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New Gartner Report Examines Why Predictive Intelligence Is a Must Have for B2B Marketers

6sense

“When Gartner first wrote about predictive lead scoring in August 2014, the practice was still in its early stages.” In their March Tech Go-to-Market report, Gartner notes that “predictive lead scoring is now a “must have” for B2B technology marketing leaders with high volumes of leads from inbound channels and events.”

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How Social Data Can Help You Develop Buyer Personas

Oktopost

After all, we live in a world of hyper connectivity, one where up to 67% of B2B buyers are already halfway through the buying journey before they speak with an actual salesperson. We are all familiar with such statistics from people much smarter than I am, the likes of CEB, Forrester and Gartner.

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What Is Intent Data?

Madison Logic

That’s the smallest chunk of time in the B2B buying journey with only 17% of a buying group’s time dedicated to meeting with potential providers. Look at the graphic below from Gartner: most of the time spent by a B2B buying committee is away from solution providers. Content Marketing and Demand Generation .

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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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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Diametrically Opposed Forces: Selling.

The ROI Guy

Understanding how to facilitate this buying lifecycle, especially how to connect and engage todays economic-focused executive, is a key to sales success, and establishes a roadmap for sales enablement. The Bottom Line Buyers are clearly in control of the buying cycle and are more frugal than ever before.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

It is best to look at what tools are needed to address each stage in the buying lifecycle, and have tools specifically designed to help move the decision making from initial engagement to delivery. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998).