Customer Experience Resources

How to Adapt to the Evolution of B2B Buying: Four Tips for Addressing Buyer Pain Points

How to Adapt to the Evolution of B2B Buying: Four Tips for Addressing Buyer Pain Points

Discover how the digital era is reshaping B2B buying behaviors and expectation. See how you can improve marketing and sales by addressing self-service buyers' key pain points. Read more.

The Selling Styles B2B Buyers Prefer Most

The Selling Styles B2B Buyers Prefer Most

Which sales approaches resonate most with B2B buyers? How important is it for B2B buyers that salespeople show an understanding of their business and personalize pitches? To find out, researchers surveyed 500 buyers in the UK.

Personalization: The Secret Weapon B2B Companies Are Not Using

Personalization: The Secret Weapon B2B Companies Are Not Using

Discover the power of personalization in B2B marketing. Learn how personalization tech, tools, and tactics can transform campaigns and boost customer engagement and conversions. Read more.

Four Questions to Help You Balance Content Volume and Relevance

Four Questions to Help You Balance Content Volume and Relevance

Explore how to balance content volume with content relevance, enhancing buyer engagement by crafting content that resonates with your audience and drives conversions. Ask yourself these questions.

Mastering the Customer Review Process: How to Ask for Reviews

Mastering the Customer Review Process: How to Ask for Reviews

Explore practical tactics on how to source customer reviews so you can harness their power to boost your brand and B2B marketing effectiveness by fostering trust and engagement. Learn how.

Sonic Branding for Memorable B2B Brands: How to Create a Sonic Identity

Sonic Branding for Memorable B2B Brands: How to Create a Sonic Identity

Discover how the art of sonic branding can help your B2B brand identity resonate with your customers. Learn how strategic sound design can enhance brand recall, foster emotional connection, and set your brand apart. Read more.

Here They Come! B2B Marketing in a Gen Z World

Here They Come! B2B Marketing in a Gen Z World

Explore essential B2B marketing approaches for engaging and connecting with the next generation of B2B buyers—a digital-first generation that values authenticity and seamless customer experience. Learn more.

The Psychology of Persuasion: Understanding Customer Behavior in Marketing

The Psychology of Persuasion: Understanding Customer Behavior in Marketing

Learning about the psychological tool of persuasion—and how best to use it in your marketing materials—can serve as a powerful pathway to influencing customer behavior, relationships, and sales. Get started here.

Digital Communities vs. Social Media: Stop Building Brands on Leased Land

Digital Communities vs. Social Media: Stop Building Brands on Leased Land

By making community a core part of your strategy, your brand can create better products and achieve higher engagement and retention rates. But building your community on someone else's platform is full of risk.

Ditch the Sales Script If You Want to Make More Sales

Ditch the Sales Script If You Want to Make More Sales

Most salespeople are required to learn sales scripts before contacting prospects. And to ensure all the information is conveyed exactly as the company prefers, they're discouraged from adding anything to the script. Basically, they're hired to be human commercials. No wonder it doesn't work.

10 Guiding Principles of Sales Enablement, Inspired by 'Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?'

10 Guiding Principles of Sales Enablement, Inspired by 'Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?'

Sales enablement can feel worse than untangling a giant knot of half-burned-out Christmas tree lights. Luckily, a series of MarketingProfs articles undertook that metaphorical untangling. The lessons now unwound from that effort shine brightly as guiding principles of sales enablement.

Why You Need a Brand Style Guide (Even If you Think You Don't)

Why You Need a Brand Style Guide (Even If you Think You Don't)

Maybe you think you can coast without brand guidelines because your employees or contractors or customers implicitly understand your brand. They don't. Or maybe you think it's too expensive to create a guide. The reality? You can't afford not to.

Frustrated With Marketing Automation? How Feature Bloat Is Undermining Your Efficiency

Frustrated With Marketing Automation? How Feature Bloat Is Undermining Your Efficiency

In the race to build bigger and better solutions, martech vendors have ended up with so much "extra stuff" in their products that doing even basic work has become difficult. The result for marketers: frustration and wasted time. What can be done?

Customer Data Platform vs. Customer Engagement Platform: Differences and Use-Cases

Customer Data Platform vs. Customer Engagement Platform: Differences and Use-Cases

CDP and CEP objectives overlap, but their primary functions differ. This article highlights the roles of CEPs and CDPs, real-world use cases, and ways they enable customer-centric strategies.

Three Online Community Management Challenges B2B Brands Face

Three Online Community Management Challenges B2B Brands Face

Today, most people expect brands to foster open channels that enable businesses to actively listen to feedback, address concerns promptly, and personalize user experience. A channel that has proven adept at doing all that and more is a brand online community.

Ethical Marketing Practices for Businesses of All Sizes

Ethical Marketing Practices for Businesses of All Sizes

An increasing number of customers want ethical products and services. That means marketers need to adopt more ethical marketing practices. Here's what you need to know—and do.

Do More With Less: Six Smart Ways to Balance Brand & Demand to Drive Growth in Tough Times

Do More With Less: Six Smart Ways to Balance Brand & Demand to Drive Growth in Tough Times

For marketers, belt-tightening is back for 2024. Balancing brand and demand investments, however, doesn't have to hurt. In fact, taking these six steps can increase impact, build resilience, and pave the way for long-term growth. Do more with less.

When Do B2B Buyers Contact Vendors?

When Do B2B Buyers Contact Vendors?

B2B buyers generally do not contact vendors until they are very far along in their journey and they have finalized most of their requirements, according to this research.

How to Build Customer Trust and Deliver Personalized Marketing With User-Centric Privacy Practices

How to Build Customer Trust and Deliver Personalized Marketing With User-Centric Privacy Practices

How do you strike the right balance between delivering personalized marketing experiences and protecting user privacy? Is it a zero-sum game in which one goal undermines the other, or can they harmoniously coexist?

For AI-Driven B2B Customer Experiences, You'll Need These Four Strategic Investments

For AI-Driven B2B Customer Experiences, You'll Need These Four Strategic Investments

How can marketers strategically deliver the next generation of B2B customer experiences? And how do you get your executive team on board? This article offers a few ideas.

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