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While spend on B2B events remains high, budgets and resources are under massive strain as teams struggle to demonstrate value and justify increased investment. This webinar shares findings from Forrester’s Q1 2025 State Of B2B Events Survey and highlights changes leaders are making to their event budgets, mixes, and priorities as they adapt to a complex and dynamic environment.
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Forrester’s Q1 2024 State of B2B Events Survey identifies key trends in budgets, the event mix, top priorities, event technology, and centralization.
AI will aid B2B event planning and execution by overcoming long-standing challenges, delivering more personalized, inclusive experiences, and improving ROI.
B2B events are one of the best sources of audience data, and frontline marketing teams must partner with revenue operations to maximize the value of this data.
Frontline marketing teams must partner with revenue operations to maximize the value of event data by building a strategic approach grounded in operational excellence.
B2B event measurement best practices will help you align marketing and sales metrics to the specific objectives each event is designed to achieve.
The Forester Event Planning Framework describes best practices for designing, planning, and executing events.
Set up an event center of excellence (COE) to efficiently scale event programs and maximize event value.
In our evaluation of all-in-one event management platforms providers, we researched, analyzed, and scored the most significant ones.
This data snapshot correlates organizations having integrated event technology platforms with their level of satisfaction with event performance.
B2B buyers have always been changing and adapting to evolving markets, technologies, and economic turmoil. Are sellers equally tuned in to the same elements? This webinar looks at these elements from the perspective of both buyers and sellers.Key takeaways: Learn how to identify and react to alarming negative sentiment expressed by B2B buyers, even after successfully making a purchase.Learn how to stop signaling that your sales team members are "coin-operated" with coach-like management techniques.Discover how to leverage generative AI capabilities for revenue enablement — that you're probably already paying for.Target audience level: intermediate
B2B revenue leaders are challenged with the conundrum of delivering crucial sales training to their team: Training both amplifies their reps’ competencies and yet draws precious time away from customer-facing activities. Often delivered at an inopportune time, leveraging unpopular modalities, and lacking adult learning best practices, sales training remains ineffective unless delivered as part of a comprehensive and permanent sales talent lifecycle management strategy. In this webinar, we highlight the “what, when, how, and who” behind optimal everboarding for your quota-bearing individual contributors.Key takeaways: Learn the best (and worst) learning modalities for your B2B sales reps.Understand how to time learning delivery so it's sticky.Discover how to engage your first-line sales managers to amplify ongoing sales learning and development.Target audience level: intermediate
Every B2B sales rep wants professional development, but no one wants to take time from selling to participate in learning. For years, both HR and sales leaders defaulted to traditional learning management systems to provide sales training for reps, only to see invitations ignored and attendance embarrassingly low.In this webinar, learn how HR-owned LMS tools differ from revenue enablement platforms and how the latter better suit real-time training delivery to improve your sellers' competencies most effectively.Key takeaways: Learn how to reverse-engineer your sales training technology environment to suit learner needs.Discover what high-performing B2B sales organizations do to optimize learning participation and adoption.Identify which best practices in adult learning are best supported by properly integrated technologies.Target audience level: intermediate
Shell Fleet Solutions successfully implemented buying groups to better serve the needs of its customers with cutting-edge marketing programs and enhance support for its internal teams. Join this client webinar with Angela Scaueru and Paul Bloemheuvel from Shell and Vicki Brown from Forrester to discuss best practices for harnessing a data-driven approach to effectively integrate account, contact, and buying group behavioral data.Key takeaways: Hear about Shell Fleet Solutions’ innovative strategies for buying groups.Learn how Shell leveraged account, contact, and buying group behavioral data.See how Shell gained a deeper understanding of customer behavior, improved sales and marketing coordination, and ultimately increased customer value.Target audience level: intermediate
Too many B2B organizations still treat their quota-bearing sellers as second-class citizens, ignoring the growing body of evidence that points to how vital seller wellness, work/life balance, and cultural inclusion are to their ability to be most productive. Let's follow the data ... and change it.Key takeaways: Understand the critical cultural levers that motivate sellers to be successful.Develop a mandate for the creation of a sales coaching program that drives tangible results.Learn to balance sales compensation components that reward desired behaviors.Target audience level: intermediate
Misalignment in B2B planning disrupts sustainable growth and negatively impacts the customer experience. In this session, we'll show you how to integrate, sequence, and synchronize planning processes across all your go-to-market functions. By getting everything aligned, you'll not only drive growth but also create a smoother, more enjoyable journey for your customers.Join us to enhance coordination and drive success across your go-to-market functions.Key takeaways: Synchronize Efforts: Master the layers of B2B planning across teams to ensure everyone is working in harmony.Foster Collaboration: Learn the sequence of annual planning processes (occurring throughout the year) that promote teamwork and help commit resources and priorities effectively.Avoid Siloed Execution: Identify the essential outputs needed to inform each downstream planning process, ensuring seamless execution across all functions.Target audience level: all levels