KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2018

B2B marketers have an ample amount of time to reach out to their target audience, but new research suggests that the first one-to-three months of the buying process are critical. By this specific mark, 38 percent of B2B buyers have already developed an informal list of potential providers.

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Walker Sands

AUGUST 8, 2022

It means knowing their buyer journey — what makes them start to search for a new solution, how long they search, the red flags they’re looking for, their preferred research channels and more. Gathering B2B Buyer Journey Insights. Asking queries like, “What first triggered your need for a solution in this category?”

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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. Consideration.

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Hinge Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Today’s buyers of consulting services are tightening their wallets and expect more for the dollars they spend. To help firms like yours make sense of these changes, the Hinge Research Institute has released an all-new fourth edition of Inside the Buyer’s Brain: Consulting. About the Study.

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6sense

JANUARY 3, 2022

Personalized buyer journeys aren’t just for B2C shopping experiences anymore. These days, more than half of B2B buyers expect personalized engagement from sellers, up from 49% just two years ago. The post Personalized Buyer Journeys: What They Are and How To Create Them appeared first on 6sense. Conclusion.

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As more marketers turn their attention to their customers’ wants and needs, new research suggests that this area is growing in importance to them. Influitive defined customer marketing in its report as directing a marketing strategy toward satisfying customer needs and demands. Marketers and the Strategic Use of Customer Data.

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Madison Logic

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Madison Logic ABM Success Series Spotlights Enterprise Marketing Teams Accelerating the Buyer Journey. “The ABM Success Series gives our customers a forum to share how they’ve accelerated the customer journey and shortened sales cycles to positively impact ROI.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 21, 2020

Buyer’s Journey Stage #1: Awareness. The awareness stage is often where your potential buyer is dealing with a specific problem and they are in the initial research phase, looking for a potential solution. Unfortunately, only about 19 percent of buyers want to connect with a salesperson during this stage.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 5, 2023

The software buyer's journey has shifted dramatically over the past few years. As G2's Director of SMBs, Mike Buscemi , puts it: "Software buyers today act like B2C consumers because they have so many options. Buyers have an abundance to pick and choose from.". These include: Act as a consultant to your buyers.

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Hinge Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The Hinge Research Institute has released a special consulting industry version of its breakthrough study of professional services buyers and the firms that they hire. It’s called Inside the Buyer’s Brain: Consulting Firm Edition. This study also saw the addition of industry-specific versions of the report, such as this one.

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KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As B2B marketers look to fulfill the needs of their customers, new research shows that their target audience is now looking at more sources than ever before to research and evaluate their purchases. Additionally, 68 percent of B2B customers say they recognize ads from the solution provider they chose during the research process.

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Mereo

AUGUST 4, 2022

Often, consumers are turning to online research to answer these questions and are side-stepping the salesperson altogether. Today, salespeople garner just 5% of a buyer’s time on average during the B2B buying journey — while the buyer spends nearly half of their time researching solutions online. DOWNLOAD NOW.

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When going through various stages of the buyer journey, purchasers of B2B and professional services have a list of criteria they use to evaluate service providers and vendors. . Relationships Between Research and Growth. The Hinge Research Institute (HRI) has been publishing original research for over a decade.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sales enablement best practices: Know thy audience … define buyer personas When improving sales enablement, always start with your audience by building personas. Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas. And who doesn’t want shorter sales cycles, right? Consideration.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Marketing and content teams are gearing up to ring in the new year with a bang, but the buyer journey is complex. They don’t navigate the buyer journey in any linear fashion. One of the most important steps in building an influencer program is research and analytics. 2022 is right around the corner.

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Hinge Marketing

APRIL 20, 2020

That is the conclusion of the Hinge Research Institute’s newly released analysis and Executive Summary of the Accounting and Financial Services segment of their 2020 High Growth Study. The report then goes on to compare the fastest growing firms with their slower growth peers. There are two primary reasons research works so well.

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The Point

JUNE 24, 2022

All this and more is documented and analyzed in an informative new report from TrustRadius: “ 2022 B2B Buying Disconnect: The Age of the Self-Serve Buyer ”, the latest version of an annual survey that reviews changes in business technology buying and selling. ( Visit the TrustRadius blog to read a detailed summary and to access a free download.).

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 14, 2018

Are technology marketers moving away from creating content for the buyer’s journey? The CMI research team found ourselves asking this question as we analyzed the data from our eighth annual content marketing survey. CMIContent #research Click To Tweet. Less emphasis on crafting content for the buyer’s journey.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2023

They don’t navigate the buyer journey in any linear fashion. One of the most important steps in building an influencer program is research and analytics. Take a look at this buyer journey graph above. Over the last decade, hundreds of studies and research reports have validated this point.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Content alignment with the buyer journey. It’s important to produce content that serves the needs of your target customers throughout the buyer journey. But despite having experience and expertise, marketers have specific challenges they need to overcome, especially in content marketing.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 31, 2015

A full 93% of global marketers reported that the primary purpose of their content marketing efforts is to directly promote their products and services. They also report that 93% of marketers plan to increase their budgets for content creation. Business Results Disconnect.

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Aberdeen

MARCH 30, 2020

That’s because there are an awful lot of variables and steps that intent data vendors are missing on their way to reporting out whether an account is actively showing an intent to buy. Are not even researching in the category of what your intent vendor thinks your product/solution represents. Have never been to your website.

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BenchmarkONE

APRIL 18, 2019

But in order to get to that point, you absolutely must perform in-depth market research. This is what will ultimately help you understand exactly where your buyers are and the best way to target them with your product or service. Being prepared in advance will help to ensure that you get the most out of your market research activities.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 9, 2022

Madison Logic 2022 Future of Work Buyer Report Breaks Down Evolving Post- Pandemic B2B Buyer Behavior . Report provides marketers with credible, data-driven insights for building a better ABM strategy that engages accounts through every stage of the buyer’s journey .

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Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

The information B2B buyers seek out in making decisions, and the ways they search for it, remain very different from the standard B2C purchase. Crafting a B2B SEO content strategy that fully accounts for the unique intricacies of this buyer journey holds the key to long-term digital growth.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 8, 2023

To effectively engage your prospects, start by segmenting them based on factors like interests, pain points, goals, industry, and their stage in the buyer journey. Content doesn’t just capture your leads’ attention, it educates, informs, and draws buyers closer to making a decision.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Salespeople today spend, on average, one full workday per week researching their prospects. The first is the aggregate view that you find in list views, reports, and dashboards. By doing this, you’re making the CRM useful for everyone on the team, not just managers trying to report on pipeline. Read on to learn more.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Salespeople today spend, on average, one full workday per week researching their prospects. The first is the aggregate view that you find in list views, reports, and dashboards. By doing this, you’re making the CRM useful for everyone on the team, not just managers trying to report on pipeline. Read on to learn more.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 13, 2022

The years 2001-2003 in these engagements were groundbreaking and helped to establish the value of buyer personas for informing buyer strategy and tactics. However, when utilized correctly as intended, they have done wonders not only for companies but ultimately for buyers. What do we wish to know?

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Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

According to a McKinsey report: 66% of people expect personalized messaging tailored to their needs. Understanding the buyer’s intent is now more crucial than ever, and this is precisely where intent data plays a pivotal role. However, a premature sales contact could deter them.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Intent data can reveal who’s still actively researching solutions like yours, allowing you to focus your efforts on high-potential leads. By analyzing website visits, content downloads, and social media engagement, intent data platforms create a comprehensive buyer journey map. Wondering why people buy?

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Inbox Insight

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

According to our first party research conducted among our IFP audience, lead quality is the key focus for 40% of senior B2B marketers. T hat’s because, with longer, more complex buyer journeys, marketers need to be engaging their target audience with their content marketing efforts sooner.

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Oktopost

MARCH 13, 2023

But what does that look like in the B2B social media industry, and what role does social play in the B2B buyer journey? An expert in B2B social, Stephanie’s experience in social spans a variety of industries, including technology, research, and financial services, working on global brand and corporate social teams at IBM and Gartner.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

In our current digital space, we see multiple touchpoints within each Buyer’s Journey. This means, hypothetically, a user could see your Facebook ad, do research organically on Google to find out more about your offerings, and convert through one of your Google advertisements. Last Click.

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2023

B2B CRM Users Are Highly Focused on Nurturing Leads and Customers 33 percent of B2B sales and marketing professionals have focused their customer relationship management (CRM) usage on the customer service, up-selling and cross-selling portion of the buyer journey over the past 5 years, closely followed by 32 percent who have targeted mid-funnel lead-generation (..)

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Hubspot

APRIL 26, 2016

You're also probably aware that they're doing some of their research online. Consider these recent statistics about B2B buyers from a 2015 study by Think With Google : 89% of buyers use the internet during the B2B research process. That is where research comes into play. Step 1: Define Your Personas.

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