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Study: most B2B tech companies lose sales deals they didn’t even know existed

Sword and the Script | B2B

Forrester analyst Lori Wizdo wrote those words eleven years ago. All these years later, a new report by 6sense, penned largely by a former Forrester analyst, has come to the same conclusion: when buyers first contact a seller, they are “69% of the way through a buying cycle.”

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Five Sales Enablement Tactics B2B Marketers Need to Master

Webbiquity

More than 75 percent of prospects feel the sales professionals who contact them lack knowledge of their specific business, role and responsibilities at work, or even the issues they’re trying to resolve, according to research from Forrester. Map Content to the Buying Cycle. Nurture Your Sales Team like Customers.

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Why Connected TV Advertising Is Key in Your Brand and Demand Strategy

Madison Logic

Yet more and more marketing leaders faced with larger buying committees and longer buying cycles are realizing the need for a balance and a stronger link between their brand and demand activities. Forrester research finds that 67% of B2B marketers say buyers are taking longer to commit to purchases than last year.

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Why Effective Content Research is Necessary to Growing Your Company’s Brand Visibility

EveryoneSocial

In fact, being the most effective at your efforts requires your organization to focus heavily on content research. This most likely falls into the marketing departments laps, but sales teams should also have a part in helping with the content research process. What is Content Research? What is Content Research?

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4 B2B Marketing Resolutions for the New Year

Madison Logic

Resolution #1: Leverage AI the Right Way Generative AI (genAI) has completely changed the game by offering B2B marketers opportunities to enhance their strategies and streamline time-intensive tasks such as campaign design, audience or competitor research, and content ideation.

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Important KPIs to measure sales and marketing alignment

Conversica

Forrester Research reports that 74% of business buyers conduct more than half of their research online before making an offline purchase. Furthermore, a Topo blog post on best practices for building a revenue machine cites a SiriusDecisions poll of 300 sales leaders that found: “The top third of the sales cycle has gone away.

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Why Innovation Reigns Supreme in 2023 B2B Marketing

Top Rank Marketing

The products we sell are highly complex, the clients we sell to are highly exacting, our buying cycle is (much) longer, there are fewer customers to go around, and our competition is fierce. According to Forrester’s 2023 budget planning survey , 86% of U.S. Complacency has never been an option in B2B marketing.