SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Identifying and Understanding B2B Customers Requires Buyer Personas. Buyer personas are essentially profiles of the different types of customers you have. These personas help you group all of the people you want to target into different buckets to better understand factors like who they are and what they’re interested in.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

There’s nothing more frustrating than getting your prospect’s commitment to buy — before realizing they’re not the decision maker. Before we discuss how to find the decision maker, let’s get clear on who the decision maker is. Let’s review how to identify and connect with decision makers the right way.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 23, 2019

That’s why it’s important to understand how each key decision-maker thinks and acts before you start the sales conversation. Fortunately, we’ve done extensive research into how buyers make decisions, which we’ve classified into five personas that you can use to inform your selling strategy and overcome buyer apathy.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

A few articles have appeared recently touting the death of Buyer Personas, which prompted me to ask Jim Ninivaggi, Sales Enablement service lead from SiriusDecisions about whether this was really true. Over the past three years the number of stakeholders involved in a typical purchase decision has exploded by 40%.

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Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Since the average opportunity has multiple stakeholders, you’ll want to create a multi-threading campaign to target the key decision-makers at each top account. Plus, it ensures that every key decision-maker is included in your ABM campaigns. Automation saves your team time and money.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Decision makers are often only interested in sellers that know exactly who they are and what they want. In a nutshell: Customer profiles give your marketing team a steadfast starting point to the buyer cycle. How do they compare to buyer personas? 5 Steps to the Customer Profiling Process.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 6, 2016

Easier said than done, I set about researching the best way to identify key decision makers, and here’s a summary of the best advice and tips that I found. Identify the buyer (and anti-buyer) personas. I found this list of questions to help create buyer personas by Aaron Agius particularly useful.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 5, 2016

Easier said than done, I set about researching the best way to identify key decision makers, and here’s a summary of the best advice and tips that I found. Identify the buyer (and anti-buyer) personas. I found this list of questions to help create buyer personas by Aaron Agius particularly useful.

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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.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Recent digital transformation has shifted the B2B landscape by ushering in the era of buyer empowerment. With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “ buyer’s journey.”

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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.

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Richardson

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Coalescing disparate stakeholders is uniquely challenging within healthcare because the decision makers not only have different value drivers, they also have different positions within the hierarchy. According to Forrester research this is the primary challenge facing sales professionals today.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

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 are able to build a B2B buyer persona and develop appropriate marketing techniques that hyper-target prospects.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

Find Your Buyer Personas. Finding and organizing buyer personas is a way to define characteristics of different potential customers. Though no two buyers are exactly the same, they can be grouped into similar behaviors. Making your GTM strategy data-driven encourages you to pinpoint more target buyers.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Research is essential in this stage — you want to know who’s fit to be a buyer, and you want to tell them exactly what they want to hear. Use your defined buyer personas and ideal customer profiles (ICPs). Find stakeholders in charge of purchasing decisions. or “Who are your company’s decision makers?”).

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2020

No matter how right and tight, your buyer persona is, how much of your drips they have downloaded, or any other factor. No matter how brilliant your buyer personas are, it’s wrong to spew “solution”, when they are still reeling from your interruption. And why not. Better to start with something they can relate.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Not involving the decision-maker. Recent research indicates that at smaller sales organizations, the inability to identify decision-makers is still a major deal killer. Deals are 80% less likely to close when a decision-maker isn’t directly involved in the experience.?So How to prep and empower your team.

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SugarCRM

JULY 18, 2019

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 are able to build a B2B buyer persona and develop appropriate marketing techniques that hyper-target prospects.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Decision-makers are often only interested in sellers that know exactly who they are and what they want. In a nutshell: Customer profiles give your marketing team a steadfast starting point to the buyer cycle. How do they compare to buyer personas?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

Demographics might focus on gender, income, and ethnicity (handy for building buyer personas ). With the correct firmographic data, marketers can target campaigns based on industry, decision-maker roles, or revenue. . However, for the B2B target customer segment, firmographics are a marketer’s go-to grouping.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A conventional business development representative will evaluate your company’s current buyer personas , assess where they can be found, and begin the process of lead generation. Along those lines, your buyer personas should not have suffered notable changes to price sensitivity in the last year.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 15, 2023

6 key role play exercises to try with your sales reps Objection handling Negotiation Discovery Competition Buyer personas Getting to power #1. Video coaching activities are a simple way to organize this because you can ask each rep to show how they’d respond to buyer personas with different trigger points.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2021

A conventional business development representative will evaluate your company’s current buyer personas, assess where they can be found, and begin the process of lead generation. Along those lines, your buyer personas should not have suffered notable changes to price sensitivity in the last year. Strong Research Skills.

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criteria for success

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Consider what products and services they buy, their budgets, and your points of contact – both decision-makers and influencers. Use Buyer Personas. As you work toward better targeting, take the time to develop rich buyer personas for your ideal clients. Here’s a simple example…. Download Now.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

From there, you can start performing more detailed research that reveals key decision makers, organizational hierarchy, and opportunities for improvement that your platform can help them achieve. Moreover, you can tell AI about your product, then ask it to directly correlate its features and benefits to your new audience’s needs.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2020

That information lies with the hiring manager, the ultimate decision-maker in the process. Identify the Right Decision Makers Within Your Target Organization. Create Buyer Personas. Think of hiring managers as your “buyers.” Do Your Research.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Buyer Personas. Buyer personas are researched-based, modeled representations of who your buyers are. Personas help the sales team understand why buyers make purchase decisions. Here are some best practices when developing personas: Segment your Buyer Personas – by product, vertical, geo.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 24, 2013

84% of B2B decision makers begin their buying process with a referral. Use Your Buyer Personas – Buyer personas aren’t created just for marketing. Personas are one of the key ingredients in improving LinkedIn Reach. Is one of your buyer personas a CEO? How do I know? e-mail open rates.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

Define your ideal customer profile and buyer personas. Before you can qualify as a prospect, you need to have a clear idea of who you are buyers are. Then, analyze data about your current buyers and identify common characteristics. Authority: Engage with the decision maker as early as possible.

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SalesFolk

MARCH 2, 2021

How specific is your “buyer persona,” or “Ideal Customer Profile” (ICP)? . Too often I see sales and marketing leaders defining their buyer personas as “Marketing” or “C-Suite.” How to build solid “Buyer Personas” for more effective sales campaigns. More free Cold Email treats from my sold-out workshop .

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Businesses make very few high-impact decisions nowadays, in SaaS and beyond, without consulting sales analytics first. This is particularly true post-COVID, where even minor decisions (like a product launch or new buyer personas) can have lasting negative effects on your bottom line and brand perception.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

Identifying decision makers and influencers within the prospect’s organization is key. These are the people with the power to greenlight purchasing decisions. Ideally, sellers should learn the economic buyers early in the process. Identify key indicators of fit. In addition, focus on high-value targets.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Consult Your Buyer Personas Before we break down the top qualifying questions for sales to ask, we must reiterate the importance of buyer personas in this process. A buyer persona is a profile of an ideal prospect based on research and existing customer data. 12 Sales Qualification Questions 1.

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Lead411

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Find the Right Decision Maker. Again, this goes back into knowing your buyer persona but finding the right decision maker is an important step toward reducing your time needed to engage. Lead411 has the decision maker data, but you still need to find it.

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SBI Growth

MAY 4, 2013

If a new sales process is introduced, it should’ve been influenced by your Buyers. Whatever the topic, ask for the Buyer research that supports the change. Buyer Persona driven. Buyer Personas are documented descriptions of the Buyers of your product. Assess the Value of your Training.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Determine your ideal buyer persona. Take time to identify what companies fit your ideal buyer persona. This information can help you determine if companies are ready to invest in your offerings, and is a helpful addition to your buyer persona information. Map out the buyer’s journey.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Maybe it was the price, or your seller couldn’t sway a decision maker. Another consideration is how well your sales process aligned with the buyer’s journey. Today, the buyer’s journey is increasingly complex. For one thing, buyers are better educated. Also, there are more decision makers.

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