Marketing Interactions

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Never Assume B2B Buyers Know How to Buy

Marketing Interactions

Unsure about the validity of their business case. They tend to be unsure about the validity of their business case, revising it at least once during their buying process. Samantha Stone , Founder, Marketing Advisory Network adds: “Never think of content as a way to generate a lead. Uncertain they’ll get the outcome they want.

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B2B Nurturing for Lost Opportunities

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Can’t determine the differences between vendors to validate and justify a choice. If you now have it, this is a great time to tell them and validate what outcomes it will bring for them. Experienced a re-org that shifted priorities—or delayed them. Don’t see the value as high enough to warrant the change effort.

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Rethink B2B Content for Buyer Enablement

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With peers and networks rising in authority and influence during the buying process, this advocacy can become a big contributor via referrals and validation. Validation of expertise is an outcome of thought leadership. Shift from Thought Leadership to Thinking Leadership.

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Why You Need to Revisit B2B Buyer Personas and ICPs

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Only 16% of B2B marketers rate their current lead nurturing initiatives as excellent, per the 2022 Lead Nurturing & Acceleration Benchmark Survey. Then, ask your customers the situational questions above and try to validate what you’ve heard. A Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise.

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Do Your B2B Buyers Understand the Problem?

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Validate our (our company’s) expertise. Part of the reason lead scoring and using intent data goes wrong is that it’s focused on the number and timing of activity, more than the context of the engagement. As we do so, we’re meeting our buyers’ criteria to: Teach them something they don’t know. Help them justify the fix.

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Why Buyer-Driven Qualification Beats BANT

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The way B2B companies qualify leads is based on what we want, rather than letting our buyers guide us. There’s also been a lot of talk and research showing that B2B marketers intend to make lead quality a higher priority than lead quantity. Need: This one is still valid. Case in point > BANT. The Case to Banish BANT.

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Point of View in B2B Content Changes the Game

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Like Pillar content or content designed to drive “lead” gen. And the report found that only 19% of buyers appreciate content that validates their current thinking. Edelman and LinkedIn recently released the 2021 B2B Thought Leadership Impact Study. Their findings gave me pause. Read that again….