I’ve always believed you need to engage B2B buyers from start to finish. This means building brand and moving into demand. Brand and demand belong in the same story. Brand vs. demand is a false choice. You need to account for this in your GTM … [Read more...]
Why Buyer-Driven Qualification Beats BANT
The way B2B companies qualify leads is based on what we want, rather than letting our buyers guide us. Case in point > BANT. The only component in the four components of budget, authority, need, and timing that’s buyer-driven is need. And I’d … [Read more...]
Do Your B2B Buyers Understand the Problem?
What happens when something goes wrong? In B2B marketing and sales, we talk a lot about our buyers’ pain or need. But that’s not what really defines a problem. The dictionary definition of problem is, “a matter or situation regarded as … [Read more...]
Why Customer Centric Doesn’t Mean Buyer Driven in B2B
Customer centricity mostly misses the mark in B2B. Strangely, B2B companies use it to foster an inside-out perspective. The concept seems to be more about talking the talk than walking the walk. We can say we’re customer centric all we want, but for … [Read more...]
Use Questions as Your Framework for B2B Buyer Enablement
I love questions. Questions are how you learn things. Questions create curiosity. But, for marketers, questions are one key to B2B buyer enablement. The process of Q&A drives momentum based on addressing how context shifts with each new intake of … [Read more...]
