Tony Zambito

APRIL 10, 2011

  Here is a key issue facing organizations today: each time a new social technology is introduced, it ultimately alters the buying behaviors of the new social buyer persona.    Have organizations today kept pace with the changes in buying behaviors and patterns? 

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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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QuanticMind

JANUARY 21, 2020

Content marketing is one of the most common strategies B2B marketers use for demand generation. Since you’re ultimately targeting a business, not individual people within it, your content needs to be relevant to all key players throughout the customer journey. What is Account-Based Marketing? Audience behavioral signals

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Resolution #1: Leverage AI the Right Way Generative AI (genAI) has completely changed the game by offering B2B marketers opportunities to enhance their strategies and streamline time-intensive tasks such as campaign design, audience or competitor research, and content ideation.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

By Maria Geokezas , VP of Client Services at Heinz Marketing. It happens without taking a look at the buyer personas and the entire buying cycle to help identify qualities and quantifiers of a great customer. These companies are the ones that could use your product or service best. How Lazy ICPs happen.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 19, 2013

Ann Handley (MarketingProfs) – Content strategist and author of the best-selling book on content marketing, Content Rules. Lee Odden (TopRank Online Marketing) Author of Optimize, CEO of @TopRank Online Marketing – Focused on Search, Social Media, PR & Content Marketing. Co-founder, ClickZ.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 15, 2021

Do you want to speed up your average buying cycle? Account-Based Marketing and Demand Generation are both content-heavy but highly potent tactics going into 2021. Account-Based Marketing and Demand Generation are both content-heavy but highly potent tactics going into 2021.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

A curated production process + a fully-vetted community of creative pros = outstanding and affordable video content. CMIcontent – Content Marketing Institute – Content Marketing Institute for all things # ContentMarketing. Home of Chief Content Office Magazine and THE event Content Marketing World.

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Many executives, in particular those of B2B and service oriented organizations, are faced with the challenge of having to rethink how to succeed in today’s digital age.    Viewing what each function is capable of in isolation and missing the harmonizing around the buyer experience.  Buyer Personas.

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Cohesion : In conversations with several B2B CEO’s, a recent issue is that while there have been new approaches related to areas such as demand generation, content marketing, and social media, there is a lack of cohesion in these efforts that contributes to the overall buyer experience.

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Valasys

AUGUST 2, 2019

The B2B industry flourishes by capturing the interests of the buyer personas based on their past buying preferences & researching habits, their demographic, firmographic, technographic & psychographic data. Serving Personalized Pieces of Content: . Cutting Down The Clutter: .

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

.  B2B buyers today desire the totality of end-to-end experience in addition to products and services that help them to meet goals and solve challenges.   In the Buyer Experience Innovation framework, the design of buyer experiences is one of its most important elements. 

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 19, 2013

Yes, a lot has been written lately on the use of buyer personas, or how content marketing “starts with the buyer, or the importance of mapping the buyer journey. Yet, according to Forrester , only 14% of marketers align compelling content with buyers’ journeys.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Demand is still very much part of the business vocabulary today.    Especially in the vernacular of B2B marketing whereby we see many topics related to Creating Demand, Demand Generation , Increasing Demand, and etc.    There is a given assumption that has to be underscored. 

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2009

Yesterday’s BtoB Leading Edge, Demand Generation in the Digital Age was a great way to make sure your organization’s demand generation programs are best-in-class. LinkedIn gave an impressive demonstration on how they handled demand generation without a robust marketing budget or unlimited marketing staff members.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 11, 2011

Professional service firms often rely on the power of the rain-maker salespersons’ contacts to drive their growth. But I think the role of Marketing in B2B should be much more than creating product brochures and buying print ads in the magazines the sales folks read. It must include product development and service delivery.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system. Divided into six sections, as an appetizer the book starts off with eMarketing Essentials , the “why&# of using content marketing for complex sales. What problems do they face?

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2011

B- Buyer Personas. Its one thing to know the demographics of your target audience; but it’s another thing to understand what makes your prospects make business decisions to purchase; the pain points; business needs; drivers; purchase cycles. D- Demand Generation. C- Conversion Architecture. H- Headline.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 24, 2014

Unfortunately, a survey of buyers indicates that the vast majority of sales reps are adding little value to IT buyer decision making. According to Gartner, left unresolved, the Value Gap can place much of your marketing and demand generation activities at risk.

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Everything Technology Marketing

MAY 24, 2010

With compelling content that is relevant, valuable, and of high quality. Remarkable content that leaves a lasting impression and engages the reader to take action such as requesting access to your Webcast or asking to get in touch with you to learn more about your solution. What stages do your buyers go through?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2022

Profiling customers allows you to better understand the problems your would-be buyers are attempting to solve, which helps revenue professionals do their jobs more effectively at every stage of the customer buying cycle. With better profiles, demand generation teams can craft stronger advertising campaigns.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2011

   To date, it appears that many of the efforts to reach buyers remain tactical in nature.    Companies are looking to social media and other means such as content marketing to fit into their existing structure and business operations.    Follow @TonyZambito.   Related articles.

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The Marketing Blender

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Companies in this space face unique challenges, from intricate supply chain issues to global competition, long buying cycles, and specialized vendor requirements. This can often mean sharing others’ content. In the dynamic world of B2B manufacturing, marketing can be a complex maze. Diversify your approach now.

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Crimson Marketing

JUNE 26, 2015

Did you know that 42% of B2B marketers publish new content multiple times per week? For some of you, that means new content daily. Many marketers “have fallen into this cycle of churning out as much content as possible, but is this really the right approach?” Content is not managed as a strategic asset.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2012

What service level agreements (SLAs) will there be regarding lead follow-up? Marketing automation can drive the most results when a company uses it as an opportunity to realign its entire revenue engine around the modern customer’s new buying cycle. Content and Personas. What is your content calendar?

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

B2B marketers are producing, managing, and distributing marketing content to reach prospects and turn them into customers. We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: How to use content effectively for demand generation? Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Get Content.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 13, 2009

What matters is the customer -- not the product, service or solution. They should map out the customer decision process and create buyer personas. Using that information, they should determine how to best interact with customers throughout their entire buying cycle. sales leads for their team? technology.

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Madison Logic

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Often considered the greatest technological advancement since the Internet, AI and machine learning offer a range of benefits that help businesses with tight budgets create efficient marketing campaigns while streamlining more time-intensive tasks, such as content ideation and audience research.

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NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Overcoming lack of understanding, resources, and content . I’ve been hired my firms past and current with the challenge to generate quality leads and manage marketing automation drip campaigns. Without a sound content strategy, you’re marketing to your prospects with no direction, and your marketing automation will be deemed useless.

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The rise of remote working has led to a huge increase in SaaS (Software as a Service) adoption, with the global SaaS market estimated to reach a value of $195 billion during 2023. Added to that, today’s tech-savvy B2B SaaS buyers like to complete their own research process before even thinking about contacting your sales team.

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The rise of remote working has led to a huge increase in SaaS (Software as a Service) adoption, with the global SaaS market estimated to reach a value of $195 billion during 2023. Added to that, today’s tech-savvy B2B SaaS buyers like to complete their own research process before even thinking about contacting your sales team.

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The rise of remote working has led to a huge increase in SaaS (Software as a Service) adoption, with the global SaaS market estimated to reach a value of $195 billion during 2023. Added to that, today’s tech-savvy B2B SaaS buyers like to complete their own research process before even thinking about contacting your sales team.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 8, 2021

B2B marketing campaigns are constantly adapting to the rapidly shifting needs and demands of the modern business world, but one factor remains constant: A well-designed content marketing strategy can elevate a business from good to great. What is B2B Content Marketing? What Does B2B Content Marketing Do?

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Circle Studio

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Content is useful for attracting prospects and generating and nurturing leads as they move through the stages of the buying cycle, but you shouldn’t stop at business development and sales. Instead, create content to continuously engage throughout the entire client journey, from awareness to advocacy.

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SnapApp

JUNE 5, 2018

Marketing teams to stop measuring success by lead volume, and start collaborating more closely with the sales team to ensure they are delivering the right content to generate demand, nurture leads, and enable the sales reps further down the funnel. Closed : People who have paid for your product or service.

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LEADership

AUGUST 13, 2013

You have specific products and services for the different industries you serve. 3. Individual buyer personas and user profiles matter—even though B2B buyers typically work as a team. You think you know your buyer. Tailor emails to fit into buying stages. No more gated content please.

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