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The rise of Peer-to-peer ABM

Strategic-IC

It means that Sales (and I’ll come to peer-to-peer shortly) need to be there in the places where the Customer or Prospect ‘hang out’. It built strong relationships between Sales and the customer. That model is now confined to the same historical pantheon as Betamax, cassette tapes, and shiny business pens. Today’s buyer is informed.

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Report: 46% of B2B Buyers Turn to Colleagues/Peers to Research Purchases

KoMarketing Associates

B2B buyers continue to do their own research before making a purchase decision, and new research shows that colleagues and peers are playing a more important role in the process. This is followed by user reviews (35 percent) and third-party/analyst reports (32 percent). Marketing and the Timing of Outreach.

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Sales Impact Academy and Outreach: More Peer-to-Peer Learning and Sales Expertise

Outreach

It hosts an extensive roster of live events to bring together experts in industry and encourage peer-to-peer learning. It hosts an extensive roster of live events to bring together experts in industry and encourage peer-to-peer learning. Peer-to-peer learning. A solid partnership.

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The Impact of Peer Engagement on The Customer Buying Journey

Vision Edge Marketing

Most business leaders and Marketing and Sales professionals today understand the impact that peer reviews and stories make on the customer bying journey, including the B2B purchase journey. 84% of B2B buyers are now starting the purchasing process with a referral, and peer recommendations influence more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions.

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Why Genentech Is Transforming the Employee Experience for Mental Health Leave

Speaker: Deborah Olson, Lead Strategist, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group & Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, Medical Director, Lyra Health

Employees with a severe mental health diagnosis are five times more likely to go on disability leave than their peers. The majority of these employees have difficulty quickly accessing a leave evaluation, further delaying their recovery time and contributing to meaningful loss of productivity for the company.

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The Power of Peer-to-Peer Amplification for Marketers [Video Motion Graphic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Enter the power of peer to peer amplification on social media channels— a powerful strategy for marketers. How to use peer-to-peer to amplify every campaign. Even more importantly, how can we use the power of peer-to-peer recommendation to amplify all of our campaigns and messages? What’s the takeaway?

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The 3 Golden Rules of Peer-to-Peer Social Sharing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Word-of-mouth marketing and peer recommendations are an extremely powerful way to increase brand visibility, as people will believe their network of peers vs. a brand driven campaign. So how do you get your audience to engage and share? At Marketo, we believe there are 3 rules to social sharing. Rule #1: Give People a Reason to Share.

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Surprising and Expected Results From Tech Content Marketers [New Research]

Content Marketing Institute

How does your content marketing relate to your peers? Tech marketers, take note. CMI’s newly released Technology Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2023 shares the answers. Continue reading →

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Implementing Peer Feedback to Improve Your Sales Team

Outreach

4 Tips to Leverage Peer Feedback. We’re here to walk you through G2’s top four tips for creating a peer feedback system from the ground-up. We’re here to walk you through G2’s top four tips for creating a peer feedback system from the ground-up. Let’s get started. Understand your team’s relationships with one another.

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Are Your Peers Beating You to Video Marketing Results?

Vidyard

Is three new marketing videos every month a lot or a little? Does using video viewing data to enrich leads make you average or exceptional? You just never know. And if you don’t know, you can’t improve. As Sherlock Holmes said in A Study in Scarlet , “it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has the data.”

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How COVID-19 is Impacting B2B Marketing Plans

Speaker: Tom Pick, Chief Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity

Live polling will be done during the presentation to give you real-time perspective from your peers in addition to the research findings. Don’t miss this webinar, where Tom will share findings from the survey, from additional market input, and from the audience. By registering, you will get access to the full survey report.

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The 5 Essential Marketing Lessons From The Sharing Economy

Marketing Insider Group

The sharing economy, simply put, is a new economic model based on a peer-to-peer network system. The concept itself is pretty simple: just strangers sharing everyday goods and services with each other on ye olde internet. There’s an app for that, too) these companies are giving regular people more control in almost every industry.

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Jonah Berger’s 3 Social Influence Secrets That All Sales And Marketing Teams Should Know

Influitive

The truth is that you are swayed by your environment (the things you see and hear), and the people in your life (friends, family, peers—even strangers on the subway). No one likes to think they’re being influenced by others when they buy something or make a career choice. We’re all individuals with independent thoughts, right?

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7 Things B2B Content Marketers Need in 2023 [New Research]

Content Marketing Institute

Find out what your peers have to say about their challenges, operations, teams, and success. Just released today – CMI's B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2023. Continue reading →

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48% of Marketers Cite Social Media as Top Area of Desired Growth

KoMarketing Associates

Many people place their trust in LinkedIn, considering it a safe and secure social outlet to pursue connections with both peers and prospects,” wrote the authors behind the report. As marketers continue to explore new tools and resources available to them, research suggests that social media remains a key area of interest and investment.

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85% of B2B Marketers Who Use Social Media Remain Dedicated to Facebook

KoMarketing Associates

Many people place their trust in LinkedIn, considering it a safe and secure social outlet to pursue connections with both peers and prospects,” wrote the authors behind the report. These platforms were followed by Instagram (74%), YouTube (51%), and Twitter (49%), in terms of usage. B2B Marketers Reaping the Benefits of Paid Social Media.

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2023: How Consultancies Can Win in an Uncertain Environment

Hinge Marketing

In the figure below, we see that High Growth consulting firms grew four times faster than their Average Growth peers. Key Advantage 1: Technology This year’s data revealed that High Growth firms adopt and use business development and marketing software at a greater rate than their slower growing peers.

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66% of B2B Marketers Now Seeing an ROI from Paid Social Media Marketing

KoMarketing Associates

Many people place their trust in LinkedIn, considering it a safe and secure social outlet to pursue connections with both peers and prospects,” wrote the researchers behind the report. However, LinkedIn remains the go-to platform for B2B marketers, with 85% of respondents citing the site as their most used social media channel.

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Content Marketers: Here’s How To Ask for (and Get) the Salary You Want

Content Marketing Institute

These tips from your marketing peers will help you make your case. Most content marketers believe they deserve a higher salary, according to research. You’re more likely to get one if you build your pitch based on real results you’ve achieved for your employer. Continue reading →

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The Impact of COVID-19 on B2B Marketing Plans: Tech vs. Non-Tech

Webbiquity

The abrupt shutdown of vast swaths of economy and the entire live events industry, to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, has dramatically impacted plans for B2B marketers. But, as in all economic slowdowns, not every business sector is affected in the same degree or way. overall budgets will be cut). overall budgets will be cut).

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Study: Advocate Marketing Helps Brands Get 17.5X More Reviews

Influitive

Instead, they turn to their inner circle of peers when they need recommendations on new products or services. Today’s customers don’t trust ads.

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Reaching Rockstar Admin Status

InsightSquared

Step 3: Peer-to-Peer Testimonials: . As I saw adoption start to pick up, I reached out to the super users for peer-to-peer testimonials. “Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.” – Philip Crosby. Four years ago, I was in the same boat. Step 4: Executive Buy-in.

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Learn From the Best: Getting Expert Advice On Enhancing Website Performance

SEMrush

We decided to run a peer-to-peer campaign to help site owners get expert advice on how to maximize their site’s SEO performance.

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Ensure Your Innovation Hits It Out of the Park

Vision Edge Marketing

Don’t see their peer group doing it or their peers are doing something different. Capture and provide examples/case studies/testimonials of successful implementation especially by influential peers. Customer acquisition and retention often depend on new solutions. Why People Balk at Change. Don’t know how to try.

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HG Use Case: Human Capital Management Opportunity

HG Data

HG Insights delivers customizable market views, allowing users to peer into prospective companies and see what IT products they … The post HG Use Case: Human Capital Management Opportunity appeared first on HG Insights. Technology Market Share Analysis: $7.5B

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How to Get Litmus Certified (And Why You Should)

Litmus

Email designers, developers, and marketers: Want to elevate your skill set (and add “Litmus Certified” to your credentials)? Now’s your chance! Back by popular demand, we’re kicking off Litmus Certified again: hands-on workshops to elevate your email skillset using Litmus. In this article, we’ll cover: What is Litmus Certified?

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67 Book Picks for the Ultimate Content Marketing Library

Content Marketing Institute

You can judge it based on peer recommendations. You can’t judge a book by its cover. Here are 67 picks for a great bookcase to improve your content marketing, expand your marketing prowess, and gain inspiration.

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How to Use Content to Achieve Thought Leadership Results

Vision Edge Marketing

Inspirational, innovative, forward thinking and sometimes controversial, thought leaders are recognized by peers, customers, and other stakeholders as notable authorities in their field. . A thought leader is an individual or company whose customers, peers and other stakeholders, recognize as a foremost authority in.

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2021 B2B Content Marketing: What Now? [New Research]

Content Marketing Institute

But this year we added one more category – how you and your peers responded to the pandemic and plan for the new normal. In its 11th year, the annual Content Marketing Institute B2B research delves into industry benchmarks, budgets, and trends. Continue reading → The post 2021 B2B Content Marketing: What Now?

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Most Marketing Sucks: How a Culture of Empathy Can Save It

Marketing Insider Group

Whether they are in sales, marketing, HR, customer support, operations, even legal and finance, every employee has a pulse on the goals of your company, the pains of your customers, and the challenges of their peers. Digital technology has changed everything: how we interact with the world, how we learn, how we buy stuff, even how we date.

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High Growth Study 2022: AEC Firms Go Digital

Hinge Marketing

Simply put, high growth AEC firms are utilizing marketing and business development technologies more than their no growth peers—20 percent more, to be exact—and especially when it comes to customer relationship management (CRM), marketing automation and artificial intelligence (AI). infrastructure legislation. About the Study. Technology.

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Why Every Business Needs a Better Growth Plan

Vision Edge Marketing

The seven beliefs and behaviors that growth leaders share,” revealed the following results: Growth leaders across the C-suite are 70 percent more likely than peers to have growth as their top priority. Growth is going to be challenging according to the recent Business Roundtable survey. And does having one make a difference?

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Infographic: How Customer-Powered Marketing Simplifies The Buyer Journey

Influitive

B2B buyers continuously seek proof from their peers when making buying decisions. In fact, according to SiriusDecisions 67% of the buyer’s journey is done digitally before contacting a sales rep. So how can B2B brands influence this process? The key is to mobilize your customer advocates to share their positive experiences with prospects.

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CODiE Award Finalist: Market Intelligence Platform

HG Data

The CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-recognized awards program, with finalists determined by industry experts, to determine the best products, technologies, and services in software, IT, and business technology.

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Steer Clear of Common Advocacy Program Missteps with this SiriusDecisions Framework

Influitive

Research has proven time and time again that buyers—a whopping 83% of them— trust their peers more than big brands. Customer advocacy is increasingly becoming a “need-to-have” for brands, rather than simply a “nice-to-have”.

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11 Types of Sales Tools You Must Know in 2022

Account-Based Marketing Boosted with Company Data

Sales professionals who leverage sales technology outperform their peers. In addition to needing empathy, grit, and drive, you also need to know your potential and existing customers intimately to be relevant at every touchpoint.

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Your 3-Step Guide To Putting The New SiriusDecisions Customer Advocacy Framework Into Action

Influitive

They came ready to learn the latest insights from industry leaders about how their peers are driving business growth. Last month, a stampede of over 3000 sales, marketing, and customer success pros took over the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for the SiriusDecisions Summit. But one announcement stirred up more buzz than anything else at.

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Content Hit List

Content4Demand

Nominate yourself or a peer via the 2021 B2B Innovator Awards Nominations Form by 5 p.m. Connect with experts and peers in the martech community in this smaller, more exclusive event that blends the best of both virtual and physical worlds. ET on July 16, 2021. Back to Connecting. Remember in-person events? They’re baaack!

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Seven Non-Traditional Ways to Finance Your Small Business

Webbiquity

Peer-to-Peer Lending (P2P Lending). Challenges associated with down payments and collateral can limit their access to seller financing and traditional funding mechanisms. Nevertheless, a lack of traditional financing options doesn’t mean you should give up on your dreams of starting and owning your own small business.

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High Growth Study 2023: Driving Exceptional Growth and Profitability in Uncertain Times

Hinge Marketing

By contrast, their No Growth peers showed an average profit of less than 10%. The battle for top talent continues to rage on. And, as if that weren’t enough, firms are faced with the prospect of working with clients who have increased expectations around digital engagement. These are indeed challenging times for professional services.

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