SBI Growth

AUGUST 31, 2012

(To learn more about how buyers are changing and how this affects demand generation, see the CMO's Guide To Stimulating Demand ). The concept of research-based buyer personas gives companies the knowledge and insight to make informed decisions. The term buyer personas is commonly used in the context of content development.

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Buyer Persona Buyer Analytics Research 282

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The only way to join the 30-40% of people who do understand their buyers is to create buyer personas. Today we teach you how to construct an effective B2B buyer persona profile—keep reading. What is a buyer persona? But, when they’re combined, they paint a complete picture of your best buyer.

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Buyer Persona Buyer B2B Company 100

CloserIQ

JUNE 6, 2019

As a small business, you probably have specific types of people in mind when you consider your ideal and potential buyers. When you take the time to describe these customers—profiling them on a demographic, firmographic, and psychographic level—that’s called creating buyer personas. . Why create buyer personas?

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Buyer Persona Buyer Ideal Customer Profile Demographics 94

Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2020

At their best, personas can help us better understand users and meet their needs. personas based on poorly sourced data, or worse, no data at all), they can be highly misleading and result in failed product launches, subpar marketing campaigns, and lost sales. So what, exactly, does a data driven persona look like?

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Data Buyer Persona Demographics Segment 213

LinkedFusion

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Marketing without creating ideal buyer personas is like shooting blind arrows – can cause you a massive monetary loss in the business. Creating an ideal buyer persona and basing your marketing strategy on these findings can be super-beneficial for your business. But these are all misconceptions!

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Buyer Persona Buyer Social Media Demographics 52

Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2022

Your go-to-market actions are only as good as the data they run on. You can hire the best sales and marketing talent and outfit them with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools , but without high-quality data, their efforts will fall short of your targets. What is poor data quality?

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Data Outsourcing Services Churn Buyer Persona 130

SBI Growth

JUNE 25, 2019

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Buyer Persona Buyer Top of Funnel Lead Rank 249

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2018

“Organizations must shift their focus from one-time data cleansing to ongoing data maintenance to turn the tide.” B2B data isn’t glamorous. Unfortunately, even if you invest in high quality data—it decays rapidly as people change jobs, companies go out of business, and mergers occur. . The Impact of Bad Data on Sales.

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Data Buyer Persona B2B Inbound 182

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Both companies have access to the same demographic and firmographic prospect data—yet Company 123 also has access to technographic data. These technographics reveal the tools their prospects use, what they use them for, how long they’ve used them, and much more. Why is technographic data so important?

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Data Eloqua Buyer Persona Demographics 177

SugarCRM

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In response, companies must create B2B buyer personas to discover who their customers are and what matters to them. As you begin to understand your audience and familiarize yourself with their personas, you’re able to craft targeted content that keeps them engaged. Creating Buyer Personas. Which tools?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

With a quality data-driven strategy you can identify exactly how to approach target buyers. A GTM strategy outlines these key areas ensuring that you have: Comprehensible Segmentation: Segmentation involves finding specific behaviors within buyers most likely respond to your brand’s messaging. Find Your Buyer Personas.

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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Strategy Marketing 246

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 25, 2023

Since December 2022, interest in the search term “AI tools” has skyrocketed by 292% in the U.S. Now Google, HubSpot , and Microsoft are racing to develop their own versions of AI chat tools to compete with ChatGPT. Research Buyer Personas AI gathers customer data on a massive scale.

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Tools Sales Tools Scale Lead Rank 97

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Data Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

MAY 8, 2018

Today, we explain the importance of a data-driven branding strategy and why contact data hygiene is the key to branding success. What is a data-driven branding strategy? A data-driven brand strategy is exactly what it sounds like—a strategy which requires the use of data to inform any and all decisions made about branding.

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Data Buyer Persona B2B Buyer 183

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Today, we have solutions like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. What Are Buyer Personas? Basically, personas ensure that everything you do in terms of lead generation and customer acquisition is tailored to your targeted buyers’ needs. This is where personas come in.

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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Marketing How To 130

SugarCRM

JULY 9, 2021

Another aspect of customer understanding is grasping how the target customer moves through the buyer’s cycle and how decision-makers and influencers consume information. With this information, marketers can build a B2B buyer persona and develop appropriate marketing techniques that hyper-target prospects. Food for Thought.

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Buyer Persona Ideal Customer Profile Buyer B2B 26

Vengreso

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leveraging technology, social selling, and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a sales rep. For the first time ever, buyers and sellers are completely aligned. Buyer behavior and selling motion are in sync. Now let’s dive into sales prospecting tools.

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Tools Prospecting Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 132

SBI Growth

AUGUST 21, 2013

Now there is a new tool to satisfy this need. At the end, I’ll provide a tool to help your team leverage LinkedIn sponsored updates. With LinkedIn’s rich member data, you can leverage your buyer persona for enhanced targeting. It is based on the profile data across their 225+ million members.

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LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead B2B Tools 323

Zoominfo

JULY 29, 2019

Long before cloud-based CRM systems, companies largely relied on manual data entry and cleanup processes. But this can leave your contact and company data fraught with errors and inconsistencies. Although most companies have now adopted some version of a data hygiene strategy, dirty data is still very much alive and well.

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Data Top of Funnel Social Media Buyer Persona 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2018

What happens when two companies have identified the same target audience and have access to the same demographic and firmographic prospect data? The company with technographic data that is going to have the upper hand. Technographics are the essential technologies and tools organizations use to run their business.

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Data Eloqua Buyer Persona Demographics 100

Zoominfo

JANUARY 18, 2021

It’s time to give your CRM strategy a data-driven makeover. Whether it be an existing customer, a past customer, or a potential one, CRM tools are geared towards managing those relationships and leveraging the data in order to improve future interactions. In other words, how do you make the data make sense?

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CRM Ideal Customer Profile Data Strategy 100

Artesian Solutions

JUNE 8, 2018

Knowing me, Knowing you – The science of understanding buyer personas. The key to any successful sales strategy starts with understanding your buyer. B2B selling in 2018 is as much about building insight into the personality of your buyer as it is about insight into their business/market. Defining Buyer Personas.

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Buyer Persona Buyer Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 40

Zoominfo

APRIL 15, 2018

The importance of data cannot be understated in the modern sales landscape. Now, data and analytics reign supreme when it comes to running a successful sales organization. But here’s the thing– the world of data and analytics has made massive strides in recent years and many organizations have yet to catch up.

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Data Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 170

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The February edition features content about recruiting nightmares, inadequate buyer personas, key considerations for technology buying, and so much more. 5 Reasons Your Buyer Personas Aren’t Good Enough. Bad buyer personas. That’s why I’m sharing five easy ways to improve your buyer personas.

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B2B Buyer Persona Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 150

Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

At ZoomInfo, we think of go-to-market as encompassing the entire revenue-generating lifecycle: a cohesive motion that targets ideal customers through aligned sales and marketing strategies, built with high-quality data, seamless outreach and engagement, and scalable automation and orchestration.

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Lead Rank Marketing 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Although buyer personas are typically considered marketing territory, they’re also critical to the prospecting process. Consider the following statistics ( source ): Companies who exceed lead and revenue goals are 4 times as likely to use personas for demand generation compared to those who missed lead and revenue goals.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Strategy Top of Funnel 208

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Create an ideal customer profile (ICP) and buyer personas – Your ICP is exactly the type of lead to become one of your clients, and your buyer personas describe the personalities of those potential customers. Your strategy will require a lot of trial and error to see successful results.

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Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

SBI

JUNE 4, 2021

Revenue Execution Platform Uncovers New Data on Anatomy of a Win. SetSail , the Revenue Execution platform for sales, releases new data on the anatomy of a successful B2B sales deal, derived from its analysis of deals at six large enterprises, including one of the Fortune 10, over the past two months.

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Revenue Data Buyer Persona Incentives 74

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

With a quality data-driven strategy you can identify exactly how to approach target buyers. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust. By using quality contact data, assigning scores to segmented buyers based on certain criteria defines how they apply to the market. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Top of Funnel Marketing 147

Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

Take a collaborative approach to buyer personas. Buyer personas are semi-fictional profiles of your ideal buyers constructed using research, observation and thorough analysis of customer data. 93% of companies who exceed lead and revenue goals use personas. Distribute your buyer personas.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Buyer Persona 201

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Stale data and lack of differentiation could be two major culprits. 1: Your Prospect Data Isn’t Accurate The Importance of Accurate Data in Prospecting Whether you’re nurturing warm leads or reaching out to cold prospects, having access to accurate contact information is crucial. . #1: An updated spam rate threshold.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring 90

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Today, marketers have numerous digital tools and assets at their disposal that they can use to keep in constant touch with customers, both potential and existing, for providing a satisfying customer experience through close engagement. Create Buyer Personas. Track Your Marketing Efforts.

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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Customer Loyalty 177

Nutshell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There’s more to customer data than just names and emails. When it comes to customers interacting with your brand, be it through social media or browsing your website, you must understand the types of customer data you’re collecting and how you can leverage it for the benefit of your business. Why is customer data important?

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 12, 2020

Big data for lead generation is helping smart marketers, and sales teams fulfill the modern customer’s needs and in several powerful ways. You can always visit oxylabs if you would like to learn more about harnessing data gathering tools to make your sales skyrocket! Improving buyer personas. Lead enrichment.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Data 97

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 20, 2019

We used our free Build Your Persona tool to better understand Mark. Try it now to create your company’s own buyer persona. We dug deeper into that 20% and tried to understand how and where this data entry was happening. Our Mobile Sales team first launched the HubSpot Business Card Scanner tool as an Android App.

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Lead Rank Data Lead Generation Tools 73

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The answer is that most marketing teams today lack two crucial tools: 1) enough of the right data and 2) actionable intelligence and insights firmly rooted in that data. It Starts With The Data. . But what’s really important is the kind of data you’re using. If so, which one? How should you engage with them?

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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Buyer Persona Marketo 246

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Create buyer personas. Think about it— if you don’t understand your best buyers, how can you accurately qualify them, nurture them, or route them to sales at precisely the right moment? For this reason, buyer personas are essential to your lead management strategy. But if you’re not, here’s a quick rundown.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Management Sales Qualified Lead 172