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38 Handy Stats to Prove the Value of Personas

Cintell

Instills shared understanding between marketing, sales and product. Improves sales productivity. 90% of companies using Personas have been able to create a clearer understanding of who buyers are. 82% of companies using Personas have managed to create an improved value proposition. SiriusDecisions). DemandGen).

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. April 2009.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Sales teams are being engaged later and later in the sales cycle.

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

With ready access to an unprecedented wealth of on-line information, and skepticism toward vendors as a result of direct marketing overload, buyers have revolted and taken the buying cycle into their own hands. How fundamental is the shift from product / solution selling to value selling / marketing?

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Demand Generation In the Face of Frugalnomics and Internet Fueled Decisions

The ROI Guy

Successful demand generation programs are uniquely challenged today, and must address a changing landscape where: Economics are driving more decisions; The Internet is fueling a prospect driven buying cycle, and; Prospects are faced with information overload resulting in shorter attention spans than ever. of respondents) and peers (28.7%).

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

The savvy marketing and sales enablement professional will proactively recognize the issues that the frugal and empowered decision maker creates, using 2011 to reshape the strategies and investments to better engage, dialogue and sell to ever more empowered, skeptical, overloaded and frugal buyers. The Forgotten Sales Profess.

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Writing Your Own Book to Establish Authority

B2B Digital Marketer

But if I’m talking about in a B to B digital marketing process, and I’m the marketer that’s responsible for helping to bring sales qualified leads to the salespeople, how does this really work? Okay, great. Raza Imam ( 03:39 ): I love it. I’m cold calling 70 to a hundred calls a day, right?