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Customer Purchase Intention and Use in B2B Marketing

Heinz Marketing

By Sarah Threet, Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketin g What is Purchase Intention and Intent Data? Purchase intention (or buyer intent) is a measure of each shopper’s propensity to buy a product or service. Intent data is the dataset that provides insight into the customer’s journey.

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Why Marketers Should Prioritize Lower Funnel Keywords to Get Better Results

Act-On

Lower funnel keywords are an often neglected SEO strategy for marketers. One thing is for sure, though: search intent isn’t aligned with marketing automation, which is what we do here at Act-On. The challenge is that fragmented intent doesn’t deliver targeted traffic. We’ll give you an example.

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Are Advertisers Getting Purchase Intent All Wrong?

Martech Advisor

Marketers must reach shoppers who are in-market, not just browsing. Purchase intent is when a consumer expresses an actual desire to buy a product through their behavior, yet confusing “interest” with “intent” can be a stumbling block, shares, Daniel Heer, Founder & CEO at zeotap.

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Why bottom-of-the-funnel SEO is the game-changer your B2B needs

Martech

Too often, companies focus SEO efforts on driving traffic with top-of-the-funnel content and keywords. In B2B, the opportunity is in optimizing for bottom-of-the-funnel queries and conversions. Higher conversion rates The bottom-of-the-funnel (BOFU) content is all about conversions. So, why start from the bottom in B2B?

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Goodbye Third-Party Cookies, Hello Content Marketing

Contently

According to Forrester, in 2023, more than half of global marketers thought the whole thing was a bluff. For marketers, this means a few things are about to change. Here’s everything you need to know about third-party cookies and what their phase-out means for content marketers in 2024.

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How to Use Intent Data to Identify Sales-Qualified Leads (SQLs) and Win More Deals  

Only B2B

What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? According to a Gartner survey, a mere 34% of marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) progress to sales-accepted leads (SALs), and only 47% of these SALs become sales-qualified leads (SQLs) , with just over half culminating in successful deals. billion (Polaris).

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B2B Lead Generation: The Ultimate Guide

Zoominfo

And while the precise definition can vary by team, GTM teams often have two high-level ways of categorizing leads: Marketing qualified leads (MQLs), who are early in the journey but have interacted in a way that indicates they could be ready for sales. At this point, the B2B buyer knows their pain points and is actively seeking a solution.