Engagio

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By fostering a deep alignment between marketing and sales teams, ABM enables businesses to approach their target accounts with the precision and personalization that today’s competitive landscape demands. and internationally, MAGIC QUADRANT and PEER INSIGHTS are registered trademarks of Gartner, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Marketing AI Account Based Marketing Peer-to-peer Marketing Automation Services 62

ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Seventy-one percent of CMOs said they lack the budget to fully execute their strategy in 2023,” reports Gartner in a survey of more than 400 CMOs and marketing leaders. GTM leaders are experimenting by chasing ‘low hanging fruit’ in their deployments, which is the approach largely being taken by technology vendors, as well.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Paid Search Agency Planning Budget Programs 130

Vision Edge Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Whether you’re buying cars, software, or any other category, buyers are influenced more by their peers than by the vendor themselves.”. In fact, a Gartner research study found that when B2B buyers consider a purchase, they spend only 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers. How to Initiate Your Peer Engagement Program.

Peer-to-peer 285

Peer-to-peer Buy Sales Cycle B2B Sales 285

Magisto

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Magisto Named a “Cool Vendor” in Artificial Intelligence for Small and Midsize Businesses by Gartner. We’re excited and humbled to announce that we’ve been included as a “Cool Vendor” in the Cool Vendors in Artificial Intelligence for Small and Midsize Businesses report by Gartner, Inc.

Marketing AI 40

Marketing AI Vendors Gartner Opinions 40

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In fact, only 30% of B2B buyers prefer in-person interactions when evaluating new vendors (that number drops to 16% for renewals). Inside sales can easily scale your outreach volume (either through automation or tightened lead qualification standards) relative to the number of qualified leads generated by demand marketing. ?

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Work Management Marketing Management Ad Building Sales Qualified Leads 246

Top Rank Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

1 — Budgets are tightening, but expectations are up According to over 400 North American and European CMOs surveyed in the latest marketing budget report from Gartner , marketing budgets have still yet to recover from the COVID pandemic. Gains reported by CMOs surveyed in the 2022 Gartner report have slipped from 9.5%

Enterprise Management 83

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management B2B Marketing 83

Contently

MAY 1, 2018

For the first time ever, Gartner, a leading research and advisory firm for technology companies, released a Magic Quadrant on the content marketing platform (CMP) space. That alone says a lot about current state of marketing and content—and the Gartner CMP report says a lot more about where it’s going.

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Marketing Management Gartner Vendors Paid Search Agency 118

Metadata

JANUARY 25, 2023

In: demand-generation. But now, to borrow from Kaylee Edmondson’s DEMAND fireside chat, Moving From An Old-School Lead Gen Playbook to a Demand Gen Machine —“Lead generation’s just not hitting like it used to hit.” Kaylee is the VP of Revenue at Refine Labs, and former Director of Demand Generation at Chili Piper.

Lead Gen 52

Lead Gen Lead Ranking Demand Sales Qualified Leads 52

SnapApp

JANUARY 15, 2019

In the same way, if you tried to build a B2B demand generation strategy based on faulty assumptions–or outright myths–you’d probably fail, too. Demand generation marketers, in particular, have a patchwork of myths to work through. The more pitfalls you can avoid as you plan a B2B demand strategy, the better.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics 99

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Vendors 120

Martech

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The problem is the CMOs and CEOs who are demanding their marketing teams leverage AI have no idea what problems AI would solve for those teams and no idea how it fits into their existing marketing strategies or technology stack. Please take this short survey so we can have your input on the state of martech salaries and careers.

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Marketing AI Allocation CMO RFP 117

Martech

AUGUST 24, 2021

In its most recent report on the market, Gartner predicted that 70% of independent CDP vendors will be acquired or will acquire adjacent technologies to diversify by 2023. According to Gartner, these players will get into personalization, multichannel marketing, consent management or master data management (MDM) for customer data.

Enterprise Management 104

Enterprise Management Gartner Marketing Management Ideal Customer Profiles 104

Martech

MARCH 14, 2023

Content production Vendors have been touting AI’s ability to improve creative productivity by eliminating mundane tasks for years. Gartner expects 70% of enterprise CMOs will identify accountability for the ethical use of AI among their top concerns by 2025. Assessing ChatGPTs impact on key marketing functions 1.

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Marketing AI Enterprise Management Paid Search Agency Work Management 134

Only B2B

JUNE 30, 2023

Must Read: B2B Intent Marketing: Capturing Business Leads Driving Growth with B2B Purchase Intent Data: Unlocking the Power of Buyer Insights Understanding B2B Buying Intent: B2B buying intent refers to the signals and indications that suggest a potential buyer’s readiness to engage with a vendor or make a purchase decision.

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Purchase Intent Intent Data Intent Purchase 62

SalesIntel

APRIL 15, 2024

B2B buyers may spend months assessing an issue, researching solutions, and evaluating possible service providers before deciding on a vendor that fits their needs. Research by Gartner shows that the typical B2B buying process involves six to ten decision-makers. This often results in a more intricate and extended buying process.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Management Top of Funnel 52

Biznology

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

But new research from CEB , now Gartner , suggests that things are even worse these days: it’s buying gridlock. At CEB, now Gartner, we’ve been studying sales and marketing for years, which means that we have deep insights into the challenges within these functions. It involves multiple parties over long decision-making cycles.

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Buy Process Gartner B2B 131

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Demand Gen marketers are certainly no stranger to list development. For example, according to Gartner Research, we know when B2B buyers are considering a purchase, the majority (27%) of that time is spent researching independently online. In fact, just 17% is spent meeting with potential vendors.

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Zoominfo Marketing Management Peer-to-peer Opt-out 219

Directive Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

Directories offer 2 main growth solutions: Buyer intent data subscriptions : vendors get account-level intelligence on category, product profile, and comparison views. Cost-per-click (CPC) auctions : vendors bid to rank higher in a directory category page and pay per click to their site to generate leads. or greater before bidding.

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Peer-to-peer Work Management Marketing Management Cost Per Click 59

chiefmartech

MARCH 22, 2023

All of this is completely free: register here to get full access to event — which will also give you the option to catch many of these sessions on-demand afterwards. See you at the Best of Breed Marketing Summit on #MartechDay! P.S. You’ve still got 4 full weeks to enter The Stackies 2023: Marketing Tech Stack Awards.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Work Management Marketing Management Best Practices 86

Metadata

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Yet IMHO, the pendulum has swung too far to an all account-based mentality at the expense of proven demand gen activities. This may sound cynical, but I blame software vendors for “ABM” being ill-defined. For the past 15-plus years, we’ve simply let ABM vendors define the ABM category. Is there an agreed-upon definition of ABM?

Account Based Marketing 98

Account Based Marketing ABM Enterprise Management Work Management 98

Biznology

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In complex buying situations, “sales reps are valued higher than ever” writes Gartner analyst Hank Barnes in The Rebirth of Enterprise Sales. What prompted this observation was a recent Gartner study of sales that result in “high-quality deals” — deals where customers are succeeding and are likely to become bigger customers.

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Video Marketing Ad Building Gartner High Quality Lead 99

ClickZ

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In ClickZ’s recent Marketing Automation Summit (which is, by the way, available on demand ), the problem of complexity came up frequently as a persistent challenge among the marketing leaders who presented. Source: Gartner 2019 Martech Survey. Source: Gartner 2019 Martech Survey. The problem of complexity.

Enterprise Management 144

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 144

Content Standard

MARCH 25, 2021

I’m proud to share that Skyword was just named a Leader in Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant for Content Marketing Platforms. We’re creating asset after asset to keep up with demand; fulfilling request after request from dozens of directions; optimizing day by day; and solving problems vendor by vendor and tool by tool.

Enterprise Management 85

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Gartner 85

Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Others spent months setting up new tools and managing new vendors, rather than creating data-driven motions that unlock market-making plays. These individuals are innately curious, and are as comfortable working with complex datasets as they are managing the expectations of demanding sales leaders. The result?

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Marketing Analytics Tools Work Management Marketing Management Ideal Customer Profiles 130

chiefmartech

AUGUST 16, 2023

The mad rush to all-digital transformation in the first year of the pandemic coincided with the zeinth of massive martech investments from VCs, a perfect storm of surging supply and demand. Since then, however, things have stabilized significantly. For instance, in 2020, CMS systems were being replaced at rate of 41%.

Budget Programs 84

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Martech

APRIL 22, 2022

Read more: Ad-supported video on-demand gives advertisers more options. Ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) is expected to surpass 150 million viewers by the end of 2023. It is no surprise that Netflix is considering an ad-supported model,” said Andrew Frank, VP, distinguished analyst at Gartner. For instance, Warner Bros.

Paid Search Agency 98

Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Advertisements Advertising 98

Marketing Interactions

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Buyer-to-seller engagement hangs at 16% and will drop 2 – 3% further in the next few years (Gartner). 83% of a typical B2B purchase decision happens before a buyer engages with a vendor – therefore, marketing now owns impact across most of the buying process. Edelman/LinkedIn ). Predictable revenue through closed-won deals (Sales).

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B2B Marketing Lead Ranking B2B Paid Search Agency 131

PathFactory

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

“This is a good reminder that in B2B software, your solution is only part of what you’re offering; that’s why we pride ourselves on being seen as a partner, as opposed to a vendor, in the eyes of our customers.” Manager Demand Generation, Contentsquare PathFactory is proud to create products that inspire such gracious feedback from users.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Peer-to-peer 52

Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 15, 2022

Recent research by Gartner found, “For respondents with high regret, 89% of them cited team members have different, often conflicting, objectives for the purchase versus 9% for those with no regret — that means they are almost 10 times more likely to experience this type of conflict.”. And that’s how unnecessary conflict happens.

Buyer Personas 75

Buyer Personas Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Gartner 75

Content4Demand

MARCH 25, 2021

ABM remains high on the priority list of B2B marketers, according to the 2021 Demand Generation Benchmark Survey Report. Here are the top 2021 B2B marketing priorities according to the survey from Demand Gen Report : Chart courtesy of Demand Gen Report. Why does ABM rate so high on the priority list?

Account Based Marketing 84

Account Based Marketing ABM Multi-Channel Content 84

chiefmartech

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A few months ago, Gartner published the above chart with their latest estimates on cloud spending worldwide for 2021 and 2022. The demand for innovative marketing, sales, and customer experience apps will continue to attract entrepreneurs and the providers of capital who love them. All stacks will eventually be “hybrid stacks.”

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Software 94

B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 20, 2020

For example, in Demand Gen Report's 2020 Marketing Measurement and Attribution Benchmark Survey , 82% of the respondents said that measuring marketing performance is a growing priority for their company, and 54% said their ability to measure marketing performance and impact needs improvement or is poor/inadequate.

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Multi-Touch Attribution Advertising Agencies Forrester Paid Search Agency 98

Martech

JUNE 28, 2022

This is no small task, especially when B2B buyers, barraged by untimely automated messages, random cold calls and lackluster outreach from both sales and marketing, are opting out of vendor conversations. According to Gartner, more than two-thirds of the buying process is complete before buyers engage directly with a brand rep.

Marketing Automation Services 117

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Attribution 117

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 29, 2008

I’ve been pondering recently how to classify demand generation systems. Note that while this seems obvious, it’s quite different from how analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester set up their classifications. Right--classifying demand generation systems. But it could, and should, be handled more carefully. Now I feel better.

Demand Generation 120

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Martech

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Vendors have sold CDPs as the gateway to customer intent, purchase propensity and data orchestration. Many of these clients were unhappy with their technology and asked us to find new vendors or move to new ones. Before you start looking for new tech providers, go to your vendors and ask them to show you their latest demos.

Enterprise Management 112

Enterprise Management Work Management Paid Search Agency Marketing Management 112

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

At the annual Gartner Symposium, the world's most important gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives in our hometown of Orlando, new and important IT spending research and trends are always presented. In spite of the predictions, there is enormous pressure on IT vendors to sustain above average revenue growth rates.

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Gartner Allocation Storytelling Spending 40

ViewPoint

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The Core Issue: It’s Not Alignment – It’s Driving the Demand Process. The core challenge is really driving that demand process through the organization which is a holistic approach of people, process, content and technology—and having marketing and sales work in a collaborative fashion in each of those areas.

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