KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

For example, recent research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. DemandGen’s “ 2017 Content Preferences Survey Report ” discovered that 46 percent of B2B buyers have moved towards shorter formats of content in the past year. What Are Buyer Personas?

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Pam Didner

OCTOBER 22, 2022

To articulate how well you know your customer requires the development of buyer personas, which take a deep dive into the interests and traits of your target audience. Buyer personas are the foundation of all things marketing. Buyer personas guide marketing campaigns, messaging development, and content creation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 5, 2016

Historically in B2B demand generation, more has been better too. This is a very important concept to understand in marketing, especially for demand generation. This is a very important concept to understand in marketing, especially for demand generation. More leads? Remember the law of diminishing returns?

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Inbox Insight

MAY 31, 2019

Whether you’re in the early stages of deploying an account based marketing strategy, planning a scaled down account based marketing pilot or are in the midst of a fully-fledged ABM program, we have a water-tight methodology that you can pit your planning against. Target Account List (TAL) creation.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Account-Based Marketing. Buyer Strategy. Demand Gen and Lead Management. Your Top Ten Questions About B2B Buyer Personas. Recently, we partnered with Demand Gen Report to present a webinar about the power of personas. We’ve developed personas, but they aren’t getting used. Marketing Expertise.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2022

Companies generate tremendous waste by having sales, marketing and customer service teams that are not only not coordinated, but that are at odds in their objectives and programs. ” Content Marketing Institute : 58% of “high-alignment” sales and marketing organizations use buyer personas to align sales and marketing. .”

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 13, 2015

In October of 2014, ANNUITAS published a Benchmark Study regarding B2B Enterprise Demand Generation. One of the key takeaways was that “Marketing departments are struggling to succeed with their Demand Generation.” On understanding and connecting with your buyer. Aligning to the buyer.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Adam Needles’ new book Balancing the Demand Equation (available here from Amazon ) closes the gap. Needles is a well-known industry leader who is Chief Strategy Officer at demand generation agency Leftbrain DGA. His book starts with a review of changes in the B2B buying process and the new demands these place on B2B marketers.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Peer-to-peer Work Management 120

Televerde

MAY 13, 2024

A standout top-of-the-funnel marketing strategy is a must for brands that want to catch the attention of their target prospects and win them over their competitors. Top-of-the-funnel marketing is how you often make your first impression with a potential customer, and how you differentiate from the other companies targeting the same buyers.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

It suggests that one can’t be done without the other, and to do both correctly, strategy must come first. It’s the foundation, after all. The second definition is what we’re going to talk about here—what your marketing department’s strategy should be for making the most of the time, energy and dollars you allocate to marketing.

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Pam Didner

MAY 14, 2020

Or you can download these templates to help you update your marketing plan: two-pager, buyer persona, and messaging templates and the written examples here. ?? Or you can download these templates to help you update your marketing plan: two-pager, buyer persona, and messaging templates and the written examples here. ??

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 4, 2015

So many great research reports coming out of last year that provide us with a chance to reflect on our B2B marketing strategies and compare it to our peers. One new set of insights published by DemandGen Report and Marketo is the 2015 Demand Gen Report Benchmark Study. Putting off Buyer Personas. I love this time of year.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 20, 2015

Simply having a demand generation program is no longer enough to drive sustainable revenue, as evidenced by the less than three percent of marketing departments that indicate their demand generation efforts are actually effective ( ANNUITAS 2014 B2B Enterprise Demand Generation Survey ).You

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Inbox Insight

APRIL 22, 2024

One strategy has proven to be a game-changer – lead generation. This blog explores the significant benefits of lead generation, highlighting its importance and role in modern business. Understanding the significance of lead generation in B2B Lead generation is the backbone of any successful marketing strategy.

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Cintell

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

In fact, the #1 priority of B2B marketers in 2016 will be “understanding buyers,” according to a recent survey from the IT Sales and Marketing Association. In today’s world of empowered buyers, the marketers who are getting it done are those who understand their buyers best. Buyer personas are: A big priority.

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PureB2B

JUNE 28, 2022

One of the biggest challenges in B2B marketing is breaking down your audience to ensure you address the entirety of your buyer persona. Therefore, to really drive conversions from these types of buyers, you’ll need to market to their peers within the same decision-making group. Using Marketing Intent Data.

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PureB2B

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As a demand generation marketer focused on quality leads, creating a solid lead generation strategy should be at the top of your “to-do” list. However, there’s a chance that your lead generation plan needs to pivot or evolve over time with your targeted buyer persona.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

One of the most fundamental concepts in economics is that of supply and demand.  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. 

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PureB2B

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As a demand generation marketer focused on quality leads, creating a solid lead generation strategy should be at the top of your “to-do” list. However, there’s a chance that your lead generation plan needs to pivot or evolve over time with your targeted buyer persona.

Lead Generation 62

Lead Generation Marketing Budget Sales Qualified Leads Top of Funnel 62

Pam Didner

MAY 14, 2020

Reasons to make marketing strategy adjustments during the Pandemic By talking to various customers, peers, and past colleagues, I found that everyone was struggling initially (me included) to make adjustments based on the rapid changes. Does my marketing strategy need to be revised for the changing economy? Therefore, the answer is YES.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

  Clamoring to show ROI, accountability, measurable results, tracking results, the ROI calculator, and etc.    Clamoring to show ROI, accountability, measurable results, tracking results, the ROI calculator, and etc.  Listening Post : social media represents the new “listening post” to buyers. 

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Demand Generation. 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. 76 percent of B2B buyers use three or more marketing channels for research. It is that time in the year again. source ). >. source ).

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 1, 2011

.  The second, The Research Methods of Social Buyerology , reviewed the types of research methods needed to attain a deep understanding of the new social buyer persona.    In this third installment, we look at how Social Buyerology can be designed to listen to revealing insights about the social buyer.

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Pam Didner

MAY 14, 2020

Reasons to make marketing strategy adjustments during the Pandemic By talking to various customers, peers, and past colleagues, I found that everyone was struggling initially (me included) to make adjustments based on the rapid changes. Does my marketing strategy need to be revised for the changing economy? Therefore, the answer is YES.

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Mereo

MAY 28, 2020

But in the light of social distancing and shelter-in-place guidelines, many salespeople are literally grounded in one spot, seeking to serve buyers in remote capacities. Yet the global pandemic and its disruption to businesses everywhere has derailed too many of those well intentions for the end of 2020 beyond the point of saving.

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The ABM Agency

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

And any experienced account-based marketer or demand generation extraordinaire will champion this channel as a fruitful outreach strategy. And any experienced account-based marketer or demand generation extraordinaire will champion this channel as a fruitful outreach strategy. Virtual = scalable.

Work Management 52

Work Management B2B Marketing Peer-to-peer Planning 52

Tony Zambito

MARCH 30, 2011

.  As we entered this year, I predicted that it may very well be the year of the buyer.    And the pronounced use of the term buyer has undoubtedly increased substantially.    In essence, we do not know the soul of the buyer.   We relied on numbers and facts to tell us exactly who buyers are. 

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Tony Zambito

MAY 18, 2011

The pendulum has been swinging rapidly during the past two years with respect to understanding buyer behavior and interactions in the social age.      What we know for sure is that the dynamics and interactions between businesses and buyers are undergoing their most significant transformation in many years and decades. 

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

It suggests that one can’t be done without the other, and to do both correctly, strategy must come first. It’s the foundation, after all. The second definition is what we’re going to talk about here—what your marketing department’s strategy should be for making the most of the time, energy and dollars you allocate to marketing.

Resource Management 100

Resource Management Work Management CMS Development Marketing Management 100

Rollworks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The basic idea of account-based selling is that instead of trying to attract a broad base of prospects, the marketing and sales teams work together to reach out to a specified set of accounts. To get full buy-in from the sales team, managers need to explain how account-based selling directly benefits sales representatives.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 13, 2011

.  The second, The Research Methods of Social Buyerology , reviewed the types of research methods needed to attain a deep understanding of the new social buyer persona.    In this fourth article, we examine how to turn insights about the social buyer persona into social influence. 

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Pam Didner

MAY 26, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic put marketers (me included) to the test. After talking to many marketers, we all agree that we need to start thinking about how to do marketing differently in order to react fast as a team. The question is: “How can marketing move quickly in fast-changing situations?” I’ll update this blog post and credit you. ? What is not?”

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Webbiquity

JUNE 17, 2014

In less than a generation, information has gone from being scarce to overabundant. Today’s b2b buyers are typically 70% of the way through their purchase process before they contact a vendor’s sales team. What types of messages matter most to today’s buyers? How To Do It Right: Demand Generation by Forbes.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Some of the top highlights I pulled from the tweets include (plus a couple comments on how to learn more): Focus on content and match it to buyer personas (Looking to do this? ckburgess : Hotel websites are built around product |so are most BtoB websites | build around buyer personas instead.

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B2B Marketing Buyer Personas B2B Lead Scoring 48

SalesIntel

JUNE 29, 2021

Make a buyer persona. What are the most typical issues that your buyers face? Learn how your peers tackle pain points, resolve objections, close deals, and drive repeat business by brainstorming with your team. To ensure highly targeted prospecting, you need to build your email list. Prospecting.

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Everything Technology Marketing

MAY 24, 2010

B2B buyers are more sophisticated than ever. Your B2B markets are changing rapidly. It is now harder than ever for B2B vendors to get the attention of our audiences. Power Shift Knowledge is power, and the balance of power is clearly shifting from vendors to the customer. Now imagine the information customers are finding is yours.

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