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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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Data, Alignment, and Automation: How to Scale Your ABM Strategy

Zoominfo

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. You’ll also want to invest in a platform to centralize and cleanse all the contact and company data your teams will use to track progress.

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Buyer Personas: Tips to Make Them Work Better for Your Sales Team

Sales Hacker

Newsflash: buyer personas are useless. Or any of the other buyer personas you so carefully put together? Now that we’ve got your attention, we can come clean: buyer personas aren’t really useless. A buyer persona is one of the best tools your sales reps can use to close a deal.

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User Personas, Buyer Personas, and the Missing Link in B2B

Product Management University

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. However, user personas and buyer personas are distinctly different. Then the department heads have managers and staff reporting to them (user personas). So let’s dive in.

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Technographics: 6 Reasons to Use Technographic Data

Zoominfo

Here’s the scenario: Company ABC and Company 123 have identified the same exact target audience to sell their software to. Both companies have access to the same demographic and firmographic prospect data—yet Company 123 also has access to technographic data. Why is technographic data so important? As it turns out—a lot.

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The 7 Best Cold Calling Software for 2022

Hubspot Sales

Enter cold calling software — the tools that take some strain off of cold calling reps and the managers that guide them. HubSpot Sales Hub's extensive call tracking capabilities make it one of the premier cold calling software solutions available. CRM data-driven call prioritization. Automatic call data entry.

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Ultimate Guide to the Data-Driven Sales Funnel

Zoominfo

We believe the key is the right data and the tools that can drive insights at each stage of the prospect’s journey. For most organizations, the problems behind launching a sales funnel are central to data management. Think about how much contact and account data your sales team needs just to prospect. Awareness Stage 2.