Providing buyers with misinformation is one of the biggest deal killers for B2B buyers. So says LinkedIn’s most recent State of Sales report [download page]. Nearly half (48%) of the 800 B2B buyers surveyed from the US and Canada say they wouldn’t buy from a...
Customer experience remains a priority for businesses this year, with close to 9 in 10 customer experience (CX) decision-makers identifying improving CX as a critical (40%) or high (46%) priority in the next 12 months. This is per a report [download page] from...
CRM, digital behavior and product-level purchases are the top data sources for large companies, according to a report [download page] from Nielsen. The report looks to the future to how companies can continue to adapt via their data and measurement capabilities. In...
The outlook for content marketing is generally optimistic. And, although some industries find their content marketing efforts to be rather successful, recent research [download page] from Ascend2 finds that about 6 in 10 marketers are finding measuring content...
Data has the potential to provide marketers with a wealth of meaningful information about prospects and customers - but only if that data is easily available and accessible. Half of the marketing, IT and martech professionals surveyed for a report [download page] from...
About half (51%) of marketers and sales professionals (largely in B2B or B2B and B2C firms) have expressed satisfaction with their video efforts in 2020. Perhaps guided by this satisfaction as well as the potential benefits of a video strategy, the majority of the...
Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities appear to be in higher demand because of the pandemic, with a report [download page] from Bluewolf (an IBM Company) finding that about two-thirds (65%) of marketers using Salesforce cite increased demand for AI capabilities...
Validity and Demand Metric partnered to understand how data quality issues affect an organization's ability to fully leverage its CRM system. While 86% of participants say their CRM system is important to achieving their objectives, half of the study's participants...
Some 75% of marketers experience a reduction in time managing customer data as a result of their customer data platform (CDP). This is just one of the many benefits to be gained from CDPs as established in a new report [pdf] from Advertiser Perceptions and Treasure...
It's been a peculiar and let's say it - in many ways forgettable - year. Like everyone, marketers have had to adapt on the fly, adopting new sales models and shifting their priorities. Although some of the charts in our new deck feature research fielded before the...
Validity and Demand Metric partnered to understand how data quality issues affect an organization's ability to fully leverage its CRM system. While 86% of participants say their CRM system is important to achieving their objectives, half of the study's participants...
Account-based marketing (ABM) is an increasingly popular strategy among sales and marketing teams, and this popularity rings true in a recent report [download page] by Demand Gen Report. Deeper ABM measurements are what marketers most want to implement over the next...
Navigating algorithm updates, platform changes, and new technology appear to be concerns for local marketers this...
More Americans are “stacking” subscription video-on-demand services (SVOD). While 84% of internet users have access to...
Baby Boomers still hold a significant portion of purchase power in the US. Approximately 1 in 6 Americans is...
Once again, Scott Brinker from chiefmartec.com has published his list of marketing technology solutions, updating the...
CMOs in the US are growing more optimistic about the prospects of increasing their number of new customers this year,...
Among the many tools that businesses use, CRM platforms are among the most frequently leveraged technology solutions....