Account-Based Marketing is Increasingly Important to B2B Marketers

February 5, 2019

B2B organizations are turning to ABM practices to identify the businesses, buying centers and decision makers with whom they want to establish relationships. This is nothing new to a lot of sales teams — they’ve been taking this approach for a long time. However, B2B marketers now have the sophistication and the automation available to them to wade in and start adopting this strategy. The timing is perfect because the B2B sale is getting more complex. According to IDG, “up to 17 people can now influence enterprise B2B purchases — a 70% increase since 2011.”1

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