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Study: most B2B tech companies lose sales deals they didn’t even know existed

Sword and the Script | B2B

Forrester analyst Lori Wizdo wrote those words eleven years ago. All these years later, a new report by 6sense, penned largely by a former Forrester analyst, has come to the same conclusion: when buyers first contact a seller, they are “69% of the way through a buying cycle.”

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How Social Media Helps Marketing, PR, And Sales Become Better Friends

Marketing Insider Group

And it often extends to our colleagues in PR. The alignment problem is what drove me into here… BtoB Magazine recently reported on a Forrester survey that proves the point that this is huge challenge: only 8% of B2B companies say they have tight alignment between sales and marketing. I started my career in sales.

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CMOs: Wield Powers of Influence to Gain a Seat at the Executive Table

ViewPoint

According to a recent CSOinsights 2012 Sales Performance Optimization survey, a mere 11% of sales people have a strong understanding of their customers’ buying process. David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR. Source: Forrester, Metrics that Matter for B2B Marketers, October 26, 2011.

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The Battle for Trust: 18 Comms, PR and B2B Marketing Stats Summarizing 2022

Sword and the Script | B2B

Communicators found their influence grew with executives, even as the functions they performed evolved in 2022; PR and marketing alike battled to win trust amid clutter, noise and skepticism. Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on B2B marketing and PR. Just 27% said most vendors are honest most of the time.

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What are the top skills you need for digital marketing?

Martech

At the same time, CMOs have been demanding that their marketing and PR teams demonstrate ROI from their programs. In most cases, initiatives that require in-depth customer analysis using survey data happen quarterly or bi-annually. In the report, 31% of the marketers surveyed have designated cultural insights teams in-house.

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The Case Against Thought Leadership (Mostly, Anyway)

Content Standard

A 2014 survey of B2B content marketers by LinkedIn’s Technology Marketing group found thought leadership to be the second most common goal of content marketing after lead generation. For research firms like Forrester, Gartner, or Ipsos and publications like business journals, it literally is the product.

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11 expectations to have from a great SEO proposal

Biznology

54% of consumers find a website through natural search (source: Forrester ). This occurs through a blog, newsletter, PR releases, and social media sharing. According to MOZ in a survey of 600 agencies, Project Pricing was the most commonly used and ranged from $1,000 to $7,500.