2022 State of Sales Technology

whitePaper | April 1, 2023

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) means many things to many people, but essentially it is a B2B marketing approach that aligns sales and marketing teams to work together on the same set of target accounts. It is a strategic approach to creating highly personalised marketing campaigns that lead to pipeline acceleration, higher closure rates and faster sales cycles. ABM has achieved transformative results in the US and UK, and is now being eagerly adopted across Asia-Pacific (APAC). However, the same approaches do not necessarily achieve the same results.

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

Webinars excel at establishing your organization’s thought leadership position and engaging them on a deeper level than other content, but its value is diminished significantly if you don’t make a strong effort to nurture those leads into new customers. Marketing automation plays an essential role in optimizing webinars as lead generation tools, orchestrating the pre-planning and post-webinar phases to drive more and better-qualified leads through your nurture program.

whitePaper | January 27, 2022

ABM focuses on targeting the right accounts at the right time and treating your prospect as a market of one. But an often-overlooked component within targeting campaigns is understanding the customer — generating insights into account activities are the missing link. The challenge lies in figuring out which points of information are most relevant to your prospect and crafting a plan to fully leverage them to drive engagement. Enterprise buyers are increasingly protective of their time, while a potential vendor that still expects the luxury of a lengthy introduction and a recounting of what challenges stand in the way of the organization’s progress is unlikely to move the relationship forward.

whitePaper | December 19, 2022

At the peak of the pandemic, businesses struggled to navigate the disruptions and upheavals of COVID-19. Now they’re trying to figure out what to do next as they emerge from the chaos. Who better to lead the business recovery charge than marketing? According to Deloitte, “marketing budgets as a percentage of overall budgets have risen to 11.8%, resetting to pre-pandemic levels.” Additionally, yearly marketing spending is breaking records in areas including brand building, customer relationship management, and traditional advertising.

whitePaper | October 31, 2022

Conceived in the early 2000s as a way to bring marketing and sales organizations together around a teambased approach to nurturing their most important accounts, ABM is now used by 70% of marketers, up from just 15% a year ago, according to HubSpot. Technology marketers have taken a particular interest in ABM, given the complex factors that influence IT purchases. Foundry’s second global survey of 500 B2B technology marketers found that satisfaction with ABM continues to be high, particularly at the largest companies. While most organizations are still early in their adoption journey, the results to date indicate that ABM is on track to not only become a mainstream marketing discipline but even displace more traditional methods.

whitePaper | October 20, 2022

Modern B2B marketers are experiencing a new frontier of demand and revenue generation, with a wealth of data at their fingertips. Paired with everevolving tools and technologies, marketing teams have a nearly 360-degree view of their market and audience. The challenge no longer lies in gathering insights, but in how to use the right data to drive growth effectively. The pressure to prove revenue contribution has never been stronger. As B2B marketers look to scale their go-to-market efforts, decoding audience insights and behavior is more important than ever before.