Tony Zambito
Five Intangible Buyer Behavior Trends To Monitor In 2021
Despite turning the calendar from 2020 to 2021, we find ourselves starting the new year in more turmoil. A catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic that continues to increase in scope. The hope of the vaccines tempered as the rollout encounters delays. A...
B2B Buyer Content Fatigue Is A Very Real Thing And A Big Problem
The global COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the effect of fatigue on people from all walks of life. We are feeling pandemic fatigue from vigilant following of guidelines. Business professionals are burning out from Zoom meeting fatigue.&nb...
5 Buyer Insights To Factor Into 2021 Buyer Strategies
Compress. A word that has often been used in business. Compressed files. Compression thinking. To compress and flatten organizational structures. A myriad of uses meant to communicate reduction. It is an adequate word to u...
Building Buyer Confidence More Important Due To COVID-19
[unable to retrieve full-text content]In sports, confidence is often mentioned as one of the key ingredients to winning. I saw this firsthand with my daughter and her competitive experience in gymnastics. She attended the same gym as Amy Ch...
Business Leaders: Do Not Ignore The Mental Health Crisis Related To The COVID-19 Pandemic
Empty office buildings dot the map of the United States. Once bustling communities adjacent to business parks are quiet. Restaurants and services that once served the lunch crowds from office complexes are limited to takeout or have closed ...
Will Pre-Pandemic Buyer Assumptions Prevent Recovery And Rebound In 2021?
Over time, we can build assumptions about how things work. How things are supposed to be. Or we cement assumptions about what people think. Or how we expect people to behave. Oftentimes, we can create an over-reliance on past data ...
Why B2B Organizations Fail To Turn Buyer Insights Into Growth Opportunities
We have all encountered times when we offer wisdom or counsel to a loved one or a friend – and they fall on deaf ears. The stubborn teenager comes to mind. As parents, no matter what advice we share does not seem to get through. …
The Intrepid Buyer
When I was a young boy, I was fascinated by the history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that began in May of 1804. An exploration to chart and explore the Louisiana Purchase Territory at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson. Lewis and...
7 Reasons To Update Your Buyer Insights And Buyer Personas
We have all encountered an experience where we happenstance upon a picture. Seeing an old picture in a new light. Perhaps it is a picture of your children. Or a photo of a relative in their later years and no longer with us. &nb...
The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Changed Your Buyers. Do You Know How?
The surge. The wave. The apex. The spike. The spread. These terms and expressions have become part of the vernacular describing the COVID-19 pandemic. A foreboding and ominous context. Our country is entering the ...
How To Increase Your Value To Buyers And Create Unshakable Loyalty
“We are in this together.” Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, we have heard this refrain quoted quite often. As we did with other moments of despair and tragedies. We saw with 9/11, the financial crisis of 2008, and the numerous natural ...
Redefine Your Buyer Personas For A Winning Recovery In 2021
Some of our all-time favorite movies involve an actress or actor transforming into a character that made them entirely unrecognizable. Through the use of make-up, prosthetics, and costumes, an actor and actress can perform as a historical or fant...
Buyer-Enabled Selling: The Next Progression In B2B Sales
Social progress has often been a marker defining history. In the last one hundred years, there are many examples. Women earning the right to vote. The civil rights movement of the 1960s. Legalization of same-sex marriage. These ...
How B2B Leaders Can Navigate 2021 Uncertainties With Buyer Insight
One of the most fascinating figures in American business history was that of Lee Iacocca. Iacocca, who died at the age of 94 in 2019, was a visionary leader who was the only executive in modern times to lead two of the Big Three American…
Three Buyer Insights To Consider When Engaging B2B Buyers In A COVID-19 World
Accelerant. A word we are beginning to hear and see more often. It is being used to describe the effects of COVID-19 in shaping B2B buyer behaviors. Pre-pandemic, it was expected buyer behavior trends may evolve over a five to ten-yea...
Why Enabling Buyers To Buy Is The Future Of B2B
Depending on the type of automobile you have, when you hit the gas pedal hard, there can be a slight hesitation. A hesitation that can be sometimes unsettling. Especially when trying to enter onto a highway. That moment of hesit...
Reset Your Buyer Strategy In COVID-19 Revival
For many leaders in sales and marketing, the year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most challenging in their careers thus far. The impact of the coronavirus pandemic will represent the most significant disruption in B2B commerce in many decad...
Why Buyer Interaction Design Matters During The Coronavirus Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic will leave an imprint on B2B commerce for decades to come. In what lasting ways remains to be seen. There will be permanent changes as well as evolutionary changes. What we know now is that traditional buyer-s...
Digital Commerce Is Disrupting B2B With No End In Sight
Digital commerce is growing at lightning speed. Putting pressure on B2B Executives to transform their businesses. Commerce models that have been relied on for the past twenty to thirty years will give way to a new robust era of digital comm...
Why The Buyer Transformation Is The Only One That Will Matter By 2020
A hot buzzword during the past couple of years has been digital transformation. It has branched off a few more in the world of marketing and sales: Martech Transformation Sales Transformation CX Transformation Customer Engagement Transformation I...