Marketing Interactions

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The Importance of Humanness in B2B Content Experiences

Marketing Interactions

If people felt like if it was human—either with really good AI or with a real person—then they felt like the organization was investing in the relationship.” It’s also the reason that 63% of the participants in the study were able to discern whether they were having an exchange with a person or a machine, while 37% could not.

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Use B2B Buyer Personas to Gain Consensus on Objectives

Marketing Interactions

With 8 to 15 buyers involved in a complex B2B purchase, ensuring a no-regret deal can be as difficult as herding cats. Therefore, if we stay at a high level focused on organizational growth, we’re trying to talk to everyone about nothing they care about personally/professionally.

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Why You Need to Revisit B2B Buyer Personas and ICPs

Marketing Interactions

The person/role you used to primarily engage with is now removed from the evaluation process, only stepping in at decision time. The number of interactions during a purchase is now up to 27—including sales interactions. Dark social is limiting your visibility and insights that used to flow from trackable data.

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The Inside and Outside of B2B Buyer-Driven Experiences

Marketing Interactions

The number of touchpoints has increased (up to 27 per person, per Gartner) and only 3% want to speak to your sales reps for education. Recent research from Gartner finds that 56% of organizations said they had a high degree of purchase regret over their largest tech-related purchase in the last two years. Read that again.

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Why Buyer-Driven Qualification Beats BANT

Marketing Interactions

Recent research found that buyers are having increasing difficulty making purchasing decisions because budgets get put on hold (46%), reprioritization happens (43%), budgets get cut (36%), and decision criteria change (36%). Just one person from the account, or is a group forming? Think about product-led growth (PLG).

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A B2B Buyer Persona is Not an Island

Marketing Interactions

This remains true today—whether applied to a personal or professional context. B2B buying – at least in relation to complex purchases – is not decided by one person, but rather negotiated within groups or buying committees. And the purchase is pretty hefty so the CFO will need to approve a budget reallocation to pay for it.

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A Review of B2B Content Operations Strategy Benchmarks

Marketing Interactions

In order to achieve that goal, marketers need to create better experiences, produce customer-centric content, improve engagement in channels that can attract leads, and give all of this a boost with better targeting and personalization efforts. All of those things are in their medium-high and medium priorities in the graphic above.