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There’s a new B2B mandate

Canadian Marketing Association

According to Forrester Consulting (2014): Almost half (49%) of B2B buyers prefer making work-related purchases on B2C websites. Almost 75% of B2B buyers say looking up product info across channels is important when making a work-related purchase online. Everything is evolving to P2P, largely fed by social media.

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Building Content Marketing Strategy – 10 Steps

Marketing Insider Group

The way customers buy today is very different from how they made purchase decisions 15 years ago, of course. By the time a customer reaches out so a sales person their purchase decision is almost 60% complete , often having already made their mind about what they will buy. B2B customers today use an average of 7.6

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B2B vs. B2C Marketing: Four Myths, Six Differences, and One Key Similarity

Webbiquity

Actually, the B2B market is about twice as large, according to Forrester. This makes sense when you consider the number of layers in the production-to-purchase process. Oh, and the purchases tend to be a lot larger. Most consumer purchases involve you spending your own money. B2B marketers work at all these levels.

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Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble | social crm.

Convince & Convert

This research raises two interesting questions: - Forrester published research earlier this year that said Facebook users (rather than Twitter users) were the source of much of the New Influencer population. It's P2P and ONLY “personal&# brands exist in my Twitter stream. Which do you believe? Keep up the good work.

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