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Five Impacts of CMO Budget Cuts – Gartner 2021 CMO Spend Survey

Webbiquity

” In other words, companies that maintain or increase marketing spend, counter to the trend reported by Gartner, are likely to gain market share at the expense of the budget cutters. But B2B vendors have moved more sales online as well. Virtual Events Will Play a Bigger Role.

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33 Questions to Ask B2B Appointment Setting and Lead Gen Vendors

Smashmouth Marketing

There are so many demand gen vendors out there, and if you are a demand gen professional in sales or marketing, we've probably called you. Outsourcing some or all of your appointment setting or lead generation activity to a third party vendor is a task that shouldn't be undertaken by responding to one cold call.

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2 Years After Launch, ZoomInfo is a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for ABM

Zoominfo

Two short years later, we’re thrilled to share that ZoomInfo has climbed from a newcomer in the ABM field to being recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Platforms. Customer Insights That Drive Innovation ZoomInfo didn’t enter the ABM market to be just another vendor.

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AI is poised to disrupt the world of martech vendors and users

Martech

The hype around artificial intelligence may be heading into the “trough of disillusionment,” as Gartner calls it, but the technology continues to progress in big, disruptive ways — especially for martech. One company, fintech giant Klarna, has gone so far as to ditch two major vendors in favor of DIY software. Would you go all DIY?

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Seven Ways B2B Tech Buying Behavior is Changing [Research]

Webbiquity

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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Landscape of MarTech Vendor Directories

Customer Experience Matrix

I'm making a presentation on marketing technology selection at B2BLeadsCon in New York next week, and had thought to start with the usual Oh-My-God-There-Are-So-Many-Vendors slide to get everybody's attention. This includes Scott's slide plus versions from Luma Partners , Gartner , MarTech Advisor , Terminus/FlipMyFunnel , and Growthverse.

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69% of Marketers Intend on Boosting Their Martech Spend

KoMarketing Associates

Gartner conducted its “2020 Marketing Technology Survey: Cost Pressures Force Martech Optimization and Innovation,” and data showed that most marketers (58%) decreased their martech budget as a result of the pandemic.

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