The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The bad news for B2B sales cycles everywhere is that 84% of B2B buyers report that purchase decisions take longer than expected – twice as long for most. Even more troubling is the fact that 94% of today’s B2B decision makers have participated in a canceled buying cycle.

Gartner 45

Gartner Buying Cycle Differentiation Buyer's Journey 45

6sense

JANUARY 20, 2022

The false leads, long sales cycles, wasted time and resources, missed opportunities, inability to collaborate, and burnt out sales people seemed to be an acceptance of the attitude — if not reality — that most are “doing the best we can with what we’ve got.”. I believe our business model is a key differentiator.

Lead Ranking 62

Lead Ranking Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 62

Kaon

JULY 20, 2015

We use this technology to help our clients present a clear picture of their competitive differentiators and advantages – what makes them unique and why. As companies have become more global and have expanded their product portfolios, the ability of their sales teams to tell their story has become more challenging.

Product 100

Product Ad Building Buying Cycle Lead Ranking 100

BOP Design

JANUARY 29, 2018

While we do agree with this general statement, there are a lot more intricacies that differentiate B2B from B2C and impact strategic planning for marketing professionals. One of the first major points of differentiation for B2C and B2B companies is the end user. The Sales Cycle Is Longer.

Work Management 49

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Agencies 2 B2B Marketing 49

Kaon

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Even though people are using the Internet to get through the buying cycle before reaching out to a sales person, that does not mean face-to-face meetings are unnecessary. In fact, real data proves that in-person meetings are the most important part of a customer’s buying experience.

Effectiveness 100

Effectiveness Allocation Interactive Marketing Customer Satisfaction 100

Seismic

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Using an en masse strategy and generic content poses the risk of losing potential sales opportunities. According to Accenture , B2B companies that recognize CX is critical to growth and competitive differentiation are seeing higher-than-average revenue growth. Accelerate the sales cycle.

Sales Management 45

Sales Management B2B Sales Top of Funnel Work Management 45

Everything Technology Marketing

APRIL 8, 2010

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. This has profound implications on marketing and the way companies engage with prospects.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services B2B Marketing Buying Cycle Lead Ranking 100

Biznology

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It’s to foster engagement that moves the buyer to the next step in his or her buying process. It’s not about your sales cycle. . That’s why a variety of content aimed at audience members in the various stages of the buying cycle will be more productive at keeping your cash registers ringing consistently.

Content Marketing 80

Content Marketing Content Marketing & Strategy Buying Cycle 80

Valasys

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The straightforward ramifications of content marketing include attracting & engaging the prospects along with the sales cycles & ultimately driving sales conversions. Customer Experience Optimization (CXO) strategy has evolved as a key brand differentiator in the year 2020. billion in 2015 to $4.0

Loyalty 72

Loyalty Top of Funnel Content Marketing Ad Building 72

ViewPoint

AUGUST 23, 2012

Tim is also co-author of Conversations that Win the Complex Sale: Using Power Messaging to Create More Opportunities, Differentiate your Solution, and Close More Deals and Customer Message Management: Increasing Marketing's Impact on Selling. 2012 Surprise: Getting the “At Bats” — But an Increase in “No Decisions”.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Work Management Demand Generation High Quality Lead 120

Lead Liaison

APRIL 18, 2017

Then, they sent me something with a little humor in it, a postcard with the top ten reasons to buy a pool over an RV. All things considered, they walked me through the buyer’s journey , over the typical timeframe – also known as the sales cycle – for buying a pool. What is the typical sales cycle.

Marketing Automation Services 49

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Enterprise Management 49

The ROI Guy

MAY 18, 2017

It is most common for buying teams to spend between three and six months in each major area of the buying cycle. According to Gartner, in the past 12 months, 94% of the respondents have participated in a buying cycle where the effort was canceled before the purchase was completed.

Gartner 65

Gartner Enterprise Management Disintermediation Business 65

Valasys

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

According to a recent report by CustomerThink 74% of the respondents acceded that by the year 2020, customer experience will surpass price & product as the key brand differentiator. CXM is a goal equally important to marketers as the sales endeavors & runs simultaneously to the sales cycle optimization process.

Enterprise Management 49

Enterprise Management Marketing Management Marketing AI B2B Marketing 49

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 5, 2011

As a result of Frugalnomics and other market drivers: 62% of B2B vendors indicated they needed more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, 72% indicated an increase in buying cycle time over the past 6 month, The buying cycle timeframe has increased over 10% in the past 12 months. April 2009.

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Allocation Forrester Buying Cycle Sales Cycle 40

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

In the face of frugal buyer sentiment, a majority of B2B vendors are now requiring more leads to generate the same amount of sales and are reporting a substantial increase in buying cycle time. Alinean's research revealed that new sales enablement strategies and investments are required to fight Frugalnomics.

Allocation 40

Allocation Research Practices Forrester 40

Valasys

OCTOBER 17, 2019

A CRM system helps companies to stay connected with their customers, streamline their sales cycles to optimize revenues & improve their profitability. Not as an alternative to having a competitive product or reasonable price- but as a differentiator. The goal is simply to improve business relationships.

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B2B Sales Work Management Marketing Management CRM 53

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Heres our three key takeaway opportunities: 1) Buyer Facilitation versus Selling, 2) Buyers, Fueled by the Internet, Firmly in Control, 3) Most Prominent Inhibitors to Sales Achieving Quota is “Inability to Communicate Value Messages&#. The full webinar session is available on-demand at: https://alinean.webex.com/alinean/lsr.php?

ROI 40

ROI Marketing Budget Work Management Budget Programs 40

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Here are seven content marketing strategies that you can use to engage your prospects and move them forward in their buying cycle. Expertise blogs – starting your own company blog to showcase your internal experts is a great way to differentiate yourself from the competition. Share your thoughts by leaving a comment.

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Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Product 60

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

CFO Control Drives Frugalnomics Further This centralization of power to financial chiefs has important implications for the way the buying cycle is managed, and how B2B sales and marketing groups must navigate these more complex waters.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management Peer-to-peer Effectiveness 40

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 5, 2010

As a result, most buyers have taken charge of the buying cycle , engaging with sales representatives later and later. As a result, Internet fueled buying cycles have required B2B marketers to deliver more content and tools over more and more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers.

Paid Search Agency 40

Paid Search Agency Companies Buying Cycle Budget Programs 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

In our newest B2B marketing thought leadership interview , Mark Fidelman is the EVP of Sales at MindTouch and author of " Open Source Best Practices 2009 " talks about open source success and using marketing automation to achieve it. What aspects of the buying cycle are most important to open source companies?

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Thought Leadership Practices Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking 48

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Internet Fuels IT Buying Cycles According to a recent survey of 500 technology decision makers and influencers, Internet access to content is changing the way IT solutions are purchased, with buyers using on-line research to drive substantial portion of the decision making cycle on their own.

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Paper Personalization Buying Cycle Ideal Customer Profiles 40

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Most marketers aren’t inventors or innovators, they are duplicators who know how to put a new spin on something and differentiate themselves. Learn and “borrow” ideas from others: Let me make it clear here that I’m not advocating that you copy someone else’s blog. Borrowing” ideas is not stealing something from someone else.

Business Blogging 60

Business Blogging Web 2.0 Long Tail Marketing Business 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Learn to differentiate between metrics and key performance indicators (KPI). B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Marketing Automation Services 60

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation 60

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Vulnerability to Short-Term Biases – It attributes success solely to the first touchpoint without considering long-term engagement and may not be suitable for businesses with complex and lengthy sales cycles. Well-suited for businesses with short sales cycles where the final touchpoint is highly influential.

Marketing Attribution 101

Marketing Attribution Lead Ranking Multi-Touch Attribution Top of Funnel 101

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Tech Media publishers have seen an exponential shift in buyer behaviour, recognizing that the B2B buying decisions these publications support are now Internet driven , and that buyers are in control of the buying cycle like never before - seeking trusted sources of diagnosis, advice and recommendations.

Interactive Marketing 40

Interactive Marketing Advertising Agencies BtoB Peer-to-peer 40

Valasys

MAY 7, 2020

Using Guest blogging for high-quality link-building makes it a powerful tool for improving brand awareness, boosting your SEO endeavors, discovering new and useful contacts, and for streamlining the sales cycles. Incorporate Contextual Backlinks in your Posts.

High Quality Lead 72

High Quality Lead Link Building Ad Building Lead Scoring 72

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Providing the decision support early in the buying cycle is essential to engagement success- illuminating issues, identifying improvement opportunities and delivering strategic roadmap recommendations. The tool suite results in over 1,000 leads per month, with estimated 4 to 5% conversion rate of leads to sales.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40

Oktopost

MARCH 27, 2024

B2B organizations face unique challenges and opportunities that require a tailored approach to social listening, driven by the complexity of their sales cycles, the nature of their relationships, and the specificities of their target audiences. For the B2C world, such whim decision-making is fairly typical.

B2B 75

B2B Peer-to-peer Allocation Sales Cycle 75

The ROI Guy

MARCH 30, 2011

Empowered: Fueled by the Internet, with access to a wealth of resources, research, discussions, product and pricing information, buyers are self-empowered to drive the buying cycle, inviting sales later and later into the decision making process, if at all. Commodity sales professionals are being disinter-mediated.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Practices 40

Sword and the Script | B2B

DECEMBER 14, 2021

B2B sales cycles are getting longer. B2B sales cycles are getting longer but incumbents have an advantage. More than half of respondents (52%) “said the buying cycle has gotten longer for new vendors – but just one in three (32%) “said it’s longer for existing vendors.”. Trust grows business revenue.

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Statistics B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership Sales Cycle 69

Madison Logic

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s the key to identifying and prioritizing the best accounts for engagement, crafting personalized content to speed up the sales cycle, and optimizing pipeline impact and ROI. This lack of differentiation can harm your brand’s ability to stand out and build unique customer relationships.

Intent Signal 52

Intent Signal Marketing Automation Services Intent Data Account Based Marketing 52

SnapApp

JUNE 5, 2018

Marketing can create targeted content to fill gaps at pivotal points in the sales cycle. Sales have all the content needed to close qualified prospects who are deep in the consideration phase of the sales cycle. Only 3% of your market is actively buying – 56% are not ready and 40% are poised to begin.

Lead Qualification 81

Lead Qualification Lead Ranking Sales Management Lead Scoring 81

Terminus

OCTOBER 16, 2018

First, Masergy needed a way to uncover best-fit accounts in an active buying cycle. As a result, sales is no longer wasting time working accounts that aren’t in an active buying cycle, and marketing is no longer wasting budget marketing to them. Deliver Sales Insights. 10% sales cycle reduction.

Account Based Marketing 22

Account Based Marketing Sales Management ABM Top of Funnel 22

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 20, 2013

This is likely the most single biggest differentiator we see in companies that are successful with marketing automation. Best Practice #2: Deliver Targeted, Relevant Content When it Counts–Understand your Prospects’ Buying Cycle. “The first step is understanding who’s involved in the buying cycle.

Marketing Automation Services 48

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Practices 48

Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

She identifies and transforms differentiation - customers crown jewels - into compelling, customer-centric value that sells. Use content as offers or calls-to-action , ideally designed to appeal to prospects at different stages of their buying process, as they move from awareness to inquiry to consideration and to purchase.

Demand Generation Agencies 100

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand B2B Marketing 100

Single Grain

AUGUST 21, 2014

Typically, marketing automation programs include lead scoring and/or grading modules that help you to determine where leads are in the buying cycle and how closely they align with your definition of an “ideal” buyer. MA programs can help you qualify leads. Marketing automation programs aren’t a good fit for every business.

Marketing Automation Services 45

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Planning 45