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Utilizing Buyer Personas in a Business Development Strategy

Janek Performance Group

Among the myriad of tools and strategies available, one aspect stands out: buyer personas. Crafting detailed buyer personas allows organizations to humanize their target audience. There, he introduced the importance of buyer personas. The importance of buyer personas is self-evident.

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Are White Papers Dead?

The ROI Guy

Traditional white papers are likely the staple of your content marketing portfolio, and for good reason. According to a recent IDG survey, 84% of buyers leveraged white papers as a key resource to help them make a purchase decision. Short attention span theater – The typical white paper is just too long.

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Book notes: No Forms. No Spam. No Cold Calls.

Sales 2.0

In fact, she argues that gating content is part of how “we treat prospects like dirt!” Marketing like this she suggests gets in the way of what the buyer is trying to get done, which is research potential solutions to their problem. When a buyer fills in their contact information to get our white paper etc.,

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4 Ways Modern Sales Content Management Systems Outperform Traditional Tools

Allego

These tools promote better alignment between marketing and sales, ensuring marketers create content that sellers want to use and that sales reps know how to use it properly during conversations with buyers. The Old Way vs. the New: 4 Ways Modern Sales Content Management Systems Outperform Traditional Tools 1. The solution?

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We’re Smarter Than Our Buyers

No More Cold Calling

Welcome to the age of the informed consumer, or the digital buyer … or “Buyer 2.0.”. In fact, 86 percent of business buyers engage in research independent of the sales cycle. In fact, 86 percent of business buyers engage in research independent of the sales cycle. is very good at homework. Tell Them Where It Hurts.

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Tackling Bad Data: How Poor Data Quality Impacts Your B2B Bottom Line

Zoominfo

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools. In turn, sales and marketing efforts — from prospecting to running email campaigns — are less effective.

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Customer Intelligence: The Hidden Power of Interactive Content

The ROI Guy

You download that white paper, and because it’s gated, you’re required to fill out a lead capture form – your name, email address, Company, title, location, phone number, name of first born…Worse, you know you’re immediately going to get that lame phone call or email follow-up: “I see you downloaded our white paper, want to talk?”.