Tag Archives: Information overload

Dec 2013

7 B2B Buying Behavior Trends To Watch In 2014

Like a runaway train, B2B buyers continue to evolve and reshape their buying behaviors. Adapting to new channels as well as technologies to solve critical problems, reach goals, and accomplish more. My conversations with B2B marketing and sales leaders indicating it will be tougher for B2B Marketing and Sales to keep pace in both customer acquisition and retention. After conducting a substantial amount of qualitative research-based buyer interviews in 2013 in several vertical markets, on behalf of B2B organizations, there are trends I see beginning to take root. Trends which suggest buyers are more inclusive, collaborative, and discerning than…

Article by Tony Zambito

Aug 2013

5 New Buyer Insights You Need To Grow Customer Acquisition

The buyer revolution is in a frenzied uprising. More empowered and influential than ever before, buyers are letting it be known of their dissatisfaction. Several reports during the past year indicate buyers frown upon self-serving as well as product-based content marketing and sales approaches. The power of revolt now a mere click to the trash icon. What buyers today are beginning to voice is the higher expectations of knowing about their business. With these higher expectations comes a new standard, which must be met. B2B organization must come to the table with business related advice on how to solve business…

Article by Tony Zambito

Jul 2013

Is Content Marketing Ineffectiveness Changing Buying Behavior?

The pendulum has been around since 1602 when Galileo invented it. It was the world’s most accurate timekeeping device right up until around the 1930’s. The concept is one of our natural laws of the world. We may be experiencing the effects of the pendulum in sales and marketing. Despite the pronouncements of buyers not engaging sales until 50-70% into the buying cycle, this generalized view is and should be questioned. Paired with other studies indicating buyer dissatisfaction with content and information, something new may be afoot. At this stage, it should be treated as an early stage buyer insight…

Article by Tony Zambito