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The Marketing Funnel Is Dead. Let's Have Dessert.

Customer Experience Matrix

This verges on heresy, but I’m having an increasingly hard time with lead stages as a way to organize a marketing program. Of course, stages make perfect intuitive sense, and they’re ultimately based on the AIDA (Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action) model of the sales process that has been around for more than 100 years.*

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Is it Time to Kill Lead Nurturing as We Know It?

Hubspot

Elmo Lewis proposed the AIDA (Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action) sales model.* They’ve survived because they make intuitive sense and because they’re a useful way to organize marketing programs. The fundamental criticism is that decision-making is more emotional than AIDA assumes. To doubt is heresy.

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20 Ingenious Ideas to Transform Customer Experience (CX) in 2020

Martech Advisor

After three weeks of research, David Ogilvy proposed the iconic headline that simply read, “ At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock. Marketers are using sophisticated tools powered by AI and machine learning (ML) to deliver personalized experiences to their target audience.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. For a century, buying has been framed in terms of moving a prospect from Awareness to Interest to Desire to Action (AIDA).

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Understanding the B2B Buyer Journey & How to Capitalize on it

NetLine

It is our goal as marketers to provide our customers with the right resources at the right time to help make their journey easy and fruitful. Understanding the B2B buyers’ journey stages You might think that a B2B customer might not be as emotionally invested as a B2C customer, but research suggests otherwise.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. For a century, buying has been framed in terms of moving a prospect from Awareness to Interest to Desire to Action (AIDA).

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The Ultimate Smarketing Glossary: 62 Common Sales Terms Explained for Marketers

Hubspot

Sales and marketing teams are both responsible for the growth and revenue side of the business -- and yet, many of them still tend to operate like two opposing teams. The goal of "smarketing" is to help bring sales and marketing together as one team, which involves constant, effective communication. Buyer Persona.