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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. Buyer personas can be a big help in aligning marketing and sales around a launch. You Have Entered New Markets.

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Bulls, Bears, Bernanke and BtoB Lead Generation

Pointclear

Overall lead rates trended down in 2002 and from 2008 – Q3 2009—yep, just as the economy did. Understanding this can help you pinpoint your marketing investments and generate better than average results. Lead rates trail the GDP by about a quarter. Lead rates never dropped to zero.

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How I Achieved Alignment With My VP of Sales

Jeff Davis

I've talked to many leaders about the need to align B2B Sales and Marketing. This evidence has given more leaders confidence in taking an alignment initiative between Sales and Marketing serious. So now that I have a general idea of the areas that Janice and I need to address, where do we actually get started?

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Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999?

The ROI Guy

Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999? A Q&A with me on latest IT sales and marketing metrics, trends and best practices Is 2006 shaping up to be a good year for IT spending growth? Compared to 2002 where growth was a dismal -31% for system vendors and -18% for service providers, these are happy days.