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Size Matters: Digging in to Employee Counts and Social Media Discrepancies

DiscoverOrg

Larger companies, typically, have more complex buying cycles, more sophisticated internal processes, and more specialization throughout their org. Even more confusing is the fact that most of our research analysts aren’t even on LinkedIn. A company with 100 employees probably doesn’t need an applicant tracking system.

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Reinvent B2B Sales With Buyer Personas

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia. Without question, while B2B Marketing is focused on developing its new prominence in the early stages of the buying cycle via content strategy and content marketing, B2B Sales is caught flat-footed on how to adapt to changing buyer behaviors. 

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Buyer Experience Innovation: Why B2B CEO’s Must Make It Their Top Priority

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia. Static View of Buying Cycle : For many years, we have conditioned ourselves to look at the buying cycle one dimensionally and through the prism of the seller only. 

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Importance of Context to Understanding the New Social Buyer Persona

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia.   Context also serves as the foundation of ethnographic and anthropological research often associated with the design of products or services as well as experience design.    Older non-contextual methods of research will no longer suffice in today's social and buyer-driven marketplace. 

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Plan for the Social Buyer Before It’s Too Late

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia.   However, trending information clearly points to the fact that sales reps are having a hard time making contact with buyers and don’t get involved until much later in the buying cycle.  To say things are changing is an understatement. 

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Buyer Interaction Shapes Buyer Experience Design

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia.   He also believed that to research this phenomenon, unstructured qualitative observation methods were the means to understand sociological human interactions.    Mead was most certainly a forerunner to today’s modern methods of qualitative research

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The 4 B’s of Buyer Experience Innovation (2nd Rendition)

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia.   Buyer personas have their roots in design principles and are of immense value when they are built on the foundation of qualitative research and put into action contextually through scenarios, narrative stories, and mapping.    Buyer Experience Design. .