Buying Cycle

How B2B CMOs Can Achieve Customer-Centric Marketing With Buyer Personas

A recent survey by B2B Marketing, in conjunction with the UK-based agency Tomorrow People, indicated only 38% of marketers considered their content to be “very customer-centric.”  This mirrors findings of other surveys related to content marketing and customer-centric marketing, which consistently hovers in the 35- 40% range of “very customer-centric” or “very effective content marketing.” …

How B2B CMOs Can Achieve Customer-Centric Marketing With Buyer Personas Read More »

Digital Buyer Personas: Why Prosumer and Produser Behaviors May Be The Most Important Yet To B2B Marketing

The digital economy continues to expand and reach into every corner of the globe. Digital technology advances have shrunken the world and made it possible for businesses to connect and collaborate on a scale like never before. These advances have altered buying behaviors drastically where conventional thinking about the B2B buyer can no longer be relied …

Digital Buyer Personas: Why Prosumer and Produser Behaviors May Be The Most Important Yet To B2B Marketing Read More »

Why Are 76% of Content Marketers Forgetting Sales Enablement?

24%.  That is it.  At the recent Hubspot Inbound Conference in August, this percentage was mentioned.   It represents the percentage, from Hubspot’s recent State of inbound Marketing report, of marketers surveyed who do have agreements with sales on defining lead responsibilities.  Very surprising and no wonder there have been increasing indications of content marketing ineffectiveness. …

Why Are 76% of Content Marketers Forgetting Sales Enablement? Read More »

Lead Optimization Study: The Right Prospect, The Right Message, At The Right Time

Generating leads is a big deal.   Acquiring new accounts and customers an even bigger deal.  Getting both of these right is a very good deal.  Getting them wrong – well – can be a very bad deal. Recently, I reviewed the interesting findings from the CSO Insights Lead Optimization Study.  The study’s primary focus was to …

Lead Optimization Study: The Right Prospect, The Right Message, At The Right Time Read More »

Is Your 2014 Sales Strategy Already Doomed By Lack of Information?

Right around the corner, the laborious and angst filled process of planning for 2014 begins.  2014 will be different.  While economic growth will remain sluggish (according to the Congressional Budget Office), businesses are starting to release the chains put around growth spending.  A lot has changed since the meltdown of 2008.  In these short five …

Is Your 2014 Sales Strategy Already Doomed By Lack of Information? Read More »

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 …

5 New Buyer Insights You Need To Grow Customer Acquisition Read More »

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 …

Is Content Marketing Ineffectiveness Changing Buying Behavior? Read More »

Are You Treating the 57% of the Buyer Journey Statistic As Gospel?

I was inspired to write this article after reading Megan Heuer’s article entitled Three Myths of the 67% Statistic.  Megan is Vice President and Group Director, Data-Driven Marketing at SiriusDecisions.  It is a good read.   I am happy to see SiriusDecision make a commentary on their statistic regarding the buying journey.  As Megan points out, …

Are You Treating the 57% of the Buyer Journey Statistic As Gospel? Read More »

How Well Do You Know Your Ideal Company Persona? (4 Ways You Can Know)

The concept of targeting companies has been around for a long time.  Opportunity pipelines usually consist of company names.  Sales automation typically has started out with creating a company account name.  Knowing which companies to target has been the lifeblood for B2B Sales for decades. This approach, however, is starting to become like trying to …

How Well Do You Know Your Ideal Company Persona? (4 Ways You Can Know) Read More »

5 Steps B2B Chief Sales Officers Must Take To Survive The B2B Buyer Revolution

For tenured B2B Chief Sales Officers, the world of sales – as they know it – is undergoing its most dramatic disruption in the last 50 years.  What worked before no longer works now.  Sales organizations are under constant assault by both internal forces and buyers.  The demands and expectations of buyers and internal leaders …

5 Steps B2B Chief Sales Officers Must Take To Survive The B2B Buyer Revolution Read More »