Lumoa

APRIL 22, 2020

B2B companies often struggle with common hurdles when it comes to surveying customers. Conducting B2B customer surveys should be an illuminating process, but instead, they become a nightmare that makes you want to tear your hair out. It shouldn’t be this way. That’s a lose-lose scenario for everyone. Don’t worry, though.

B2B 83

B2B Surveys Feedback Customer advocacy 83

Influitive

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Every year, we honor 10 customer-centric B2B marketers with the Best Advocate Marketing Awards (also known as the BAMMIES). Below, we’re featuring.

B2B 82

B2B Marketing Customer centricity Customer advocacy 82

Influitive

JANUARY 27, 2017

To start 2017 off strong, we’re reviewing some of Influitive’s biggest B2B marketing campaigns from 2016 to see what went well and what we could improve on. (If January is the perfect time to review the past year’s ups and downs—both personally and professionally—to see how you can do better. If you’re curious about previous years,

B2B 91

B2B Marketing Personalization Accountability 91

Influitive

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

That’s why Blackbaud , a non-profit software solutions provider, launched a customer advocacy program to engage and connect with its 30,000 customers. Amy Bills , Customer Marketing Director at Blackbaud, knew they could do better if they rethought their approach to customer advocacy. Set clear goals.

Customer advocacy 68

Customer advocacy Gamification B2B Education 68

Influitive

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

B2B content marketing as we know it is broken. Only 30% of B2B marketers say their organizations are effective at content marketing, according to the 2016 B2B Content Marketing Benchmark Report.

B2B 75

B2B Marketing Benchmark Consulting 75

CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 25, 2021

No matter what era we live in, customer retention is something that will never fade away. Let’s see the process of acquiring new customers. You’ve spent considerable time creating various marketing and sales funnels to convince your customer how your product can solve their problems. Referrals and Advocacy.

Customer retention 52

Customer retention SaaS B2B Upselling 52

Influitive

AUGUST 9, 2022

According to Forrester, only 3-6% of B2B organizations are truly “customer-obsessed” in that they embody the right amount of leadership commitment, internal culture and many other key attributes. So, for the vast majority of B2B firms, what’s missing?

Marketing 52

Marketing B2B Customer advocacy 52

Amity

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

On top of all that, the whole process of attracting new customers is 6-7 times more expensive than keeping the old ones. These numbers clearly suggest that you should always have repeat customers in mind when designing your digital marketing strategy. Customer advocacy and user-generated content.

Customer retention 64

Customer retention Marketing B2B Advertising 64

Influitive

MAY 5, 2016

No marketing trend or technology can last forever. In an era of constant disruption, marketers are easily distracted by all the new shiny objects promising to help them generate leads. The post The Problem With B2B Marketing That Nobody Is Talking About appeared first on Influitive. Watch his talk to learn where.

B2B 60

B2B Marketing Technology Customer advocacy 60

Influitive

APRIL 19, 2017

When it costs 6X more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one, does it still make sense for marketers to focus mainly on generating new leads, rather than nurturing current customers? As more and more companies turn their focus away from short-lived marketing campaigns, and towards building ongoing.

Marketing 70

Marketing B2B Customer advocacy Metrics 70

Influitive

AUGUST 31, 2016

We’ve long talked about how advocate marketing programs drive tangible revenue—and we’re not the only ones. Analysts at Forrester and Gartner have outlined how advocate marketing strategies can spark B2B growth by increasing leads, brand awareness, and customer retention.

Marketing 56

Marketing Customer advocacy B2B Customer retention 56

Influitive

JUNE 2, 2015

If you sell B2B software, then you know that the quality of your online reviews can make or break your sales. After all, a Google study found that 60 percent of B2B technology buyers search for peer reviews during the decision-making process. How Code42 Stepped Up Its B2B Customer Review Game.

B2B 72

B2B Customer advocacy Gamification Marketing 72

Influitive

AUGUST 3, 2015

In the B2B software world, it’s a buyer’s market. In fact, the 2015 B2B Buyer’s Survey Report (sponsored by DemandBase and Demand Gen Report), found the top three resources that buyers rely on when researching potential vendors were: In addition, access to all of this information is making the buying cycle longer.

B2B 66

B2B Marketing B2C Education 66

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Many b2b and b2c companies offer antiseptic, commoditized, vanilla experiences for customers. These are almost guaranteed not to be memorable, not to be talked about (unless neutrally or negatively), and not creating outside-in advocacy and value creation. They market, and create experiences, within the branded vision.

Customer Experience 391

Customer Experience Customer centricity B2C Airlines 391

Influitive

JUNE 30, 2016

Marketers are busy people. You don’t have time to delight your customers with something like an advocate community. The post Why Every Company Has Time For Customer Advocacy (And Where To Find It) appeared first on Influitive. You’ve got growth targets to hit, right? Isn’t that someone else’s job anyway?).

Customer advocacy 61

Customer advocacy Marketing Technology Management 61

Influitive

JULY 25, 2017

In 2016, Cristina Melluzzi, Head of Customer Advocacy EMEAR at Cisco, was facing something lots of B2B companies can relate to: having an internal fire drill every time Cisco needed customers for references, speaking opportunities, analyst interviews, and case studies.

Customer advocacy 83

Customer advocacy B2B Marketing Sales 83

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 30, 2016

35 years ago, Deming said “Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your product and service, and that bring friends with them”, he was talking about what, for the past decade, we have understood, and effectively measured and applied, as customer advocacy behavior.

B2C 150

B2C B2B Customer advocacy Consulting 150

Influitive

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

They’ll even drive three hours to a fellow customer’s office just to help them set up the optimal IT environment—all based off interactions in HPE’s online B2B community. The post How To Build A Thriving Online B2B Community, According To Jennifer Susinski From HPE appeared first on Influitive.

B2B 71

B2B Customer advocacy Marketing Management 71

Influitive

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s empowered customers expect the interactions they have with your sales and marketing teams to be highly personalized and relevant—which can make striking up valuable conversations with prospects challenging. That’s one reason why account-based marketing has become a popular strategy in recent years. And advocacy works.

Accountability 61

Accountability Marketing B2B Customer advocacy 61

Amity

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In Part 1 we expanded Geoffrey Moore’s Four Gears model to this emerging B2B model ( SaaS 2.0 ) In this post we will examine how to operationalize the four gears. Over the past few years the B2B business model has evolved from a ‘Land and Maintain’ model to a ‘Land and Expand’ model. Four Gears Model for B2B SaaS. Onboarding.

B2B 48

B2B SaaS Customer advocacy Metrics 48

Influitive

JANUARY 4, 2017

These tips were originally published in our eBook, Inspiring Customers to Create Content for You: A Marketer’s Guide. As a B2B marketer, you have boundless opportunities to turn your happiest customers into content collaborators.

Marketing 72

Marketing B2B Customer advocacy 72

Influitive

MARCH 21, 2019

Customer advocacy is increasingly becoming a “need-to-have” for brands, rather than simply a “nice-to-have”. When it comes to B2B purchase decisions, the influence of customer references and testimonials is second only to previous customer experience.

Customer advocacy 66

Customer advocacy B2B Customer Experience Enterprise 66

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Since 2005, over 50,000 respondents, in 49 countries and multiple b2b and b2c industries have participated in research incorporating the Hierarchy model emotions. In this post, we are addressing the perceived value influence of emotions and memory on b2b and b2c customers. Some additional stats: We have asked approximately 4.5

B2C 208

B2C Banking B2B Customer advocacy 208

Influitive

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Advocamp is the largest customer advocacy, experience, and engagement conference, happening this year in San Francisco, December 6-8th. We want to make.

Customer advocacy 53

Customer advocacy Marketing B2B Customer Experience 53

Influitive

JANUARY 16, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is one of the hottest marketing trends right now—and with good reason. Today’s customers don’t want to be treated like just another email address. According to a study by Walker, the customer experience is expected to overtake product and price as a company’s key brand differentiator by.

Accountability 55

Accountability Marketing B2B Personalization 55

CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. CustomerSuccessBox is an outcome-driven Customer Success software for B2B SaaS, which helps maximize retention, drive product adoption, and grow revenue for your B2B SaaS. As well as their actionable customer success platform they provide a widely respected blog.

SaaS 64

SaaS Customer centricity B2B Best practices 64

Influitive

JUNE 7, 2018

Last month, a stampede of over 3000 sales, marketing, and customer success pros took over the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for the SiriusDecisions Summit. They came ready to learn the latest insights from industry leaders about how their peers are driving business growth. But one announcement stirred up more buzz than anything else at.

Customer advocacy 68

Customer advocacy Marketing Sales B2B 68

Influitive

MARCH 23, 2018

Going where no company has gone before: finding a scalable way to boost customer retention Rosetta Stone, the leading provider of language-learning software, has been helping learners around the world master new languages for more than 25 years.

Customer retention 75

Customer retention Customer advocacy Education B2B 75

Influitive

MARCH 7, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is one of the hottest marketing trends of 2017. According to SiriusDecisions, 58% of B2B companies planned to invest in ABM technology or services last year. However, many companies only use traditional tactics, like retargeted ads and email nurtures, to engage ideal prospects.

Accountability 45

Accountability Marketing B2B Sales 45

Influitive

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Referrals are an important part of a healthy B2B sales pipeline. According to LinkedIn, 84% of B2B decision makers start the buying process off with a referral. Referred prospects are also 30% more likely to convert than leads generated through other marketing channels, and have a 16% higher customer life-time value.

B2B 94

B2B Customer advocacy Marketing Education 94

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The study, conducted by Forbes Insights in association with ServiceSource , reveals that respondents with the highest levels of RLM maturity are 46 percent more likely to be market leaders in customer revenue growth and 36 percent more likely to be market leaders in profitability than RLM laggards.

B2B 40

B2B Customer advocacy Analytics Education 40

Influitive

JANUARY 12, 2017

Customer marketing is on the rise. According to Koyne Marketing’s 2017 State of Customer Marketing Report, 93% of organizations agree that customer marketing is important or very important to their revenue, and more than two-thirds are planning to boost their investment in customer marketing over the next year.

Marketing 78

Marketing Customer advocacy B2B Customer Experience 78

Influitive

AUGUST 15, 2017

I’m Victoria LaPlante, Influitive’s new Senior Customer Advocacy Marketing Manager. I look forward to getting to know you and helping you reach your advocacy program goals. Today, I’d like to share how I discovered the power of advocacy when I led.

Customer advocacy 86

Customer advocacy Marketing Management B2B 86

CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 17, 2022

” Ensure that your customer gets the value your marketing and sales teams promised. We all know that in the subscription market, recurring revenue is what makes or breaks a SaaS company. Customer Advocacy Playbook. B2B SaaS is a fiercely competitive market in recent years. Upsell Playbook.

Customer advocacy 52

Customer advocacy Upselling SaaS B2B 52

Help Scout

JUNE 5, 2019

It’s likely not a surprise to you that putting your customer first is good for business. But building a customer-centric marketing strategy for your business can be difficult. The good news is that putting in the work to deliver customer-centric marketing pays off. What is customer-centric marketing?

Customer centricity 40

Customer centricity Marketing Feedback Customer advocacy 40

Influitive

MARCH 16, 2018

According to a 2015 Capterra survey, software companies with online reviews get 22% more traffic to their website and 79% more leads compared with vendors without reviews. Not only that, but 88% of people trust these reviews as much as they trust the opinions of their own family and friends. These are two of many.

Customer advocacy 61

Customer advocacy Surveys B2B Marketing 61

CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

So here’s an ensemble of the top 9 customer success podcasts that one needs to subscribe to. Gain Grow Retain: B2B SaaS Customer Success. Host Thomas Connery helps you in building consistent Customer Success practices. This podcast talks about why customer advocacy isn’t only about building attitudinal loyalty.

SaaS 52

SaaS B2B Customer advocacy Enterprise 52