Accelerant. A word we are beginning to hear and see more often. It is being used to describe the effects of COVID-19 in shaping B2B buyer behaviors. Pre-pandemic, it was expected buyer behavior trends may evolve over a five to ten-year period. Now, buying behavioral trends have been lit with lighter fluid as the coronavirus …
Three Buyer Insights To Consider When Engaging B2B Buyers In A COVID-19 World Read More »
Depending on the type of automobile you have, when you hit the gas pedal hard, there can be a slight hesitation. A hesitation that can be sometimes unsettling. Especially when trying to enter onto a highway. That moment of hesitation before the acceleration can feel like more than a mere second. We are in that …
Funnels, stages, paths, journeys, and more labels that suggest some form of a linear line of thinking has dominated marketing and sales for decades. Whereby the notion of awareness, evaluation, consideration, and the purchase decision is built-in to these views. In reality, whatever labels have been applied, there are more similarities than differences. As forward-thinking …
The Buyer’s Journey Will Transform Into The Buyer’s Quest Read More »
In a period of ninety days, the world and business of commerce have been shocked by its foundations. Executives from all industries are faced with uncertainties that could not have been anticipated at the start of 2020. Causing senior leaders to scrap plans, accelerate plans, or seek alternative plans to help them chart a new …
7 Ways The Future Of Business In An Existing And Post Covid-19 World Will Change Read More »
June 8, 2020 A quarterly monitoring study of buyer attitudes about buying decisions during and after the COVID-19 Crisis, the COVID-19 Buyer Outlook Insights study will bring timely and essential buyer persona-based decision-making about when and how to resume marketing and sales. Introducing Buyer Outlook Insights Study Marketers and sellers have faced an enormous upheaval …
Tony Zambito And Center For Buyer Insights To Launch Buyer Outlook Insights Study July 1 Read More »
We are living in unprecedented times. The COVID-19 pandemic has forever altered the global business economy. There have been crises in the past where disruptive impact rippled through business commerce. In the last 100 years, the Great Depression, War World II, 9/11, and the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis come to mind. We now find ourselves in …
Many of us will remember a moment when the world shifted like an earthquake in mid-March of 2020. Maybe it was the NBA canceling its season abruptly that made us go – “what just happened!?” Or, it was the announcement that Tom Hanks and his wife had contracted the coronavirus labeled COVID-19. Schools closed. Offices …
Coronavirus Will Change Buying Behaviors Forever. Will We Know How? Read More »
Being relevant today in a digital world filled with millions and billions of interactions per day is one of the greatest challenges facing organizations today. Both B2B and B2C (and hybrid) are investing in attempts to capture these interactions. In the form of data and analytics, organizations are hoping to glean informative insights into the …
3 Deep Buyer Insights Must-Haves By The Year 2020 Read More »
For the past few decades, solution-based selling was the dominant theme in building sales organizations. Solution-selling methodologies and training proved to be a big business. B2B organizations reworked their sales organization and invested heavily to be more consultative with buyers. B2B entities are finding it hard to let go and prepare for sales transformation in …
6 Variables Making Buyer Insights Driven Sales Transformation Critical By 2020 Read More »
The speed at which changes in buying behaviors and decision-making are occurring is a challenge faced by B2B organizations. With data and technology as drivers, the time at which insights can serve as relevant is shrinking also. This phenomenon of speed in changing behaviors will cause a shift in thinking on the gathering of human-centric …
How Insights Into The B2B Lifecycle Can Prevent A Blind Spot In 2020 Read More »
