B2B Purchasers Just as Bored by B2B Marketing as Everyone Else
Fri, May 10, 2019
By Audrey Merritt
A recent survey discovered that nearly half of B2B decision makers consider the advertising directed at them to be “boring."
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A recent survey discovered that nearly half of B2B decision makers consider the advertising directed at them to be “boring."
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