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What is Lead Scoring for Marketing and What Are the Benefits?

Act-On

eBook Learn More According to research from Gartner, B2B buyers are spending more time researching online, and less time interacting directly with sales — as little as 5-6% of their total buying journey. Senior manager visited your pricing page, downloaded a product comparison sheet, and watched a video demo?

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Gartner: Create Buyer Enablement Tools to Win More

The ROI Guy

Gartner says that today’s customers are spending around two-thirds of the buying journey gathering, processing and de-conflicting information. According to Gartner, "Sales teams need to harness empathy, and their deep industry and customer knowledge to develop and deploy information to help buyers buy”.

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Gartner: Get your ROI / TCO Calculators Right, or Not at All

The ROI Guy

If you are going to do an ROI / TCO Calculator you have to make sure its credible, this according to Hank Barnes Gartner in his article: Things I’d Like to See Go Away – Unrealistic ROI and TCO Calculators. This means being sure you don’t forget about key comparison metrics, not just including the cost comparison for hardware.

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Video for differentiation, stick to one differentiator

Biznology

According to Gartner analyst Hank Barnes , most technology marketers know they need to emphasize differentiators—so they make a list of them. It’s good at emphasizing one thing and it’s good at comparisons. But beyond that, if your make your one point of comparison memorable, you win. Why differentiator videos work.

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US martech spending set to break $20 billion this year; growth slowing

Martech

in 2021, according to Gartner. If this is a slowdown in comparison with the last few years, it still shows a willingness to spend even in an uncertain economy. Martech spending is still ahead of spending on marketing overall. Marketing budgets have climbed to 9.5% of total company revenue in 2022, an increase from 6.4% Why we care.

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Gartner shares latest data on enterprise marketing tech spend

chiefmartech

Gartner recently released their CMO Spend Survey 2016-2017. It’s also received due fanfare because it shows that Gartner’s once flabbergasting prediction from back in 2012 — that by 2017 CMOs would spend more on technology than CIOs — is on track to be proven true. In comparison, on average, the CIO only spends 3.4%

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Use Video to Differentiate Your Technology Solution

Biznology

It’s a problem because, according to Gartner research , when technology buyers aren’t sure what makes a solution different, they don’t buy from that vendor. Video is good at drawing the side-by-side comparisons that distinguish your solution from the one buyers will choose — if they don’t see a difference — from a better-known competitor.