The calendar is usually full. Exercise coming from jogging from one meeting to the next. Engrossed in the daily demands for time and being in the moment of now. The now being a crisis or a looming project deadline. The gnawing feeling of something being missed about customers and buyers never going away. The world …
3 CMO Signals For Sensing Shifts In Buyer Decision Behaviors Read More »
The complexities of the evolving and robust global digital economy are introducing new sets of goals and problems for B2B organizations. Long-tenured B2B companies are seeking ways to adapt and to remain sustainable. While nimble and digital technology savvy firms are either grabbing larger chunks of market share at a faster rate or are creating …
The 3 Types Of Buying Scenarios Every B2B CMO Must Know Read More »
For most of the past few decades, leading up to the advent of the Internet and digital technologies in the 21st century, there has been an accepted paradigm regarding B2B buying decisions. This paradigm consisted of an unquestioned notion that B2B buying decisions were disciplined, rigorous, process-based, and rational. In essence, a prevailing belief B2B …
The Role Of Emotions And Goals In B2B Buying Decisions Read More »
One of the recurring themes over the past three years is the yin and yang of attempts to engage customers and buyers through digital and content marketing. The statistics on surveys from Forrester, McKinsey, IBM, Sirius Decisions, and others have all been surprisingly constant. Reflecting the fact of sixty-five to seventy percent of content goes …
Why CMOs Need To Embrace Goal-Directed Customer Engagement Read More »
Many CEOs today, as made evident by recent CEO surveys such as the IBM Annual CEO Survey, are emphasizing improving customer engagement for their corporations. Realizing one essential priority is building a customer-centered organization able to compete in a fast-moving and dynamic digital economy. Where holding onto customers in a multi-channel world becomes an important …
How CEOs And CMOs Can Tell The Difference Between Information And Insights Read More »
Business-to-Business thrives on the simple basic principle of buying and selling. With all the hoopla over the past few years regarding digital technologies and social media, it is easy to lose sight of this most basic principle, which has existed for centuries. The impact of digital and social technologies on the nature of buying and …
Goal-Directed Decision Making Drives B2B Buying And Selling Read More »
Product centricity is still kicking dust up in the perfect storm of changing buyer behaviors and transforming digital technologies. The dust up so thick, most organizations believe they may be responding to this perfect storm, yet, everything they do does scream products. A good case in point is what organizations believe they need to do …
Intervention: Buyer Personas Are Not A Product Requirements Document Read More »
For decades, business executives have faced disruptive forces and changes. Brought on by technology, population changes, war, economic collapse, and radical innovation. Due to the disruptive force of the new digital economy, business leaders and CMOs are facing a new phenomenon different than ever experienced before. The rapid changes in digital technologies are overlapping with …
How CMOs Can Use Persona-Based Customer Strategy To Transform Marketing Read More »
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 …
Stop Business Speak And Simplify Insights To Achieve Customer Centricity Read More »
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 …
