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Why Marketers Must Have Customer Conversations

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Know your audience has become a rallying cry behind the concept of creating compelling buyer and customer experiences and becoming customer-centric companies. But how many B2B marketers can say they truly KNOW their customers? This is why it’s important to have customer conversations. Complete silence. They weren’t sure.

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How Many B2B Buyer Personas Do You Need?

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After all, the reason to develop personas in the first place is to build an engaged audience of potential prospects who can and are likely to become customers. On most of my projects, their willingness to help with customer outreach makes the difference in getting this work done quickly. Start by talking to your sales team.

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Use Questions as Your Framework for B2B Buyer Enablement

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But it’s surprising how few marketers use questions as a tool and framework to achieve goals, including: Gaining awareness from specific personas, segments. Most marketers still struggle to understand what’s relevant to their buyers and customers. In the customer interviews you conduct to build personas. Really elementary.

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Marketers Need a Mindset Reset for B2B Personalization

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Salesforce’s State of the Connected Customer report finds 66% of business buyers expect vendors to personalize engagements to their needs. Personalization in B2B is a combination of personas involved, market segment, stage in the problem-to-solution journey, and knowledge requirements based on desired outcomes. Connection.

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A Review of B2B Content Operations Strategy Benchmarks

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In order to achieve that goal, marketers need to create better experiences, produce customer-centric content, improve engagement in channels that can attract leads, and give all of this a boost with better targeting and personalization efforts. Your prospects and customers won’t think, “Oh, that was Joe in Department X.

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Achieving Maturity with Content Operations

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Five years ago, it wasn’t uncommon for me to work with a marketing team in one department that never spoke to or even knew the marketing teams in other departments: the social media team or the sales team or customer success teams. And customer experience is the new competitive battlefield. But we have to.

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SMS Messaging Moves Businesses Beyond Transactions

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They tend to be static, which can result in increasing the gap between your business and your customers. To move beyond the transaction, you must consider what you want your prospects and customers to do. Take the opportunity to learn more about your customers and segment them according to interests. Identify yourself.

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