Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Leverage Buyer Insights To Create Rewarding Digital Buying Experiences For Buyers. One significant outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the increasing desire on the part of buyers for digital buying experiences. 2 – Step back and drop the buying journey label for a moment.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 31, 2022

In today’s crowded and increasingly digital marketing landscape, you need a strong content strategy in order to reach your audience. It is different from content marketing, which is the execution of your strategy. Buyer personas are a valuable tool for defining your target audience prior to launching your content strategy.

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sagefrog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Success in B2B marketing isnt just about delivering the right message. B2B buyers engage with brands across multiple platforms, making consistency and strategic coordination essential. Integrated marketing also eliminates redundancies and focuses resources on tactics that drive results.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

As marketing technology and information access continues to evolve, B2B buying behavior changes as well. For example, recent research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. What Are Buyer Personas?

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Trade Press Services

APRIL 28, 2025

For B2B marketers, truly knowing their customers is the holy grail, but getting there is no easy feat. With the right prompts for generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Jasper, marketers can simulate buyer conversations, extract insights from raw data, and even fill in the gaps when feedback is sparse.

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Tony Zambito

JULY 10, 2011

In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on how it is important to leave some of the major misconceptions about buyer personas behind in order to peer into the future.    Without a doubt, we are seeing the most dramatic change in buyer behaviors since post World War II. 

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 2, 2020

All customers take a journey when making a purchase. Today, this journey often involves the use of search engines. As a marketer, I must admit that when I first began implementing SEO strategies, I was so focused on keywords and properly formatting websites that I forgot actual human beings would be using the search engine.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 10, 2021

What is striking is the funnel view has changed very little during the past twenty years. Oh, I know we have the buyer’s journey, curve shapes, non-linear shapes, flywheels, and etc. But if you and I are being honest, the most significant development is the funnel was flipped from its vertical view to a horizontal view.

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FunnelEnvy

DECEMBER 9, 2024

To achieve success in modern digital B2B marketing, the alignment of marketing and sales teams is no longer optionalit’s a necessity. Despite the clear benefits, achieving harmony between marketing and sales remains challenging for many B2B organizations. What is B2B Marketing and Sales Alignment?

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Tony Zambito

MAY 29, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Will Need To Activate Critical Buyer Insights To Meet New Buyer Behaviors in a New Era for B2B. Getting your hands on critical buyer insights that show how to gain the attention of buyers remains the most significant challenge facing B2B leaders. Resulting in ineffective buyer personas.

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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. 6 Ways to Create a Buyer Journey Map.

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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? And effectively developing buyer personas can help you do just that.

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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? And effectively developing buyer personas can help you do just that.

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Biznology

JULY 26, 2017

Account-based marketing is a hot concept in B2B these days, but how does it really work on the ground? Enli is the market leader and always looking for ways to maintain their lead. I posed four questions to David about the journey to ABM. It’s changed entirely the way we work in marketing. We run campaigns.”

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The premise of content marketing is simple: Offer something of value and, in exchange, earn the trust of potential customers. Yet, when it comes time to execute, many marketers stumble. If you’ve ever asked yourself a similar line of questions, fear not, dear marketer. Content Marketing Calendar Goals and Key Considerations.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Understanding the nature of the buyer's journey is central to conducting sound marketing and sales efforts. What the Buyer's Journey Looks Like for Consumers in 2022. What the Buyer's Journey Looks Like for Consumers in 2022. How the Buyer's Journey Could Change. Let's dive in.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Funnels, stages, paths, journeys, and more labels that suggest some form of a linear line of thinking has dominated marketing and sales for decades. As forward-thinking marketing and sales leaders prepare for 2020 and continuous digital disruption, it is time to alter this line of thinking. Buyers Are On A Quest.

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Lead Forensics

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The Foundation of Trust in B2B Marketing In B2B marketing, trust isnt just important – its essential. For businesses, this underscores the importance of ensuring that your brand is not only visible but also trustworthy at every stage of the buyers journey. In a crowded market, attention must be earned.

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PureB2B

JUNE 23, 2022

While online B2B buying habits have changed dramatically in the past decade, today's B2B buyer journey looks a lot different than it did just a couple of years ago. Therefore, as Forrester states, the role of B2B marketing is “no longer to attract and persuade; it’s really to engage buyers and help them through their journey.”.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 11, 2025

Tailoring content to distinct personas or customer segments allows you to deliver more relevant, engaging, and effective messaging. The process often involves analyzing factors like demographics, interests, purchasing behavior, and buyer journey stage to create personalized experiences for different audience groups.

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Ever wonder why everyone seems to be talking about their content marketing funnel? It’s not just an online marketing buzzword. Content marketing funnels are a powerful way to guide customers toward buying from you, without being too pushy or resorting to shady sales tactics. Middle of the Funnel.

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

  This rethinking raises questions as well as the dialogue today on the effectiveness of the traditional functions of sales, marketing, support, and customer service.     Viewing what each function is capable of in isolation and missing the harmonizing around the buyer experience.  Buyer Personas.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Yet they usually consist of a series of repeatable steps that a salesperson can take with a prospect in order to move them down the sales funnel. As we said earlier, sales processes are mapped out, replicable steps that salespeople can follow to best guide prospects through the sales funnel. Prioritize Sales and Marketing Alignment.

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NetLine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Unless you’re Beth Harmon from The Queen’s Gambit , navigating the B2B buyer journey can feel like you’re playing a multi-level chess game. What is the B2B buyer journey? We make this happen by understanding the stages of the B2B buyer journey and learning what our customers need at each stage.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For close to 20 years, for me that’s also meant the Momentum ITSMA Marketing Vision event. As a long-time ITSMA partner I have been privileged to attend the event in-person which showcases a plethora of B2B marketing experts, expert insights and points of view, and cutting edge and innovative research.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 29, 2021

By Win Salyards , Marketing Coordinator at Heinz Marketing. I cannot overstate how vital sales and marketing alignment is to a successful ABM program sale. With no alignment, the funnel breaks, prospects receive mixed messaging poorly targeted to where they are in the buyer journey. Educate and Coach.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 5, 2019

Whenever you read a marketing piece or go to a conference, you will hear that the B2B buyer journey is getting longer and more complex. Align Offers to the Stage of Buyer Journey and Advertising Platform. At this point, we have identified our buyer personas and where they are.

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Kaon

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Power the Bottom of the Funnel with Sales Enablement, Deborah Farese, Hubspot. First and foremost, you need to understand your buyer persona, i.e. name, demographics, goals, habits, and needs. Then, you need to focus on the buyer’s journey. Monitor social media for conservations with buyers.

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Sales Engine

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

That’s good news if you’re just getting your feet wet in content marketing because you can learn from best practices to drive superior execution to stand out. But before you start your content generating engines, let’s back up a bit and look at 7 elements that every successful content marketing strategy must have: 1.

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Scoop.it

JANUARY 3, 2023

Mapping your content also helps you uncover the best ideas that fit your brand goals and overall content funnel. Define Your Buyer Persona. Buyer personas refer to fictionalized representations of your ideal customers. An example of a buyer persona template from SEMrush is shown below.

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Modern B2B

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Modern ranks 8th for ABM and 9th for Demand Generation among 80+ leading UK agencies This dual recognition highlights Modern’s expertise in strategic go-to-market transformations during a challenging year marked by budget constraints and increasing pressure to deliver more with less. Their “Inbound Engine 2.0”

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Orange Owl Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

B2B Marketing The B2B Buyer Journey: A Comprehensive Guide Orange Owl March 8, 2025 Share : Table of Contents Introduction Understanding the buyer journey is crucial in B2B marketing. What is the B2B Buyer Journey? B2B buyer journey statistics support this claim.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Think you’re safe because you have a dedicated content marketing strategy? New platforms continue to emerge, giving content marketers a wealth of ways to get their messages out. Many times, this leads marketers to forget their strategy and run after one-off campaigns. Nowhere is that truer than in content marketing.

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Single Grain

JANUARY 20, 2020

The SaaS market has been on a continuous growth streak for the last few years and it is going to continue in the coming years as well. Book My Free Marketing Consultation. What Makes SaaS Marketing so Daunting? The answer is quite straightforward: inbound marketing through an effective content strategy.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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Orange Owl Blog

APRIL 10, 2025

Performance Marketing Top B2B Lead Generation Agencies in India in 2025 Vivek Goel April 11, 2025 Share : Table of Contents Introduction In todays highly competitive B2B landscape, generating high-quality leads isnt just a marketing functionits a growth imperative.

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Learn from the Pros

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The B2B buyer journey is a complex, winding path. Buyers bounce between stages, consult multiple sources, and weigh countless options before they make a decision. Today’s buyers require over 2,000 impressions and 200 touchpoints before committing (HockeyStack). Winning mindshare is the first step to winning market share.

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