G2's Most Powerful Secret

AI is transforming B2B buyer behavior and competitive intelligence strategies. Blue Bowen, Research Principal at G2, explains how sales leaders can leverage marketplace data to understand win-loss patterns and competitor positioning. He discusses G2's market intelligence offering for competitive analysis, G2AI's product discovery interface, and momentum reports that track surging tools in marketing automation. The conversation reveals how review data and switching patterns create competitive advantages in AI-driven sales environments. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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  Welcome to the Martech Podcast, a member of the I Hear Everything Podcast Network. In this podcast, you'll hear the stories of world-class marketers that use technology to drive business results and achieve career success. Here's a host of the Martech Podcast, Benjamin Shapiro.

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  I'm Benjamin Shapiro and joining me today is Blue Bowen, the Research Principal at G2, the world's largest software marketplace where companies build reputation and drive growth. And today, Blue will share how AI is rewriting B2B buyer behavior and what sales leaders must do to adapt. What's the most underutilized data source on G2?

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  I would say market intelligence. It's an offering that we have and it allows you to understand win-loss analysis. So in our reviews, we asked reviewers, did you switch from another tool? If so, why? If so, what tool? So you really get access to those, that competitive environment, understanding why somebody switched to your product. Also, maybe even more importantly, understanding why somebody switched away from your product, as well as you get access to competitor reviews. So really kind of, I think in the AI age that we're living in right now, competitive intelligence is paramount and kind of a competitive advantage. And I don't think enough people kind of leverage that data.

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  Talk to me about the way you can access market intelligence through G2, and I'll give you some context. I was thinking about what are the best ways to understand, what are the best tools or the stories that people are interested in for the Martech Podcast? It seems like G2 would be a great source of like, here's the hot tool everybody's talking about. How do you get access to the data and what's the best way to sort of filter through it?

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  Yeah, so for market intelligence specifically, that is an offering for our customers in terms of helping them understand the competitive landscape. We also have g2.ai, which is kind of a cool new revolutionary interface in terms of how to find the right products for the right segment in your industry, as well as momentum reports. So if you're trying to see what projects are surging in marketing automation, we have specific momentum reports that show not only review growth, and that's why they're kind of gaining a lot of momentum, but also a lot of other factors and external factors to show that momentum.

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  I'm going to have to figure out how to tap into all of that through your API and pull it into our research for the Martech Podcast. You'll have to come back and I'll quiz you on what's actually has momentum. All right, that wraps up this episode of the Martech Podcast. Thanks to Blue Bowen, the research principal at G2 for joining us. If you'd like to contact Blue, you could find a link to his LinkedIn profile in our show notes or on martechpod.com, or you could visit his website, which is g2.com. If you haven't subscribed yet and you want a daily stream of marketing and technology knowledge in your podcast feed, hit the subscribe button in your podcast app or follow us on YouTube and we'll be back in your feed every week. All right, that's it for today, but until next time, my advice is to just focus on keeping your customers happy.

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