires boosting demand. In actuality, however, demand generation is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge for B2B marketers to meet.

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Leadspace

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This starts with leveraging your ongoing 1st party data with a variety of 3rd party data to create profiles (or a full buyer data graph) — combining what you know about the customer with what the world knows about the customer — for better lead to account matching, classification/scoring, context and insights.

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Marketing Automation Services Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 71

Conductor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Once again, Conductor has the highest score in current offering in The Forrester Wave TM : Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Platforms, Q3 2020. In addition to being top rated by industry experts, Conductor is the number one rated enterprise platform by customers on Trustradius and G2. Collaboration across teams.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 1, 2021

I just read a recommendation that B2B organizations should allocate 46% of budget to brand marketing and 54% to demand gen. The reasoning is based on an estimation that at any given time, only 5% to 10% of customers are in-market for a category. Demand – urgency. Demand – advancement. Demand – acquisition.

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The Point

JULY 18, 2014

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.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A recent Forrester report found that Millennials and Gen Z make up 64% of business buyers. While each generation brings its own set of preferences, demands, and expectations to the market, the report shows that younger buyers are much more likely to voice their dissatisfaction than previous generations. Take the assessment today!

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PathFactory

MAY 2, 2019

That’s the question at the heart of an October 2018 report by Forrester: AI Will Enable B2B Marketers To Deliver Customer-Driven Engagement At Scale. Forrester defines AI as “the umbrella term for a variety of techniques and technologies for collecting, applying self-learning statistical techniques to, and acting on data.”

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Leadspace

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This starts with leveraging your ongoing 1st party data with a variety of 3rd party data to create profiles (or a full buyer data graph) — combining what you know about the customer with what the world knows about the customer — for better lead to account matching, classification/scoring, context and insights.

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Marketing Automation Services Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 62

Oktopost

JANUARY 25, 2024

Social media is not just about creating a buzz; it can be a powerful tool for strategically influencing your customers at every stage of the sales funnel. Forrester’s customer life cycle framework for social media, comprising seven stages, emphasizes the cyclical and non-linear nature of customer-brand relationships.

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Social Media Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics B2B Thought Leadership 69

Vision Edge Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2019

Being customer-centric as a company and in your Marketing is not optional. Forrester claims we’re in the age of the customer. Peter Drucker posited that “because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two – and only two – basic functions: Marketing and Innovation. It is not optional.

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Enterprise Management Peer-to-peer Marketing Management Forrester 174

Valasys

MARCH 4, 2019

ProKarma’s strategy and design division, Lenati, was recently named the top B2B marketing agency by the B2B Marketing Agencies, North America, Q1 2019 report conducted by Forrester Research Inc. According to Lenati managing partner, Jen Winter, they approach business problems with a deep focus in customer insights and empathy.

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Advertising Agencies Forrester Paid Search Agency Enterprise Management 49

The ROI Guy

JULY 11, 2017

I n this session, Forrester boldly predicted that 1 million B2B salespeople would be displaced by 2020, as B2B buyers by-pass reps who just take orders or pitch products, instead favoring digital self-service and more value-added interactions with a select group of more capable, consultative sales reps.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 5, 2016

Marketers are often eager to get started on the road to Demand Process Transformation℠. Three common mistakes can wreak havoc on demand generation planning, no matter how ready you think you are to move forward. A research-based, customer-centric strategy must always drive the development and approach of any Demand Generation program.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Demand generation, or demand gen, and account-based marketing (ABM) have traditionally been thought of as two distinct strategies for B2B growth. Demand gen and ABM share a common goal of driving sales through a focused blend of inbound and outbound efforts. Demand gen vs. ABM. It’s a logical combination in many ways.

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6sense

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

6sense, the leading Account Based Orchestration Platform, powered by AI, announced its inaugural customer conference, 6sense Breakthrough. Today’s revenue teams can’t continue to rely solely on broad-based email tactics to generate demand,” said Rosenberg. “We

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QuanticMind

OCTOBER 11, 2018

New Forrester Report: “Customer-Obsessed Marketing Demands Unified Management”. Not surprisingly, around 45 percent of CMOs and other marketing decision makers indicate that measuring results is a major challenge, according to Forrester.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 20, 2017

Marketers are connecting with their customers and prospects in multiple ways today, but is one method of contact more effective than others? Customers are defining which channel is important at different stages of their journey. B2B Marketers and the Customer Experience.

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6sense

JUNE 22, 2017

Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave TM : Predictive Marketing Analytics for B2B Marketers, Q2 2017. In the first report of its kind for the predictive marketing analytics space, Forrester named 6sense a leader among predictive analytics providers. And of the industry. How this Wave went down. Next up: the contenders.

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Lattice

MAY 17, 2016

Over the past few years there has been a power shift in the B2B space, away from marketing and sales teams and toward the customer. In fact, Forrester thinks this age of the customer is a 20-year business cycle, and that this power shift towards customer will continue for a while.

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6sense

MAY 31, 2018

The Forrester New Wave report lists 14 ABM platforms that matter the most and how they stack up. Forrester says: “6sense announced its acquisition of ZenIQ on April 11, 2018. 6sense was recognized as a leader in the predictive space in the Forrester Wave: Predictive Analytics Platforms for B2B marketers, as seen below.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 6, 2015

Marketers will again be challenged to keep pace with these advancements and will need to do more in order to connect with their buyers and show demonstrable ROI as a result of their Demand Generation and Content Marketing Strategies. Not all Demand Generation content is created as equal. The best news? Invest in Skills Development-.

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