Tony Zambito

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Why Enabling Buyers To Buy Is The Future Of B2B

Tony Zambito

Various studies from McKinsey, Gartner, Forrester, Salesforce, and others show increasingly that B2B buyers want seller-free buying experiences. There is certainly an acceleration about to happen. The coronavirus pandemic has become the fuel of the forthcoming future of the B2B buyer-seller dynamic.

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Is Helping Buyers To Buy Really The Right Mindset?

Tony Zambito

Marketing And Sales Teams Should First Align With An Important Buyer Mindset Before Jumping In Helping Buyers To Buy. Respected analyst firms such as Forrester and Gartner have used the phrase frequently. A mindset with end results favorable to marketing and sales. The phrase certainly makes sense. A purchase.

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Reboot Buyer Insights To Drive B2B Growth

Tony Zambito

It is safe to say that no industry or B2B markets will go without some form of disruption affecting buyers and buying behaviors. More so than in consumer oriented markets, B2B markets had a degree of predictability that companies often relied on. You Are Working From Old Organizational Hierarchy Perceptions.

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The Importance of Buyer Personas to Lead-to-Revenue Management

Tony Zambito

A tough assignment for B2B marketers today is getting a handle on how buyers progress through the buying and selling cycles.  When looking at lead-to revenue management models, as recently put forth by Marketo and Forrester , they offer promising perspectives on shifting the focus from the quantity of leads to actual revenue generation. 

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Use Buyer Persona Research To Improve B2B Customer Experience

Tony Zambito

In other words, approximately 80% of marketing and sales investments are going towards 20% of the buying decision. Applying models, diagrams, processes, mapping, journeys, and the like to, as one Vice President of Marketing put it to me, “make customer experience happen” in their organization. Something is definitely out of alignment.

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Overcoming The Content Personalization Challenge With Buyer Persona Research

Tony Zambito

It is clear that one of the top challenges facing marketing, especially B2B marketing, is the ability to connect with potential buyers on a personal level. The percentages of marketers indicating this as their top challenge are not measly either. The correlation is evident. Could there be a correlation here also?

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The Origin of Buyer Personas

Tony Zambito

.   Each engagement pushed us to innovate and to continue to evolve the concept of buyer personas as an important component of strategic sales and marketing discipline.   Both Pragmatic Marketing and Forrester Research solicited from several people at Cooper, including myself and Alan, information on personas.