Salesforce.com recently published the results of its 2015 State of Marketing survey. The 2015 survey was conducted online in October and November of 2014 and generated over 5,000 responses. The survey was directed to marketers in “Salesforce Marketing Cloud locations,” so the respondents may not be a representative sample of all marketers. Still, the number of responses makes this a significant piece of research.
The Salesforce.com survey included a nice balance of B2B and B2C participants. Fifty-six percent of the respondents were from B2C companies, and 44% were affiliated with B2B enterprises. The survey found significant similarities in the viewpoints of B2B and B2C marketers, but the results also revealed a few interesting differences.
Both B2B and B2C participants in the survey were optimistic about marketing budgets for 2015. Eighty-four percent of both B2B and B2C respondents said they plan to increase or maintain their level of marketing spending in 2015.
B2B and B2C marketers differed somewhat in how they viewed their most significant marketing challenges. The table below shows the top three challenges identified by B2B and B2C survey respondents.
B2B and B2C marketers differed more significantly on the issue of where they plan to increase marketing spending. The top five areas for increased spending identified by B2B marketers were:
- Content marketing (66% of B2B respondents)
- Marketing automation (66%)
- Mobile applications (65%)
- Location-based mobile tracking (65%)
- Social media advertising (64%)
- Social media marketing (74% of B2C respondents)
- Social media advertising (74%)
- Social media engagement (73%)
- Social media listening (68%)
- Location-based mobile tracking (68%)
Yeah..it is a good differentiation between the b2b and the b2c marketers..
It is a unique fact that both business try to expose their business in the local and the global business markets via online business promotion.
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