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38 Handy Stats to Prove the Value of Personas

Cintell

Benefits of personas across the business: Persona-based marketing messaging : Best practice demand creation strategy that includes more personalized and customized messaging built on personas yields two times the average sales pipeline. Using Personas increases email open rate 2-5 times (Forrester). SiriusDecisions). DemandGen).

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

Customer Experience Matrix

A Forrester chart, posted on CNET shows five years of data on time spent per week with major media. Forrester and Marketing Profs report B-to-B Marketing in 2009 shows that business marketers most commonly use their company Web site, email, public relations and trade shows. Where are marketers moving their budgets?

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

The ROI Guy

The study highlights that today’s more empowered buyer is engaging digitally versus personally through most of the cycle. 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.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Better content targeting and personalization is required to end the “carpet bombing” techniques and make meaningful connections. One of the keys to cutting through the noise is to provide buyers with more personalized and meaningful content to transcend generic messaging to create an engaging dialogue.

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

The ROI Guy

However, of those that did, the results of personalized content have been impressive, with 93 percent said it worked better for them than traditional content, and 43 percent reported that it “worked great.” How fundamental is the shift from product / solution selling to value selling / marketing?

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Social Pros 6 – Instagram Lessons from a Giant B2B Company

Convince & Convert

I’m B-to-B. I’m trying to think about when I activated timeline on my personal page and Facebook did a pretty good job of guessing when I was born and when I was married and the things like that that I had already structured based on my usage of the platform. I make ball bearings. I can’t do social media.”

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

The ROI Guy

Better content targeting and personalization is required for 2011 to end “carpet bombing&# B2B marketing techniques, evolving to create a dialogue with buyers to guide them through the decision making process and buying lifecycle with personalized one-to-one advice. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.