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State Of Buyer Personas 2016: Strong Correlation Between Effectiveness And Goals

Tony Zambito

Important Correlations Uncovered. These indicators also correlate to this jump: the percentage indicating they used in-depth qualitative buyer research increased to nearly 30% (27%) from 15% of the previous year. In part due to an interesting correlation. Again, a correlation to effectiveness as well.

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14,106 martech tools reveal 3 trends you should master

Martech

Through our yearly “validation exercise” for the Martech Supergraphic, in which we collaborated with hundreds of martech experts worldwide, we learned a simple trick to boost your martech maturity. The validation exercise is one of the best martech crash courses out there. Email: Business email address Sign up now Processing.

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How To Make Marketing An Invaluable Function

Marketing Craftmanship

In its landmark 2018 Pulse Survey of 220 Chief Marketing Officers, the executive recruiting firm Korn Ferry reported that, although financial results were the most important factor in their performance-based compensation, “52% of CMOs say they cannot make a direct and obvious correlation between marketing efforts and company performance.”

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5 Keys to a Revenue Intelligence Platform

InsightSquared

With next level analytics you spend less time search and more time improving processes to boost funnel health, stage progression and win rates. Top sales teams recognize that capturing these interactions and leveraging the data for predictions, process improvement and coaching is critical.

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Getting smarter together: Trends in AI for B2B marketing

SmartBrief - Marketing

A good AI governance framework includes data handling, privacy concerns, model validation processes, brand guidelines and transparency. This governance is key to building trust in AI, as well as showcasing its correlation with positive business outcomes, improved productivity and efficiency and successful pilots.

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Why Marketers Should Be On the Lookout For Unjustified Survey-Based Conclusions

B2B Marketing Directions

This is the second of my series of three posts discussing several issues that can affect the validity of survey findings and/or the credibility of survey reports. Therefore, they need a basic understanding of the issues that can impact the validity of survey results and make survey reports more or less credible and authoritative.

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Google’s cookie deprecation: An essential marketing playbook for the post-cookie era

Martech

Beyond removing outdated or duplicate records, implement processes to validate the quality of incoming data and standardize data formats across your database. Business email address Subscribe Processing. Be proactive and put this into practice. Schedule your data hygiene regularly (e.g., monthly, quarterly or bi-annually).