Forrester B2B marketing certification

Forrester exec gives the 101 on its B2B marketing certification program

Last week Forrester said it was building upon its acquisition of SiriusDecisions by  launching a B2B certification program to help marketers gain alignment with sales and more successfully execute programs. With a course list that includes fundamentals and campaign planning, the program is based on SiriusDecisions research and will include personalization via a course advisor, […]

B2B content empathy

CMWorld 2019 experts offer tips on creating with empathy, pitching martech purchases and helping sales

B2B buyers who make the wrong purchase because they didn’t look at a piece of content might see their budget cut, get passed over for promotion or even lose their job — but at least they won’t die a horrible death like Johann Rall. The German colonel is best known to historians for his command […]

Seismic sales enablement 2019

Seismic study shows only 29 per cent of B2B firms can measure influence of content assets on sales

Brands often cite the importance of content in driving sales, but less than 30 per cent of B2B firms are tracking which marketing assets influenced the close of deal, according to a survey commissioned by Seismic. According to the firm’s State of Sales Enablement 2019, which was conducted for Seismic by Forrester Consulting and based […]

Paradigm B2B Combine

Paradigm B2B reimagines e-commerce buyers’ guide with enterprise and mid-market Combine reports

The limitations of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, Forrester’s Wave and similar market research offerings have inspired Paradigm B2B to launch a series of reports called Combine that break down the merits of e-commerce applications for enterprise and mid-market buyers. Chicago-based Paradigm B2B, which released its first two Combine reports last week, said the research also drew […]

Forrester B2B web sites

Forrester gives only four out of 60 B2B web sites a passing grade in content engagement study

A self-oriented focus on products rather than customers, reliance on jargon and lack of a human voice meant only four out of 60 B2B web sites received a passing grade in an analysis of engaging online content experiences from Forrester. Released late last month, the market research firm’s report examined digital properties across 12 different […]

Impact Dave Yovanno partnerships

Impact CEO argues partnerships will drive more growth than extra sales people or more ads

A company simply called Impact wants to do for developing and managing enterprise partner relationships what Salesforce did for sales teams and Marketo did for marketing teams, according to its CEO. Speaking at its second annual Impact Growth summit in New York on Tuesday, Impact’s David Yovanno argued that referrals from influencers, publishers or even native […]

CDO Club

The man who founded CDO Club is ready to scale his community of digital leaders

David Mathison has heard all about those predicting the supposed death of the chief digital officer role, and he believes his work with the CDO Club may offer the most comprehensive and convincing rebuttal to their arguments. CDO Club, which started primarily on LinkedIn back in 2011, has not only grown into an information-rich web […]

Forrester VP shows how machine learning lets B2B firms treat customers like royalty

Most B2B organizations probably treat their customers as slightly more mature than the recently-born Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, but Forrester VP and principal analyst Mike Gualtieri suggests they should hold just as much of an interest as “Baby Sussex.” Speaking at an event focused on digital decision-making hosted by analytics firm FICO in Toronto on Wednesday, […]

robot co-workers

The emerging role of ‘robot co-workers’ on the B2B technology roadmap

Key transformative technologies such as articial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) are evolving and maturing at a breakneck pace. With these key transformation enablers, robots are joining the B2B landscape in a number of ways. The business and operational value of industrial robots has been well understood and accepted for some time. Now […]

Forrester SiriusDecisions acquisition

Forrester’s CMO offers an inside look at its $245M SiriusDecisions acquisition

This week’s SiriusDecisions acquisition for $245 million by fellow research and adivsory firm Forrester will mean many more line-of-business executives learn about “the Sirius Way,” according to its CMO. Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester announced its SiriusDecisions acquisition on Tuesday, citing opportunities to expand further into vertical markets such as finance and utilities, as well as geographies […]

Forrester CX certification

Forrester CX certification takes businesses on a six-week customer experience deep dive

Forrester is building on its research into the ways organizations can improve the kind of  customer experience they offer by launching a CX certification course that aims to close skills gaps, develop ROI models and more over a six-week period. Based in Cambridge, Mass., Forrester’s analyst team covers a wide variety of subjects that include […]

Uberflip Aprimo Forrester Conex 2018

Uberflip, Aprimo and Forrester make the case for content experiences that go beyond demand generation

Uberflip is not only hosting a conference whose name refers to ‘the content experience” this week — it has also recently hired new talent in a department with the same name that’s focused on an area far beyond demand generation. A panel discussion at CONEX, which is taking place in Toronto, included Paige Gerber, Uberflilp’s […]

Ambition Data Customer Centricity Conference 2018

Ambition Data puts Customer Centricity Conference attendees into simulation that tests what they learn about CLV

Ambition Data is raising the stakes for CMOs and other senior marketers attending its Customer Centricity Conference late next month by putting them into groups to compete in an online simulation to test what they will have learned about customer lifetime value. Running May 17-18 in San Francisco, Ambition Data recently announced a speaker lineup […]

Jill Rowley

Social selling expert Jill Rowley shares her best advice for connecting with buyers

B2B sales professionals will be increasingly displaced by search engines and social networks unless they can demonstrate value to customers with empathy, storytelling mastery and a focus on advocacy, according to startup advisor Jill Rowley. Speaking at the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) in Toronto this week, the former sales leader at Eloqua urged her colleagues […]

machine learning algorithms

Forrester VP: Enterprises won’t win with AI, unless . . .

Companies need to start looking beyond packaged software from vendors and redesign their own applications to incorporate machine learning algorithms if they want to make artificial intelligence a viable business tool, a Forrester analyst warned the Enterprise World conference this week. Speaking in a breakout session at the annual OpenText customer and partner event, Forrester […]

Why B2B firms have shifted toward rich omnichannel experiences [Sponsor Content]

This article is part of the SAP Sponsored Content Series. To download the full report (registration required) cited in this article, click here. The path to making purchases is no longer flowing in one direction. Very few customers do all their research and shopping at the point of purchase. Instead, most people turn to social media, websites, magazines […]