Account Based Data

How to Win Market Share with a Customer-Centric Lens

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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Personal ABM

While many supply chain and tech companies are now taking an account based approach to sales and marketing, in many cases, they are still following a traditional based "lead"​ system with campaigns and "lead"​ hand-offs. Because there's limited personal relevance, there's a funnel fall-off with sales and marketing unable to close key accounts.

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Smarter Go-To-Market Powered By Account Intelligence

whitePaper | February 1, 2023

The information you need to target your ideal accounts efficiently is scattered across your systems and processes (or just plain hidden, such as buyer intent). As a result of the broken and incomplete data, your sales and marketing teams have account blindness. They have no choice but to make hunch-based decisions. It doesn’t matter how much training you’ve put them through. They will end up spamming prospects (and maybe even existing clients) because they don’t have the intelligence-based insights to guide them.

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

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.

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The B2B CFO’s Guide to Revenue Forecasting and Efficient Growth

whitePaper | March 9, 2023

When the economy falters, buyer behavior changes. But the key questions CFOs always ask are: By how much? And how much will it affect the sales pipeline, the lifeblood of the business? To maintain a healthy balance sheet, it’s critical for CFOs to get those answers right. And that’s where things get tricky. When CFOs trim budgets with a too-heavy hand, they can cripple the business’ future growth. Conversely, if they don’t trim enough, the business can bleed out.

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The Clearbit playbook for intent-based outreach

whitePaper | January 15, 2023

It’s harder than ever for marketers to create and capture demand - and turn it into pipeline. And, customer acquisition cost is rising due to: More advertisers than digital ad inventory Stronger online privacy regulations More channels and platforms Marketers must do more with less by finding efficient ways to grow their business.

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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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Devenir un distributeur numérique: guide et modèle de maturité

whitePaper | December 9, 2022

Le modèle d’affaires traditionnel du secteur du commerce de gros et de la distribution n’est pas viable. Le temps presse, les distributeurs doivent transformer leur modèle d’affaires. Notre rapport complémentaire de leadership éclairé « Les impératifs de transformation dans le secteur du commerce de gros et de la distribution »

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Spotlight

Personal ABM

While many supply chain and tech companies are now taking an account based approach to sales and marketing, in many cases, they are still following a traditional based "lead"​ system with campaigns and "lead"​ hand-offs. Because there's limited personal relevance, there's a funnel fall-off with sales and marketing unable to close key accounts.

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