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Blow the Dust off Your Buyer Personas to Win More Deals

SBI Growth

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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Unlocking the Secrets of Buyer Personas in a Downturn Economy (video)

Pipeliner

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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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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Are Buyer Personas Dead?

The ROI Guy

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. The Bottom-Line As Jim Ninivaggi indicates, because value is in the eye of the beholder, B2B Buyer Personas are definitely not dead.

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Want to Sell More? Start by Solving Problems

criteria for success

To better understand your buyers, start by considering their “buyer persona” A buyer persona is a way to categorize and organize your buyers. Think of a buyer persona as a representation of the person or group of people most likely to be interested in your product. Download Now.

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How to Design a Fast Ramp Training Program

SBI Growth

Step 2: Identify Training Needs and the Training Program. Your training program should incorporate different modalities, topics and methods. Training should be focused on helping your sales reps identify prospects and close deals. Training can take place in a classroom setting, via LMS, mobile applications, etc.

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