6sense

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Caroline Robertson , Vice President, B2B Marketing and Sales Research Director. Although women make up more than half of the global workforce, they represent fewer than one-third of all B2B sales and one-quarter of all B2B tech sales roles. Matthew Flug. Jennifer Zhang, Research Associate. JAN 26 2021.

Forrester 62

Forrester B2B Sales B2B Barriers 62

Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Sales enablement significantly drives higher conversion rates and revenue. Nearly 75 percent of organizations using sales enablement tools say it greatly influenced sales growth over the past 12 months. Since it promotes an integrated approach to selling, sales enablement involves both marketing and sales teams.

Sales Management 218

Sales Management Top of Funnel B2B Sales Tactics 218

KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 3, 2017

The “B-to-B Loyalty Report” from Merkle shows that most B2B marketers (75 percent) are focused on acquiring new customers. To keep existing customers around, many B2B marketers are creating loyalty programs. Once B2B buyers join a loyalty program, most (57 percent) claim that dedicated support is of the utmost importance.

Studies 138

Studies Acquisitions B2B Marketing B to B 138

Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

We are in that moment of hesitation when it comes to the future of how B2B buyers will engage in buying. The coronavirus pandemic has become the fuel of the forthcoming future of the B2B buyer-seller dynamic. Revenue and sales leaders will need to adapt to an accelerated rate of change in buying behaviors. An unsettling time.

Buy 309

Buy B2B Buyer Personas Buyer's Journey 309

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

There’s a seismic shift happening in B2B buying, and it’s being driven by a powerful force — generational change. A recent Forrester report found that Millennials and Gen Z make up 64% of business buyers. Buyers want to be known and understood in both B2B and B2C buying situations.

Buy 130

Buy Generation Peer-to-peer B2B 130

PureB2B

JANUARY 31, 2022

Add a Personal Touch to B2B Sales with Artificial Intelligence. Take it from Forrester, whose research found 77% of consumers have either chosen, recommended, or paid more for a brand that’s offered a personalized customer experience. Personalization is equally important to B2B sellers.

Marketing AI 48

Marketing AI B2B Sales Paid Search Agency Ads 48

PureB2B

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Competition is fierce in the B2B sales space, making it difficult for teams to connect and engage with potential buyers. However, by curating and delivering personalized content to target audiences, sales teams can, in fact, cut through the digital noise and gain the attention of in-market consumers. AI saves time, period.

Marketing AI 62

Marketing AI B2B Sales Personalization Paid Search Agency 62

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2022

My most recent blog posts have proposed a new approach for B2B go-to-market teams — a Converged Growth organizational model. This new organizational model represents a complete rethink of traditional B2B sales, marketing and customer service roles, with blended teams, organized around stewardship of customer journey phases.

Lead Ranking 130

Lead Ranking Paid Search Agency SIC Research 130

The Point

JULY 18, 2014

Over at Forrester Research, Vice President Laura Ramos recently talked to Advertising Age (“ Marketers Still Struggling to Get Results from Content Marketing “) about what she perceives as a general lack of return from the investment so many companies are making in content marketing. They simply want information of value.

Forrester 100

Forrester Work Management Content Marketing Demand Generation Agencies 100

Televerde

APRIL 30, 2020

As marketing feels the pinch of reduced budgets and disrupted strategies, sales needs to keep the pipeline full. Enter Televerde , the first and only fully integrated sales and marketing technology organization with a proven execution model for generating demand and accelerating sales, to help companies solve these complex challenges.

Forrester 52

Forrester Co-Registration Webinar Metrics Lead Ranking 52

6sense

JUNE 22, 2017

Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave TM : Predictive Marketing Analytics for B2B Marketers, Q2 2017. In the first report of its kind for the predictive marketing analytics space, Forrester named 6sense a leader among predictive analytics providers. And of the industry. How this Wave went down.

Forrester 48

Forrester Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Budget Creation 48

Only B2B

APRIL 10, 2024

MQL sits at the intersection of marketing and sales. These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. It means missing out on important buying signals, wasting money on generating leads, and ultimately losing out on potential sales. Benchmarking Your Success: Where Do You Stand?

Marketing Qualified Leads 71

Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads High Quality Lead 71

KoMarketing Associates

MAY 29, 2018

New research suggests that transparency and communication are critical components to developing successful relationships between B2B businesses and their customers. Statistics showed that the majority of B2B marketers (60 percent) believe that poor communication is the most likely factor to stall a customer relationship.

Transparency 185

Transparency Marketing Report B2B Marketing B2B 185

6sense

JUNE 6, 2017

If Tina Turner was a B2B marketing or sales leader, she would have sung about the conflicting emotions we all have towards ROI. In fact, according to a MMA/Forrester/ANA study , “87% of senior marketers don’t feel confident in their ability to impact the sales forecast of their programs.”.

Sales Management 98

Sales Management B2B Sales ROI Top of Funnel 98

Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. But how does it work?

Sales Qualified Leads 71

Sales Qualified Leads Intent Data Lead Ranking High Quality Lead 71

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Artificial intelligence may seem like a new edition to the business world– but it’s already transformed the way we sell B2B products and services. Forrester predicts cognitive technologies such as robots, AI, machine learning, and automation will replace 16% of U.S. AI in Sales. Forrester forecasts one million U.S.

Marketing AI 247

Marketing AI Statistics Enterprise Management Work Management 247

Valasys

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The B2B marketing world is dynamic & trends here are subject to very negative sentimental connotation – partially because they are ephemeral & partially because it’s very tough for the brands to extract & keep abreast with the B2B marketing trends & studies that every marketer should know about in real-time.

Planning 58

Planning Studies B2B Marketing Trends 58

Top Rank Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While AI-related buzzwords are now more common than morning coffee, differentiating B2B brands through authentic thought leadership has never been more important. This sentiment is very much in line with what I’ve shared in my own presentations on AI and B2B content marketing. At Content Marketing World in Washington D.C.,

B2B Thought Leadership 110

B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership Top of Funnel Optimization 110

Only B2B

JUNE 30, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of B2B marketing and sales, understanding and leveraging buyer intent has become crucial for driving growth and achieving success. However, with the advent of B2B purchase intent data, businesses now have access to valuable insights that can revolutionize their marketing and sales strategies.

Purchase Intent 62

Purchase Intent Intent Data Intent Purchase 62

Valasys

MARCH 30, 2020

According to a study by CMO , 71% of the companies that invested in account-based marketing reported their Return on Investment (ROI) is somewhat or significantly higher than traditional marketing methods. What does ABM stand for in B2B Sales and Marketing? Read more on Top 5 Ways to Supercharge ABM with Intent Data.

Account Based Marketing 59

Account Based Marketing ABM B2B Sales B2B 59

Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Leaders in today’s B2B marketplace are increasingly challenged with combining digital accessibility and the value of human interaction. New research from Accenture Interactive has identified how B2B sellers who embrace an elevated standard of service can transform their business and overall buyer experiences.

B2B Sales 57

B2B Sales Service B2B Forrester 57

ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But whether we are talking about well-thought-out ‘growth marketing’ programs or haphazard ‘inside-out,’ interruptive go-to-market tactics, random acts of marketing and sales are at a breaking point. Our ability to succeed through haphazard marketing and sales acquisition efforts is rapidly coming to an end.

Marketing Analytics Tools 130

Marketing Analytics Tools Paid Search Agency Planning Budget Programs 130

LeanData

MAY 6, 2022

Forrester bills its B2B Summit North America as “the premier event for B2B marketing, sales and product leaders to empower their strategies, fuel the revenue engine and drive the business forward.” What is the B2B Revenue Waterfall? Identifying the Need to Transition to a B2B Revenue Waterfall .

De-duping 96

De-duping Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking B2B 96

Cintell

MAY 18, 2021

Few B2B marketers dispute the value of personas for strategy, messaging and execution across sales and marketing. And in fact, personas are one of the hottest B2B topics searched for online. Email open rates are five times higher for companies using personas (Forrester).

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Budget Programs Forrester Stats 100

Heinz Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing The competition is fierce in the B2B marketplace, with businesses clamoring for the attention of potential customers. Personalization has become a critical component of B2B marketing strategies. Personalization has become a critical component of B2B marketing strategies.

Analytics 52

Analytics Personalization Automation Case Studies 52

Biznology

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I’ve long observed that B2B marketers focus too much on lead generation, and not enough on current customer expansion and retention, which is, after all, where the bulk of profits lie. When asked, the typical B2B marketer will say that 80-85% of their effort goes to customer acquisition. This is a mistake. What’s that?

Top of Funnel 205

Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Management Churn Rate 205

6sense

JANUARY 26, 2016

To wrap up 2015, Forrester Research, Inc. published a report looking ahead to what they believe will be B2B marketing’s new mission in 2016. In the existing model of the B2B lead-to-revenue flow, marketing is responsible for everything up to and including the lead qualification process but nothing after.

Forrester 48

Forrester Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B 48

KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 21, 2018

B2B Marketers and the Customer Experience. B2B marketers, in particular, remain optimistic that they can provide a memorable CX to their customers. B2B firms recognize the significance of increased buyer expectations.

Customer Surveys 159

Customer Surveys Forrester Advertising Agencies High Quality Lead 159

KoMarketing Associates

MAY 14, 2018

B2B Marketing and the Customer Experience. As the buying experience continues to evolve, previous research suggests that B2B customers now have higher expectations than they did in the past. Statistics showed that 70 percent of B2B firms now believe customers have higher expectations than they did in previous years.

Purchase 155

Purchase Customer Surveys Forrester B2B Sales 155

KoMarketing Associates

MAY 23, 2018

Although B2B marketers have an abundance of data at their fingertips, new research shows that they are not turning to this information to make informed decisions. In addition, 48 percent of B2B marketers are making decisions based on intuition or personal/company experience, rather than quantitative information and analysis.

B2B Marketing 149

B2B Marketing B2B Advertising Agencies Forrester 149

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

Namely, B2B advertising leader LinkedIn and the #1 B2B marketing attribution application, Bizible. LinkedIn Ads have proven to be a powerful tool for B2B marketers. Measuring B2B Marketing Performance. This post is about the intersection of those two things. Do they pay you back many times over in revenue growth?

Linkedin 154

Linkedin Paid Search Agency Sales Management ROI 154

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Marketing for B2B ecommerce gets almost no attention. B2B ecommerce” barely registers compared to the volume of searches for “ecommerce.”. But if you look at the actual volume of revenue generated via ecommerce – for both B2B ecommerce and B2C ecommerce – the reality is very different. It generates 239% as much revenue.

eCommerce 121

eCommerce Advertising Benchmark B2B Marketing Practices 121

The ROI Guy

MARCH 12, 2015

Despite a growing economy, research indicates that there will be over 1 million less B2B sales reps employed in 2020 compared to today. At the Forrester’s Sales Enablement Forum last week, a study by Andy Hoar, Principal Analyst at Forrester was revealed showcasing this 22% expected decline over the next five years.

Forrester 40

Forrester B2B Sales Marketing Proposals Case Studies 40

The Marketing Blender

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Which social media platforms drive the most sales? You know that social media is a powerful tool for promoting your business, but you might not know which platforms are the most effective at driving sales. That being said, let’s break down which social media platforms drive the most sales and why. #1 Who We Are. . Resources.

Social Media 98

Social Media Marketing Budget Media Budget Programs 98

KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 1, 2017

As B2B sales leaders look to capitalize on new leads, research suggests that B2B marketers need to be prepared to offer a more unique customer experience. Seventy percent of B2B firms say customers now have higher expectations for the experiences they have during the buying process than they did in the past.

B2B 136

B2B Paid Search Agency Companies B2B Sales 136

ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Does indecision have you committing a repeated string of ‘ random acts of sales and marketing ,’ or are you taking advantage of this moment to bring cohesion, orchestration and repeatability to your sales and marketing mix across your customer journey? This leads to what we refer to at ANNUITAS as a Converged Growth B2B Organization.

Lead Ranking 130

Lead Ranking Peer-to-peer Paid Search Agency Terms and Conditions 130

Tony Zambito

MARCH 12, 2017

B2B companies are faced with the most transformative era in business history. The scale of disruption will mean the B2B buyer and seller dynamic will continue to be rocked. It is safe to say that no industry or B2B markets will go without some form of disruption affecting buyers and buying behaviors.

Buyer Personas 251

Buyer Personas B2B Digital Transformation B2B Sales 251