Gone are the days when buyers relied heavily on sales reps to access information and solve their tech challenges. Instead, modern IT professionals are utilizing a vast variety of sources to prioritize their own independent research. While this shift might initially seem challenging, it presents a golden opportunity for go-to-market (GTM) teams looking to position their brand as an invaluable resource.

This new era of the IT buyer’s journey could require significant adjustments to your GTM strategy. For a deeper understanding of how the modern IT buyer’s journey happens, join Liam Jack, Senior Account Director, EMEA (TechTarget), as he shares the latest research on EMEA buyer’s purchase motivations, team dynamics, media consumption habits, vendor evaluation criteria, and more. Walk away with practical tips and actionable strategies to enhance your GTM approach and enable your buyers throughout their research and vendor evaluation process.

Adopting a holistic and cohesive marketing approach has never been more crucial as IT buyers continue to take a self-directed path to engaging with and discovering your solutions. This can be easier said than done, and many marketers struggle to execute global campaigns across various channels. Yet Akamai, the cloud company that powers and protects life online, has successfully integrated disparate tactics and approaches into a cohesive integrated marketing strategy. What do they do differently? 

Join Sean MacKinnon, Customer Success Director, EMEA (TechTarget), as he sits down with Zoe Latchford, Sr. Field Marketing Manager, EMEA (Akamai), to discuss how her team drills down to focus on what matters. Learn how they leverage intent data to drive net new client acquisition, deeply engage audiences with a comprehensive webinar strategy and align Akamai’s marketing and sales teams to ensure seamless execution. You’ll walk away with practical tips and strategic insights for adapting this approach to streamline your marketing campaigns and achieve more revenue. 

Buying groups are all the rage (or haven’t you heard?). Forrester predicted the death of MQLs and the rise of Buying Groups. And for years this transition seemed aspirational and “future state.” But now? Now it’s starting to become a reality. In a new TechTarget survey of hundreds of B2B IT providers, nearly half said their company is embracing a buying group strategy in the next year. 

In this session we’ll dive deep into the survey data to reveal how your peers are approaching buying groups. We’ll discuss tales from the field: real-life examples of how companies of all sizes are making this transition via people, process and technology. And we’ll talk about how TechTarget’s product roadmap can help you take the next step, whether you’re on the first of the journey or already well underway. 

In a world where AI chatbots are revolutionizing how we live and work, many of us are turning to AI to answer questions, create content, write code, and even brainstorm ideas. But how can we effectively integrate AI into our GTM planning and execution? Will AI enhance or hinder the GTM process?

Join Pam Didner, B2B marketing consultant, author, and podcaster, as she delves into the transformative ways AI can enhance your GTM strategy. Pam will share insights on the best practices for evaluating and evolving your GTM approach with AI, explore different methods for integrating AI into essential GTM components, and highlight key metrics for measuring the success of AI-driven versus human-led GTM efforts.

As a revenue marketer steeped in your own organization’s ideas, positioning and challenges, it’s easy to develop blind spots and an affinity for the familiar. This can make it incredibly difficult to drive organizational change, innovate your campaigns, test new messaging and evolve your overall go-to-market strategy. Maura Ginty, a leading fractional CMO and GTM advisor, has a unique vantage point. Since she works with a mix of B2B organizations at any given time, varying in size, industry and maturity, Maura is an expert at digging deep into each org’s strategy, revenue processes and tech stack, to unearth new opportunities for growth.  

Join TechTarget’s Olivia Dassler as she sits down with Maura Ginty for an in-depth conversation about the trends and common obstacles Maura is observing and helping revenue teams overcome. We’ll discuss Maura’s path to becoming a fractional CMO, the unique skills that help her thrive in this role, and the observations she’s seeing across the board right now. You’ll walk away with insider knowledge on the fractional perspective and fresh ideas for evolving your GTM strategy and driving revenue growth.

Today’s buyers consume, on average, 12 pieces of content when researching a purchase. When producing relevant and valuable messaging is this critical, how do you create the right assets to address every prospective buyer’s needs at every stage? 

As the leading B2B webinar and video provider, the BrightTALK team has learned a thing or two about creating content that converts. Join us as we demonstrate how to build a well- balanced asset library that blends rich and static media throughout the buyer’s journey. We’ll teach you to leverage different content types and demonstrate how to build a robust editorial calendar to create meaningful marketing touches as your buyers progress deeper down the sales funnel. 

With lean teams and increasing pressure to drive revenue growth through their partner ecosystems, Alliances professionals need to center their Partner Marketing and Partner Sales efforts on the accounts that are most likely to convert into registered opportunities.

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a perfect complement to traditional joint go-to-market activities, helping alliance teams achieve better ROI by targeting the right accounts with their co-marketing campaigns and co-selling activities.

Pooja Golechha, Field and Partner Marketing Lead at Pegasystems, is an expert in both Account-Based Marketing and Partner Marketing. Join us as she sits down with TechTarget’s Anita Covelli to:

• Explore why ABM is a perfect fit for Partner Marketers looking to build pipeline
• Share her hands-on experience using ABM to drive better Partner Marketing outcomes
• Highlight the real-world results she has achieved by applying ABM to Partner Marketing
• Discuss how Partner Marketing and ABM teams can best collaborate
• Present a practical framework to help you get started with ABM in Partner Marketing

Research indicates that while only 2% of sales conversions are made during the first point of contact, roughly 80% develop between the 5th and 12th contact attempt. To generate the most ROI from lead gen activities and increase conversion rates, demand generation marketers must drive quality engagement with priority contacts and enable their sales colleagues to orchestrate personalized outreach and lead follow-up to create more quality touchpoints during this window of opportunity.

If you are facing continuous pressure to build sales pipeline, listen in as members of TechTarget’s award-winning Customer Success team share a proven blueprint for effective lead follow-up. You’ll learn how to engage buyers by incorporating nurture programs, optimizing SDR motions, and empowering tailored sales outreach with intent data. You’ll also get insights into how marketing automation, integration platforms, and even artificial intelligence can help boost ROI and increase conversions at scale.

Source: https://www.conversica.com/blog/inbound-lead-follow-up-stats-for-2023/

In today’s landscape, B2B marketers are forced to reduce their MarTech stack and take into careful consideration the tools which they utilize. It’s critical that tech vendors use the tools in their stack to their maximum potential and integrate them to extract maximum value. Join us as we get an APAC perspective on best practices for integrating data sources and platforms, how the region can benefit from strong local data and how layering data sources can make for heightened marketing strategies.