Madison Logic

JANUARY 5, 2023

B2B marketers need to generate content that delivers results and enhances the customer experience . A large part of this full-funnel approach is delivering content that buyers need to progress to the next stage of the customer journey.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For instance, buyers are 67% more likely to accept a meeting if the pitch is customized to their situation, says HubSpot. Additionally, teams that harness the buying cues benefit from more precise and efficient sales cycles. How to Spot Buying Signals When B2B buyers need to solve a problem, they start researching online.

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Madison Logic

JANUARY 18, 2023

For example, y our sales teams have daily conversations with current and prospective accounts. In the later stages of the sales cycle, they see how your content and messaging affect purchase decisions first-hand. They can be a resource to help you identify who you can target for higher ROI and pipeline impact.

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Outreach

JUNE 22, 2021

When a prospect asks about your integrations or how you stack up against a competitor, your reps need the answers at their fingertips. If they have to follow up afterward, their sales cycles will slow and their close rates will drop. How Kaia Saves Time for Managers + Shortens the Sales Cycle. Competitors.

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Seismic

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In order to win business with well-informed buyers, sellers need to be available, informative, and honest: Available – In the LinkedIn State of Sales 2021 report , only 28% of buyers indicated that sellers remain engaged after the sale to ensure value delivery. Buyers are engaging everywhere online.

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Madison Logic

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

By understanding these segmentation opportunities and what each member of the buying committee needs to make an informed decision, your team can curate content to meet the needs of buyers based on the attributes above to help accelerate the account through the customer journey. B2B buyers aren’t crazy about that either. .

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Here are the most common strategies: Direct sales: This involves a rep talking directly to a customer, building a personal relationship over time before closing a deal. This is perfect for longer sales cycles that require ongoing negotiation, typical for complex products at high price points.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 12, 2013

In that article and elsewhere, you've suggested that many buyers get as far as 70 percent through the sales cycle before they find it useful to engage the sales teams. However, it’s an important belief to take on board because it changes our belief about our need to communicate in the earliest stages of the sales cycle.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

How can you efficiently nurture those long-term prospects, learning more about their interests in the process, until they are really ready to engage with sales? Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. There is a crying need for this.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Instead, it requires using technology to build a set of cross-company processes that enable an evidence-based approach to sales and marketing to drive growth. With these systems, it’s possible to score buyers based on how they engage with your marketing programs and then nurture them based on their interests, behaviors, and preferences.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 11, 2014

The Value Gap – Sales and marketing often falls way short in providing the key financial justification content buyers need to make timely and favorable purchase decisions. Alinean content marketing Financial Justification IDC Pisello ROI sales cycle SiriusDecisions Stakeholders Value Gap Value Marketing Value Selling'

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 18, 2013

Michael Gerard, VP of IDC ‘s CMO and Sales Advisory Practice indicates in a recent presentation that it now takes more than 650 targets just to get one deal, and each deal is taking longer to close than before, some 19 months for the marketing and sales cycle to complete. This is a good news / bad news story from IDC.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims. Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 7, 2015

More often than not, they have decided to stick with status quo or go with another vendor, and have not told your sales rep yet. They just haven’t admitted this to your sales rep yet. what the buyer needs and is looking for has dramatically shifted), or even poor financial performance (budgets disappear).”

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

"Effective content for either technical or business buyers needs to address issues that keep them awake at night" Tom Pick's Bio. In short, effective content for either technical or business buyers needs to address issues that keep them awake at night, in the language they use. Blog Webbiquity Twitter TomPick.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

They may be entirely out of the hands of the buyer, but if you don’t understand and respect it, if you’re creating friction between the way a buyer needs to buy and the way you want to sell, even if they buy, boy, that is a hole that you have to dig out of from a customer experience standpoint. Alan : Exactly.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. Is this digital spending allocation aligning with buyer needs? We call this the “Internet fueled buying cycle.&# Content may indeed be king.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

Skeptical Buyers: Inundated with more carpet-bombing marketing campaigns than ever before, buyers are suffering from information overload, making it difficult, if not impossible, to use legacy strategies to break through the noise to connect and engage with decision makers, and moreover, gain their trust.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 13, 2024

These younger buyers use a wider variety of sources and find third-party resources more impactful than vendor resources, and prefer self-driven transactions from vendor websites, marketplaces, app stores, or directly from an existing product. Here’s how to shift your ABM approach. The Millennial Decision-Maker Is Here.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

With ready access to an unprecedented wealth of on-line information, and skepticism toward vendors as a result of direct marketing overload, buyers have revolted and taken the buying cycle into their own hands. At the middle stage, buyers need to understand product features and savings / benefits that can be derived.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

In order to navigate the decision making process, the buyer needs to understand “Why consider a change?” Research indicates that this is all too common, with nearly 2/3rds of the decision making process complete before sales reps are engaged (CEB). and “Why do so now?” , way before “Why your solution?”.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

How can you efficiently nurture those long-term prospects, learning more about their interests in the process, until they are really ready to engage with sales? Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. There is a crying need for this.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

These buyers need a reason to engage – and delivering personalized, proprietary and consultative benchmarks, insight and advice is essential. For most buyers it’s easier to do-nothing, than to change. IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales E. Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enabl.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 2, 2014

The research clearly indicates that the issues are not around sales having enough leads, more sales training, improved social selling ability or increased product knowledge. Although PowerPoint might be comfortable, you have to help your sales reps move beyond these one-size-fits-all decks to be effective with a more empowered buyer.

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6sense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The average B2B buyer consumes over a dozen pieces of content — stemming from first-party and third-party sources — before deciding on a vendor. In a recent 500-person survey we co-conducted, 65% of buyers said their sales cycles were getting longer, included more decision makers, or both.

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 23, 2016

Intuitively, you probably know this, but because people are doing their own research about products and solutions to their problems, they don’t have to talk to sales person until they are ready to engage. In fact, Forrester says that as much as 90 percent of the buying process is complete before the prospect engages with a vendor.

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Golden Spiral

OCTOBER 1, 2021

74% of the most successful marketers map content to specific stages of the buyer’s journey. Only 42% of content marketers actually talk with customers to understand their needs. Three Reasons Sales Cycles are So Long. Marketing influences buyers deeper and deeper into the funnel before the sales team becomes a factor.

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Golden Spiral

OCTOBER 1, 2021

74% of the most successful marketers map content to specific stages of the buyer’s journey. Only 42% of content marketers actually talk with customers to understand their needs. Three Reasons Sales Cycles are So Long. Marketing influences buyers deeper and deeper into the funnel before the sales team becomes a factor.

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Sales Engine

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Intuitively, you probably know this, but because people are doing their own research about products and solutions to their problems, they don’t have to talk to sales person until they are ready to engage. In fact, Forrester says that as much as 90 percent of the buying process is complete before the prospect engages with a vendor.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 21, 2010

Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques need to evolve to meet these new buyer demands. Did the Alinean Business Value Tools drive incremental sales, reduce sales cycles, increase deal size, generate more demand, and improve sales / consulting productivity as anticipated?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 3, 2012

Writing that “I have no interest in reading a War and Peace-style sales pitch — and, let’s face it, that’s what most whitepapers are these days…Companies need to find new and more direct ways to reach the buyer 2.0 The Future of Buyer Relationships by Business2Community.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2011

Making content more relevant to buyers can have a substantial impact, improving effectiveness and driving a tangible ROI to the business. In fact the level of relevant content affected whether made the vendor made the short list of alternative choices, with 86% of respondents indicating that relevant content drove the buyer’s decision.

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Martech

APRIL 15, 2022

This is because buyers seek expertise when dealing with other businesses, while consumers typically seek the best deals and most exciting products. So your marketing needs to be more personalized than it might otherwise be when targeting B2C customers. Types of B2B marketing. There are many different B2B marketing strategies.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The good news is that todays buyer wants to be engaged, with 9 out of 10 actively relying on vendor provided information on their way to making a purchase decision. This results in a slower buying process and the continual carpet bombing of buyer inboxes with the same static, mass-distributed whitepapers that every vendor sends out.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Buyers were different, sales cycles were different, messaging was different, and media was different. In complex B2B sales, group decisions are the norm. While there were some small areas of overlap, the disciplines were, for the most part, treated as distinct. Image Credit: Lydia’s Marketing Blog.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Buyers were different, sales cycles were different, messaging was different, and media was different. In complex B2B sales, group decisions are the norm. While there were some small areas of overlap, the disciplines were, for the most part, treated as distinct. Image Credit: Lydia’s Marketing Blog.

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