The changing dynamics of B2B commerce

whitePaper | October 17, 2022

Organizations have been placing increasingly more emphasis on making data-driven marketing decisions in recent years. Especially since the onset of COVID-19, the demand for insights on how to craft the optimal marketing budget allocation plan has risen markedly. Marketers rely on guiding principles like Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) to determine which marketing channels will drive the highest return and optimize marketing budget allocations to maximize business outcomes.

whitePaper | January 20, 2022

Today's solution provider expects more from the vendor engagement process than ever before. It's no longer enough to simply get a welcome email from a channel manager and login credentials to the partner portal.

whitePaper | December 2, 2021

Where does day-dreaming about what’s possible end and actionable strategy begin? It starts by thinking bigger than just planning events one at a time, independent from the organization’s overall marketing strategy. The future of event marketing is a multi-layered, programmatic approach. We call it: The New Event Marketing Opportunity.

whitePaper | January 8, 2021

Milestone Research has compiled the following trends to help the community maximize opportunities in 2021. Digital transformation became very clear with the pandemic. Businesses had become more digital to stay alive, and those more digital businesses when the pandemic began were better able to adapt. Digitization of products and services enables automation and personalization, which improves the user experience and increases efficiency.

whitePaper | February 15, 2020

Respondents spent 47% of their influencer budget on micro-influencers (compared to just 23% for celebrity influencers). One of the problems the influencer marketing industry has had has been convincing people that celebrity does not equate with influence. The reality is that people trust micro-influencers far more than they do stars, and are far more likely to take notice of a micro-influencer's recommendation than one made by a celebrity. Therefore it should come as no surprise that brands are moving their influencer marketing towards micro-influencers as education about the industry improves.

whitePaper | September 15, 2022

What works and what doesn’t across sales has shifted dramatically over the last two years. But one thing is clear, if you’re only focused on direct sales, you’re missing huge opportunities to drive revenue and future-proof your sales funnel. It’s no secret that direct sales are limiting. After all, you’re leaving an entire indirect sales channel on the sideline. Direct sales typically reach only the prospects that are directly looking for your solutions or offerings. And if you have a data-driven sales organization, it’s likely your team prioritizes leads that fit certain criteria (such as industry, company size, revenue, etc.). This leaves countless deals on the bench – and those deals can make or break revenue targets