Blog and insights

Conversations form the basis of relationships. Through real conversations you get to know your (potential) customers and you know what challenges they face. This way you can help them further in the buying process.

This year we take a new approach, we want to inspire our B2B community with a series of inspiring sound bites and we want to offer more moments of meaningful interaction throughout the year. We are very excited with our first guest speaker, Mathew Sweezey.

Picture this: your potential buyer visits your website, reads your content and picks up the phone to schedule a sales appointment? Ideal picture, right? The purchasing process of a B2B buyer is not so simple anymore. And these days the buyer wants help in the purchase process itself. Let’s talk about buyer enablement.

Although many B2B marketers believe in the efficiency of webinars, many don’t use this marketing tool structurally. To get more insight in the power of webinars spotONvision recently presented a webinar about this matter. What could be concluded from the poll? 42% of participants has followed a webinar before but never organized one. So there is work to be done! During the webinar about webinars various questions were asked. In this blog post we will give an overview of these questions and matching answers.

Would you like to start organizing webinars? Use this checklist and you will learn how to organize a webinar in the most effective way.

“Connecting the dots is about truly understanding your customer. Bringing together the data and insight you have and using it to enhance your relationship with your customers. By better understanding your customers you can service them in a more personalized way.” Interview with Richard Robinson

A subject that is discussed often is account-based marketing (ABM) and today’s main question is “How can you truly measure the ROI of ABM?” Many times research showed that ABM yields more profit than regular marketing campaigns, but how does this work?

“The success of your marketing campaigns depends on your insights into the target group”, says Lianne Veldhuis, content marketer at Ultimo Software Solutions. Ultimo offers software solutions to support management processes. Two years ago, SPOTONVISION collected buyer insights and created 2 buyer personas for Ultimo. Today Lianne works with the personas and insights in their buyer journey on a daily basis. Do you want to know how customer insights lead to successful campaigns?

The economy is running at full speed, the market is expanding internationally and companies dare to take more risks than before. A number of companies are not being held back by national borders and seek international success. What does it mean for you as marketer to develop and execute an international marketing strategy? Where should you start? What does your strategy need to look like to best serve different countries and cultures.