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Buying group

buying committee · DMU · decision making unit

The buying group is the collective that decides a business purchase together: users, budget holders, procurement, IT, legal and the internal champion pulling the proposal. In larger purchases such a group quickly counts six to ten people, each with their own criteria and their own risks. That changes the marketing job fundamentally: the message must not convince one decision-maker but enable consensus between roles that barely talk to each other. Being known to everyone in the group therefore outweighs scoring deeply with one contact; the biggest deal risk in B2B is the stakeholder who does not know the brand.

Covered in

A5-04 Buying Groups and the Buying CommitteeCore lecturestill locked

A5-02 The Brand Laws in B2B — the Dawes Evidencestill locked

A5-07 Account-Based Marketing — an Honest Labelstill locked

A5-08 Sales-Marketing Alignment — Ending the Trench Warstill locked

A5-10 Measuring the Long Cycle — the B2B Growth Audit (Capstone)still locked

F2-01 How Consumers Actually Decide§ Part 1: The Rational Consumer -- A Beautiful Theory

F4-09 STP in B2B Marketsstill locked

F5-05 Mental Availability & Category Entry Pointsstill locked

M1-20 The Sector Test as Methodstill locked

Related concepts

95-5 rule Account-based marketing

Sources

LinkedIn B2B Institute Papers

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