Harnessing Intent Data: What It Really Means for B2B Tech Marketing
Intent data isn't a silver bullet. Here's how B2B tech marketers should really use intent signals to prioritise accounts and change behaviour.
Thoughts, essays, experiments, and playbooks for building better organisations.
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Intent data isn't a silver bullet. Here's how B2B tech marketers should really use intent signals to prioritise accounts and change behaviour.
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B2B (business-to-business) intent data is information about the online behaviour of companies that indicate their interests and purchasing intentions.
Riaz Kanani on why brand matters in B2B tech, how Gen-Z buyer behaviour reshapes decision-making, and how to build a narrative that reduces cognitive friction.
Riaz Kanani on cutting through B2B noise by making better strategic bets—focusing on decisions, signals, and alignment rather than more activity.
Riaz Kanani on the Rockstar CMO FM podcast: bridging the gap between B2B marketing metrics and real buying behaviour, aligning sales and marketing, and focusing on signal over noise.
Intent data isn’t magic—it’s a way to stop guessing in outbound. Learn a practical 5-step playbook to prioritise accounts, align sales and marketing, and create pipeline.
The "dark funnel" is the set of buying signals and influence that shape a deal, but don’t show up cleanly in your attribution reports.
Riaz Kanani on the dark funnel in B2B marketing—why buyer behaviour is increasingly invisible, and how sales and marketing should respond with intent, alignment and systems thinking.
Riaz Kanani on what actually works in B2B tech marketing today—account focus, sales-marketing alignment, and using data and AI to change real behaviour.
Storytelling is a key pillar for success in B2B marketing. Hear from the expert, James Trezona.
We know B2B group dynamics are different yet how can you use these dynamics to produce better results. I sat down with David van Schaick at The Marketing Practice to discuss this very thing in the next Think Human episode.