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CMO Coffee Talk with Play Bigger – Recap and Q&A, as seen on PlayBigger

6sense

And categories were outsourced to the domain of companies like Gartner, Forrester and IDC. Then we all saw how great legendary companies like Apple, Salesforce, and Amazon proved you can move category definition and strategy from Gartner back to the executive suite. Categories live everywhere in the consumer world.

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Product Launch Best Practices: Finding Your Invisible Customers

Launch Marketing

According to recent Gartner research , when B2B buyers are considering a purchase, only 17% of that time is spent meeting potential suppliers. In fact, almost half (45%) of buyers’ pre-purchase period is spent researching independently. So, what does this mean for your upcoming B2B product launch ? Consideration (middle of the sales funnel).

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Category Creators Episode 1 Transcript

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Manny: The most discouraging call is a call that we had with this analyst from Gartner. For the love of Gartner. Godard: Well, I love Manny’s story, especially about Gartner and not even wanting to recognize it as a category, because that is what inspired me to create G2. Gil: This is the Category Creator podcast.

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Seamless Alternatives: How SalesIntel Wins Over Seamless.ai

SalesIntel

SalesIntel – Best Amongst the Seamless Alternatives The Primary Differentiator? As the evaluation process has evolved, it has also become a challenge to compare similar services and get the important details in one place. Two primary data providers are Seamless.ai and SalesIntel. Here’s a head-to-head comparison of Seamless.ai

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3 trends driving the Second Golden Age of Martech: ecosystems, experts, and (citizen) engineers

chiefmartech

Experts — the lines between software vendors and professional services firms will blur: software companies will offer more expert services; services firms will automate and bottle their expertise in code. ” (Ecosystems, experts, engineers — stretched a little because alliteration is always appealing.). Get acquired. Raise more money.

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B2B Category Creators Episode 5 Transcript

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Elissa Fink: Yeah, I’m really excited. I mean, as you said, I was at Tableau from about 5 million in revenue to over a billion in rev. I left right before the salesforce.com acquisition, which I’m really happy about, didn’t get trapped in that. Not that that … But it would have delayed my retirement. Udi Ledergor: Sure.