Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 8, 2011

.  Product centricity causes selling organizations to not only focus on the merits of their product but also to have prescribed views of existing customer and prospective buyer needs.    Products, in general, are designed and produced to fulfill needs.    But be sure – they are there. 

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Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The role of a customer experience (CX) specialist is to ensure that the marketer follows a buyer-centric approach and delivers a smooth, unfragmented and consistent customer experience across all touchpoints and at all stages of the buyer journey.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

So a marketer that is designing their content with an enterprise persona, rather than an individual persona, is aligning their content more closely to how purchases actually get made. B2B marketers, in particular, should consider creating “enterprise personas” either in addition to or in lieu of individual personas. Use more storytelling.

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Aberdeen

JULY 12, 2019

One of the biggest advantages of using intent data to improve win-rate percentage is that you get visibility into individual buyer journeys. Understanding the activity of target accounts and contacts at each step of the buyer’s journey will help you send the right marketing/sales messages at the right time.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2020

Today, the information that buyers need to make a purchase decision is just a click away. The power in the buying and selling process has shifted from the seller to the buyer. And that means to keep up with today’s empowered buyer, the sales process needs to transform too. Define your buyer's journey.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 11, 2017

All of these tools are designed to help advise buyers about their challenges, how they compare to other customers, what solutions would help them most, and how they can derive the most value from proposed solutions. When it comes to sales reps, proper enablement is a requirement to prevent extinction.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 27, 2012

Vendor content in B2B Marketing should go beyond the need to simply explain your product, the strategy behind it and the features and benefits that support it. Content strategy must start to meet buyer needs the moment they hit the search engines or their social networks looking for education and answers.

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Strategic-IC

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This information will influence everything from the direction of the content you create, to the platforms you engage on, even to aspects such as the way you design your site. Ideally your CTAs will lead to content offering the next stage of insight that your buyer needs. Related: 2. Be placed in clear position.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To be successful, you need to have the right conversation and deliver the right content depending on the buyer journey stage, in order to help buyer’s overcome their fears and motivate a more timely and positive purchase decision. The key question the buyer needs answered: “ Why Now? ”. Why Now?

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Digital Marketing World Forum

AUGUST 30, 2019

As a B2B marketer for a business that has a lot of different enterprise solutions, we need to think carefully about how each is positioned cohesively, and when to surface them along the buyer journey. I’m interested in hearing Netflix’s Lead Content Designer Ben Barone-Nugent speak.

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Aberdeen

OCTOBER 19, 2022

He also noted that CX fluency doesn’t mean blindly prioritizing customer needs. One of the important points Harris highlighted was journey-aware self-service. To facilitate ease of access and managing of knowledge, Harris highlighted NICE’s integrations with numerous platforms, including CRM, UC, and others.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Action item: If your organization doesn’t value creativity and craft in areas like writing , design, video production, etc., As part of your content marketing strategy, identify the type of buyer who is your organization’s top priority. Then create separate content pieces that address the information needs for each phase.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Need might be the most immediate buyer motive. There are a few ways to capitalize on your buyer's needs, and they generally hinge upon how aware they are of the full spectrum of potential issues that can stem from their situation. Financial Gain.

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Valasys

AUGUST 19, 2019

This helps them in designing their content strategies around the areas of interest of their target audiences. . In fact, according to a study published by the Content Marketing Institute & MarketingProfs, podcasts are among the most effective types of content during the early stages of the buyers; journeys.

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Sana Commerce

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Offline: How purchase journey roadblocks impact buyers’ channel choices. Ultimately, the core of B2B buyers’ challenges is centered on the buyer journey — and more specifically, the friction and hurdles caused by poor experiences throughout the journey. Are you meeting your buyers’ needs?

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 15, 2020

Understanding how a B2B buyer’s journey naturally progresses is key to designing a digital marketing program that works in any economic climate. That’s all of the potential suppliers, a buyer will assess, too, not just the one solution they ultimately purchase. The buyers’ journey, simply put, is not linear.

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Sharpspring

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you work in marketing, you probably hear a lot about optimizing the customer experience, tracking buyer journeys and identifying decision-making factors and/or paths to purchase. But what about developing buyer personas? 71% of companies that exceed lead generation and revenue goals have documented buyer personas.

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Sharpspring

JANUARY 23, 2020

If you work in marketing, you probably hear a lot about optimizing the customer experience, tracking buyer journeys and identifying decision-making factors and/or paths to purchase. But what about developing buyer personas? 71% of companies that exceed lead generation and revenue goals have documented buyer personas.

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Delivra

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Buyer personas are a critical component of a successful B2B marketing automation campaign. Throughout every phase, you need to keep your focus on buyer personas. Meet potential buyers’ needs, desires, and expectations. Map a workflow that reflects the buyer’s journey.

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Content4Demand

JUNE 7, 2019

Buyer Needs. Graber put it bluntly: Most companies suck at understanding buyer needs. Your Blueprint for Change. Two years of research and customer input went into the Go-to-Market Execution Model, built on eight activity-based stages: Audience. The last four stages, Kopec pointed out, make up the go-to-market engine.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Then you learn through ongoing consultation and discuss what their needs are, and how you can address them. Lunch and Learn” events and other voluntary, low-stakes approaches can be an effective way to reach programmers, designers, and other teams within an organization in order to start building an advocacy base for your product.

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Seismic

MAY 24, 2019

A recent study of B2B buyers found that 95% of buyers chose a solution provider that “provided them with ample content to help navigate through each stage of the buying process.”. Marketing must agree to move beyond demand generation content and build content designed to be used in the sales process. Sound familiar?

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Tony Zambito

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Making the wrong choice, for example, on a software platform designed to measure quality of manufactured parts could have drastic affects downstream with OEMs and distribution. The higher stakes involved means buyers needs an organization that can relate to the high stakes and a relational bond is being formed.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 2, 2020

” — Peter Drucker “The buyer journey is nothing more than a series of questions that must be answered.” In focusing on the transaction over the relationship, marketers can lose sight of the actual consumer the funnel was designed to reach.” ” — Tony Zambito “Think like a customer.”

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Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We said earlier that we’ll split this into the offer (the selling angles that work), the user experience (the most effective ways to provide a frictionless buyer journey that’s enjoyable), and creating demand by making your product page visible and credible. We like to give you all the tools you need to win. The selling angle?

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Content4Demand

MARCH 9, 2021

Strategic marketers develop content that addresses their buyers’ needs as they evolve from initial awareness to a final purchasing decision. Content goals by buyer stage. To attract buyers, they first need to know that you exist. For real success with content marketing, it’s not enough to have a library of content.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 1, 2015

What if this this latest study is simply an indication of the buyers need for content relevance during the buying cycle no matter if it comes from sales, marketing or somewhere else? It is when they have this understanding that they can then align their content and people with the buyer.

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Convert

AUGUST 15, 2022

This can increase average order value and isn’t so intrusive as it actually correlates with their buyer journey. For profit-driving improvements on your Shopify product pages, run A/B tests to validate your ideas — don’t just replicate ecommerce product page design best practices. Experiment With Filters. No, it’s not.

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