Marketing Interactions

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Misconceptions About B2B Buyer Personas

Marketing Interactions

Creating content for specific stages of the buying process. It could be—with buyer personas built to uncover true insights about attitudes, perspectives, change management, and thought processes of the people who buy and use your products and solutions. It’s an involved process that begins with talking to people.

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How Many B2B Buyer Personas Do You Need?

Marketing Interactions

Quite often, what you find is that this person—lower down the hierarchy—is entrusted with the selection and the “decision maker” is just blessing their recommendation based on the business case they presented. who shows up at the demo and the on-site presentation?). How long is the sales process from the time you get involved?

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Why B2B Marketers are Critical to Revenue Operations

Marketing Interactions

83% of a typical B2B purchase decision happens before a buyer engages with a vendor – therefore, marketing now owns impact across most of the buying process. Buyer-to-seller engagement hangs at 16% and will drop 2 – 3% further in the next few years (Gartner). Edelman/LinkedIn ).

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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. There are also the often-discussed changes, including how far along in the process buyers get before involving a vendor. Did you encounter obstacles you weren’t expecting during the buying process?

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The Importance of Humanness in B2B Content Experiences

Marketing Interactions

The closer you can get to your buyers and customers seeing your story as their story, the more humanness will be perceived as present in our content experiences. Buyers want to be active participants in their buying process. The experiences we create for the public, our buyers, our customers all have an impact.

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Current B2B Content Marketing Challenges to Beat

Marketing Interactions

From email to reports to memos and team presentations, and more. If they speak at conferences or on webinars, record, transcribe and use their presentations as source information for content. Look across the three pillars of people, process, and technology. But it’s more than that. Everyone is a writer in today’s business world.

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Do Your B2B Buyers Understand the Problem?

Marketing Interactions

Trying to change it, rather than fix it – make it more “welcome” by modifying the process or the technology, or shifting direction to avoid the problem as it’s perceived to be. Meanwhile, vendors who sell a product that could answer the challenge your problem presents have spotted you on their intent data radar. Do you have this?