Hinge Marketing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Read on to preview practical insights that will shed light on the most relevant trends shaping AEC buying behavior today, what challenges lie ahead and key points to consider. An updated version of the study was published in 2018. An updated version of the study was published in 2018. AEC Buyers’ Business Challenges.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

“If you want to cut through the fat & emerge as a brand your buyers want to engage with, your marketing has to seamlessly resonate with your buyer’s goals, interests, & preferences.” – @BrennerMichael Find more #personalization wisdom here: [link] pic.twitter.com/YPBjoO1KJf — ZoomInfo (@ZoomInfo) September 12, 2018.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 14, 2018

As you can see in the report, Technology Content Marketing 2018: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America, sponsored by IDG Communications, Inc. In 2018, only 67% answered that way. Least successful technology marketers: While 39% said they focused on the buyers’ journey in 2017, only 24% said they did in 2018.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 23, 2018

Now, if you had instead taken those 20 hours of content creation and put them into creating a piece of content that filled a content gap in your buyers’ journey… that content probably would get you results. That’s still (even in 2018) only 80 percent of B2B content marketers. What we want is the right content.

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Hinge Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2020

On top of these long-term trends, add a global pandemic and a rapidly changing regulatory environment and it is easy to see the stress and uncertainty that many A&FS firms experience. A second version of the study was published in 2018. What Are the Buyers’ Business Challenges? How Do Buyers Evaluate Service Providers?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

It’s now the third most important trend after sales automation and Big Data. between 2017 and 2018. AI helps support prospects throughout the buyers’ journey. Once you have opened the lines of communication with a prospective buyer, you still face a long process to close the sale.

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Hubspot

APRIL 21, 2020

The growing trend of using mobile messaging apps for marketing makes sense. Over 56% of global messaging app users say they've messaged brands to get more information in all stages of the buyer's journey. By Q1 of 2018, 60 billion messages were being sent through the platform each day. In 2018, WhatsApp grew its U.K.

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Exo B2B

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

According to them, the blog is widely used in the first phase of the customer’s shopping experience (buyers’ journey). But what this table does not say is that the Martech landscape changed in 2018. The post Studies show Content Marketing leads the trend in digital marketing strategies appeared first on ExoB2B.

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Fortunately, Inside the Buyers Brain provides real insight into what your buyers think and where the trends are likely to take us in the future. A second version of the study was published in 2018. Nearly 40% of buyers factor in client service when choosing a contractor. This number has increased 170% since 2018.

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Ledger Bennett

DECEMBER 30, 2020

*This blog was written in 2018 and updated in December 2020 in line with changes driven by COVID-19. From driving top of funnel engagement as part of your SEO strategy, to reaching buyers and improving conversion, video content offers major B2B opportunities. When producing video, get your buyers in focus. Video is awesome.

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The Lead Agency

MAY 19, 2019

According to the Content Marketing Institute’s 2018 report, 91% of B2B marketers are using content marketing to reach their customers. First, you have to fully understand the B2B Buyer Journey. This is because more often than not, a B2B buyer’s investment is significantly larger in terms of volume and cost.

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Hinge Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The Hinge Research Institute has released a special consulting industry version of its breakthrough study of professional services buyers and the firms that they hire. It’s called Inside the Buyer’s Brain: Consulting Firm Edition. A second version of the study was published in 2018. Why This Study is Needed.

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6sense

DECEMBER 9, 2021

All of this data comes together to give a unified view of the buyer, surfaced wherever our customers need it — on our dashboard, Chrome extensions, Slack, email, or CRM and marketing automation platforms. Buying is more digital than ever, and the vast majority of the process happens before a buyer ever speaks to a company.

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Engagio

JULY 18, 2018

In January 2018, Engagio conducted a comprehensive survey of more than 1,260 companies to assess trends in B2B marketing. We recently released the results in our ABM Outlook Survey 2018 report. We asked “ What % of your total marketing budget do you plan to dedicated to ABM in 2018? ”.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

“If you want to cut through the fat & emerge as a brand your buyers want to engage with, your marketing has to seamlessly resonate with your buyer’s goals, interests, & preferences.” – @BrennerMichael Find more #personalization wisdom here: [link] pic.twitter.com/YPBjoO1KJf — ZoomInfo (@ZoomInfo) September 12, 2018 2.

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

To help overcome this challenge and help you better communicate the value of your marketing efforts across the entire buyer journey , we reached out to 39 B2B marketing executives to see what metrics they use to measure and report on performance to the C-suite. . The Top 10 B2B Marketing Metrics to Measure in 2018. .

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

During these parties, users can interact with other shoppers, view over 200 million items for sale and see what brands are trending. One company going all-in on AR is L’Oréal, which acquired its own AR firm in 2018. AR commerce. The experiences could be as small as trying on clothing and as large as entering a virtual “store.”

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Digilant

MAY 17, 2022

Today, almost twice as many people own smart speakers than in 2018. This continuing trend in digital audio is paving the way for marketers to utilize smart speaker advertising as more people use smart speakers in their day-to-day lives. If not, that was the end of it.

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Hinge Marketing

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The key is understanding what buyers think today, and what trends will impact how they learn and make decisions in the future. The original study was published in 2013 and provided the first comprehensive look at the differing perspectives of buyers and sellers throughout the entire professional services buyers’ journey.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Even so, many manufacturing companies are in the young/first steps phases of content marketing maturity, as reported in today’s release of Manufacturing Content Marketing 2018: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America sponsored by IEEE GlobalSpec Media Solutions. Click To Tweet. For more insights.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 10, 2020

With these decision-making teams now dispersed and even more reliant on digital communication, the B2B purchasing process can be elongated, even beyond the 61% increase in length that already occurred between 2018 and 2019. What aspects of our buyer journeys have changed and how must we change to support them?

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 10, 2019

However, the Annual Digital Trends report by Econsultancy and Adobe revealed a surprising truth — marketers actually identified "optimizing the customer experience" as the most exciting business opportunity. Who Owns Customer Experience? Has your company defined who "owns" customer experience? Is it Sales? Customer service?

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 10, 2019

In fact, Blissfully notes in its 2019 Annual SaaS Trends Report that the average company spend on SaaS in 2018 rose 78% over the previous year. An effective content strategy creates a framework where you can, and do, provide these answers at every step of their buyer journey, from awareness to consideration to decision.

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Content4Demand

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Here is our countdown of the top-trending pieces and posts generating buzz and airplay in content marketing. The B2B Buyer Journey Is Unique for Everyone, So You Need to Personalize. An Artificial Future. Five AI Solutions Transforming B2B Marketing. Close Up and Personalized.

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TaylorMadeIn KEW

DECEMBER 2, 2018

My 2018 Christmas wish-list – B2B marketing top tips for 2019. As we enter this holiday season and start looking forward to 2019, instead of the latest and greatest ‘trends’ that tend to proliferate at this time of year, I thought I’d offer up my wish-list of top tips for B2B marketing over the coming year.

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Only B2B

MARCH 15, 2018

See Also: 3 Demand Generation Trends in 2018. Marketers should take the responsibility to augment buyers journey through alignment with sales and customer support/success teams. Demand generations are these set of strategies that help you spread awareness about your brand and drive demand for your product/service.

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Kaon

MAY 5, 2020

Kaon’s transformative sales and marketing applications, deployed on the Kaon High Velocity Marketing Platform ® , allow B2B companies to more effectively communicate the unique value of a product or service through interactive and personalized engagements, across the entire buyers’ journey.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 18, 2018

As 2018 unfolds, B2B marketing teams will be challenged to evolve, to measure, to execute, and meet (or exceed) the expectations of both their customers and their supervisors. Consider dedicating budget to producing this type of influential content in 2018. Content Marketing. Content Personalization. Marketing Technology.

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Valasys

JUNE 10, 2019

Video Views: A study by HubSpot in 2018, deduced that prospects on a website give priority to videos on a page over content, to learn about a product or service. The marketers need to align any of these pages to a CTA button in order to track the buyers’ journey. Bottom-Funnel KPIs.

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Twitch doubled the average amount of concurrent live streams on the platform from 2018-2020. More than 70 percent of B2B buyers consume blog content while on their buyer journey. Word Count Trends in 25+ Industries: VoiceGraph Study of 24 Million+ Articles. Top Content Marketing Trends (With Examples).

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Content4Demand

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We had so much fun producing this video series with Vidyard GoVideo for the 2018 Holiday Content Marketing Calendar. Alicia’s Nice List trend is podcasting. According to Demand Gen Report’s 2018 Content Preferences Study , blogs are the most used piece of content when making a purchasing decision. Is it static or interactive?

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Single Grain

JANUARY 8, 2020

To help you keep an eye on what you need to know about social media marketing in 2020, we've compiled this list of trends – both new changes and continuing shifts in recent changes. 7 Social Media Marketing Trends You Can't Ignore in 2020. Trend #1: Video Content Will Dominate Social Feeds. Book My Free Marketing Consultation.

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Martech Advisor

OCTOBER 21, 2019

McKinley Marketing Partners’ attested to this fact in their 2018 Marketing Hiring Trends Report. The buyer journey is a complex phenomenon, and the right purchase trigger can be identified using attribution. Despite all these shifts, email marketing continues to remain fundamental in modern marketing.

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Kaon

JULY 23, 2018

This article originally appeared on Entrepreneur.com (July 18, 2018). Considering that the major portion of a buyer’s journey takes place without his or her knowledge, salespeople have to rise above a long list of challenges, regardless of their industry.

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SnapApp

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Developments in multi-variate testing and audience targeting will further empower marketers in 2018. . . What are the 3 marketing automation trends you think will have the biggest impact on B2B marketers in 2018? . 30 Experts Discuss Top Marketing Automation Trends Heading Into 2018. . . Ann Handley.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

This ubiquitous analogy represents the stages a prospective customer goes through on their buyer journey. Hubspot’s CEO, Brian Halligan, recently announced at Inbound 2018 that the influential marketing company was retiring “ye olde funnel” from their business and exclusively using flywheel diagrams. Consideration. Conversion.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

This ubiquitous analogy represents the stages a prospective customer goes through on their buyer journey. Hubspot’s CEO, Brian Halligan, recently announced at Inbound 2018 that the influential marketing company was retiring “ye olde funnel” from their business and exclusively using flywheel diagrams. Consideration. Conversion.

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