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Why Your Buyer Personas Are Obsolete

SBI Growth

We have seen a tremendous rise in the interest and use of buyer personas since 2002. The year I first introduced the methodology for creating buyer personas specifically for marketing and sales. It will serve no purpose to rehash how much buyers have changed since then. Your Buyer’s Behaviors Have Changed.

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The Best Sales Book, That Isn’t a Sales Book

A Sales Guy

S**t, when it was written in 2002, LinkedIn wasn’t a thing, there was no “social” selling, and your sales stack was the yellow-pages. It makes you break down a problem, by the people, the tools, and the resources available to you to actually be able to execute and that’s why I think it’s a great sales book.

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4 Reasons Why CMO’s Should Care About Buyer Personas Today

SBI Growth

Understanding exactly how buyers are behaving and thinking is becoming more of a premium for achieving success in marketing today. To learn more about how buyers are changing and how this affects demand generation, see the CMO's Guide To Stimulating Demand ). Hundreds, if not thousands of CMO’s across the globe make similar comments.

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6 Ways to Generate Urgency in B2B Sales

Janek Performance Group

Most buyers cannot afford to be impulsive. But as trusted advisors, B2B sellers can still generate urgency to help skeptical buyers help themselves. Buyers may think falling short of goals is suboptimal, but not catastrophic. Every buyer has something that gives pause. Of course, all buyers assess needs differently.

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Sales Enablement Defined: What is the Forrester Wave?

Showpad

You can also check out The Forrester Wave : Sales Enablement Automation Platforms | Q3 2018 to see where Showpad stacks up in the world of sales enablement tools. In 2002, after Forrester launched TechRankings, the first Wave report was published in 2002, with 30 more published the following year. appeared first on Showpad.

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Sales Enablement Defined: What is the Forrester Wave?

Showpad

You can also check out The Forrester Wave : Sales Enablement Automation Platforms | Q3 2018 to see where Showpad stacks up in the world of sales enablement tools. In 2002, after Forrester launched TechRankings, the first Wave report was published in 2002, with 30 more published the following year. appeared first on Showpad.

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“You Can’t Catch Water With A Fist”

Pointclear

The salespeople that cold-call waste time contacting hundreds of people to find a few buyers instead of relentlessly pursuing marketing provided inquires and leads (48% of the salespeople give up after the first call). i JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom Boston, MA : Red Wheel, 2002. No direct sales cooperation necessary.