B2B marketers are falling apart from the stress of COVID-19 and its ongoing impact, according to Revealing What’s Fact And What’s Fiction, a study by RollWorks.
Of the marketers
surveyed, 50% have suffered from pandemic-related burnout, And 50% say the lines between work and personal life have become more blurred in a negative way.
Only 22% say these lines are now
blurred in a positive way, and 34% find it a struggle to come up with creative ideas.
There are several impacts on marketing. For one, while 32% report higher registrations virtual events,
they say this is accompanied by arise in no-shows.
Moreover, the pandemic is “highlighting simmering anxieties while elevating long bemoaned resource challenges like time, money
and people,” states Randi Barshack, CMO of RollWorks.
Adoption of account-based marketing (ABM) also appears to be slowing down, although this seems to be driven more by an inability to
define the discipline than by COVID-19 -- 60% have trouble coming up with a definition.
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Of the firms polled, 48% are engaged in ABM, 14% are not but plan to, 19% are not and 14% were
involved it but stopped. Another 9% are not sure.
Email ranks high as a channel used as part of ABM programs. Here is the list:
- Digital advertising—68%
- Mass email—50%
- Virtual events (including virtual roundtables, webinars, etc.)—50%
- Segmented email—44%
- Direct mail—41%
- In-person
events (when allowed—41%
- High-end and/or personalized gifting—33%
- Custom landing pages—32%
Of the professionals surveyed, 55% are in
marketing, 22% in sales, 14% in operations, 8% in executive leadership and 1% in other.