Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

For marketers across virtually all industries, but especially those working in SaaS, this cut-mode mentality has led to fewer in-market buyers. Both Jeff and Angelique are responding by shifting focus to downstream activities, like click outcomes and engagement rates on those pages — which happen to be far more informative about buyer intent.

Lead Ranking 130

Lead Ranking Privacy Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer 130

Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Putting pressure on B2B Executives to transform their businesses. If B2B companies are not thinking about this, planning for this, and doing something about this – they will bound to be in big trouble. Consider this, in an Accenture survey three years ago, only 12% of B2B buyers even wanted to meet with a sales representative.

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Buyer Personas B2B Amazon Fulfillment 310

Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Buyer personas are archetypal representations of actual buyers that articulate insights into their goals. They help us to gain insights into how buyers pursue goals and the motivations behind these pursuits. Your buyer personas are a picture in time of your buyers. Who Your Buyers Are Have Changed.

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Buyer Personas Terms and Conditions Interactive Marketing B2B Sales 228

Tony Zambito

JANUARY 6, 2022

Be they B2B or B2C entities. . Perhaps no “Why” question is more important to B2B or B2C leadership than this: Why do our buyers and customers buy? In my 20 years since founding the concept of buyer personas , I have seen leaders struggle to answer what seems to be, on the surface, a simple basic question.

Buy 201

Buy Buyer Personas Marketing Qualified Leads Leads 201

Tony Zambito

MAY 12, 2021

Buyer Personalization Will Matter As The Balance Of Power Shifts To Buyers In A “New World Order” Of Buying. New technologies accelerating a change in how sellers interact with buyers. Buyers shifting to digital self-serve preferences will grow. In 1990, at the end of the Cold War, both President George H.W.

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Buyer Personas Marketing AI Personalization B2B Sales 221

Webbiquity

MARCH 15, 2022

Conversion rate optimization (CRO) is just important for B2B companies as B2C businesses. B2B marketers spend a great deal of time, effort, and money on top-of-funnel activities to drive website traffic. Here are six ways to make sure your B2B CRO strategy is on the right track. You Know the Steps of the B2B Purchasing Process.

Marketing & Strategy 255

Marketing & Strategy Top of Funnel B2B Landing Pages 255

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 20, 2021

Can you believe that 80% of B2B companies feel their pricing strategy needs improvement? Despite the fact that just a 1% price optimization improvement can yield an 11% profit increase , many companies are admittedly not prioritizing their pricing strategy. Read on for a complete guide to B2B pricing. Quick Takeaways.

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Pricing Price B2B Buyer Personas 359

Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2021

Create buyer personas and research content that meets their needs. Whether it’s a new region or a new industry you want to target, one thing is constant: you need to identify which customers are likely to need your products and services. Create content targeted to your new market segments.

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Planning Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Content Marketing 363

Webbiquity

APRIL 13, 2022

B2B buyers have relied heavily on search for years, but recent research shows that Gen Z and Millennial buyers are 2X more likely than older generations to discover a product by searching online. That makes SEO one of the top areas of investment for B2B marketing teams. Image credit: Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.

SEO 292

SEO Marketing Websites B2B Marketing & Strategy 292

Tony Zambito

MAY 10, 2021

B2B Organizations Must Reinvent To Accomplish Buyer-Aligned Strategies Post-Pandemic. In the lexicon of business, especially B2B, words and phrases can take on so many different meanings. For instance, you most likely have heard or read something about the buyer-aligned sales process within the past few years.

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Top of Funnel B2B Sales Buyer Personas Process 215

Contently

APRIL 6, 2023

Love them or hate them, buyer personas are key to creating successful marketing strategies and effective content. By understanding the needs, wants, and behaviors of your ideal customers, you can tailor your messaging and campaigns to better resonate with them. What Is a Buyer Persona?

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Buyer Personas Template Psychographics Customer Surveys 164

Martech

JANUARY 26, 2024

Generating revenue growth is the ultimate goal for any B2B founder. While many other metrics matter, revenue is what enables success. Let’s look at exactly what an ICP is, how to create an effective one for B2B and common mistakes to avoid. ICP vs. buyer persona: Which is the way to go? Short-term contracts.

Ideal Customer Profiles 113

Ideal Customer Profiles Profiling Enterprise Management Work Management 113

Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

TopRank Marketing has worked with clients in both the B2B and B2C realms over the last two decades. In that time, we have definitely witnessed the much-discussed convergence of these two previously diametric categories; the so-called consumerization of B2B. The content designed to fuel a B2B SEO strategy must then suit this purpose.

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Top of Funnel SEO Long Tail Marketing B2B 105

Launch Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

As marketers, we strive to understand and adapt to the dynamic needs of our target audiences. While buyer personas have been the key component of many marketing strategies, what if the key to unlocking more effective and resonant content lies not in demographic details but in the intricacies of an individual’s personality ?

Lead Generation 118

Lead Generation Personalization Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy 118

KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

2020 was a tough year for B2B marketers – and everyone else. A few B2B marketing strategies did particularly well in 2020, and demand generation was one of them. For the marketers who were able to pivot quickly, many B2B demand generation best practices helped to ease the pain of 2020. But there were some bright spots.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Marketing Budget 236

Tony Zambito

MAY 29, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Will Need To Activate Critical Buyer Insights To Meet New Buyer Behaviors in a New Era for B2B. Getting your hands on critical buyer insights that show how to gain the attention of buyers remains the most significant challenge facing B2B leaders. 2 – Buyer goals matter.

Top of Funnel 162

Top of Funnel Buyer Personas B2B Buyer's Journey 162

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Most Effective B2B Marketing Strategies. In a new report that collected data from hundreds of B2B marketing professionals, the ways in which B2B marketing teams across the nation operate as a majority were brought to light. Focus on the Buyer. Acquire Digital Marketing and Technology Competencies.

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Resource Management Demand Generation Agencies CMS Development Work Management 360

Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Today’s B2B buyers are time-strapped and overwhelmed with information, making sales harder than ever. Trigger events may help you prospect for clients by putting you in front of the right buyers with the appropriate context for beginning a discussion. Buyer Persona Role Changes. Sponsored post.

Ideal Customer Profiles 253

Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Marketing Automation Services Work Management 253

Oktopost

APRIL 28, 2024

The B2B sales space is changing. In case you haven’t heard yet – building relationships and engaging on social media platforms is the future of B2B sales. Statistics show that 92% of B2B buyers are willing to engage with sales professionals known as thought leaders on social media platforms.

Social Media 62

Social Media Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Media 62

Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Leverage Buyer Insights To Create Rewarding Digital Buying Experiences For Buyers. One significant outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the increasing desire on the part of buyers for digital buying experiences. Buyers have adapted fairly well to the idea of digital-first and remote buying.

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Differentiation Top of Funnel Buy Buyer Personas 244

Tony Zambito

JANUARY 21, 2022

Many businesses today, in their marketing and sales operations, have an insatiable thirst for data and intelligence about their buyers and customers. Put forth in their quest to know more about buyers and customers. What business leaders today need to be on guard for is this. Doing so with the holy grail of aspirations.

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Marketing AI Buyer Personas Marketing & Strategy Act-On 204

Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

We are in that moment of hesitation when it comes to the future of how B2B buyers will engage in buying. The coronavirus pandemic has become the fuel of the forthcoming future of the B2B buyer-seller dynamic. It seems that a company today should make that option available and it’s surprising how many don’t.”

Buy 309

Buy B2B Buyer Personas Buyer's Journey 309

Tony Zambito

APRIL 30, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Must Build Core Competency of Understanding Buyer Persona Goals. When it comes to buyer goals, organizations today will need to get more specific about encoding understanding of buyer persona goals into their marketing and sales capabilities. . Three Competencies To Develop.

Buyer Personas 176

Buyer Personas B2B Sales Organic Leads Profiling 176

Tony Zambito

MAY 21, 2021

Gaining Buyers’ Attention Remains Number One Challenge For Marketing And Sales Leaders. Gaining buyers’ attention became that much harder during the pandemic. Becoming evident is that capturing buyers’ attention is the number one challenge facing B2B marketing and sales at this stage of the pandemic.

Buyer Personas 197

Buyer Personas Intent Signal B2B Sales Interactive Marketing 197

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For those who are not hockey fans – Wayne is the all-time leader in NHL scoring and owner of 61 records, most will probably never be broken, and is called by many the greatest hockey player of all time. “You It’s key to DO and the proverbial saying “talk is cheap” showcases the need for ACTION.

B2B Thought Leadership 230

B2B Thought Leadership Lead Ranking B2B Marketing Planning 230

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 31, 2023

But do you know how direct the relationship is between understanding your customers’ needs and maximizing the results of your marketing efforts? Mapping the customer journey is essential if you want to understand your customers’ behavior, needs, and pain points at every stage of their interaction with your business.

Enterprise Management 259

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Tools Marketing Management 259

Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2020

For many leaders in sales and marketing, the year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most challenging in their careers thus far. The impact of the coronavirus pandemic will represent the most significant disruption in B2B commerce in many decades. A pressing question to adapt to rapidly changing buyer behaviors.

Marketing & Strategy 245

Marketing & Strategy Buyer Personas B2B Sales Interactive Marketing 245

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While some invest a tremendous amount of money in traditional advertising channels, many use the power of content instead. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. Here’s your current B2B buyer. B2B Buying Isn’t Linear. Quick Takeaways.

Top of Funnel 358

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Work Management 358

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Most companies have learned that B2B marketing budgets are much more important than they thought – and that their existing marketing strategies, well, kind of sucked. Look, we all knew B2B marketing had plenty of problems long before COVID-19: Generic, bland, and forgettable content. Ignorance to buyers’ evolving needs.

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Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Budget Programs Research 352

Tony Zambito

MAY 26, 2021

Marketing And Sales Teams Should First Align With An Important Buyer Mindset Before Jumping In Helping Buyers To Buy. The phrase – “helping buyers to buy” – has been a new mantra for the past three to five years. Sometimes it is used to describe the meaning of buyer enablement. The phrase certainly makes sense.

Buy 196

Buy Buyer Personas B2B Sales Gartner 196

Launch Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Organizations must learn how to build a B2B go-to-market strategy to successfully launch new products. Benefits of a B2B Go-To-Market Strategy A go-to-market strategy extremely useful when put together and utilized correctly. Throughout those launches, we have put together many go-to-market strategies. Everything should connect.

Marketing Strategy 114

Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy B2B Marketing Planning 114

Marketri

JANUARY 29, 2024

I’ve written many blogs that explore how to use marketing to solve a business problem. With 2024 unofficially dubbed The Year of AI (at least on Wall Street), I find myself contemplating how this enabling technology can coexist with the human-centered marketing experience buyers crave today. We need to solve the problem now.

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Efficiency Copyright B2B Sales Differentiation 117

Launch Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

Buyer personas drive many aspects of your organization but especially marketing. But, it is first important to establish your B2B buyer personas before looking ahead to marketing activities. Here’s how to integrate buyer personas into your messaging, content and sales efforts for better results.

Buyer Personas 118

Buyer Personas B2B Marketing B2B Paid Search Agency 118

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of the content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. And influencing buyer decisionsis what marketing is all about!

Top of Funnel 288

Top of Funnel Buyer's Journey Trends Lead Scoring 288

Launch Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2022

You’ve heard many times before, buyer personas are a crucial component of successful marketing. They clearly outline the target audience and ideal buyers for the product. The characteristics of the personas give insight into what will make the most impact when marketing to them. Importance of Buyer Personas.

Buyer Personas 116

Buyer Personas Product B2B Psychographics 116

Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

In my experience working with manufacturers and industrial companies, too many are in a rush to pump out more content without a strategy in place. See Why You Need an Industrial Marketing Engineer to Create Your Strategic Roadmap. Each one has different content needs at different stages of their buying journey.

Marketing Budget 92

Marketing Budget Advertising Agencies Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 92

Webbiquity

MAY 11, 2021

Every business-to-business (B2B) organization needs to make the most of limited time and resources. How large is the B2B market? An efficiency audit allows you to streamline processes and tap into the needs of your customers. Ideally, you’ll conduct one every year or two and make adjustments as needed.

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Efficiency Paid Search Agency Companies B2B 292