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From Fragmented to Unified Insight-Driven Buyer Strategies

B2B Leaders Must Develop Unified Approaches to Buyer Strategies and Customer-Centricity Even though the business world is experiencing tumultuous change, B2B’s structure and governance are still very much fragmented.   Hierarchy dominates.  Functions and departments are represented by an elevator button.  Stop at a reception desk of a typical multi-story B2B corporation headquarters, you are likely …

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4 Headwinds B2B Buyers Will Face in the Future

B2B Buyers Will Endure Ongoing Challenges Ahead From an overarching perspective, some industries have enjoyed a robust recovery coming out of the pandemic while others are still in a slow slog.  In engaged B2B buyer research I have been conducting, there appear to be strong headwinds ahead for buyers to contend with.  Inflation will only …

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Earn The Right To Gain Buyer Empathy

The word and the premise of empathy have become quite the buzzword in business and marketing.  Especially so since the advent of and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.  There is widespread consensus that having empathy is a good thing.  A must-have to connect with buyers and customers. A place to start for most organizations and individuals …

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Overpromised and Underdelivered Exasperate Buyers

Buyers, consumers, audiences, investors, and voters have all faced, at one time or another, hyperbole.  Where something is hyped, and an overpromised outcome is touted.  That something, underdelivered, can be a product, service, performance, technology, or program. The tolerance level for accepting underdelivered outcomes has been getting lower.  In buyer insights research interviews during the …

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Great Buyer Resignation

The Great Buyer Resignation

One of the big stories of the year 2021 and the Covid-19 pandemic has been the “Great Resignation” of workers in many consumer and business sectors.  There are a variety of reasons cited.  Including lack of adequate childcare, health, industries severely impacted by the pandemic, acting upon personal interests, and early retirement.  To name a …

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2022: The Year of Infrastructure

In 2014, then-President Barack Obama gave a speech on the importance of building infrastructure for future virus-borne pandemics.  His predecessor, President George W. Bush, delivered similar speeches as they related to HIV and SARS viruses.  The following two successive administrations each were and are plagued with the inability to get infrastructure planning right.  As a …

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