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B2B Marketing & Sales Insights from Lori Wizdo of Forrester Research

ViewPoint

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. In our discussion, Lori shared key insights into the B2B buyer's journey as well as marketing and sales alignment. Buyers need to talk to people to get information. You need that human qualification.

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Forrester: The Accelerating Death of the B2B Sales Rep

The ROI Guy

I n this session, Forrester boldly predicted that 1 million B2B salespeople would be displaced by 2020, as B2B buyers by-pass reps who just take orders or pitch products, instead favoring digital self-service and more value-added interactions with a select group of more capable, consultative sales reps.

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Five Sales Enablement Tactics B2B Marketers Need to Master

Webbiquity

More than 75 percent of prospects feel the sales professionals who contact them lack knowledge of their specific business, role and responsibilities at work, or even the issues they’re trying to resolve, according to research from Forrester. You also get to understand their abilities and properly map them to your buyersneeds.

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B2B vs. B2C Marketing: Four Myths, Six Differences, and One Key Similarity

Webbiquity

Actually, the B2B market is about twice as large, according to Forrester. That means the business buyer needs to justify the need (why is this better than the way we do things now?) B2B marketers need to produce content to help the buyer answer questions and obtain approval.

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How to Create the Best Content For Your Marketing Automation System

KoMarketing Associates

This echoes similar research from Forrester, too – they found that only 31 percent of marketers use journey maps in their work. What needs to be done – and what so few content marketers are doing – is to “map” your content to the buyer’s journey. It’s their job – literally.

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How Living in the 57 Percent Will Impact Your Content Marketing Strategy in 2015

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In their 2014 B2B Content Preferences Study , DemandGen Report findings show that 68 percent of B2B buyers advise B2B content marketers to “curb the sales messaging” and 64 percent advise “Focus less on product specifications and more on value.” This requires an understanding of the buyer, their buying path and content consumption patterns.

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Overcoming Friction in Demand Marketing Program Planning

Forrester B2B

To drive effective and cost-efficient buyer engagement through demand marketing, marketers must build programs with clear goals tied to business objectives and a long-term campaign theme linked to buyer needs. Demand program owners need a repeatable approach to program creation.