Marketing Interactions

article thumbnail

Why B2B Marketers are Critical to Revenue Operations

Marketing Interactions

While the events I’ve attended and material I’ve read tend to apply the focus on sales as the central pivot for RevOps, I find that approach distracting for sales and a discredit to B2B marketers. But in a market driven by subscription business models, CS plays a key role in onboarding, retention, and expansion.

article thumbnail

Why Sales Shuns B2B Marketing Qualified Leads

Marketing Interactions

I read an interesting exchange on LinkedIn recently. Which, as a marketer, I found disappointing—and yes, a bit maddening—until I stopped to think about it. Shouldn’t sending people who actively engage and show interest in solving the problem be the core qualification for a marketing qualified lead (MQL)? Lack of Agreement.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Create B2B Buyer Personas that Inform Content Marketing Strategy

Marketing Interactions

While 89% of B2B marketers have embraced content marketing, only 37% have a documented content marketing strategy, and only 22% say they are extremely successful with their overall approach to content marketing. One of the key foundational elements to a content marketing strategy is a buyer persona.

article thumbnail

What Happens When B2B Buyers Start Using ChatGPT?

Marketing Interactions

The marketing world has glommed onto the technology as if it will save them from drowning in mediocre, irrelevant content without the need to develop the skills to write their way out. But enough has been said about the revelations this nascent form of AI will bring to marketers looking for shortcuts. Buyers Are Already Using ChatGPT.

article thumbnail

How to Apply a B2B Buyer Persona to Your Content Marketing Strategy

Marketing Interactions

In this post, I’ll discuss how the details of a buyer persona inform a content marketing strategy. Examples: Automate processes to speed time to market by removing inefficient workflows. As applied to the three examples above, they might look like: Inefficient workflows make our products late to market, costing us market share.

article thumbnail

Point of View in B2B Content Changes the Game

Marketing Interactions

Edelman and LinkedIn recently released the 2021 B2B Thought Leadership Impact Study. I’d contend that all the content your marketing team produces needs to be human, be helpful, and be insightful. The post Point of View in B2B Content Changes the Game appeared first on Marketing Interactions. The noise is deafening.

article thumbnail

Never Assume B2B Buyers Know How to Buy

Marketing Interactions

One of the assumptions that marketers and sales reps make when people show interest in your website, content, or booth at a virtual summit or trade show is that they’re buyers. The Opportunity for Marketers and Sales Teams. He posted about his view on LinkedIn and stirred up quite a conversation.). Now it’s decidedly harder.

Buy 77