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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. To help you get started, I am providing a buyer persona assessment tool here based on the factors mentioned above.) They will be of a big help to those using buyer personas tactically for demand generation, content marketing, lead nurturing, and sales.

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

SBI Growth

(To learn more about how buyers are changing and how this affects demand generation, see the CMO's Guide To Stimulating Demand ). If you thought of buyer personas as only a content development tool, let me share four ways in which they are much more than that: 1. Validate Assumptions. You have been there before.

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Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999?

The ROI Guy

Compared to 2002 where growth was a dismal -31% for system vendors and -18% for service providers, these are happy days. Third party research and tools seem to help with the skepticism, as well as vendors providing the analysis in a collaborative and cooperative fashion. Why are buyers getting harder to reach?