InsightSquared

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Historically, many marketers have been in a situation where sales defines their own buying groups and practically no two salespeople define it the same. Here’s how to define your buying group: Define your total addressable market (TAM). Define your personas. Defining your buying group. Start with your limiting factors.

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Martech

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Effective marketing management can help your organization achieve key objectives for your business. For example, your brand might want to gain exposure, improve revenue, or break into new markets. In a highly competitive environment, effective marketing management helps you to remain competitive.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Audience Explorer tool we’ve been using for the past 3 weeks is a no-cost, interactive search tool for B2B content marketers to discover real-time consumption insights on custom audiences. Audience Explorer is NetLine’s approach at helping Content Marketers just like us. Do you have a clear target persona?

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Marketing Interactions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As the market shifts, much of what you thought was true about your buyer personas and ICPs may be different. These events in your target markets can quickly make your messaging irrelevant, rendering your marketing programs and sales plays ineffective. A Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Whether you’re launching a channel to scale more efficiently, tap into new markets, or meet customer needs, this guide can help. In channel sales, companies (here we’ll call them vendors) sell through intermediaries. Distributors buy directly from the businesses, then market and sell to customers in their operating regions.

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PureB2B

APRIL 26, 2022

B2B technology, like any industry vertical, comes with its own set of unique challenges. To meet their goals, sales and marketing professionals within B2B tech companies must keep abreast of the latest developments within the space to ensure they’re meeting the expectations of the buyers they’re trying to win over.

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B2B Marketing Directions

JUNE 27, 2021

For the past several years, industry analysts and other thought leaders have been urging marketing and sales professionals to shift from selling to helping buyers buy. Tony suggests that a better approach for marketers and salespeople to adopt is: "Helping buyers to accomplish future goals and meet future challenges."

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Champion Communications

JULY 29, 2021

And yet, despite technology being the much-heralded saviour for B2B businesses, it appears technology vendors are underdelivering when it comes to meeting their buyer’s expectations. Instead, they adopt a one-size-fits-all go-to-market strategy that doesn’t satisfy the specific needs of each individual within the buying group. .

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Furthermore, in a commoditized market like logistics, it’s likely there will always be a cheaper alternative, so differentiating by price alone isn’t guaranteed to win over prospects. When looking for a 3PL partner, buyers want to feel like vendors truly understand their unique needs.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Furthermore, in a commoditized market like logistics, it’s likely there will always be a cheaper alternative, so differentiating by price alone isn’t guaranteed to win over prospects. When looking for a 3PL partner, buyers want to feel like vendors truly understand their unique needs. Empathize with Your Customers.

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6sense

JANUARY 24, 2022

In fact, nearly 70% will consider ditching a vendor if they don’t receive personalized outreach. In a recent webinar, Grace Kupczak, 6sense’s Digital Strategy and Growth Marketing Manager, sat down with PathFactory CSM Carly Huizenga to discuss the importance of dynamic, personalized content in marketing and sales.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 21, 2019

If you’re the leader of a product-first SaaS company, it can be easy to make the mistake of ignoring marketing and believing that it isn’t necessary for the success of your organization. That is, until revenue plateaus and marketing is brought in to boost performance. Build Personas to Make Sales More Efficient.

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Influitive

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s empowered customers expect the interactions they have with your sales and marketing teams to be highly personalized and relevant—which can make striking up valuable conversations with prospects challenging. That’s one reason why account-based marketing has become a popular strategy in recent years.

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DealSignal

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And as the pandemic continues to play out, sales and marketing leaders need to rely more heavily on complete, accurate contact data to understand and connect with their audiences. To be effective right now, sales and marketing leaders need to focus on the channels that deliver the highest impact and the highest quality prospects.

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6sense

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Swap images that might resonate better with specific industries or personas . Amplifying relevance to existing customers ( according to Salesforce , 65% of buyers are likely to switch brands if a vendor doesn’t personalize their communications). This shouldn’t be something your digital marketers decide on their own.

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PureB2B

MAY 20, 2022

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that intent data has become the veritable belle of the marketing ball over the last few years. So much so, in fact, that it’s the fastest-growing data category across the B2B market, with 92% of companies reporting using intent data ?in in some way. Why is intent data so hot right now?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 9, 2018

Case studies are loved by marketers and sales teams alike for their ability to educate prospects and turn sales pitches and marketing spiels into verified, credible claims. Marketers add them to email campaigns to keep mid-funnel buyers engaged. The problem is, your sales reps aren’t incentivized to help out the marketing team.

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Scoop.it

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Content marketing is no longer a new fad. In fact, 65% of brands who report being successful with content marketing have gone through the time and effort of documenting their content marketing strategy. So, how can marketers help salespeople engage with buyers before they’ve made their selection? Source CMI ).

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Launch Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Alert Logic was in fast growth mode and wanted to implement marketing automation to support the scaling of their business. They wanted a partner to lead the strategy and implementation of an Enterprise-class marketing automation solution, and with that in mind engaged Launch Marketing to lead the effort. The Results.

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Strategic-IC

JULY 28, 2021

What makes it so different from B2B Marketing? One thing that makes ABM such a compelling go-to-market strategy. It’s all about treating an account as a market of one. While we are all B2B Marketers, our behavior is no different to B2C consumers. We are inundated with stimuli, offers, vendors, sellers, and resellers.

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Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) strategies are successful when B2B organizations target customers with the highest propensity to buy their solutions. While it would be ideal to go after every account in every market with your solution, this is simply inefficient. You need to stop asking, “Whom do I want?”

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Madison Logic

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

B2B marketing is not just about selling a product or service. And while many marketers recognize the benefits of strong brand-building efforts, demand generation still dominates. Gartner research finds that 70% of the buying journey is complete before a buying group reaches out to a provider.

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Everything Technology Marketing

JANUARY 1, 2011

Many marketing experts have strong opinions on what they think will happen in 2011. Instead of coming up with what I think is going to change in the B2B marketing world in 2011, I decided to ask you and tap into the combined wisdom of over 17,000 marketing professionals in the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn.

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Lake One

MAY 14, 2019

While we let the big dogs in the marketing space duke it out over whose theory is the best, our experience and success have led to these B2B SEO do’s and don’ts. DO: Write for your Persona. Your persona is the fictional representation of your target audience. Make sure your sales and marketing teams are aligned.

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B2B Marketing Insights - WE

MAY 3, 2018

Your B2B buyer persona is a critical element of supply chain marketing efforts, particularly for inbound marketing. According to Marketing Insider Group, 93% of companies who exceed lead and revenue goals segment their database by buyer persona. Start building your buyer persona with the following 10 questions.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 22, 2012

According to Tony Jaros, marketers will typically spend 60% of their budget on demand generation programs. SiriusDecisions says that to drive best-in-class performance, sales and marketing must align around five waterfall-based jobs: Seed (use of traditional and social media to set the stage for demand creation). Inbound marketer.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Every organization must develop its own unique sales process based on its market, vertical, products, and industry position. Decision criteria: What are the formal evaluation criteria the organization is using to pick a vendor? Decision process: How will the organization pick a vendor; i.e. what are the specific stages?

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Terminus

APRIL 19, 2017

That cookie data is then transmitted back to the retargeting vendor and used to display ads to that user based on the specific pages that they visit and their behavior on those pages. As a B2B marketer, you can use retargeting to continue marketing to web visitors long after they leave your website. Terminus is proactive.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 4, 2022

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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DivvyHQ

AUGUST 7, 2018

While the C-suite focuses on winning the battle of market share, marketers are struggling (and often losing) the battle for attention share. Many smart marketers and well-known brands have helped to define and demonstrate the new best practices of gaining attention by delivering great content and digital experiences.

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Strategic-IC

JUNE 26, 2018

Running an Account-Based Marketing (ABM) pilot ahead of a larger campaign can be an effective way to trial, optimise and benchmark activities. ABM also helps to move perspectives of your business from ‘just a vendor’ to ‘a trusted partner’, and equip account teams with the tools to enable and uncover new opportunities and conversations.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 22, 2021

There are lots of different ways to create B2B buyer personas. But not all buyer persona templates and guides are equally effective. The key is to create a persona that is actionable. The Six Dimensions of a B2B Buyer Persona. Do you sell into the small to midsized business (SMB) market? Firmographics.

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Terminus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Integration with HubSpot Marketing Delivers Expanded Reach and Orchestration to B2B Marketers. This partnership is groundbreaking for B2B marketers because it brings inbound and account-based marketing together for the first time. In the minds of many marketers, inbound is the antithesis of account-based marketing.

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Vidyard

JUNE 15, 2020

Shikha Bindra DocuSign Senior Manager of Market Development Video for sales gets a lot of well-deserved attention for its early-stage, attention-grabbing power, but the video connection only grows more useful through the sales cycle. Teams can create video libraries (known as hubs) for different verticals, use cases, or sales stages.

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Hinge Marketing

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Unlike other verticals within professional services, those in the technology services marketplace have long been accustomed to being early adopters. Why Social Media Marketing Makes Sense for Technology Services. Social media marketing helps the visibility and credibility of your firm in both of these situations.

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The Point

APRIL 23, 2020

There’s plenty of debate online about the merits of marketing spend in a recession, but the reality is that many B2B firms are currently cutting back on large-scale investment. Audit your existing content library and map each asset by form factor, persona, vertical and funnel stage (early, mid, late). Audit nurture streams.

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TrustRadius Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2018

It also affects how B2B marketers can reach buyers. This constant connectivity provides new opportunities for marketers to connect with B2B buyers who consume and interact with online content at all hours of the day. It’s important that B2B marketers don’t underestimate the impact of mobile usage on their business’s bottom line.

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