The document summarizes how B2B buyers have changed and marketing needs to change with them. It notes that buyers are now more informed and in control of their journey. It outlines how buyers now start research online through search and spend more time on blogs than social media or email. The traditional sales funnel has flipped, with buyers now further along in the process before engaging with vendors. As a result, the document recommends that marketers shift from outbound interruptive approaches to inbound strategies focused on creating helpful content to attract and nurture prospects. It provides suggestions for content to create, how to map keywords to rank for, and using analytics to test and improve approaches.
3. Power has shifted from the seller to the buyer.
Traditional Buyer Journey
Todays Buyer Journey
Awareness
Solution
Exploration
Compare
Vendors
Purchase
SalesMarketing
Awareness Solution Exploration Compare Vendors Purchase
SalesMarketing
4. The way
people buy has
changed.
New Expectations
Relationships
Not products
Insight
Not pitches
Outcomes
Not ownership
5. Start their research
with a generic search
83%
Source: Google B2B Trends, 2017
Search on average before
engaging with a specific
brand
12
Of links clicked are
organic results not Pay
Per Click
77%
More minutes spent on
blogs, than social &
email
3x
The B2B buyer…
Source: Google B2B Trends, 2017 Source: Google B2B Trends, 2017 Source: Google B2B Trends, 2017
10. 1.
Create stuff people
want.
Start creating and
publishing content that is
helpful & valuable to
your customers:
• FAQs
• How-To’s
• eBooks
• Videos
• Blog
But always ask yourself this:
• Is this content helpful?
• Will people want to read it?
• Is this content fair and balanced, or is it
biased?
• Does this content answer my customers’
needs?
11. 2.
Be generous.
The More You Give, The More
You’ll Get Back.
Increase # of Pages and Inbound Links
Put your brand front of mind building
trust, credibility and good will.
12. 3.
Map your keywords.
• Get on page 1
• Double traffic
• Significantly cut (or remove)
PPC spending
How you might ask?
1. List all of the questions your customers have
ever asked.
2. Answer them all in detail. Honestly. Openly.
3. Publish all of the answers online.
14. 5.
Growth is science, not
art.
• Create a hypothesis, test it, learn and
iterate.
• Fail fast and get better
• If it doesn’t result in deal, it don’t
make sense
16. Complete Stranger New Visitor Qualified Lead Excited Customer Advocate
ATTRACT CONVERT CLOSE DELIGHT
• Blogging
• Website
• Social
• SEO/SEM
• Ads
• Forms
• Call To Action
• Landing Pages
• Case Studies
• Email
• Marketing Automation
• Sales Enablement
• Lead Scoring
• CRM Integration
• Transactional emails
• Smart Content
• Reviews
• Reporting & Analytics
Building a growth machine.
17. + Contextual Data
Target Market
Understanding
High Level
Strategy
Granular
Reality
Develop Personas
Build Out Propositions
Create Content Plan
Craft Content
Deliver Content
Stage 1: GTM Strategy to Reality
SEO Blog Display Content Social Email WebinarSEM
Stage 2: MARKETING Plan to Execution
Target Market
List
Retargeting
No
Action
Taken
Stage 3: SALES Enablement Action Taken
Sales
Qualification
Added to
Pipeline
Closed
No Sale Sale
That’s why we built Gripped.
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