CURRENT TRENDS IN THE WORLD OF B2B MARKETING

What’s keeping b2b marketers awake at night? What are the major trends influencing marketing strategies? Our latest survey reveals the biggest challenges and opportunities facing b2b marketers in an attempt to understand how they are planning to succeed this year. B2B International recently conducted a survey of 266 b2b marketing professionals across North America and Europe. All survey participants work for large companies (average revenue of $6 billion) and have a responsibility for marketing strategy.

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Lotus Growth is a marketing and demand generation consultancy for Silicon Valley B2B software companies. Our clients are marketing for the first time, launching new products, or going through huge growth transitions. As your partner in growth marketing and demand generation, we help you achieve your ultimate goal: more happy customers…

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ABM 2.0: 3 Paths to More Productive Revenue Capture in a Changing Interaction Landscape

whitePaper | September 12, 2022

With face-to-face touchpoints being replaced by virtual interactions, learn how to succeed in this new landscape. B2B marketers need to scale up ABM 1.0 principles to generate more revenue from a larger number of target accounts. In this white paper, ABM 2.0: 3 Paths to More Productive Revenue Capture in a Changing Interaction Landscape, we discuss how changes in B2B interaction are impacting relationship-creation and how you can use intent data to connect buyers to the solutions they need.

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How to Win Market Share with a Customer-Centric Lens

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.

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Delivering Frictionless Customer Experience

whitePaper | October 5, 2022

Our relationships with brands naturally change over time, and the radical, accelerated digital evolution of consumer behavior and expectations over the past two years only serves to underscore the need for instant gratification. Not long ago, CX professionals focused in large part on behavioral differences between generations—Millennial or Gen Z versus Boomer. But today’s CX behaviors and the challenges associated with them transcend generations. The pandemic has transformed most of us into digital natives.

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Aligning Sales and Marketing Over Agreed-Upon Metrics

whitePaper | January 20, 2023

Technology vendors are facing challenging economic conditions, reduced quarterly income due to longer sales cycles, and larger selection committees due to hesitancy in choosing new technology. The average sales cycle has increased 22% over the past 5 years due to more decision makers being involved in the buying process. Soon customers will manage 85% of their relationships without talking to a human source.

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How to build an Enterprise Marketing strategy with B2B Intent data

whitePaper | January 25, 2023

Intent data has been making waves in digital environments by improving customer interactions from that phase of initial interest, all the way to becoming a converted account. For the better part of a decade, data-driven observations of customer behavior have relied heavily on insights derived from first-party data - insight into what actions customers take directly on an organization’s website. While this approach has strong pros for increasing account growth or capitalizing on inbound leads, the decision making process in the buyer journey often starts long before a prospect lands on a business’ website.

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Discover the State of Account-Based Marketing in APAC

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.

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Lotus Growth is a marketing and demand generation consultancy for Silicon Valley B2B software companies. Our clients are marketing for the first time, launching new products, or going through huge growth transitions. As your partner in growth marketing and demand generation, we help you achieve your ultimate goal: more happy customers…

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