About this episode

Nigel Maine discusses the lack of visibility in the B2B buying journey and critiques the effectiveness of various marketing technologies.

Nigel Maine, founder of salesXchange, breaks down why two decades of martech promises — marketing automation, ABM, dark social, and now AI-powered scrape-and-spam — have never solved the real problem: visibility. Drawing on Gartner and Forrester data showing that most of the B2B buying journey happens invisibly, Nigel explains why "we solve your problem" messaging fails, why GDPR has only reinforced buyers' existing preference for anonymity, and why sales is fundamentally a numbers game that ...

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Host: Nigel Maine

Topics covered

• visibility
• B2B buying journey
• marketing automation
• sales strategies
• anonymity
• AI in marketing

Keywords

• visibility
• B2B
• marketing automation
• GDPR
• sales
• anonymity
• AI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: salesXchange, Gartner, Forrester, GDPR

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