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Five Ways B-to-B Marketers Need to Change Their Game

Biznology

Business buying processes are getting longer, and—most important—involving more parties than ever before. The so-called Buying Circle in large enterprise B-to-B—the influencers, specifiers, users, decision-makers—comprises as many as 21 people, according to Marketing Sherpa. But there’s more.

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The Need for a Demand Center

eTrigue

Not surprisingly, savvy marketers are embracing the concept because they see how it can help them drive consistent demand, whether they represent the corporation, a business unit or region. Since customers set the cadence of the buying cycle, marketers must be able to respond with the right information at the right time.

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How to Diagnose if Inbounditis is Killing Your Sales Pipeline

ViewPoint

Qualified leads can be generated any number of ways: phone calls email, webinars, direct mail and even marketing automation if done well. Lured by the promise of easy money — "sales-ready" leads pouring in — many well intentioned b2b marketers have jumped on the "inbound marketing" bandwagon with both feet. Create value.

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Is Account-Based Marketing the Holy Grail for Lead Generation Nirvana? [PowerOpinions Part 5]

ViewPoint

That’s what it takes to be an efficient marketer today. There are technologies that help us score not just "leads" but accounts, to prioritize focus and follow up in a way that really reflects complex b-to-b buying. This is the only way to drive sales and marketing alignment today.

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Business Value of Social Networking

Industrial Marketing Today

But like many b-to-b marketers, I’m not sure how it has impacted my business. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

The question any marketer needs to ask - Are your marketing efforts adding to the clutter, or driving a valuable dialogue and as a result, connecting meaningfully with prospects to advance the buying cycle? These three issues are having a measurable impact on marketing.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Content may indeed be King to the Internet fueled buying cycle.