SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

As a sales enablement leader, you had probably developed buyer personas years ago. There was a big announcement and possibly some training sessions, but then everyone forgot about them, and the sales reps almost certainly stopped using them. Slowly but.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

We have seen a tremendous rise in the interest and use of buyer personas since 2002. The year I first introduced the methodology for creating buyer personas specifically for marketing and sales. It will serve no purpose to rehash how much buyers have changed since then. You Have Entered New Markets.

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MarketJoy

APRIL 7, 2022

Why You Need Effective Buyer Personas for B2B Lead Generation. A buyer persona is a hypothetical customer that serves as a model of the buyer you want to target. Personas are based on an ideal customer profile (ICP), which is a set of metrics that guide your overall sales strategy. Why do they buy?

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Autoklose

JANUARY 15, 2024

Crafting an ideal customer profile (ICP) and buyer personas is a fundamental step for any business aiming to connect more effectively with its audience. And yet, even though those two concepts are marketing staples, some business professionals tend to mix the two up and use them interchangeably. You’ll reduce customer churn.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

There is one factor that is extremely limiting to sales processes worldwide. Most do not accurately follow the ebb and flow of buyers. A customized sales process is an excellent tool. Instead, you must account for the fluidity in the buyer’s journey. In this article I cover the value of persona-based selling.

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The post Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales? One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. Typical buyer personas include a character sheet full of your prospects’ demographics, challenges, goals, and KPIs. Here’s why.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

Newsflash: buyer personas are useless. First, how does the knowledge that Terry is married and loves eating Smarties help your reps make a sale? Or Mary from marketing? Or any of the other buyer personas you so carefully put together? Your business exists solely to satisfy buyers.

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Pipeliner

JUNE 2, 2023

In this podcast episode, John Golden and Jim Karrh discuss the importance of understanding buyer personas and their buying decisions during a recession or downturn. They emphasize the need to revisit buyer personas regularly and talk to recent buyers to inform marketing and sales decisions.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. Today, we have things like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. And in order to achieve that, you need buyer personas. What Are Buyer Personas? And How Can They Help Marketers?

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Pipeliner

JUNE 2, 2023

5 Ways to Reach Buyers During a Downturn In a world where the economy is constantly changing, understanding your buyer personas has never been more important. This will ensure that you are staying relevant to buyers and showing your unique value quickly. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM.

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PandaDoc

JUNE 23, 2021

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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SBI Growth

AUGUST 31, 2012

“When we have deep information about our customers, it makes all the difference in the world,” said the Chief Marketing Officer of one Fortune 500 company. Understanding exactly how buyers are behaving and thinking is becoming more of a premium for achieving success in marketing today. Validate Assumptions.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

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).

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 18, 2021

Developing rich buyer personas is critical to helping us identify the key people and roles we need to be working with, what they do/how they are measured, the problems they face and so on. These personas are critical as we look at how we engage them with relevance. The reality is quite different.

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Connext Digital

MARCH 26, 2019

In this increasingly customer-centric business landscape, it’s getting more important than ever for companies to tap into their buyers’ mindset. Enter: buyer personas. Buyer personas are one of the most tried and tested ways of getting into your target audience’s psyche. Check out how below. Send out surveys.

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CloserIQ

JUNE 6, 2019

When you take the time to describe these customers—profiling them on a demographic, firmographic, and psychographic level—that’s called creating buyer personas. . Buyer personas, also known as marketing personas, help businesses visualize their customers. Why create buyer personas?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Did you know 60-70% of marketers say they don’t truly understand their buyers ( source )? 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. Let that sink in.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

These 30 findings from our extensive study tell salespeople exactly what to do to change this dynamic, and how to win back the respect and partnership the B2B sales-buyer relationship needs to be mutually successful. From DiscoverOrg CEO Henry Schuck: When DiscoverOrg partners with sales researcher Steve W. Download Part 1.

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Close

MAY 15, 2023

Design B2B buyer personas to understand the purchase decisions of your target audience, boost your lead generation process, and work better with your marketing team.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. Today, we have solutions like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. What Are Buyer Personas? And How Can They Help Marketers? This is where personas come in. And who wouldn’t?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

Creating B2B marketing content is a significant investment of time and money. That’s where your content marketing strategy comes in. What Is a Content Marketing Strategy? A content marketing strategy is your action plan to attract prospects to your brand and convert them into customers using marketing content.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

Traditionally, marketing plans lay out these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. With a quality data-driven strategy you can identify exactly how to approach target buyers. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? What Does a Go-to-Market Strategy Look Like?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing.

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SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It’s a simple question that every marketer should be able to answer without any hesitation. At the highest level, B2B marketers can answer this question by describing the types of companies that fall into their target markets. Identifying and Understanding B2B Customers Requires Buyer Personas.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 25, 2019

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

Traditional marketing plans lay out these steps, but to really move the needle, you’ll need to dig a little deeper. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? First, let’s define go-to-market as an overall framework.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Traditionally, marketing plans layout these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. With a quality data-driven strategy you can identify exactly how to approach target buyers. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Get a Demo Why Do You Need a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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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. Marketing is challenged to have good leads responded to immediately by sales, currently delayed by days or weeks.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Buyer personas. Sound good?

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SBI Growth

JULY 27, 2014

Field Marketing has become a corrupted role. Sales often under-utilizes their capabilities and Marketing doesn’t provide adequate support. Content Marketing Buyer Persona CMO Resources CMO' By reading this post you’ll recognize if this is happening in your organization.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 17, 2020

But in a company with both marketers and sellers, this motto has never been more applicable. Whether we readily admit it or not, there has always been an underlying current of us versus them between the sales and marketing teams. Sales and marketing need to become one. Why should I care about buyer personas?” “I

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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.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

More often than not, sales and marketing live in siloes. Reps wonder what marketing does and contributes; marketing complains reps ignore their efforts. For a company to survive these days, sales and marketing must work in concert. One way they do this is through actionable buyer intelligence.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 26, 2018

The differences between B2B marketing and B2C marketing run deep. These differences range from price point to length of sales cycle, to key buying motivators, and beyond. Today we’re putting our differences aside because we believe, there’s a lot B2B marketers can learn from their B2C counterparts. Ready to learn more?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 14, 2019

Marketing automation has seen incredible growth in the last decade. In fact, 55% of B2B companies report using marketing automation as part of their marketing strategy ( source ). In fact, a recent study reported only 14% of marketers describe their use of marketing automation as “good” or better ( source ).

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 22, 2021

There’s a saying in marketing that goes, “if you’re targeting everyone, you’re targeting no one,” and for the most part, I agree with it. There are a million reasons why personalized content is widely promoted as a sales and marketing best practice, one of them being that it’s more effective than any kind of ‘spray and pray’ method.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For the typical B2B organization, sales and marketing alignment is the ultimate goal. If you’re struggling with sales and marketing alignment, here are a few compelling reasons to get these teams on the same page: Companies with strong sales and marketing alignment achieve 20% annual growth rate.

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