PureB2B

MARCH 31, 2022

There’s been a seismic shift in the B2B tech buyer journey. After narrowing down a selection of vendors, buyers conduct their due diligence to see which companies align with their particular needs. The post How Customers are Reshaping the B2B Tech Buying Journey appeared first on DemandScience. Help us out.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2013

What are your personas? How many distinct buyers do you have for your products and services? Remember, to be a persona, they need to be distinctly different from one another, with unique needs and use cases. for more on persona development, see this good post and ebook from Adele Revella, writing on Content Marketing Institute).

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Oktopost

MARCH 2, 2020

When you think of it the buying journey of 2020 is not the same as 2010, and definitely not the same as pre 2000. The 2020 buyer journey is an online journey. In fact, the whole concept of “buyer journey” has become commonplace because of the complexity of online purchasing and research.

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Content4Demand

AUGUST 11, 2020

With the shift to more account-based marketing (ABM) and targeting buying groups rather than individual personas, it’s time to also turn some of our ideas about personas on their heads in our content marketing strategy. Rather than focusing on individual personas, we need to target what the Challenger model calls the Mobilizer.

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

More than 70 percent of B2B buyers consume blog content while on their buyer journey. Almost half of podcast listeners listen to podcasts while at home. More than 3 in 4 organizations use personas to assist in their content strategy efforts. Content marketing statistics for podcasts. Orbit Media ).

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Biznology

JULY 13, 2016

I recently had the privilege to sit in on FIR B2B episode 45 : a podcast by Paul Gillin and David Strom. Over the course of the podcast, David wondered out loud why more marketers don’t consult keyword data when writing and editing content. When my wife heard it, she said they sound like the “Click and Clack of tech.”

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Martech Advisor

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Developing personas is a great start to putting yourself in your customer's shoes. Personas can't capture the unexpected journey customers take when they shop online. The father of customer personas was software and UX designer Alan Cooper. Typically they create these personas off previous buying history.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 29, 2019

My buyer's journey is not unique. In other words, take a look at your buyer persona. You could do this through guest posting, responding to comments, or appearing on a podcast. You'll appeal to your buyer persona's pain points and present a solution to their problem. Produce content.

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Content4Demand

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Content Audits, Personas & Messaging Maps. Do your personas and messaging maps. If you don’t have the budget to go really deep into personas, talk to your salespeople, do some research on your own, and if you can, talk to a couple of customers who match a given persona to get their insights. What are their concerns?

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Understand your buyers - Conduct research externally and internally to be sure you understand: Personas - How & where do they consume content? Buyers Journeys - pain points? Content - Create strategic content that will help nurture, educate, and engage your prospects throughout their buying journey.

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PathFactory

MARCH 4, 2021

As a result, buyers are feeling around in the dark. During a recent Stop the Sales Drop Podcast , Cassandra Jowett (PathFactory’s Senior Director of Marketing) mentioned that she likes to compare the buyer’s journey to the “floor is lava” game that kids play. They need more than persona-based content.

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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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Terminus

MAY 3, 2021

Beyond alignment, tailoring messaging to personas is important in serving target accounts. They had to make sure they were tailoring the journey, specifically to the stage based needs and the size of the companies that they were targeting. When there’s no alignment between sales and marketing, that’s when ABM fails.

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Metadata

JANUARY 25, 2023

Marketers have to account for this disconnect—and they’re doing that by building demand-gen machines that take prospects through the entire buyer journey: Unaware: Buyers don’t even know they have a problem right now. Problem-aware: Buyers know they have a problem, but don’t know there are solutions to help solve it.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 24, 2012

In a recent podcast on OpenView labs , I discussed how content strategy can drive real results for businesses of all sizes. Content strategy is defined as the content our audience is looking for, in all the places they are searching for it, for all the stages of the buying journey and for each buyer persona.

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The trick lies in focusing on every part of the buyers’ journeys & accordingly designing pieces of content tailored to each of the individual buying cycles of the prospects. Define Your Target Persona: Doing the basics correctly matters the most. Branding & customer loyalty both are long-term goals.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

If your company offers many products and technologies, you can do this based on products, technologies, or buyers’ personas. Let’s use this customer journey created by Jacco Van Der Kooij as an example: As a marketer trying to help salespeople, you can present a list of five to 15 content pieces related to each stage.

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Outgrow

MAY 16, 2023

We recently interviewed Alex Mackrill for our monthly podcast – ‘ Marketer of the Month ’! Aligning content with the customer journey: nurturing relationships that drive engagement 4. Understand your audience, develop buyer personas, and map customer journeys 5. No problem, just watch the Podcast!

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Valasys

AUGUST 19, 2019

The market can be desirably segmented by the brands to target their most relevant personas. Lead generation encompasses the marketing processes focused on stimulating & capturing the interests of ideal personas in a product or service; motivated by the purpose of developing sales pipelines.

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Content4Demand

APRIL 2, 2019

When Content4Demand conducts your audit, we assess each asset for its relevance to the target audience, alignment to personas and buyer’s journey stages and much more. While buyers are consulting and downloading more content than ever before, they have less time to sift through several hefty assets.

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Content4Demand

MAY 21, 2020

Gordian , a Vidyard customer, created a video series called “Job Order Contracting 101” that allowed the company to educate buyers through private content. Using webinars, videos, podcasts and other forms of virtual content as educational tools can keep your buyers informed while expanding your brand’s reach.

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Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Learn More: Adapt Your Personas to the Emotional Moment. This requires businesses to take a holistic and customer-centric approach to develop IVAs that appear coherent across various channels and throughout the buyer journey. Learn More: 3 Ways a Podcast Improves Customer Engagement. Simplify the buyer journey.

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Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2020

Challenge 3: Matching the prospect's position in the buyer's journey. Much of the buyer’s journey these days happens without the salesperson. Understanding where a prospect is in the buyer's journey allows you to step in and initiate or increase outreach with impeccable timing.

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BDB

AUGUST 2, 2020

The best way to start is by establishing a buyer persona. Housing relevant, connected information together is crucial to ensure people do not have to visit multiple pages to get the information they need – or adding another layer to the buyer journey. MPACT podcast. What does your ideal customer look like?

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OutboundView

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

If your understanding of your target audience or ideal client profile needs work, then use these two powerful, simple tactics to master and understand your ICP: Make a list of your existing client base, enrich their data, and map their buyer journey. Buyer Research. Who’s your buyer? Account-Level Research.

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Oktopost

AUGUST 17, 2022

Ben Beeching, Senior EMEA Marketing at Mega International stops by the Radically Transparent podcast to tackle the martech stack and the challenges of building compelling customer journeys that positively impact pipeline. Listen to the podcast: Or catch us on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. Catch all episodes here.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 15, 2018

If you’re listening to this on the podcast, thank you very much for subscribing. It could include ensuring that your website is not just designed beautifully, but that it’s optimized for your particular buyers journey and one organization inspired journey is going to be completely different from somebody else’s.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 9, 2023

Examples of earned media include press releases and interviews, customer and product reviews, blog posts written by influencers, coverage in traditional print, social media mentions and shares, podcasts, viral videos or images with links back to your company's website, and webinars.

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

They might read comparison guides, listen to podcast reviews, or reach out for free trials. Targeting the right buyer persona. A tried and true way to better understand your target audience is to build buyer personas. Try to flesh out your personas as much as possible. Understanding the buyer’s journey.

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Strategic-IC

JUNE 20, 2022

I mean, one of the guests on the Let's talk ABM podcast that we run, Danny Nail, who's over at Salesforce said ‘always look for three sources of data for intent. Fes: I mean, part of this just goes back to doing good marketing and doing your research, and doing persona development, and understanding how your customers buy today.

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accelerate agency

AUGUST 4, 2021

To tempt these customers to take the next step in their buyer journey, taking further steps along the sales funnel, you should make careful and strategic use of calls to action (CTAs). You must have a good idea of what your audience is looking for at the respective stages of the buyer journey, and what it will respond positively to.

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Contently

JANUARY 2, 2018

For a while now, brands have tried creating their own podcasts without much success. This year, I think brands will sponsor individual episodes of existing podcasts that are already popular. Brands will make much better use of persona research and buyer’s journey stages when planning and executing their content strategies.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2018

You need to develop detailed buyer personas based on the individual contact’s pain points, the channels through which you acquired them as a lead, the product or service they’re interested in, and other geo- or demographic facts. Create Campaigns Based on Buyers’ Journeys. Maintain Data Accuracy.

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Oktopost

JULY 12, 2021

This process is at the very top of your sales funnel and buyer journey, and without it, you’d have no new customers! (Or From infographics to blog posts, videos, podcasts, whitepapers, and more, all of the information you provide needs to cater to your target audience and personas. Start a Podcast.

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Bound360

DECEMBER 4, 2017

On the B2B Growth Podcast, Amy talks about how her team understands content performance on their website. The new shiny object isn’t always the key on how you reach them, but their buyers journey had definitely evolved to be more and more in the digital space. Serving manufacturers, we tend to be in a lagging market.

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Biznology

MARCH 29, 2019

Build Solid Buyer Personas. Based on this data, you should create detailed buyer personas. A buyer persona is a generalized representation of your target user that reflects their goals, behaviors, habits, needs, and problems. Unfortunately, many marketers still don’t use content marketing strategically.

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Websites, blogs, podcasts, emails, ebooks, social media posts, videos… the list goes on (in more detail way down below). As you work through the massive content marketing types list that’s coming up shortly, think about which types of content align best with your customer’s needs wherever they are in their buying journey.

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