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How Planful uses customer intent to speed up the B2B buying cycle 

Martech

Last year, Forrester reported that about 90% of 650 tech buyers surveyed want vendors to provide content that’s relevant at every stage of the buying journey. Buyers are guiding themselves down the funnel, gathering information and turning to peers before engaging with vendors. “I That’s true of our space too.

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Why Marketers Should Prioritize Lower Funnel Keywords to Get Better Results

Act-On

She narrows potential options by visiting provider websites, reading third-party reviews, talking with peers, and possibly attending trade shows to check out solutions in person. At this point, she might search for lower funnel keywords such as “How to buy a marketing automation solution” or “What to look for in a marketing automation demo.”

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Do B2B Marketers Really Lag Behind B2C Marketers?

KoMarketing Associates

B2B marketers have a lot of challenges their B2C peers rarely have to deal with. Other research, like studies done by the Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs, found that B2B marketers have adopted marketing automation far more than their B2C peers. These challenges aren’t trivial or easily overcome, either.

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5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success

Everything Technology Marketing

In the “old days”, the mainstream marketing approach was to interrupt and engage prospects, educate them on the vendors offering and move them through the sale cycle towards a transaction – a very vendor and product centric approach. Customers are are in the driver’s seat today. And today’s customers are busier than ever.

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B2C vs B2B Marketing: Is It All the Same?

BOP Design

The Sales Cycle Is Longer. For many B2B companies, the sales cycle is often 6 weeks to a year. This longer sales cycle is due to a variety of reasons: The product or service is complex or has a lot of moving parts. It requires extensive research and comparisons. we understand their confusion.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

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How Do You Get Started in Content Marketing?

The ROI Guy

Some pivot points could include: Persona (the particular targeted buyer segment the content aims to address) Type of content (opportunity, technical, business case, competitive comparison, testimonial / reference, etc.) Today’s buyers face several unique challenges that make content marketing ever more important to the successful vendor.