Madison Logic

JANUARY 5, 2023

Marketers need to be more resourceful and purposeful with their marketing budgets by focusing on strategies that bring them more ROI and customer revenue. . When B2B marketers meet customers where they are in the buyer’s journey with a relevant and personalized experience, they’ll see better ROI and higher engagement.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

I had the pleasure to present at a VIP Breakfast yesterday within the Forrester B2B Marketing and Sales event, on-stage with Mary Shea, Principal Analyst for Forrester, This included announcing live our merger with Mediafly, a leading sales enablement company. Clearly, expectations are being missed.

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Top Rank Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Almost six out of ten (57%) of the buyers Wunderman Thompson surveyed for their report admitted that they felt “less loyal” to B2B sellers than they did pre-pandemic. B2B buyers need innovative solutions to keep up and get ahead, too, and, according to the research, they’re more willing to look to new sources for these solutions than ever.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 23, 2014

In their 2014 B2B Content Preferences Study , DemandGen Report findings show that 68 percent of B2B buyers advise B2B content marketers to “curb the sales messaging” and 64 percent advise “Focus less on product specifications and more on value.” This requires an understanding of the buyer, their buying path and content consumption patterns.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

More than 75 percent of prospects feel the sales professionals who contact them lack knowledge of their specific business, role and responsibilities at work, or even the issues they’re trying to resolve, according to research from Forrester. You also get to understand their abilities and properly map them to your buyers’ needs.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 2, 2023

B2B buyers need more attention and information to make a purchase decision, ideally, a personalized buying experience. Why Personalization Matters Today’s buyers no longer want a personalized experience; they demand it. That’s where account-based marketing (ABM) comes in. And it works.

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6sense

JANUARY 31, 2022

And many historical buying committee models have focused on individual roles, needs, preferences — mostly from a business and function context. . New research from TrustRadius, Gartner, Forrester, and others adds a new, critical layer of understanding to the buying committee mix: generational differences. .

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B2B Marketing Directions

JUNE 11, 2023

About a decade ago, the B2B buying process model developed by SiriusDecisions (now part of Forrester) became widely popular with B2B marketers. Wade's B2B buyer journey framework contains five distinct phases - Horizon Scanner , Explorer , Hunter , Active Buyer , and Client. Webster and Yoram Wind. In Chapter 02 of the book, Ms.

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Televerde

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Having the right technology, and knowing how to use it, is the essential first step in getting the kind of results attributed to modern marketers in a Forrester survey of marketing decision makers which shows, among other things, that 94% of modern markers attain significant market share, with 49% holding the market-leading position. [1].

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Outreach

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

As the world settles into the new normal, Forrester Research predicts that 80 percent of B2B sales will happen remotely, while 53 percent of B2B workers hope to continue to work from home. The right technology enables you to gain insights that matter, and tailor communications to specific B2B buyers’ needs and desires.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 27, 2020

According to Forrester Research , marketers are increasingly turning to intelligent chat to support their sales efforts and respond to questions during such an unpredictable era. COVID-19 loan programs are also responsible for an increase in lending activity, and lenders are being inundated with buyer requests as a result.

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Mereo

JUNE 29, 2023

Your buyers desire meaningful content that is shares keen insights and is backed by facts (statistics, client testimonials). In fact, Forrester estimates that 65% of produced marketing assets go unused because they are irrelevant. Just like your value messaging, your content should resonate and be tailored for buyer needs.

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Outreach

JUNE 22, 2021

Or they might bring up our position on the Forrester Wave report. A large partner ecosystem means our products integrate with all of the other resources buyers need. The rep can scan the battlecard and pick the best response. Or they could ignore it entirely. Our battlecards aren’t prescriptive. You get the idea.

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Mereo

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Your website and the thought leadership and resources you provide to buyers on it — as they spend nearly half their buying journey researching solutions online — matter. Make sure your content is tailored to your target buyers’ needs and that you are demonstrating your expertise wherever the prospective buyer clicks.

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Madison Logic

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Use data to target the right accounts Any ABM strategy requires you to speak directly to buyer needs. To personalize your messaging and shift away from generic ads you need a deep understanding of your target audience. Utilize multiple data sources to target the right accounts.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2017

Although buyers leverage digital more than ever in their decision making process, and as a result appear to engage with reps later in the decision making process (up to 57% of the way through), sales reps still have a big impact, ESPECIALLY if they can intersect early in the buyer’s journey, and with value.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 23, 2018

This echoes similar research from Forrester, too – they found that only 31 percent of marketers use journey maps in their work. What needs to be done – and what so few content marketers are doing – is to “map” your content to the buyer’s journey. It’s their job – literally.

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Seismic

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The need for innovation has never been greater — in how enablement is executed to meet the changing buyer needs, seller demands, and even how and who we hire. . Looking forward to 2022, enablement innovation won’t slow down.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 7, 2013

T his week, leading sales enablement professionals met to share issues, best practices and success stories at the Forrester Sales Enablement Forum. Today’s more resource constrained, risk averse and frugal buyer needs significant convincing as to “Why Change?”, “Why Now?” and “Why You?”

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Recognizing that buyers will use the chart to select products no matter what I tell them, I settled on dimensions that are directly related to the purchase process: - product fit , which assesses how well a product matches buyer needs. This is a combination of features, usability, technology, and price.

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Akoonu

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Creating campaigns that are targeted to buyers divided up into similar segments based on their role, preferences and needs helps marketers to send messages that resonate better with their audience. The fact that Forrester found that expertise in lead nurturing results in a 50% increase in sales-ready leads is disturbing.

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Cintell

MARCH 10, 2016

Using Personas increases email open rate 2-5 times (Forrester). Lack of foundational research into targeting the right audience and understanding buyer needs and behavior causes a huge waste of resources.” Persona based content increased customer engagement almost six-fold when targeting cold leads (10% versus 58%). DemandGen).

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

Today, featuring the founder and CEO of Demand Revenue, former SiriusDecisions and Forrester Analyst, Alan Gonsenhauser. Obviously, if you have been following SiriusDecisions or Forrester for a long time you’ve probably seen Alan’s name in research or content. Alan, thanks for joining us. Nice to do one of these with you.

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Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Unfortunately, most marketers don't know how their customers feel about advertising, according to Forrester. For example, some companies require their prospects to complete a questionnaire that benchmarks buyer needs and lists the seller's best-customer characteristics.

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Madison Logic

JANUARY 18, 2023

Marketers need to adapt their content strategies to give them what they want and positively affect the buyer’s experience. . In short-listing vendors, buyers find short-form video and long-form written content helpful because they require a bit more information in understanding how a solution works to solve a problem. .

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Scoop.it

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Because many organizations don’t understand why sales reps need content and what types of content to provide them to help them win more deals. Why Do Salespeople Need Content? According to Forrester , 62% of buyers prefer to finalize their list of vendors or even decide on a solution based solely on digital content they consume.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 13, 2024

According to Forrester research, millennial buyers aged 25-44 are increasingly shifting into purchase decision-making roles and are expected to make up three-fourths of business buying teams in 2024. As a result of this shift, marketers and sellers can no longer rely on what has always worked to reach them.

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Today, however, rising buyer expectations and changing buyer communications preferences require new kinds of marketing communications methods that don't fit the traditional campaign construct. For example, Forrester Consulting recently wrote: ".

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

A whopping 76 % of the deals don’t go to the company that wins the competitive bake-off, where features make a difference, rather the win goes to the solution provider who engages early to help the buyer establish the buying agenda (Forrester).

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Mereo

MARCH 26, 2020

you have nothing of which to serve your buyer. And over time, your buyers’ needs you first set out to alleviate change. Turn to reputable resources such as Gartner, Forrester and more to keep up with the current state of things and — most importantly — pay attention to where the market, competitors and buyers are headed.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

B2B buyers have fundamentally and permanently changed, and the B2B sales and marketing professionals that realize Frugalnomics is in full effect, and change strategies and tactics to fight back, will be the winners over this next decade. the value referring to the specific "know how" your clients need to achieve an outcome.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The key question the buyer needs answered: “ Why Now? ”. Of course, if you engaged with the buyer early, and helped facilitate the early stages of the decision cycle, you have likely created a superior customer experience, are viewed as more consultative and are by default most differentiated.

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PathFactory

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

You and your buyers have probably had this experience, too. According to recent Forrester Research, 73% of millennials in the workforce are already involved in purchasing decisions for their firms and that millennials will comprise 44% of the total US workforce by 2025¹. Some were even born into it. Resonate emotionally.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

"Effective content for either technical or business buyers needs to address issues that keep them awake at night" Tom Pick's Bio. In short, effective content for either technical or business buyers needs to address issues that keep them awake at night, in the language they use. Blog Webbiquity Twitter TomPick.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 17, 2011

At the same time the purchase process has become more complex; buyers have more stakeholders than ever to deal with (more than 6 in large organizations), extreme resource constraints, and less time than ever to evaluate opportunities, select and justify solutions and drive an ever-more complex purchase process.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

and "Why Now?".

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

For example, automotive sites now provide more tools than ever to guide buyer’s decisions including customized configurators and pricing tools, competitive comparison tools, video brochures, and Facebook “fan” pages.

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