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B2B Market Segmentation – Part 2: How to Approach Segmentation

Everything Technology Marketing

Price Sensitivity Do you position your product in segments that are price sensitive and invite vendors to complete on price or segments that pay a premium for a solution that is highly differentiated? Go to Market / Buying Preference What is your target markets' preference in procuring solutions, channel/direct preference?

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IBM Paper Makes Emotion the Focus of Customer Experience Management

Customer Experience Matrix

The paper has plenty of the usual buzz words (customer advocacy, moments of truth, brand promise) but what stands out is a relatively unfamiliar (to me at least) claim that “emotive attributes…present the greatest opportunity for differentiation in the marketplace.” But its heart still belongs to those emotive moments of truth.

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Increase Revenue, Decrease Costs - Download the Free eBook!

ViewPoint

For example, after sorting your customers into categories, you may find that most of them fall into three SICs and one revenue range. Next, extract contacts from your marketing database with the matching three SICs into separate test groups in addition to one or two other groups that seem like they should perform well.

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Do Psychographics work in B2B Marketing & Sales?

Online Marketing Institute

I see an over-reliance by B2B marketers on industry classifications (SIC, NAICS, NACE, etc.) While the standard industry classification may tell part of the story, it provides you with same analysis as your competitors and no qualitative differentiation for defining your market segments. As always, your comments are welcome.

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For Higher B2B Sales Don’t Just Scrub Your Data

ViewPoint

For example, after sorting your customers into categories, you may find that most of them fall into three SICs and one revenue range. Next, extract contacts from your marketing database with the matching three SICs into separate test groups in addition to one or two other groups that seem like they should perform well.

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Planning Your 2018 Marketing Budget? Here’s Why Brand Purpose Is Your Number 1 Investment

Content Standard

All of these things differentiate the business not just to the customers but to people across the organization.” And this has other benefits. People like working at that company better. It makes talented people want to work there. It has a halo effect for their investors.

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How to select the perfect B2B data vendor

Biznology

For example, the vendor may be able to deliver 100% of the URLs or SICs for a list of companies, and over 90% of the phone numbers you need for consumer contacts. Competitive differentiation. How strong are the vendor’s points of competitive differentiation? Also ask for expected match rates by field. Special selects.