Buyer Foresight

Stop Business Speak And Simplify Insights To Achieve Customer Centricity

Many executives today are struggling in two areas.  One is in formulating strategies designed to help their organization stand out in a crowded field.  The second is in creating an enterprise adept with deep customer insights and understanding, which translates into obsessed customer focus.  When struggling in these two areas, executives and their organizations can …

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The New B2B Buyer And The Collaborative Economy

In the post-WW II decades through the 1990’s – and for many into the 2000’s, the business and world economy was focused on the mass “push-down” economic model. In simplistic terms, B2B was predicated on mass production and how many mass-produced products can be sold through marketing, sales, and distribution. Fortunes rose or fell based on whether B2B …

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Beyond Predictive Marketing: Planning With Persona-Based Strategic Narratives

In a recent interview, one of the world’s most compelling management consultant, Tom Peters, responded to a question related to what is missing from today’s discussion about management. In classic as well as vintage Tom Peter fashion, he responded: “My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing.” He went …

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The New Face Of Buyers In The Digital Economy

In the mid-to-late ‘90’s, as the first roots of the Internet began to take hold, Don Tapscott coined the phrase The Digital Economy.  Tapscott’s landmark book is entitled The Digital Economy: Promise And Peril In The Age Of Networked Intelligence.  At the time, it was filled with tremendous foresight.  Much of the perspectives Tapscott offered …

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D.I.V.E. Deeper: Getting The Most Out Of Your Buyer Personas

To get the most out of anything worthwhile takes persistence, perseverance, hard work, intuitiveness, and grit.  It is advice we offer to our friends, family, and children.  Often in helpful conversations with marketing and sales leaders, I usually am posed the question of how to get the most out of buyer personas. A common theme …

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CMO 2014: Achieve CMO and CEO Alignment With Powerful Insights

2013 may turn out to be a watershed year.  According to PWC’s (Price, Waterhouse Cooper) annual survey of CEO’s, nearly 65% view building a customer-focused organization as one of their top priorities.  Along with this top priority comes a willingness to invest time and money into developing customer intimacy and expanding their customer bases.   What …

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CMO 2014: Awakening To Buyer Foresight

Achieving competitive superiority is one of the overarching goals for B2B business organizations.  Doing so is no easy endeavor.  It involves keeping one step ahead of competitors as well as building strong customer loyalty.  Many factors contribute to achieving this goal.  One important factor is the ability to predict and to see the road ahead. …

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The Coming Era Of The Self-Qualified B2B Buyer

B2B buyers are about to enter new territory.  Giving B2B CMO’s and CSO’s new challenges as they strive to keep pace with evolving buying behaviors.  The “always on” nature of consumerism has bled over to B2B.  Unleashing a new powerful element in the ongoing buyer revolution. We are about to enter an era of the …

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The State Of Buyer Personas 2014

Attempts to keep up with changing buying behaviors are very much like a car chase scene in an action packed movie.  Just as we are about to catch up with the buyer, new technology accelerates buyer progress.  Creating an ever present need to gain insight into newly forming behaviors on the part of buyers.  Otherwise, …

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CMO 2014: Brand Experience Will Matter First Before Content Marketing

For many Chief Marketing Officers and marketing leaders, especially in B2B, there is a seismic shift taking place in how marketing is approached and done.  A staple in yearly strategic planning is the product or service as the central focus of marketing and sales plans year after year.  Product marketing is just as the name …

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