What "Professional" B2B Buyers Want
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What "Professional" B2B Buyers Want

For obvious reasons, B2B marketers have always craved insights about their current and potential buyers. Such insights can enable astute marketers to craft more compelling value propositions, run more effective marketing programs, and deliver better customer experiences.Every year, I review several...
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Three Critical Steps for Thought Leadership Success
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Three Critical Steps for Thought Leadership Success

It's now abundantly clear that compelling thought leadership content has become a vital component of effective marketing for most B2B companies. Numerous research studies have demonstrated that business buyers are relying on thought leadership content and that it has a significant impact on purchase...
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Moving Beyond Mere Sales-Marketing "Alignment"

Moving Beyond Mere Sales-Marketing "Alignment"

In my last post, I discussed some of the findings of a 2019 survey about sales and marketing alignment by LeadMD and Drift. In this survey, over 90% of the respondents described their marketing and sales functions as well aligned or very well aligned. However, 60% of those respondents also reported...
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Why Superficial Sales-Marketing Alignment Isn't Enough

Why Superficial Sales-Marketing Alignment Isn't Enough

Astute B2B marketing and sales professionals have long recognized the importance of having a productive relationship between marketing and sales, and many B2B companies have been working to build such relationships for more than a decade. So it's understandable that sales-marketing alignment has been...
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