Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

For example, in one buyer persona research study completed for an organization in the logistics industry, we found as manufacturers became more global, U.S. Below is one example of how to frame such a view with the customer persona at the center. It does not suggest all information can fit on one page.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Stop thinking business-to-business or business-to-consumers and realize that your buyers are people just like you. Whether they’re shopping for business software or a washing machine, they don’t want to interact with a robot. One of the most impactful ways? NY Times hosted a U.S. Why is this so effective?

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The numbers bear this out as seen by several surveys showing content marketing effectiveness declining. For example, the latest CMI/MarketingProfs Survey indicates effectiveness is a consistent struggle for marketers. With effectiveness dropping from 38% to 30% from previous CMI/MarketingProfs surveys!

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Tony Zambito

JULY 17, 2016

For example, we see plenty of hyperbole around the buyer’s journey today. The many articles, books, and promotional material written about buyer personas, in general, are missing this key point. Whereby what is being professed is getting a little deeper in demographics and describing tasks and activities of buyers.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 5, 2016

The same can be said for buyer persona approaches I have seen addressing content marketing. For example, an overt focus on the rational preferences of people on the content they prefer – while in the 20% mode of their buying decisions. Resorting to a focus on buying criteria, risk factors, success factors, and etc.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 24, 2016

For example, one shiny object has been content marketing. For some who have gone “all in” with content marketing, they may just be discovering the constricting of their marketing to such has not been fruitful.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 15, 2010

I spent most of the past week in San Francisco at overlapping conferences for the Direct Marketing Association and Marketo. My Marketo presentation was based on the marketing measurement white paper I recently wrote for them, which argues that measurement should be based on tracking buyers through stages in the purchase process.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 22, 2017

Platform-based models have had a dramatic impact on consumer-oriented markets. Some of the well-known examples include Uber, Amazon, and Airbnb. History may look back at the rise of the platform economy much in the same way history has treated the Industrial Revolution.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 6, 2016

Such as: To confuse a preponderance of data analytics, for example, that is focused on confirming current assumptions as “new” customer insight. Leads To Mistaken Customer Understanding. These four myths can cause challenges for B2B executives and lead to errors in understanding customers.

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Tony Zambito

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

For example, in one organization I helped recently, they perceived there were 7 stages for a generalized buyer’s journey of their target customers. It is neat, suggests easy ways to align or adapt content, and leads people to believe they understand the buyer’s trip to a purchase.

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

For example, consumers and buyers can take a micro-journey specific to discovery and researching , which can involve its own elements of goals, tasks, activities, and desired outcomes. In general, consumer and buyer’s journeys are not one elongated stage-gated event with a beginning, middle, and end.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

For example, one Fortune 100 organization discovered that fear and anxiety were heavily present in the early stages of buying experiences and journeys. Emotions are factored into maps : emotions are a significant portion of buying behavior and decisions today in B2B.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The use of ethnographic research can be especially valuable for companies engaged in complex B2B marketing and long sales cycles. In such situations, buyers can find it difficult to articulate the behaviors and activities they engage in that now are part of their subconscious thinking.

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

For example, accounting software designed for independent accountants who consult can include segments of independent accountants and accounting firms. What separates customer segmentation from buyer profiling and buyer personas is the quantitative requirements associated with identifying specific groupings.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) restricts unsolicited direct marketing, which includes both cold emails and cold calls. You need to comply with both of the regulations in your B2B sales and marketing. The GDPR applies to the examples of personal data that we explained above.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) restricts unsolicited direct marketing, which includes both cold emails and cold calls. You need to comply with both of the regulations in your B2B sales and marketing. The GDPR applies to the examples of personal data that we explained above.

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markempa

AUGUST 17, 2007

To help you get started, I’ve put together a simple spreadsheet (with example data). Here are some tactics you can use to leverage your lead nurturing content: What can you send via direct mail? The workhorse of business-to-business direct mail is still the one-page, personalized letter sent in a #10 envelope.

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markempa

JUNE 26, 2006

The workhorse of business-to-business direct mail is still the one-page, personalized letter sent in a #10 envelope. Jim logan gives us a great example of how do an effective direct mail letter for a complex sale on his blog Direct Reponse Works. Check out his posts: What’s Wrong With This Letter?

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MLT Creative

MAY 27, 2011

In this example, the client was planning to give away four iPads, which gave us the perfect offer to generate traffic to the landing page. Will there be a giveaway at the booth ? Is there any valuable content we can share that would enable us to maintain some semblance of our newly adopted inbound philosophy?

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MarketJoy

JUNE 25, 2018

Alternatively, outbound marketing is referred to as traditional or direct marketing. Amidst the hoopla surrounding inbound marketing, several business experts and marketers have turned away from outbound marketing and taken to the other. The Relevance of Outbound Marketing.

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B2B Digital Marketer

OCTOBER 13, 2020

From his early years of leading street-ball leagues with peers in his Long Island neighborhood to a host of other entrepreneurial pursuits as a young man, this talent to identify the needs of customers and engage them in solutions shaped the contribution he now extends to international business-to-business (B2B) leaders across all industries.

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B2B Digital Marketer

AUGUST 25, 2020

Uh, when we, when we refer to business to business digital marketing and those longer sales cycles. So I’ve spent the last several years doing that and really am now focused on some of that value building processes to help businesses plan for their eventual transition. Now it’s become easy.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Sales, for example, would find more ways to use content designed specifically for later in the buyer’s journey or path to a purchase if it was adept at goals. For CMOs and marketers today, adopting a goal-directed marketing framework is one path towards achieving effectiveness in content strategy.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Even the marketing automation software vendors themselves recognize the importance of strategy, for their own success, as well as that of their clients. Marketo, for example, sponsored a compelling study done by SiriusDecisions that explains the importance of a strong process in driving results when using marketing automation software.

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SalesIntel

JUNE 29, 2022

Marketing to B2B: A Quick Overview. Before we dive into the promotional mix, let’s first take a quick look at what B2B marketing is and why it’s so important. B2B or business-to-business marketing is the promotion of products or services to other businesses or organizations. Advertising.

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B2B Digital Marketer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Um, and in being able to incorporate that into the business to business, uh, digital marketing, interactive marketing, and ultimately sales activities and customer retention activities is really vital, is really vital. Jim, a good example of that is yesterday. It’s primarily around customer retention.

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Convert

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The ePrivacy Regulation (ePR) is an upcoming privacy law to transform rules around cookie consent, direct marketing, and business-to-business (B2B) communications. Is Optimizely Ready to Handle ePrivacy Regulation? Unlike GDPR, it’ll regulate even non-personal data in electronic communications.

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B2B Digital Marketer

AUGUST 31, 2020

So that’s business to business, right. Um, they’ll reach out to us and usually they reach out to us, uh, for one of two reasons, one they’re in panic mode because they’re not able to generate enough business. Um, and again, thanks for having always good to connect with fellow like minded entrepreneurs.

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. For those not familiar with it, the B2B Marketing Zone (a.k.a. the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

They will surely find a way to run in a parallel column, maybe Tweet Deck for example, a column of matching ads that runs alongside non-advertising tweets, possibly. It’s going to be interesting to see how they continue to change their business model. For him, for example, we’re looking into Instagrams. Lauren : Yes.

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Anteriad

APRIL 25, 2023

Behavior-based marketing When you click on a website, especially one that sells a product, ads for that product suddenly start showing up on your computer, as if the machine has become a stalker. That is behavior-based marketing, which uses user activity to target potential leads. Digital marketing is widely used in B2B marketing.

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Anteriad

APRIL 25, 2023

Behavior-based marketing When you click on a website, especially one that sells a product, ads for that product suddenly start showing up on your computer, as if the machine has become a stalker. That is behavior-based marketing, which uses user activity to target potential leads. Digital marketing is widely used in B2B marketing.

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