Are you focusing your marketing campaigns on the C Suite? Targeting the C Suite buyer has been a staple of my own B2B marketing career, but years ago I recognized that the journeys I was building--all of which targeted the C Suite buyer--didn't reflect how the companies where I worked bought things. In my experiences, there were people identifying pain points, others doing research, yet more with questions that had to be answered before a decision could be made. Usually there was an internal champion (usually me!) who advocated on the inside for a purchase, and that person wasn't in the C Suite. Enter Buyer Groups...or buyer committees...or whatever you want to call them. The point is, maybe it's okay to expand your targeting to Directors, Managers, and users. They have more power in a final decision than you think. Big shout out to MarTech for publishing my thoughts on Buyer Groups and MarTech alignment this week. Give it a read: https://lnkd.in/g84KSPWk #b2bmarketing #demandgeneration
We have been having the same conversations internally. Someone else usually does the research and sees several demos before narrowing it down to 1 or 2 solutions for the decision-maker. This is spot on from my experience.
Great article! Several important points for us B2B marketers / business owners.
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4moThanks for sharing this article. I have been finding the same thing. Love having another resource to support this move in expanding buyer group titles.