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. These can be any relevant signals that indicate a business could benefit from your products or services (even if they’re not actively searching for businesses like yours). Focus on Content Distribution for Demand Generation.

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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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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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Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Once the AI generates copy for an article, for example, you can refine the content using data to dig deeper into buyer pain points and change the tone to ensure it matches with other assets and brand messaging. Personalization is no longer a nice touch—it’s a buyer demand.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 19, 2013

Paul Dunay (Maxymiser) – Paul Dunay is an award-winning B2B marketing expert with more than 20 years’ success in generating demand and creating buzz for leading technology, consumer products, financial services and professional services organizations. Add Paul: https://plus.google.com/102020971187267438341. .

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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. As a target enters the consideration or validation phase, they’ll be searching for optimization around the product or service your company offers.

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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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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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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 20, 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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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

. @ B2BLeadBlog – B2B Lead Roundtable – B2B Lead Roundtable (MECLABS) reaches 9,000+ daily LinkedIn Group and Blog on: markting, lead generation, management, nurturing, research, case studies. Arketi – Arketi Group – A high-tech business-to-business (B2B) public relations and digital marketing agency.

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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. Cutting Down The Clutter: . Promoting Cross-Functioning between Content & other Marketing Strategies: .

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 19, 2013

You don’t know the buyer JACK”! 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. What steps does the buyer take when purchasing my product or service?

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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. This means marketing is more than the typical B2B Marketing setup covering field sales enablement, demand generation and awareness through outbound marketing messages and campaigns.

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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. 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.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 2, 2011

One of the clearest mandates being heard from B2B buyers today is the desire for buying experiences that offer more than just a product or service sale.  Create informing buyer personas that teams can respond to. Map the buyer’s journey and the buying process. Step 3: Buyer Journey Mapping. . 

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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. Don’t take conversion strategy lightly.

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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

2 - Buyer Persona After establishing your target segments at the macro level, and defining your ideal customer profile, let's look at the people within those target organizations that influence and make buying decisions for the type of products or services you offer. 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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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. Dealing with Distributed Sales Teams/Distributors In some cases, your real buyer persona might be your distributors and their sales teams.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2011

  Certain tactical initiatives related to social networking , content strategy, demand generation, and more continue to have a very provincial nature to them and the debate related to proverbial “who owns this” continues to be avoided.    That view may not be a truism anymore in the social business world. 

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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. How will sales leads that don’t move forward get recycled?

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Crimson Marketing

JUNE 26, 2015

At the end it depends on your buyers, the length of the buying cycle and how complex your process needs to be.” ” Develop buyer personas. The content needs of a CEO, CMO, Director of Marketing Ops, or a marketing analyst are very different, though they may all be on a similar buyer’s journey.

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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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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: How to use content effectively for demand generation? Influence: your prospects are driven to promote this knowledge to others in their organization and drive interest and buy-in for your product or service. NOTE: generic product, not our product.

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Madison Logic

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In addition to these specific use cases, AI and machine learning automate a variety of marketing tasks, such as data entry, social media management, and customer service. To stand out from the crowd, B2B marketers need to be able to demonstrate the value of their products and services.

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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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NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

If you are an SMB, and you do have products/services with at least a 90 day buying cycle (Interest-Consideration-Purchase), your content, if implemented properly, will cause audiences to consider your solution, and put your firm in the “finals” for when prospects decide to contact your sales team. Content Plan. Content Audit.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 8, 2021

Start by defining your buyer persona and target audience, then ask the following questions: Where does your audience spend most of their time? Why is your product or service necessary for their business? The Role of B2B Content Marketing in Demand Generation and Account-Based Marketing Campaigns.

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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. In this stage, a prospect becomes familiar with your firm and/or realizes that they have a need for your services.

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