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What Happens When B2B Buyers Start Using ChatGPT?

Marketing Interactions

They asked ChatGPT about what questions they should be asking of themselves and vendors, where they could go wrong, and about managing risks. As they drilled deeper, getting specific about vendors, the tool was unable to keep pace. Forewarned is forearmed, as the saying goes. It’s coming faster than ever.

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A Lack of Customer Advocacy Could Make B2B Buyers Walk Away

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I was interviewing a client’s customer a few days ago for a persona project and something he said made me stop and think. He also says he reads white papers, does his due diligence, looks for facts and data to back up company claims, and talks to vendors. If there was no customer advocacy, he’d walk away.

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Why Buyer-Driven Qualification Beats BANT

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And, with buyers preferring self-reliance and digital experiences over direct vendor interactions, marketers have an expansive opportunity to help buyers self-qualify. Authority: I talk to a ton of my client’s customers. Do you think the team will do that if they’re not treated like VIPs by the vendors they consider?

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Why B2B Marketers are Critical to Revenue Operations

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Due to my interest in breaking down the silos that separate customer-facing teams, I’ve attended a few webinars focused on Revenue Operations (RevOps). Uniting the commercial team to produce profitable buyer and customer-driven experiences is something I’m thinking a lot about given the shift to self-reliance. Edelman/LinkedIn ).

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The Destructive Lack of Commitment in B2B Marketing

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This shouldn’t be a news flash > Buyers are driving and they’re choosing the open highways, rather than the vendor-operated toll roads. B2B buyers overwhelmingly want control over a simpler, convenient experience unencumbered by pushy tactics and self-interested vendors. Has the problem your persona is trying to solve changed?

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Put B2B Content in Context Across the Customer Lifecycle

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Some of the reason for this disconnect could be found in research done by Corporate Visions that finds 58% of brands message the same to a new logo as they do to existing customers. Yet they’re using it for every phase of the customer lifecycle. Customers: Implementation. No wonder effectiveness is lacking. If not, it should.

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The Gap Between Interest and B2B Intent Data in Marketing

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Even if they’re in your database, intent vendors can’t identify who is searching, just where they are, and their account affiliation based on reverse IP lookup. Not one, but a series of content oriented to end stage interest, such as evaluation factors, questions to ask, reasons your customers bought from you, etc.