7 Stages of B2B Marketing Sophistication

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 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 | December 10, 2019

The “wealth effect” the idea that consumer and business spending goes up with increases in stock prices, could taper with a downturn in the stock market. With the upcoming political year, it is highly likely that investors will cash out of some of their returns in early 2020, which could result in slower consumer and business spending in the early part of the year. Both B2B and B2C buyers might focus on “must haves” and delay the purchase of “nice to haves” until mid-year.

whitePaper | September 1, 2022

This paper focuses on the value of clean data and what it means for business development and the potential for increased profits when clean data is enhanced with intent data and fit. A report from the Royal Mail found that 34% of marketers don’t recognize the impact of poor data on their bottom line. It also estimates that approximately 6% of a company’s annual revenue is lost through the use of poor data.

whitePaper | December 10, 2022

With pressure on the rise to prove value AND generate results fast, marketers can no longer rely on just quantity. While the goal remains to maximize on the volume of leads, the bigger focus now is on the quality of leads (your best-fit accounts!) Quality leads are best-fit accounts for your business that are ready to buy based on high fit scores, levels of intent, spikes in engagement, data, and more!

whitePaper | September 27, 2022

Marketing Operation Professionals (MOps) are often the unsung hero overseeing the function of your MarTech stack ( marketing technology). Chances are, you already have invested in the tools necessary to ABMify it. But the real challenge is how your MarTech stack comes together to create one killer marketing operations strategy. In this guide we'll show you: Real customer examples and insights into how others approach MarTech in a way that works for them Examples of plays you can orchestrate when your multi-channel ABM stack is at its best Frameworks to design a stack that stacks up and simplifies Marketing Operations Why you need a way to integrate it all (and how to do it quickly)