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How to know whether to use ideal customer profiles or buyer personas

PandaDoc

Due to the staggering number of new businesses and potential clients that inhabit the marketplace, companies must know the difference between ideal customer profiles (ICPs) and buyer personas, in order to craft the perfect strategy for using them. How to know whether to use ideal customer profiles or buyer personas.

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5 best practices for offering excellent customer service

Zendesk Sell

Great customer service is a key part of any successful business. Poor customer service has the opposite effect. According to the NewVoiceMedia’s 2018 “Serial Switchers” report , poor customer service costs businesses around $75 billion a year. Only 5% did not share a negative customer service experience.

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B2B Blog Post Round Up: Marketing Tech, Direct Dials, and More

Zoominfo

If you’re a regular reader of our B2B blog, you already know the drill. Rather than focusing on a general audience, customer-centric marketing places the focus on the customer as an individual. Although many businesses think they provide great customer service—the reality is, they don’t. It’s that time again.

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B2B Blog Post Round-Up: Content, Prospect Expectations & More

Zoominfo

Welcome to our seventh installment in our series of B2B blog post round-ups. If you’re not familiar with the ZoomInfo blog, these monthly round-ups feature blog posts, articles, and guides the ZoomInfo team has contributed to outside publications. And there you have it—our March B2B blog post round-up. Keep reading!

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4 Lessons B2B Marketers Can Learn from B2C Marketers

Zoominfo

If you have yet to implement a customer-centric business model at your B2B organization, here are some steps you can take to get started: Add more buyer personas: We’ve talked a lot about buyer personas. You’re likely already using buyer personas to inform and improve your marketing efforts.

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List Segmentation: The Key to Email Marketing

Zoominfo

It’s no longer good enough to send your entire customer database the same offers. Today’s blog post answers your most pressing questions about list segmentation and explains why you should segment your lists today. If segmenting by job function consider the different departments you serve—like sales, marketing, customer service, or IT.

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The Complete Guide to Creating a Facebook Sales Funnel

Hubspot Sales

It’s also advisable to create buyer personas among your target audience. As a result, you’ll be able to customize your content even further for each persona. You’ll need to work with your marketing team to create segmented content that can appeal to each buyer persona. Work on Customer Retention.