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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 Let us know!

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How to Scale Up Personalization to Streamline B2B Sales Cycle

Valasys

Scaling up personalization, to streamline sales helps customers sail quickly through the sales cycle, resulting in optimized the sales conversions. Using personalization, to streamline sales cycle isn’t something new in a data-driven marketing world. According to a report by Loyalty360.org

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B2B Sales Cycles are Getting Longer, Study Says

Sword and the Script | B2B

68% of B2B professionals surveyed say it takes longer to complete B2B sales cycles compared to a year ago They say recessions don’t start trends – they accelerate those that are already in motion. The publication surveyed 212 B2B professionals and found 68% say the B2B sales cycle has increased compared to a year ago.

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How Social Media Changed the Sales Cycle into the Buying Cycle

Webbiquity

The sales process benefited from electronic communications, but remained largely the same. Detailed information about vendors and their offerings was still limited, enabling marketing and sales to act as gatekeepers of information. This is not necessarily bad news for sales. Share this on Mixx. Tweet This!

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How B2B SEO Differs From Traditional B2C SEO

Marketing Insider Group

Therefore, B2B SEO must align content and keyword strategies with the stages of this elongated buying cycle, nurturing leads through informational, consideration, and decision-making phases. Business decisions typically involve multiple stakeholders and a longer purchasing process. Content tailored for B2B audiences.

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B2B Sales Cycle: 4 steps to avoid the wasteful ‘no decision’

markempa

“But, if I’m a VP of Sales, I’ll be really peeved if you lose to ‘no decision,’ because you probably wasted my time as well as a lot of resources around the company in terms of getting help from manufacturing, customer support and finance — all to get to the point where nothing happened.”. No deal = broken sales cycle.

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4 Ways to Measure ABM Success

The Point

However, relying exclusively, or even primarily, on late-stage KPIs can be problematic, particularly because ABM is most typically employed by companies marketing complex, enterprise solutions with long sales cycles. As stated earlier, KPIs related to pipeline or opportunities will only register late in the buying cycle.