Abstrakti

By advancement in digital marketing, business-to-business (B2B) buyers carry out over half of the buying process through digital touchpoints before they establish any significant contact with the B2B seller. Knowing the buying stage of a potential buyer can bring a substantial advantage to the B2B seller given the complexity of the transaction and the associated value. In this paper, the authors propose a machine learning approach to infer the stages of the B2B buying journey by observing the online browsing behavior of buyer companies. It is shown that observing the buyer's online behavior effectively allows us to estimate the buying stages with high accuracy by utilizing the hidden Markov models. Managers in B2B seller companies may use these techniques for adjusting their marketing efforts to improve the fit with the information demands of the B2B buyer prospects along with their buying journey, and thus, improve the hit rate of marketing and sales activities.

AlkuperäiskieliEnglanti
Sivut126-133
Sivumäärä8
JulkaisuIndustrial Marketing Management
Vuosikerta97
Varhainen verkossa julkaisun päivämäärä13 heinäk. 2021
DOI - pysyväislinkit
TilaJulkaistu - elok. 2021
OKM-julkaisutyyppiA1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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  • B2B AI

    Tikkanen, H. (Vastuullinen tutkija) & Huhtala, J.-P. (Projektin jäsen)

    01/06/201703/06/2019

    Projekti: Business Finland: Other research funding

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