The Point

APRIL 26, 2018

In a world where demand generation , and marketing in general, is more data-driven than ever, one of the hottest topics in B2B circles is intent data. The lure of intent data is learning which companies are going to buy from you and when. Intent data can help marketers identify a lot of that anonymous research activity.

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Inbox Insight

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

According to our research, the typical timeline for all three phases of purchasing to be complete (research, buying cycle and implementation) is usually between 9 months and 3 years. Our unique content brings together the best content from vendors, brands and tech experts with research conducted by Inbox Insight.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 23, 2014

I have personally run pay-per-click (PPC) programs for the companies I have worked for, and I have worked with agencies that specialize in PPC claiming to have proven track records in B2B. It’s OK if your PPC agency is freaking out because they are not able to show you high click-through and a low volume of impressions.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The Rule of Seven harkens back to a day when the salesperson was in control, when buyers did little to no research before talking to vendors, and when marketing was simply a string of pitches extolling the virtues of a company’s product. B2B Marketing Campaign Strategy Demand Generation lead generation Sales 2.0

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2021

They are more likely to research a problem (sometimes for weeks) before settling on a solution. And, they might not reach out to your company in person until they are ready to buy. Keep in mind, however, that the benchmarks for your business might vary based on your industry, product type, or even target audience.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 25, 2024

Identify Key People Within Your Target Companies It is estimated that there are only 19,677 shippers , with over $500 million in revenue in the United States. After all, businesses don’t buy, people do. Instead, they often require months or years of planning and research before any strategic shifts occur.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

Factors driving changes in ABM include shifts in buyer preferences and pre-purchase behavior, as well as the development of more sophisticated technology and data products that enable marketers to analyze behavior, identify in-market audiences, and craft experiences for a buying group or its individual members. The vendors respond.

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The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

How can ABM best coexist with a more traditional funnel-based demand generation model? Ignoring the buying cycle. Even the most successful ABM strategy does not eliminate the buying cycle. Approaching account selection like a wish list. And therein lies the first mistake.

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Martech

AUGUST 10, 2021

Consumer insights and market research platform Toluna announced the addition of new research-related tools, or methodologies, available within their Toluna Start suite. Marketers know that in many cases digital transformation has shortened the buy cycle. It can do the same for product development and research, as well.

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The Point

JULY 18, 2014

Over at Forrester Research, Vice President Laura Ramos recently talked to Advertising Age (“ Marketers Still Struggling to Get Results from Content Marketing “) about what she perceives as a general lack of return from the investment so many companies are making in content marketing. They simply want information of value.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. The steps are: 1.

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Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Resolution #1: Leverage AI the Right Way Generative AI (genAI) has completely changed the game by offering B2B marketers opportunities to enhance their strategies and streamline time-intensive tasks such as campaign design, audience or competitor research, and content ideation.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 8, 2021

Experienced B2B marketers understand that no two campaigns are identical; each one requires a customized approach in order to reach a target audience and achieve the desired results. Target audiences. A demand side platform is an automated software application used by advertisers and agencies to purchase digital ad inventory.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 31, 2023

Multiple decision-makers on a purchasing team do their own online solution research when buying a complex B2B solution. Enter multi-channel account-based marketing (ABM). Multi-channel ABM helps you meet buying committee members where they are with a persistent and cohesive experience.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 19, 2013

Paul Dunay (Maxymiser) – Paul Dunay is an award-winning B2B marketing expert with more than 20 years’ success in generating demand and creating buzz for leading technology, consumer products, financial services and professional services organizations. Add Paul: https://plus.google.com/102020971187267438341. .

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

These company Twitter accounts provide updates on some of the latest B2B marketing strategies and tools and can add some B2B Marketing knowledge into your Twitterstream. Forrester – Forrester Research, Inc – An independent research company that provides pragmatic advice to global leaders in business and technology.

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Valasys

MARCH 9, 2020

Scaling up personalization, to streamline sales helps customers sail quickly through the sales cycle, resulting in optimized the sales conversions. The better understanding you will have of your customers & of your target-niche, the easier it becomes for you to target & convert the prospects into customers.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 15, 2021

Do you want to speed up your average buying cycle? Account-Based Marketing and Demand Generation are both content-heavy but highly potent tactics going into 2021. Without quality, informative, highly tailored content, the campaign cannot progress or reach valuable targets. . What is your estimated timeline?

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Terminus

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Sarah Pease , Chief Marketing Officer at FinLync is excited about blending a demand creation strategy along with their demand generation plan in the new year. “I Demand generation is your classic gated ebook type of strategy that marketing has been doing for eons,” Sarah says. But don’t pull back altogether.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 2, 2016

To create content that boosts lead and demand generation, you need to construct B2B buyer personas that give you a clear picture of your customer, mapping their journey from when they decide to solve a problem to their purchase decision. Does their initial research to determine possible solutions. But here’s what happens.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Account-Based Marketing. Demand Gen and Lead Management. If you have a persona document that says things like, “We really care about reliability,” or “Service is really important to us,” chances are you might have a persona that’s not well-executed or useful. Try going back to the research to see if it can be retooled.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 7, 2013

Research from Optify’s 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report supports these statements. Here are 32 Twitter users that we rely on for B2B social media recommendations and information: Artillery Marketing (Douglas Burdett) (@ArtilleryMarket) : “B2B marketing agency principal. Former artillery officer, Madison Avenue ad man.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2011

These strategy areas include content strategy, social marketing, marketing automation, social selling, demand generation, and buyer experience marketing.    Older non-contextual methods of research will no longer suffice in today's social and buyer-driven marketplace. 

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Valasys

AUGUST 2, 2019

The B2B industry flourishes by capturing the interests of the buyer personas based on their past buying preferences & researching habits, their demographic, firmographic, technographic & psychographic data. John Jantsch, Marketing Consultant, Speaker & Author quoted the importance of improved personalization as follows: .

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

The most significant challenge B2B marketers face is in effectively communicating with target audiences and prospective buyers. While we all have goals and objectives for lead generation, brand development, and customer experience as examples, the overarching challenge is making the right decisions to achieve them.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 23, 2012

Click to start video at this point — Tim sees two primary focal points for marketing and sales alignment: the lead generation/demand generation element and the content/sales enablement piece. Demand Generation Recommendation: From PDFs to Visuals and Video. The Perils of Ignoring “Why Change?” and “Why Now?”

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? I agree with the importance of SEO and happy that it made this list!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2013

by Dayna Rothman Relevance is the key to creating content for demand generation that impacts lead generation , lead nurturing and lead scoring. Relevance does not only mean writing a paper that is only useful to someone who wants to buy your product or service. Buying Role. Buying Stage.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system. Here she expounds on the shift in technology buying processes I outlined in a previous post, How Social Media Changed the Sales Cycle into the Buying Cycle.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 10, 2011

.  Establishing a new social buyer persona footprint is critical to marketing, sales, and service readiness for the social buyer.    Gaining insights into as well as arriving at a common view of the social buyer persona will not come from traditional research and insight gathering means. 

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Cohesion : In conversations with several B2B CEO’s, a recent issue is that while there have been new approaches related to areas such as demand generation, content marketing, and social media, there is a lack of cohesion in these efforts that contributes to the overall buyer experience.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

They do their own research online, and then contact vendors and service providers when they’re ready to talk price. Information is available free (or close to it) today that you couldn’t buy for any amount of money five years ago. In complex B2B sales, people still buy from people. attract prospects.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

They do their own research online, and then contact vendors and service providers when they’re ready to talk price. Information is available free (or close to it) today that you couldn’t buy for any amount of money five years ago. In complex B2B sales, people still buy from people. attract prospects.

Social Media 100

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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.    There is a given assumption that has to be underscored. 

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