Top Rank Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

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. The opportunity: Clearly, B2B buyers are primed to appreciate your marketing innovations.

Enterprise Management 85

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management B2B Marketing 85

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

ABM is moving inside sales teams away from traditional lists and leads and helping them analyze customer data to build their ideal customer profile (ICP) and use that insight to identify prospects most likely to convert to customers. Large, high-dollar transactions are complex sales with multiple decision makers and long buying cycles.

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Marketing AI Ideal Customer Profiles Account Based Marketing Lead Ranking 134

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

If you’ve built solid personas, reviewing their goals and motivations when there is dissension can help to move in the right direction for your buyers. It’s not a question of what you or your boss likes, but what your buyer needs to move along the buyer journey. What would trigger them to enter a buy cycle?

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Buyer Personas Demand Generation Work Management Marketing Management 100

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

If you’ve built solid personas, reviewing their goals and motivations when there is dissension can help to move in the right direction for your buyers. It’s not a question of what you or your boss likes, but what your buyer needs to move along the buyer journey. What would trigger them to enter a buy cycle?

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Buyer Personas Demand Generation Work Management Marketing Management 100

The Point

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

On a recent conference call with a prospective client, the Vice President of Sales chimed in with a question: “How many touches do you think it takes before someone becomes a lead?”. According to Sirius Decisions, 67 percent of the buying cycle is now conducted online , regardless of sales involvement. Or it could take months.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 8, 2016

If you’ve built solid personas, reviewing their goals and motivations when there is dissension can help to move in the right direction for your buyers. It’s not a question of what you or your boss likes, but what your buyer needs to move along the buyer journey. What would trigger them to enter a buy cycle?

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Demand Generation Buying Cycle Work Management 100

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

If you’ve built solid personas, reviewing their goals and motivations when there is dissension can help to move in the right direction for your buyers. It’s not a question of what you or your boss likes, but what your buyer needs to move along the buyer journey. What would trigger them to enter a buy cycle?

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Demand Generation Buyer's Journey Buying Cycle 100

Mereo

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

What exactly is sense-making — and what do buyers need made sense of most? Sellers Should Identify and Make Buyers’ Pains Clear. 1 thing buyers need clarity on are their pains. Specifically it was when a business challenge is: New for the buyer (34.1%). Perceived as risky for the organization (21.1%).

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Gartner Buying Cycle High Quality Lead Differentiation 42

Valasys

AUGUST 19, 2019

The very purpose of content marketing has been associated with the feedback mechanisms to trigger lead generation processes for B2B businesses. According to the Content Marketing Institute, Content marketing lies at the very core of all the lead generation efforts.

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Vidyard

JUNE 15, 2020

Once your sales organization is sold on the idea of using video , it’s up to you to get everyone using—and succeeding with—it. Identify willing participants in each group who can act as champions and help lead others. To lay the foundation for video excellence in your sales organization, you should: Foster feedback and discussion.

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Planning Video Marketing Effectiveness Case Studies 91

The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Buyer Strategy. Demand Gen and Lead Management. During the session, we encouraged our B2B marketing friends to create them, or if they already had done so, to pull them out of the drawer and get motivated to use them more effectively to create engaging content and more qualified leads. Marketing Expertise. Sales Empowerment.

Buyer Personas 84

Buyer Personas Account Based Marketing Demand Generation Agencies Work Management 84

KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Hopefully, the performance metrics associated with your organization’s marketing programs have yielded success and validation for tactics proposed at the beginning of the year. 75 percent of B2B buyers said they research at least 25 percent of their work-related purchases online, even if they made the actual purchase offline.

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Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget Budget Programs Enterprise Management 120

NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2013

Coming up with really good long-tail keywords for your SEO or pay-per-click campaigns can sometimes be daunting if you don’t understand how buyers use Google, what buying cycle they are in, and how your content or offers align with those search terms people use to look for what you do. Google’s keyword research tool.

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Adwords Keywords Work Management Paid Search Agency 100

Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 24, 2021

Buyers need to complete specific jobs before consensus can be reached for a buying decision. They need information that helps them understand what to ask, do, understand, and evaluate. Think about what your buyers have already gone through before they engage with your sales reps. They’ve got work to do.

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B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership B2B Gartner 62

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Every time a B2B buyer considers a purchase, they face internal struggles. Inundated with a ton of similar looking and solution-centric content, Gartner reports the average buyer squanders two-thirds of the buying cycle gathering, processing, and de-conflicting information to try to gain consensus and arrive at a purchase decision.

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Gartner Buying Cycle Differentiation Buyer's Journey 45

Vidyard

JUNE 15, 2020

Once your sales organization is sold on the idea of using video , it’s up to you to get everyone using—and succeeding with—it. If your organization uses a points system for tracking rep activity, assign points to creating videos and give them more weight during the rollout. Contents 1. Create Your Sales Rollout Plan for Video 1.1

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Planning Video Marketing Effectiveness Case Studies 65

DealSignal

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As marketing thought leader Matt Heinz noted : “Just because you can make Excel say anything doesn’t mean you’ll actually be able to generate leads from 90 percent of your entire market! So basing the entire model on what can actually be engaged seems fundamental, but is surprisingly missing from many marketing organizations.”.

Account Based Marketing 61

Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles ABM Work Management 61

Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 27, 2012

And these relationships will help you gain more customers, more revenue and more effective marketing strategies… Why You Need a Content Destination. Today’s marketing should identify a content strategy that meets all the information needs of our buyers, in all the places they are looking, at all stages of the buying cycle.

Inbound Marketing 100

Inbound Marketing Content Paid Search Agency Buying Cycle 100

6sense

JANUARY 14, 2016

This view makes marketing qualified leads not a metric for measuring campaigns, but a product delivered to sales development reps and executives. The benefit of this approach is twofold: Marketing doesn’t assume that their sales team will immediately value, understand and act on the leads they provide.

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Top of Funnel B2B Sales B2B Marketing Lead Ranking 48

Golden Spiral

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A caution before we begin: your product launch will not live up to your expectations unless grounded in two things: You must fully understand your Buyer Matrix — who your buyer is, what motivates your buyer, and the real, career-challenging problem your buyer needs to solve. Get Your Organization Hyped.

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Product Webinar Metrics Cross-Selling Planning 90

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Here she expounds on the shift in technology buying processes I outlined in a previous post, How Social Media Changed the Sales Cycle into the Buying Cycle. Buyers today expect to be able to gather the vast majority of the information they need to make a purchasing decision without ever talking to a sales rep.

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Emarketing Marketing Automation Services Manticore Marketing Management 100

Binary Demand

MAY 17, 2024

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/]Every marketer’s obvious dream is to convert leads into customers. During lengthy B2B sales cycles, certain leads may not be prepared to purchase at any stage of the funnel. Differentiating yourself and gaining new customers is possible just through B2B lead nurturing.

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Lead Ranking Lead Nurturing Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 52

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

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Peer-to-peer Marketing Automation Services Spending Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The question any marketer needs to ask - Are your marketing efforts adding to the clutter, or driving a valuable dialogue and as a result, connecting meaningfully with prospects to advance the buying cycle? These three issues are having a measurable impact on marketing.

Interactive Marketing 40

Interactive Marketing Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Buying Cycle 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. Most organizations continue to spend much more on branding and relationship management versus value-based sales and marketing initiatives. Is this digital spending allocation aligning with buyer needs?

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 3, 2012

Most sales professionals will readily admit that buyers have taken control of the buying cycle, and are demanding a different more value-based sales approach. Science tells us that when change is presented, the risks are amplified, while compelling benefits are heavily discounted, leading to a status-quo bias.

Tools 40

Tools Paid Search Agency Buying Cycle Work Management 40

InsightSquared

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Though you’d think that the benefits of cross-team collaboration would be obvious, sales reps and marketers can easily fall out of alignment, leading to clashes that undermine collaboration and impact both teams’ success. Why You’re Likely Still Frenemies. Sales and marketing usually want to be friends. Sound familiar?

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Work Management Marketing Management Customer Satisfaction Marketing & Strategy 218

Webbiquity

JANUARY 3, 2012

Social media, content aggregation and curation , user-generated content and other developments have dramatically changed the B2B buying cycle over the past few years. How can B2B organizations, marketers and sales professionals adjust to, and thrive in, this new environment? Addressing Changes in the B2B Buying Cycle.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management B2B Sales Top of Funnel B2B Marketing 100

Inbox Insight

JULY 31, 2020

In the midst of transformation, vendors have an opportunity to capture the attention of HR tech buyers with great content, and turn cold prospects into hot leads. As more companies become reliant on technology to be agile, efficient and competitive in their field, vendors will be able to reach more buyers at the top of the funnel.

Work Management 89

Work Management Marketing Management Research Top of Funnel 89

Kapost

APRIL 5, 2017

Organizations that use a mapping program to manage buyer and customer journeys average a 79% increase in cross-sell and upsell revenue, marketing research from the Aberdeen Group reveals. In the new B2B marketing landscape, buyers are in control of their journeys. Mapping the Buyer’s Journey to the Sales Funnel.

Top of Funnel 81

Top of Funnel Buyer's Journey Digital Marketing Funnels Buyer Personas 81

B2B Digital Marketer

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today he leads a team of digital marketing pros who love to work with busy executives who understand digital marketing is critical, but just don’t have time or expertise to build & execute in a way that delivers real results. 15:15 – The B2B buying cycle. We didn’t get any leads from that.

Sales Management 52

Sales Management B2B Marketing Top of Funnel Planning 52

Webbiquity

OCTOBER 8, 2019

They do email marketing, organic social media marketing, influencer marketing , and public relations (PR). B2B marketers need to be prepared to address the information needs of these buyers. That means the business buyer needs to justify the need (why is this better than the way we do things now?)

Enterprise Management 235

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 235

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The good news is that todays buyer wants to be engaged, with 9 out of 10 actively relying on vendor provided information on their way to making a purchase decision. Instead of being engaged, buyers are now inundated with more meaningless product information and offers than ever before, creating "marketing fatigue".

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Paper Work Management Marketing Budget 40