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How Performance Marketing Accelerates B-to-B Prospecting

Biznology

Every time you turn around, a new “performance marketing” opportunity turns up for B-to-B marketers. It generally means that the media channel owner conducts a campaign, and charges the marketer an agreed price for every respondent, according to predetermined criteria. Myriad call centers offer this kind of pricing.

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

Biznology

Just as no one buys a car anymore without first checking prices and features online, business buyers now research and educate themselves online, months—even years—before ever seeing a sales person. Here’s where marketing automation becomes an important resource for B-to-B marketers. Image via Wikipedia. But there’s more.

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Report: Most Loyal B2B Customers Value Reliability in Companies

KoMarketing Associates

Previous research from Part 1 of Merkle Loyalty Solutions’ “The Ideal B-to-B Loyalty Program: What Should It Look Like” research indicated that marketers were placing a greater priority on acquiring new customers, rather than retention. B2B Marketers and Customer Acquisition.

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Report: B2B Marketers Falling Short in Connecting to Buyers’ Needs

KoMarketing Associates

Part 3 of Merkle Loyalty Solution’s “B-to-B Loyalty Report” recently shed light on these challenges and how they impact B2B buyers. In Part 2 of Merkle’s “B-to-B Loyalty Report,” research indicated that there were other factors that played a role in buyers’ loyalty as well. Product Marketing and B2B Buyer Loyalty.

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Study: B2B Marketers Remain Focused on Customer Acquisition

KoMarketing Associates

The “B-to-B Loyalty Report” from Merkle shows that most B2B marketers (75 percent) are focused on acquiring new customers. Approximately 48 percent believe that spend-based pricing is what loyalty program members value most. To keep existing customers around, many B2B marketers are creating loyalty programs.

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Using Buying Groups to Accelerate Your Sales Process

InsightSquared

The market for cruise vacations is a crowded one, yet Disney cruises seem to be able to command a higher price, even though Disney is widely considered a brand for kids. What the Heck Are Buying Groups? Key personas in a buying group have different buyer roles and may participate at different stages of the buying decision process.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

ViewPoint

Outbound telemarketing The telephone is the Swiss Army knife in the B-to-B marketer’s backpack: a flexible, personal, dependable resource with infinite applications. The DMA’s 2010 Response Rate Report reported a healthy 1.68% response rate to B-to-B prospecting letter mail and 2.18% to its cheaper cousin, postcard mail.

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