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Defeating the "No-Decision" Trap: The Power of Divergent Thinking

Holden Advisors

In fact, 74% of B2B buyers do most of their research, online or by consulting internal experts, before engaging with vendors. In a review of 50,000 B2B sales calls, tech company Gong.io References: 1 Kahneman and Tversky, 1979 2 Forrester Research, Myth-busting insight, 5/25/2015 3 Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K.

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9 Essential Stages for Every B2B Pipeline

Hubspot Sales

As recently as 2015, a sales pipeline was a rudimentary look at your ability to meet or exceed your quota on an aggregate basis. Most legacy B2B pipelines had the following stages: Lead generated — (also known as lead assigned) defined a lead that met basic criteria of a contact who had interest into the product or service.

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22 Eye-Opening Statistics About Sales Email Subject Lines That Affect Open Rates [Updated for 2018]

Hubspot Sales

The use of emoji in email marketing messages increased 775% from 2015 to 2016 - MediaPost. in 2015 to 10.3% Email is the third most influential source of information for B2B audiences, behind colleague recommendations and industry thought leaders - Wordstream. The percentage of emails containing GIFs rose from 5.4%

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How B2B Buyers Search for Tech Solutions

Tenfold

What we often have to deal with is a highly-evolved B2B buyer, someone who’ve searched across several online platforms. So, it pays to ask: How do B2B buyers search for tech solutions and how can you ensure you’re there, at every stage of their buyer’s journey? B2B Buyer Behavior. Know the Modern B2B Buyer.

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Marketing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) – The power of reflection?

Red Star Kim

For information on a popular learning model: Improve learning effectiveness – Using Kolb’s learning styles (kimtasso.com) August 2015. Book review: B2B Marketing strategy (kimtasso.com). In my post on Boost training effectiveness by incorporating learning theory (kimtasso.com) I outlined Gibb’s model of reflection.

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Develop Market and Leadership Team Alignment for 2015

Geehan Group

The leadership teams of many B2B companies are beset with conflict. When the leadership team of a B2B company works directly with executive customers, it becomes more unified and aligned. Often, this conflict is based in competing executive opinions about how to best move the company ahead. • Rogue ideas. • Resist change.

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Property marketing case study – Thought leadership campaigns: Arcadia, JLL and Remit

Red Star Kim

This thought leadership campaign for Arcadis hit the headlines in November 2022 when it won an award for Best International Campaign in the B2B Awards. The supporting B2B email campaign achieved an impressive engagement rate of 17.4%, engaging almost 2,000 new corporate prospects. Remit Consulting – Property benchmarking.