B2B Marketing Directions

JULY 17, 2022

(This month's Research Round-Up is devoted exclusively to the latest B2B content consumption report from NetLine Corporation. This research is particularly valuable for two reasons: It captures the real-world content consumption behaviors of business professionals. In 2021, C-level executives represented 14.8% hours, up from 29.7

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Research B2B Purchase Intent Paper 52

Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

B2B marketing targets buying groups within businesses. Companies that are looking for products or services with which to assist their own operations will typically have or assign a “product champion” to conduct research on solutions and manage the sales relationship.

Work Management 218

Work Management Marketing Management B2B Marketing B2B 218

Martech

JANUARY 11, 2022

94% of buyers are conducting some form of online research before getting to me as a brand,” AlMukhtar said, speaking figuratively. Here are three ways marketers can better understand and leverage this valuable intent data to improve the customer buying cycle. Review your brand’s customer buying cycle.

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Buying Cycle Intent Buy Intent Signal 111

Act-On

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Marketing Funnels and Keyword Research As you probably know, there are three stages of the buyer’s journey: awareness, consideration, and decision. At this stage, the marketer is learning, researching, and becoming aware of potential solutions. She has thoroughly researched solutions and is close to making a decision.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Keywords Marketing Automation Services 130

Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

Intent data transcends basic website visits, offering profound insights into a prospect’s purchase intent. It analyzes diverse online behaviors, including content downloads, registrations for white papers, visits to solution-related webpages, and even interactions with competitor content.

Sales Qualified Leads 71

Sales Qualified Leads Intent Data Lead Ranking High Quality Lead 71

KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 30, 2017

New research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. This trend could be fueled by the fact that about one-third claim that they have less time to devote to research than they did in the past. Accessibility is a primary concern for B2B buyers, according to the research.

Peer-to-peer 120

Peer-to-peer Buy B2B Marketing Process 120

Act-On

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And here’s something else to consider: Research shows that while most businesses make sales to between 5% and 20% of new customers, they close deals with 60% to 70% of existing customers. Use customer data to segment your audience based on their buying history and current behavior. Here’s a few ideas: Segmented product recommendations.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Top of Funnel 190

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 5, 2023

Research shows that as much as 71% of inquiries are are completely wasted and 36% of leads are never contacted at all. Here’s just a few examples of the mistakes marketers make when defining inquiries as leads : Every person who signs up for your newsletter, downloads a white paper, or registers for your webcast is not a lead.

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Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Leads 262

NetLine

APRIL 14, 2022

NetLine’s research unearthed dozens of incredible insights into the behaviors of B2B buyers. Here are a few key highlights from this volume: Professionals registering for webinars are 29% more likely to make a purchase decision within 6 months. of all registrations), B2B Marketers promoted 20% more White Papers than eBooks.

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Intent Webinar Metrics Peer-to-peer Intent Data 97

Content4Demand

AUGUST 11, 2020

With the shift to more account-based marketing (ABM) and targeting buying groups rather than individual personas, it’s time to also turn some of our ideas about personas on their heads in our content marketing strategy. Beyond this, it recognizes the complexity of today’s B2B buying process, with buying committees made up of an average of 5.4

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Buy Account Based Marketing B2B Thought Leadership ABM 91

Madison Logic

JULY 20, 2023

B2B buying is a team effort that marketers cannot afford to overlook. According to Gartner, a typical buying committee for a complex B2B solution consists of six to ten decision-makers , each armed with their own set of four or five independently gathered pieces of information.

Buy 52

Buy Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing Multi-Channel 52

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2020

Traditional market research often falls short when new technology and new ideas have the potential to become game-changers. If you read marketing publications as much as I do, you’ve seen your fair share of blog posts, white papers, and videos that reference it. Now let’s look at some of the hard data. totaled $58.6

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Marketing AI Stats Planning Case Studies 542

Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This content includes articles, blogs, videos and podcasts, as well as in-depth whitepapers and research. Increasingly, B2B customers depend on self-guided research on digital channels to find out more about business products and services and reach buying decisions. Content will be passed over if it isn’t useful or trusted.

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Marketing AI B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Content Marketing 129

Hinge Marketing

JUNE 14, 2021

For example, buyers today are much more likely to research potential solutions to a business problem online than rely on a sales person to guide them. . Download Hinge’s Research as Content Guide and learn how to rise above the noise with research-based content. Research/Survey Reports . Uses of Premium Content.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership 146

The Point

JULY 17, 2017

This year’s report (download a copy here – registration required) is striking in the degree and pace of change reported, since only last year, in how B2B buyers describe their research and purchase processes. IMPACT : Use ABM strategies to deliver personalized, relevant content to specific buying roles within large accounts.

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Paid Search Agency Demand Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer 241

The Point

MAY 17, 2021

Whatever demand gen channels you use to generate marketing leads, there’s value in always promoting a mix of content and other offers that span the entire buying cycle: early-stage, mid-stage, and late-stage. However, it’s critical to align search offers (and not just ad copy) with ad groups tailored to a particular buying stage.

Marketing Management 207

Marketing Management Paid Search Agency Buying Cycle Demand Generation Agencies 207

Trade Press Services Newsletter

JANUARY 4, 2024

Whether it’s bylined articles, white papers, how-to guides or videos, new content is the best way to drive new leads and engage with your customers. In 2024, most, if not all, B2B buying journeys will start online. Embrace AI for tasks like brainstorming, early research, generating headlines and checking grammar.

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Marketing AI Course B2B Thought Leadership Planning 130

ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

To do this, you must create content that aligns with every stage of the buyer’s journey —from awareness to purchase. If your content does not provide the information they are looking for in their stage of the buying process, you may get overlooked for another company that has provided the content that aligns with their current needs.

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Buy Process Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 59

Martech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

With the buying process not heavily digitized and with people working remotely on a range of devices, lines are blurring between B2C and B2B buying behaviors. “I think the other dynamic is that you’ve got a new generation of buyers who don’t buy like previous generations — on the B2C or B2B level — and they have budget. .

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Account Based Marketing Buy Process Marketing Automation Services 75

Binary Demand

MARCH 26, 2024

The reason is that businesses recognize a fundamental truth that purchasing decisions aren’t solely made by companies. By analyzing potential customers’ online behavior, businesses can pinpoint research interests, website visits, and buying signals, effectively identifying warm leads. This rapid growth, especially the 1,365.5%

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Intent Intent Data Paid Search Agency Webinar Metrics 52

MarketJoy

JULY 27, 2018

The maturation of the internet has changed the B2B buying cycle forever. This white paper will give you a road map for how to attract more customers and win more deals in a rapidly changing B2B landscape. Usually, you’ll have to get buy-in from every decision maker before a purchasing decision is made.

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Purchase Peer-to-peer B2B Buyer Personas 64

KoMarketing Associates

JULY 9, 2019

Although B2B marketers are focused on creating marketing collateral, such as white papers and ebooks, new research suggests that these forms of content are not the most trusted among B2B buyers. Previous research shows that video marketing, for instance, is beginning to grow in prominence. in terms of trust.

Marketing Report 121

Marketing Report B2B Marketing B2B Purchase Intent 121

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. Additionally, research shows that more than five touchpoints are required to secure an initial meeting. What Is a B2B Sales Funnel?

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Ad Building 179

The Point

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In other words, would you only ever want marketing leads from prospects pre-determined to be actively researching your category, solution, use case, etc.? Hunting those prospects “ready to buy,” sure, but also sowing the seeds that will yield a larger pool of opportunities in the long term. My argument: no, you wouldn’t. .

Intent Data 149

Intent Data Demand Generation Agencies Intent Paid Social Agency 149

Only B2B

APRIL 10, 2024

Usually, MQLs are the leads that have shown interest in various ways, like downloading content like ebooks, white paper, signing up for a company newsletter attending a webinar or online event. It means missing out on important buying signals, wasting money on generating leads, and ultimately losing out on potential sales.

Marketing Qualified Leads 71

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

NetLine

APRIL 11, 2023

Hot off the heels of our 2022 State of B2B Content Consumption and Demand Report for Marketers being named the Finny Award winner in the Best Research-Based Content category , we’re ecstatic to announce the 7th edition has been released. NetLine’s research unearthed dozens of incredible insights into the behaviors of B2B buyers.

Demand 52

Demand B2B Webinar Metrics Intent 52

Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2022

People won’t buy what they don’t understand. An enterprise customer who needs to purchase a new piece of equipment or software, evaluating similar offerings, will (most often) go with the vendor who can prove they’re the best. Don’t waste your customer’s time or make it hard for them to complete a purchase.

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Marketing Budget Enterprise Management Sales Management Work Management 291

Only B2B

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It goes beyond traditional lead generation methods, capturing online behavior signals that reveal a company’s buying intent. Intent data can reveal who’s still actively researching solutions like yours, allowing you to focus your efforts on high-potential leads. Wondering why people buy?

Intent Data 71

Intent Data Intent Intent Signal Sales Qualified Leads 71

ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

They want to discover solutions and make purchase decisions without being marketed or advertised. Potential customers do most of their research online before entering the sales funnel, and while the exact percentage varies from research study to research study, somewhere between 71% and 92% of B2B buyers start with a generic search.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Management 92

ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Rather, understand where each customer stands in the buying cycle and reach out to them with the right type of content. Things are more complicated when targeting high-value accounts with multiple decision-makers in the buying process. Spruce up your content with verifiable data to make your message more believable.

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Tactics Top of Funnel 95

Biznology

APRIL 23, 2015

Another long time friend, Bob Bly, was the first who wrote extensively about content marketing in his 2005 White Paper Marketing Handbook, which is still available on Amazon. In logical order they are: Alignment to the buying stage and buyer’s needs. Initial research to identify the solution(s) and vendors to meet the need.

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Work Management Buy Marketing Management Process 80

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. Additionally, research shows that more than five touchpoints are required to secure an initial meeting. What Is a B2B Sales Funnel?

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Ad Building 130

Trade Press Services

MARCH 4, 2024

Content serves as the primary vehicle for educating, engaging, and guiding potential customers at each stage of their journey to make a purchase. Examples include how-to articles, product reviews, white papers, books, e-books, and essential guides. Of course, not every prospect or client has exactly the same needs.

Top of Funnel 77

Top of Funnel Trends B2B Thought Leadership Buyer Personas 77

ANNUITAS

APRIL 19, 2022

On average, customers engage with nine different channels in their buying process before making a purchasing decision. Buyers are choosing to engage in new ways as they continue to increasingly prefer to do their own research prior to ever getting on the phone with a salesperson. Begin by conducting first party research.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Advertising Channels Peer-to-peer Elasticity 130

Exo B2B

JUNE 22, 2021

I would like to discuss in this post, the importance of social networks in the B2B buying cycle. And that 95% of B2B buyers do some research online before making a purchase decision. Provided of course, to respect where they are in their buying cycle. The B2B buying cycle is usually quite long.

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Buying Cycle Social Networks Network Marketing Buy 52

Only B2B

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It goes beyond demographics and past purchases, revealing the “why” behind their actions: their specific needs, motivations, and anxieties. It goes beyond demographics and past purchases to reveal your prospects’ active interest in specific products, services, or solutions.

Intent Data 71

Intent Data Intent B2B Sales B2B Marketing 71

FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Studies prove that B2B prospects now prefer a digital buying journey over sales calls. For example, a “Tech-Savvy Marketing Manager” might prefer informative white papers or video-driven in-depth webinars. Prepare Insightful Questions Focus on uncovering needs, challenges, and buying behaviors.

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Buyer Personas Marketing AI Ideal Customer Profiles Webinar Metrics 57