Sana Commerce

AUGUST 15, 2023

One of these strategies is the implementation of pre-orders and backorders. Pre-order and backorder features not only improve inventory management, but they also help manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers meet customer demands more efficiently. What is the difference between a pre-order and a backorder?

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Martech

JULY 29, 2022

Once you’ve gone through the checklist to determine if you need — and are ready for — an ABM solution, the next step is to identify and contact vendors. Your vendor shortlist. For example, if enriching your ICPs with deeper technographic data is important, be sure to ask about it during vendor interviews and demos.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 12, 2018

This is what the findings were in a study done by Heinz Marketing and InsightSquared titled, Marketing Automation Platform (MAP) Satisfaction Survey 2018: Are Marketing Automation Vendors Still Meeting the Needs of Today’s Marketer? The key purpose of a MAP is to deliver personalized messaging and MAP vendors are excellent at this.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 25, 2016

and we wrap up our review of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors with a look at Result Analysis. Not surprisingly, most of vendors who do ABM Result Analysis also do some sort of Execution (12 out of 16, to be exact). For more information or to order, click here.

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B2BMarketing.net

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Kavita Singh, Senior Editor, B2B Marketing, spoke to Paul Gilhooly, Vice President of Sales, 6sense to discuss how AI will impact tech vendors and some top tips for implementing it. While some technology vendors might be seeing AI as something new, 6sense has been leveraging AI to enhance its platform for 10 years now.

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Bionic

MARCH 26, 2021

Bionic today unveiled new insertion order formats to facilitate media buying across the full spectrum of traditional broadcast and modern programmatic advertising channels. Universal Insertion Order Format. This flexible format enables you to choose exactly which media plan columns to include in your insertion orders.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Vendors love to talk about what their technology can do and will readily discuss case studies. The biggest-name vendors often have the most technical debt. Some of the most prominent martech vendors today have been around for some time, and their systems — including those they acquired — are getting long in the tooth.

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Sana Commerce

JUNE 27, 2023

There’s one metric that you should be paying more attention to: Cost Per Order or CPO. How can you calculate cost per order? Most importantly, how can you improve the cost per order in your B2B web store? It provides a clear overview of how much each order costs you on average.

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PureB2B

JUNE 9, 2022

Too often, content syndication programs are plagued with poor-performing leads due to the vendor not truly addressing the challenge at hand. Before we dig into what each content syndication vendor should be doing for you, let’s take a quick look at why this approach to marketing is so valuable. Why is Content Syndication Valuable?

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PureB2B

MAY 10, 2022

However, as you look to incorporate this solution into your marketing campaign rotation, it’s important to keep an eye out for some of the more successful practices content syndication vendors use to ensure you’re getting a quality return on your content investment. What to Look for in a Content Syndication Vendor. High Quality Data.

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chiefmartech

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Participants in the study reported which capabilities they would like martech vendors to improve in order to better optimize marketing. Are you listening, my fellow martech vendor friends? Okay, martech vendors: the market has spoken. The result I found most interesting, however, was the chart at the top of this post.

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Bionic

APRIL 15, 2021

Advertising vendor bill reconciliation and payment just got a lot easier with Bionic’s new Finance Tab. Managing vendor bills can be a nightmare. Advertising agencies have a difficult challenge in managing vendor bills. Hundreds of vendors are each submitting dozens of bills throughout every month. Bills get under-paid.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 22, 2016

Last week’s posts introduced our new Raab Guide to ABM Vendors ( buy it here ) and introduced a framework four process ABM steps, six system functions, and six key sub-functions. But the sub-functions are still important for stack design and vendor selection. Let’s start with the first sub-function, External Data.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 12, 2014

I recently did a study of the strategies of B2B marketing automation vendors. What I found most intriguing was the sheer diversity of the approaches, showing that vendors continue to explore new paths to success. The table below shows results for each strategy for each set of vendors, grouped by the major strategy categories.

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xiQ

JULY 19, 2019

The Truth Intent Data Vendors Don’t Want You to Know. For intent data to be useful you have to be confident the 3rd party intent data vendor has accurately identified who’s truly behind the activity. Many vendors rely on reverse IP lookup to identify “active” companies. The latest buzz word in B2B marketing is Intent Data.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Specifically, they can do two things: improve the selection process itself and look beyond features to assess the vendors. This post will focus on the selection process and the next will talk about judging vendors. But don’t think you’re writing the document for vendors.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Get Your Privacy Policies In Order. That means you don’t just need to have your policies in order; you need to be able to demonstrate convincingly that your risk-mitigation action plan is in place and. Ask A Lot of Your Digital Vendors. operational. Make Digital Security A Priority. Remain Resilient.

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xiQ

JULY 19, 2019

The Truth Intent Data Vendors Don’t Want You to Know. For intent data to be useful you have to be confident the 3rd party intent data vendor has accurately identified who’s truly behind the activity. Many vendors rely on reverse IP lookup to identify “active” companies. The latest buzz word in B2B marketing is Intent Data.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 2, 2015

If that happens – and the jury is very much out – then best of breed would make sense for many more companies, especially if best of breed vendors can build in enough automation that high user skills are also not required to benefit from their systems. There were about seventy vendors covering an extraordinary range of functions.

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Aberdeen

DECEMBER 7, 2017

For example, they hire consulting firms to come in, take a look at their operations, and make recommendations about processes they need to implement, people they need to hire, and technology they need to purchase in order to make it all work. They turn to their vendors for assistance. Vendors Are a Window. So, what do buyers do?

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Martech

APRIL 23, 2024

True Classic customers can order from 192 countries — the company is a truly global brand. With international sales, we wanted to set clear expectations for when orders would arrive.” She added, “You never want your consumer to reach out to you asking, ‘Where’s my order?’ and the in-order rate is up 22.5%.

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Product Listing Ads (PLAs), for example, highlight specific products and require the advertiser to connect a Google Merchant and AdWords account in order to create a new campaign. For example, the ads themselves are more visual and, while are easier to set up, they require more maintenance in order to stay competitive with pricing.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 1, 2022

.” Compared to 2020, last year saw more B2B buyers visiting vendor sites, more sessions, more pageviews, and more time spent per visit. Vendor content is attracting more visitors per account. According to the report, that finding “shows the effectiveness of hyper-relevant, personalized content.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Buyers now consistently rely on five top sources of information–yet vendors typically concentrate on only two of these. Per the report, “The top five tactics vendors use to engage buyers are different from buyers’ top five information sources. Both vendors and buyers use demos and vendor/product websites.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Many marketing automation vendors have added mobile interfaces for the marketers and salespeople who work with them. Third party developers will probably pioneer these capabilities, so look for marketing automation vendors who are good at integrating with outsiders and, eventually, have the money to acquire their technology.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

Below are a few steps to take in order to set your marketing automation platform up for optimal achievement. Once you’ve established your goals, it becomes easier to select the tool or vendor that will best help you to achieve them. As you do your research, identify which vendors are known for providing the best customer service.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Last week's post took a horse race approach to data from our newly available B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST): who’s ahead, who’s behind, and who is coming on strong. The VEST survey, covering nearly 200 items per vendor, answers that question in glorious detail. Real marketers care about what the systems can do.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

For example, B2C marketers often pursue a more emotional angle when creating campaigns while B2B marketers may use more logical and technical language, or business appeals in order to reach their markets effectively. As such, B2B vendors must be prepared to provide discounts or other incentives for large orders.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Summary: Our new B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) has been carefully crafted to help marketers at every step of the selection process. For more information or to order, please click here. Sector Charts What It Is: This is the vendor landscape chart that users love and analysts are apparently obligated to produce.

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Strategic-IC

JULY 6, 2018

Is the dynamic between tech buyers and vendors changing in 2018? This post from Chanell Alexander at TrustRadius explores their recent findings on the disconnect between B2B tech buyers and vendors - and outlines how vendors can gain a competitive edge. The Disconnect Between B2B Tech Buyers and Vendors.

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Vendors Trends Case Studies B2B 54

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2011

I suspect you may be getting tired of reading about the features in my new report comparing B2B marketing automation vendors, and want some actual information. Either way, the report will come out next week -- even if I have to take credit card orders by phone. This is scrambled data and vendor names are replaced by sports teams.

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Marketing Automation Services Sample Vendors Lead Scoring 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

While B2B vendors were initially slower to embrace eCommerce than consumer marketers, B2C actually represents a much smaller share of total online sales today. There are numerous analytics tools available today that help companies better understand their data in order to make informed strategic marketing decisions.

eCommerce 272

eCommerce Marketing AI B2B Marketing Trends 272

Sana Commerce

MARCH 11, 2024

Celebrating success: diving into insights Sana Commerce proudly announces its recognition as an Aspiring Vendor in the 2023 Gartner ® Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Digital Commerce. Sana Commerce is one of eight digital commerce vendors who have met the criteria set forth in the Gartner ® Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 17, 2020

If a B2B customer needs to check up on an urgent delivery in the early hours of the morning, they can do so using that chatbot (immediately accessing their order history to speed it along). Second, they’re likely to be considering expensive orders, leading them to take more time to decide. Large recurring orders demand smart ordering.

B2B Sales 278

B2B Sales Automation Top of Funnel B2B 278

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

People want personalization — in fact, in a recent survey, 97% of professionals said it was important to them that vendor websites have relevant content that spoke directly to their company. And in order to achieve that, you need buyer personas. In order to flesh out your ICP, you have to first understand your target market.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Buyer Personas Planning Zoominfo 264

Martech

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

G2, the software and services review site, has launched G2 Market Intelligence, an interactive dashboard giving software vendors increased visibility into the data G2 gathers about in-market software purchasers. It includes: Data on customers switching vendors and the reasons for the switch. million reviews. million reviews).

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Marketing Analytics Tools Advertising Agencies Vendors Comparison 121

Martech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Here, in reverse order, are the top four deeper dive areas where we found direct success. #4 Whether you’re buying cars, software, or any other category, buyers are influenced more by their peers than by the vendor themselves.” It also provides clarity on how future investments with vendors are made. #2

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