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Do CMOs really understand how their teams use martech?

Martech

When shiny object syndrome strikes, the world is full of possibilities, if your team can just invest in a few tools to improve engagement, identify in-market buyers or send that right message at the absolute right time. For a lot of marketers, especially in the B2B sector, that time is not now. 39% have not used such tools.

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The Big Shift: How the Economy, AI, and Privacy are Changing Everything We Know About Marketing

Act-On

For marketers across virtually all industries, but especially those working in SaaS, this cut-mode mentality has led to fewer in-market buyers. How are you driving high performance and high ROI work out of marketing?’ If you’re not ready as a CMO, you’d better get ready.” It’s just going to happen.

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Study Confirms Importance Of Qualitative Research To Success With Buyer Personas

Tony Zambito

A recent survey conducted by Cintell*, entitled 2016 Benchmark Study On Understanding B2B Buyers , indicates that high performing organizations utilized qualitative research for their buyer personas. The study focused entirely on the use of buyer personas for understanding B2B buyers.

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How Planful uses customer intent to speed up the B2B buying cycle 

Martech

When Rowan Tonkin joined Planful as CMO three years ago, he faced two main challenges. Tonkin needed more reviews in more places, but he also wanted to streamline Planful’s marketing strategy to focus on in-market buyers — the people who had done their research and were close to making a purchase.

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Why B2B Marketers are Critical to Revenue Operations

Marketing Interactions

This said, the focus of this post is on marketers earning a leadership role in Revenue Operations. Here are a few reasons why marketing deserves consideration, supported by research: 47% of CEOs say CMOs most critical role is to grow the business ( Boathouse CMO Insights ). B2B Research 2022 CMI ).

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How To Get The Handoff To Sales Right: Why First-Party And Validated Buyer-Level Data Is Essential For Effective Qualification

NetLine

When done properly, marketing is giving sales exactly what they need and supplying them with valuable data, enabling them to make a very personalized approach. Not identifying the real people within in-market accounts This is perhaps the most significant challenge marketers encounter.

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Demystifying Predictive Intelligence: Letters from the Front Lines

6sense

Last month, DemandGen CEO David Lewis hosted Scott Broomfield, CMO of Xactly and Zak Garner, Director of Customer Success at 6sense in a conversation about the realities of implementing and using predictive intelligence for B2B marketing and sales. Predictive intelligence is giving B2B companies better visibility into their buyers.