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38 Handy Stats to Prove the Value of Personas

Cintell

Using Personas increases email open rate 2-5 times (Forrester). Using personas to help sales: Using personas drove a 3X increase in closed sales deals (MarketingSherpa). Using personas to help product development: Persona-driven product development = 10-20% higher customer satisfaction levels (Pragmatic Marketing). DemandGen).

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18 of the Best Content Marketing Strategy Guides of 2013

Webbiquity

Writing that “A sound strategic planning process is based on consistently applied business objectives that flow through functional areas and support each other,” John Gregory Olson presents a helpful model for planning, and makes a case for the one element that’s more important than strategy.

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Death of the B2B Sales Rep? An Interview with the Sales Enablement Lab

The ROI Guy

Forrester reports that this shift to digital buying is real, and as a result, there will be a 22% decline in the number of B2B sales reps over the next 5 years. Andy Hoar, Principal Analyst at Forrester , reported these findings at their last Sales Enablement conference and Thierry, you and I were both there.

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

Sales enablement seeks to address these challenges, providing the practices, resources, training and tools needed to help fight Frugalnomics. According to Forrester, companies are spending worldwide, on average, 19% of their SG&A costs, some $135,262 per quota-carrying salesperson, in sales support-related activities.

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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Twitter announces an API to help control, standardize and mainstream retweeting. Social media use soars among b-to-b marketers. Forrester Predicts Huge Growth for Social Media Marketing. Few b-to-b firms are signing up for Super Bowl XLIII advertising. Google improves Google Reader.

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

The ROI Guy

Dynamic content represents one solution to help break through the clutter, as it allows marketers to build messages piece by piece based on specific recipient characteristics. White papers help customers learn about the typical issues customers like them face, and educate the buyer on best practices others have used to resolve the issues.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential. Matter of Trust - although the research indicates that buyers truly rely on vendor content to help drive purchase decisions, with so much noise, buyers have become skeptical of vendor claims.