Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 14, 2020

What this does say is B2B marketers and sellers will first need to gain buyers insights into two areas. What buyers need to build collective confidence internally and how do they convey confidence to multiple stakeholders. What we have learned in our buyer insights research that buyers respond to getting help.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 19, 2016

Case studies are important to the medtech buyer persona because before they make a purchase, they have to know that the solution or device being promoted has been safely and successfully used by others. Getting the attention of the medical technology buyer persona, on its own, is a daunting challenge.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 9, 2023

This solution portfolio enables Janice and her team to engage buyers at every stage of the buying journey with relevant content. ML Insights provides the T-Mobile for Business team with intent and account data that enables them to understand the different buyer personas they need to target.

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Cintell

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Reporting live from sunny, chilly Waltham, MA where 50+ B2B marketers sit rapt as SiriusDecisions Research Directors Pat McAnally and Christina McKeon walk through the challenges, goals, and best practices of operationalizing buyer personas. Top Challenges Related to Buyer Personas. The Role and Importance of Personas.

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Hubspot

APRIL 12, 2021

To build trust, your sales team needs to custom-fit their processes for each customer. That often means designing a strategy around specific price points, buyer personas, or product tiers. Understand your buyer's needs and fears, and cater to them with a process that makes it easy to see your product as the right choice forward.

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Seismic

OCTOBER 28, 2021

By the time a buyer speaks with your sales rep, they already have a fundamental understanding of your business and its products, as well as your competitors. Buyers don’t want to be sold. Buyers need sellers who empathize, build relationships, and use their conversations to add value through intelligent recommendations.

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Sharpspring

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you work in marketing, you probably hear a lot about optimizing the customer experience, tracking buyer journeys and identifying decision-making factors and/or paths to purchase. But what about developing buyer personas? And effectively developing buyer personas can help you do just that. Don’t believe us?

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Scoop.it

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The problem is that salespeople also need content they can share one-on-one. And, that content needs to be organized according to the buyer’s journey and tailored to their targeted buyer persona. 2: Buyer Persona. Each is a “persona” with unique needs. 1: Market Segment.

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Sharpspring

JANUARY 23, 2020

If you work in marketing, you probably hear a lot about optimizing the customer experience, tracking buyer journeys and identifying decision-making factors and/or paths to purchase. But what about developing buyer personas? And effectively developing buyer personas can help you do just that. Don’t believe us?

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Outgrow

MAY 3, 2021

It's a tool that accelerates the buyer’s journey, leading to an increase in your eCommerce sales. Along with being powerful, it plays a strong supporting role - helping frame buyer needs in a way that portrays brands as value-driven and solution-oriented instead of sales-y. You need to know what their pain points are.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It’s important to identify the results you’d like to see for your product, service, or brand, and evaluate whether those align with your buyers’ needs. Developing buyer personas is a great way to identify your ideal customers and what content aligns with their goals. Brand Awareness.

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Tony Zambito

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

In my most recent article, Boost Demand Generation Using Target Ready Buyer Models , a comment was posted by the ever thoughtful Eric Wittlake, author of the blog B2B Digital Marketing and a member of the team at the Integrated B2B Marketing Agency – Babcock and Jenkins.

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Martech Advisor

AUGUST 20, 2019

Pairing an agile approach with the ever-changing buyer persona isn’t such a crazy idea anymore, is it? As buyer needs change, marketing teams must be quick to identify what exactly is changing and what they need to do on their ends to keep up with it. This is when the puzzle pieces start to align.

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A Better Jones

AUGUST 3, 2018

Treat your sales team like your customer For marketing to really help their sales team, they need to understand their sales reps - what do they need, where are they struggling, what are their goals. Note: if your current buyer personas are just a list of titles and industries, you need help.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The stages of a pipeline may vary slightly based on industry or sector, but they generally follow the same order: prospecting, lead qualification, sales call or meeting, proposal, negotiation and commitment, contract signing, and post-purchase. Now you can move the deal toward order fulfillment. What’s next?

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Caroline Forsey, a staff writer for the HubSpot Marketing Blog, says "Your marketing and sales teams need to be in tight alignment because your buyer needs to be communicated with, and sold to, wherever and whenever she wants. Avoid burnout. During periods of slow business, spend time learning about your customers.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Nearly 45 percent of B2B marketers, surveyed by Annuitas, indicated that they are not using buyer personas in demand generation programs and almost half are failing to align content to their buyer’s pain points. Buyers need thorough contact information to make informed purchasing decisions. source ).

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Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2020

Today, the information that buyers need to make a purchase decision is just a click away. The power in the buying and selling process has shifted from the seller to the buyer. And that means to keep up with today’s empowered buyer, the sales process needs to transform too. Define your buyer's journey.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Begin by creating buyer personas—who are your buyers? What information do they need to make a decision? Just as importantly, what information do they need to be your advocate within their organization? Sections two and three, Customer Consensus and Natural Nurturing , begin getting into the meat of the strategy.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 22, 2018

When there’s a breakdown in communication, we often hear comments like, “Marketing isn’t producing the content my buyers need,” from sales reps, or “Our sellers are using outdated content and always asking for customizations,” from marketers. Sound familiar?

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SnapApp

JULY 5, 2018

In order for marketing and sales to truly synergize, efforts should prioritize identifying quality leads. In order to optimize your sales funnel, there needs to be a focus on lead disqualification as lead qualification. In other words, they don’t fit your ideal target buyer persona.

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Seismic

MAY 24, 2019

Co-develop buyer personas. The most important factor in content selling is to understand what content your buyer values most. Both sales and marketing must develop personas together and agree on them. A buying experience map follows each step your buyer(s) take from status quo to purchase.

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Kapost

APRIL 5, 2017

This Plain Jane, but extremely comprehensive, buyer’s journey includes key stakeholders, buyer needs, influencers, most impactful content, and top outlets for each stage of the customer journey. This circular model from the folks at Level(3) examines the points along the buyer’s journey that matter most. Just the Basics.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The timely response is that of pivoting to Buyer-Enabled Selling?. Buyer-Enabled Selling? is a mindset and a systemic shift towards enabling buyers. Going beyond just putting buyer needs and expectations at the center. An enabler who is intricately involved in the buyer’s world. The Buyer-Enabled Selling ?

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Mereo

APRIL 16, 2020

At the most simplistic level, though, sales enablement is what it says it is: An organized and company-wide effort to enable sales channels (front-line sellers and leaders), in order to: Better align with the buyer’s journey. Enable and empower salespeople to serve buyers. What does sales need for its buyers?

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Webbiquity

MAY 13, 2014

Arguably the ultimate in friction-free consumer commerce, though, is Amazon.com’s 1-Click ordering. While many high-value, complex b2b products aren’t suitable for ecommerce, there are nevertheless other sources of friction that vendors need to minimize in order to improve their competitiveness. High perceived risk.

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Kapost

APRIL 14, 2016

Sixty-nine percent of senior marketers cite understanding buyer needs as the most important go-to-market strategy, and 80% of these same marketers view creating collateral as their top priority. As a gourmet coffee retailer, they segmented their email lists based on how many bags of coffee customers ordered.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 9, 2011

A content strategy flips the tables on traditional, linear marketing by defining the process and then securing the right resources for producing a consistent stream of content mapped to buyer needs across all phases of the buying cycle. In other words, we need to create compelling stories that resonate with each of our customers.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

But even amidst the chaos, there are still guiding principles of the B2B buyer’s journey marketers and sellers can – and should – be aware of. Because now more than ever, buyers need our guidance to help enable better decisions. They need help to understand the implications of inaction. The buyer’s questions.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 2, 2020

” — Tom Fishburne “The static snapshot of a single buyer is a key problem with buyer personas today. Organizations need to watch the continuous film of their buyers—instead of just looking at a snapshot in time—so they can see how the full story unfolds.”

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Arguably the ultimate in friction-free consumer commerce though is Amazon.com’s 1-Click ordering. While many high-value, complex B2B products don’t lend themselves to online shopping, there are nevertheless sources of friction that vendors will seek to minimize in order to improve their competitiveness. High perceived risk.

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Marketing Interactions

MAY 23, 2018

What you think doesn’t matter unless you are actually a buyer of what you’re selling—and in most B2B product scenarios, you aren’t the buyer. The best thing we can do as marketers is to learn to be able to stand back from our preferences and focus on what we know to be true about our buyers. Tell a Story.

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