Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You’re armed with your prospect’s buying signals, right? What are customer buying signals? By definition, buying signals are the actions potential customers take that indicate they’re close to making a purchase. They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect.

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Forrester B2B

APRIL 30, 2024

Buyer expectations for immediacy, relevance, and instant gratification have carried over from B2C to B2B and been amplified with Millennials and GenZ comprising more than half of the modern workforce.

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ClearVoice

OCTOBER 3, 2022

One of the biggest challenges content marketers face is having to get executive buy-in. Executives are usually busy running the company and don’t understand content marketing. They often don’t appreciate the strategies, trends, and tactics that it takes to make a brand relevant.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

B2B content marketing is an indispensable strategy for businesses looking to establish their brand, engage their target audience, and drive conversions. What is B2B content marketing? B2B content marketing is the creation and distribution of content, in all its forms, related to your business and relevant to customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 11, 2024

Video content is like the air we breathe – it’s everywhere, and there’s no escaping it. It’s time to embrace the chaos and create video content that leaves a lasting impression. It’s time to embrace the chaos and create video content that leaves a lasting impression. Each video is more than just a play button.

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Liveintent

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Native Curated Packages (NCP) are exclusive, vertically-aligned sponsored content packages. With NCP, you can seamlessly blend your marketing messages into premium email newsletter content. And, because NCP runs on vertically-aligned newsletters, you get an added layer of relevance. Check it out. What are the benefits?

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

There’s something interesting you should know about B2B companies and their content strategies. They’re focusing on what each part of their business needs, tailoring their content to these specific areas. They’re all over digital content and online channels. Most of them are doing it at a basic, functional level.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Customers are smarter – they want to buy, not be sold to. Potential customers search and access content when they wish in their own timeframe. Today people and buying groups do their own research on-line and often don’t want to interact with a sales person until they are educated and have narrowed down alternatives.

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Content4Demand

AUGUST 17, 2021

We recently gathered 10 intent data experts and power users and collected their tips and insights in The Content + Data Connection: 10 Top Marketing Executives Explore the Rewards of Integrating Intent Data into Content Strategies. Elevating the Buying Experience. Here’s how he believes intent is elevating the buying experience.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content. It is a top tactic.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But do they really want to buy, or are they just window shopping? Here’s the hard truth: “You don’t know if they’re ready to buy until they tell you they’re ready to buy, and you can’t believe it until you get a signed contract,” said Richard Harris , sales coach and founder of The Harris Consulting Group.

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Contently

MAY 20, 2024

Most of us content marketers consider the content side of SEO at the very beginning of any project; we’ve become adept at marrying ideas with the right keywords, information, and heading structures so that the message and SEO go together harmoniously—like peanut butter and jelly. Why Does Technical SEO Matter to Content Marketers?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 11, 2023

Have you ever wondered if your paid content is actually doing its job? What you consider valuable content might be seen as worthless by your customers when they’re trying to make a purchase. Gated content filled with handy how-to guides and relevant research can be the fastest route for your clients to make up their minds.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of the content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content. Quick Takeaways.

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Top of Funnel Buyer's Journey Trends Lead Ranking 284

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 29, 2022

2022 Buying Experience Insights. Sales content related issues reign supreme as the biggest pain point for sales and marketing teams. Data shows both sales and marketing agree having content is valuable; however, issues still exist related to finding and using the most up-to-date content.

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Buy Research Correlation Training 103

Zoominfo

JUNE 2, 2021

Layering various customer buying signals on top of each other is a reliable, data-based approach to predict when a prospect is facing a business challenge that your product can solve. Buying Intent Reveal Interests Buying signals in their various forms uncover patterns and interests that indicate a company is researching a product purchase.

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Buy Zoominfo Work Management Marketing Management 130

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 27, 2015

With Content Marketing World just weeks away, my mind has been on the number of organizations that have increased their marketing spend on the creation of new content. of organizations have indicated that they are spending more on content development than they did in 2014. What’s happening?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

For years, marketers have engaged audiences with account-based marketing strategies to better align sales and marketing practices and, in turn, provide more relevant, personalized content and messaging. And in the B2B space, treating business prospects as buying groups can help brands work toward that goal.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 1, 2022

The way B2B buyers consume content has changed significantly in the past two years. But fascinating new research quantifies those changes, and points the way forward for B2B content marketers. Buyers are spending more time with content. Known visitors spent on average twice as long viewing content as unknown visitors.

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Research B2B Marketing Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel 352

Biznology

MAY 19, 2017

Creating value and remaining relevant is critical. Organizations, especially with bigger names, failed to understand the importance of relevancy went out of business, lost market share, or were acquired by another name. Relevancy for brands means revenues. The post Delivery relevancy appeared first on Biznology.

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Champion Communications

AUGUST 8, 2023

B2B buying is hard. Gartner’s recent research on B2B buying groups found that the typical buying group for a complex B2B solution contains “six to ten decision-makers, each armed with four or five pieces of information they have gathered independently and must de-conflict with the group.”

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Champion Communications

AUGUST 8, 2023

B2B buying is hard. Gartner’s recent research on B2B buying groups found that the typical buying group for a complex B2B solution contains “six to ten decision-makers, each armed with four or five pieces of information they have gathered independently and must de-conflict with the group.”

PR 62

PR Buy Buyer Personas Case Study 62

Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 6, 2021

With content marketing. Fuel the momentum needed to retain your customers by offering your followers relevant and engaging content at every stage of the buyer’s journey. Fuel the momentum needed to retain your customers by offering your followers relevant and engaging content at every stage of the buyer’s journey.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In a world where every click counts and attention spans are shrinking, it’s more important than ever to make sure your content not only reaches your audience but also resonates with them. This isn’t just about throwing content into the digital universe and hoping for the best. Why Zemanta?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 7, 2023

They’re turned off by old marketing tactics, impersonal emails, and robotic B2B buying processes. The best way to do this is through conversational content. Conversational content is more than just a marketing strategy. That’s exactly what conversational content is about. Conversational content changes that.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 8, 2021

Is anybody successful with content marketing? Content marketing with a thoughtful strategy and plan doesn’t usually provide the ROI (return on investment) expected. For anybody to be successful with content marketing, you must define success. There are certain must-haves for success in content marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While some invest a tremendous amount of money in traditional advertising channels, many use the power of content instead. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. They will consume content, but only if it’s valuable to them. B2B Buying Isn’t Linear.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 17, 2021

“Is content marketing the right choice for my business?” Content marketing isn’t just one of those trends that come and go in the marketing world. With a wealth of information at their fingertips, today’s customers come to their buying decisions with a healthy dose of skepticism. Content marketing checks off all three boxes.

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Content Marketing Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Business 292

Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

Crafting a B2B SEO content strategy that fully accounts for the unique intricacies of this buyer journey holds the key to long-term digital growth. Drawing the line between B2B and B2C SEO content The defining difference between B2B and B2C is that one targets businesses and professionals, while the other targets individual consumers.

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Top of Funnel SEO Long Tail Marketing B2B 110

Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 16, 2021

When it comes to driving value, content marketing beats advertising (almost) every time. They can coexist and support each other, but there’s no better ROI for your efforts than what you’ll experience with content marketing. Let’s dive into why so you have a better idea of what to expect when you focus on content.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 28, 2020

MQL remains relevant in today’s client acquisition process. MQL coupled with the powerful predictions of intent data allows sales teams to determine who is ready to buy. Having relevant, accurate, and near real-time intent data provides a richer understanding of prospects and their needs. The post Are MQLs Still Relevant?

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Navigate the Channel

JUNE 27, 2023

In general, your customers are likely to buy from you for one of three reasons. Each of the following three reasons-to-buy has distinctive strategies linked to those conscious and subconscious influences you can implement to help advance your sales and form meaningful connections with your customers. Our products are less expensive!

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Martech

JANUARY 11, 2022

“Buyer intent signals are a collection of indicators that tells me whether the account that I am targeting is relevant to my brand or relevant to one of my offerings,” said Hussam AlMukhtar, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing for B2B intelligence platform ZoomInfo, at our recent MarTech conference. Source: Hussam AlMukhtar.

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Buying Cycle Intent Buy Intent Signal 109

SalesIntel

AUGUST 23, 2023

In digital marketing, a key decision businesses face is whether to build their own email list over time or buy one. In this blog, we’ll delve into the intricacies of building versus buying email lists for marketing and explore how SalesIntel can play a crucial role in this decision-making process.

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Marketing Interactions

JULY 25, 2019

Let’s back it up with a few more stats: 82% of VPs say not understanding content slows down the buying process ( source ). 70% of content sits unused (Sirius Decisions). Only 40% of content read by buyers is considered relevant (IDG). High level content won’t do this. Whatever the reason, you may never know.

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Relevance Work Management Marketing Management B2B Sales 73

Contently

MARCH 14, 2023

That said, brands should embrace both social media and a solid SEO strategy to make the most of their content marketing campaigns. SEO Recommendations for Content Marketers The misconception that you can forsake SEO recommendations in favor of social media marketing is just one of the many myths surrounding SEO. .”

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SEO Content Marketing Tips Long Tail Marketing 190

Hinge Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

And while in many professional services industries, reputation, value, and relevance are rising. Our research also shows that there is a relationship between relevancy and visibility. other words, knowing your buyer can increase your relevancy, which in turn can raise your visibility. There is good news. How do you do that?

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