Account-Based Marketing : Targeting With Intent

whitePaper | May 18, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, competitive analysis is a foundational process that reinforces and clarifies business cases or campaign roadmaps by identifying gaps and potential differentiators. A competitive analysis has become essential to developing and identifying a winning strategy for growth and success—essential when, on average, a business can have 25 direct competitors. In the traditional sense, this would equate to an analysis of competitors, their products, and their messaging. But does that serve the purpose of identifying competitive gaps, or the ultimate goal of winning market share through displacement? Effective competitive displacement and competitive analysis need to be customer-centric above all else.

whitePaper | February 22, 2023

Here are the 10 ways B2B marketing teams are leveraging the power of intent to fill their pipelines, engage targets, and guide prospects all the way to a sale. Maybe your organization wants to leverage intent data but is not able to allocate the necessary budget or the manpower to build an in-house solution. A more workable alternative might be to import ready-to-work leads generated by an intent monitoring platform. When reviewing possible lead generation partners — like content syndicators and tele-prospecting sources — be sure to ask vendors whether they use intent data in generating the leads they send you, and listen carefully to their responses. The growing popularity of intent data is no secret, and many marketers have begun working the word “intent” into their marketing — including those who incorporate intent data only in the very loosest sense.

whitePaper | January 5, 2023

The B2B buyer’s journey is growing increasingly complex. At the same time, marketing is getting a bigger seat at the executive table with record-high technology budgets that are expected to surpass those of CIOs this year. To top off this added complexity and growing accountability, buzzed-about advances in data analytics have stakeholders assuming marketing can seamlessly report on the evolving landscape in which they operate.

whitePaper | July 1, 2023

As we mentioned, today’s B2B buying committees can be composed of dozens of different roles spread across a business, and they typically have different objectives in mind. The CTO might be trying to determine how well a SaaS solution fits with their current tools and infrastructure, while the CFO may be focusing more on cost management and financial stability. Regardless of how well (or poorly) all of these different roles communicate with each other, they all do one thing when considering a new marketing technology solution: Research.

whitePaper | August 23, 2022

Your buyers’ lives, preferences, and expectations have changed. Two-thirds or 67% of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions - and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable. They hold your sellers to a high standard. That means the buying experiences of the past - in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels - no longer deliver. So forget your old sales playbook. Your best value proposition is an impactful buying experience that guides people to the best possible decision.

whitePaper | May 5, 2023

With the latest advancements in technology, businesses can now oversee an entire financial transaction in a minute at the comforts of their offices rather than take a time-consuming trip to the bank. With far-reaching access to mobile technology, things have moved even faster than ever as businesses and entrepreneurs are able to deal with each other at the tip of their fingertips. The rapid evolution of B2B solutions has made it possible to find leads and nurture their interest in a product or service through an automated platform that integrates different marketing channels instantaneously. With such accelerated development of technology, doing business has gotten easier every day. However, this has also meant clients moving at a much faster pace. Instantaneous transactions have become the common thing in ways unimaginable just decades ago that “follow-up delays” has become the biggest deal killer today.