Kabbage

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Think about finding customers like making friends at a party. It’s basically the equivalent of the traditional “spray-and-pray” marketing approach. In marketing terms, you would say these people fit your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). How many marketing and sales people do you need to hire?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2020

Building out and writing ideal client profiles is the same idea — creating something in the short term that will help you market and sell to your audience in the long term. Ideal client profiles are crucial for any account based marketing (ABM ) strategy, and are important for understanding your customers better.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

By Maria Geokezas , VP of Client Services at Heinz Marketing. As marketers, we all know the importance of a well-defined target audience. Why then, do ICPs get taken for granted? Accurately defining your ICPs is one of the most important first steps in any business strategy. We call this phenomenon the “Lazy ICP”.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 18, 2024

Image credit: Mikael Blomkvist on Pexels This also applies, of course, to B2B marketing. Ideally, marketers focus their time on performing high-impact tasks that need our knowledge, expertise, and experience. So, why not let B2B marketing automation take care of the rest? What is B2B Marketing Automation?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

The email inboxes of B2B executives are already filled with so much marketing clutter. Yet the people who actually might be interested in buying your product or service also play a big role in your target market. Creating customer profiles for these prospects is crucial for your marketing campaigns—and in the end, your sales.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Trigger events may help you prospect for clients by putting you in front of the right buyers with the appropriate context for beginning a discussion. Trigger events may happen in a variety of contexts, including at the executive, departmental, and even personal level within a company. Customer Role Changes. Hiring Surges.

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If you consider yourself a modern SaaS marketer with your salt, then it’s safe to assume you’ve heard the term ICP marketing before. But in an industry as jargon-and-acronym-heavy as SaaS marketing, it’s easy to hear about a term without truly grasping it. The Precursor To Customer-Led Marketing.

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Porch Group Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

A marketing campaign without an ideal customer profile is basically just a shot in the dark. You can’t effectively market to consumers if you don’t know who your audience is. SPECIFIC TOPICS INCLUDE: An overview of what an ideal customer profile is and how it can be used to pinpoint your marketing messaging.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

In addition to marketing and sales, Suzy Balk, our Sr. Marketing Campaigns Manager, advises that product teams should be included in lead scoring. “If Marketing Automation Migration: Switching Platforms Made Easy Migrating your marketing automation platform doesn’t have to be difficult.

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Martech

MARCH 12, 2024

You’re likely familiar with the Pareto Principle, the old 80/20 rule and how it applies to marketing — 80% of your profit comes from 20% of your customers. You also know who those “best” customers are. The metric that illuminates your best customers is customer lifetime value. Your TAM has a subset of your ICP.

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Rollworks

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Account-based marketing continues to grow in popularity because it delivers real results and helps businesses drive more revenue. But many companies overlook one of the most important elements -- creating your ideal customer profile. ABM campaigns are only successful if you have an accurate and comprehensive ICP.

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SalesIntel

MARCH 14, 2022

Buyer personas are still popular and effective for marketers and salespeople targeting a broad market. However, it’s now feasible to go beyond simple client segmentation. Given that, lead generation remains a challenge for marketers. What is an Ideal Client Profile?

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SalesIntel

MARCH 14, 2022

Buyer personas are still popular and effective for marketers and salespeople targeting a broad market. However, it’s now feasible to go beyond simple client segmentation. Given that, lead generation remains a challenge for marketers. What is an Ideal Client Profile?

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Act-On

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Revisiting your email marketing automation workflow and automation should happen regularly. So, we did a complete overhaul of our email marketing automation workflow and automated programs, which resulted in a near tripling of our email open rates, with a 2,900% increase in click-throughs. We had to get more personalized.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

The email inboxes of B2B executives are already filled with so much marketing clutter. Yet the people who actually might be interested in buying your product or service also play a big role in your target market. Creating customer profiles for these prospects is crucial for your marketing campaigns—and in the end, your sales.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

With AI personality profiling tools, we can become more familiar with an audience, segment or industry before we even engage with it. B2B marketing, usually kept at arm’s reach from customers, can now know them as well as account managers who have long-standing customer relationships.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

The digital revolution has raised customer expectations massively. The success of your marketing campaign no longer depends on the number of leads you generate. It rests on your ability to maximize your customers’ experience. Ideal customer profiles and predictive target account lists.

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Terminus

JANUARY 22, 2019

Account-based marketing (ABM) has shot to popularity in recent years because it offers teams a focused, structured way to develop personal relations with their curated lists of target accounts – and of course, it’s a proven way to efficiently drive revenue. To determine your best-fit accounts, you first have to define your ICP.

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Rollworks

MARCH 20, 2019

You’re tasked with a new marketing initiative to implement, so you jump in immediately to try to show ROI as soon as possible. In the world of account-based marketing (ABM) , this can result in target accounts with little to no engagement and sub-optimal pipeline and revenue. What is (and isn’t) an ideal customer profile?

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The Point

JULY 27, 2021

In a far-gone era, when demand generation was “direct marketing,” it was often said that for any campaign to be successful, the list was paramount. Fast-forward 20 years to a world of Account-Based Marketing (ABM) , and little has changed. Is the account in my Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) or is it just on my “wish list”?

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The Point

APRIL 19, 2023

There’s an old truism in marketing that says the three most important success factors are (in order of priority): List, Offer, and Creative. Most marketers accept this axiom implicitly, and yet B2B companies routinely define their target audience with more attention to logos and aspiration than actual fit. They’re important.

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Strategic-IC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

How do you build loyal customers? Customers that support you, value you, and refer you to their peers? Customers for life? For a recent episode of Let’s talk ABM , I spoke to Katrine Rasmussen , Chief Marketing Officer at Pixelz. At that time over 10 years old, Pixelz had a lot of data and a lot of clients.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The potential use cases for artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI (GenAI), in go-to-market (GTM) are perhaps too numerous to count. Amid an overly-optimistic marketplace outlook for AI, growth leaders — across marketing, sales and customer success — are increasingly turning to AI and/or AI-enhanced technology tools.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 16, 2021

While it’s true that not every cold prospecting email can be personalized to that degree, they can at least be made less impersonal by following a few simple guidelines. How to Personalize Your Prospecting Emails 1. For this reason, keep the domain name the same in your marketing emails.

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sagefrog

APRIL 16, 2024

To the uninitiated, B2B marketing may appear to be a smattering of strategies and tactics coming together in an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink-style soup. They give you valuable insight into your audience and provide a roadmap and foundation for your marketing efforts. Why Are B2B Buyer Personas Important?

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Marketing Interactions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As the market shifts, much of what you thought was true about your buyer personas and ICPs may be different. I’m also talking about generational growth, pandemics, and changing customer preferences. I’m also talking about generational growth, pandemics, and changing customer preferences. Your buyers and customers are not.

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Rev

JANUARY 11, 2023

When most B2B companies set out to find new customers and increase sales, they rely on an outdated ideal customer profile, use one-size-fits-all marketing tactics and hope for the best. What if you could focus your marketing efforts and target potential customers with the highest likelihood of buying from you?

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Valasys

JANUARY 25, 2024

In the fast-evolving landscape of data analytics, a game-changing synergy has emerged – ICP Analytics with AI. Now, introduce ICP Analytics with AI – it’s akin to giving your data a big brain. What is ICP Analytics with AI? How to Implement ICP Analytics with AI? Advantages of ICP Analytics with AI 1.

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Engagio

MARCH 29, 2021

Most likely, the type of marketing I will engage with the most is personalized — the kind that feels like it was written just to me, not to me and a thousand other people. Personalization is about delivering the right message to the right person at the right time — it’s at the core of Account-Based Experience (ABX).

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Only B2B

JULY 7, 2022

Prospecting is no easy task, as any professional B2B marketer would attest. million essential profiles of the most pertinent sectors. Because of this, an increase in account-based marketing (ABM) techniques in daily workflow was noted by 7 0 %. Account-Based Marketing (ABM): How To Use It For Your Business.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

Sales intelligence uses data and sophisticated software for lead generation , creating an ideal customer profile , data quality management, and more. Ideal sales intelligence tools supply your team with up-to-date information about your prospects and addressable market — and how you can reach them.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 22, 2021

There’s a saying in marketing that goes, “if you’re targeting everyone, you’re targeting no one,” and for the most part, I agree with it. As much as we like to think that all of our content is amazing, relevant, and engaging, if it’s not reaching potential customers, it’s falling on deaf ears. How To Identify Your Target Market.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. A typical definition of a lead is any potential customer who has expressed interest in a company’s goods or services.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Regardless of your organization’s size, increasing your customer base and brand awareness is essential for continuous success. You want to be on top in your market, but it’s more difficult when you’re pitted against enterprises. Develop email marketing campaigns – A one-size-fits-all approach to emailing leads is inefficient.

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Rev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Want to understand your customers better than—and before—anyone else? Well, we hate to break it to you, but… your typical ideal customer profile isn’t gonna cut it. So, you need a way to uncover the underlying motivations, preferences and behaviors that drive your customers’ decision-making processes.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

By Sarah Threet , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing Why I’m Trying to Become a Podcast Listener While I have worked in marketing for the better part of a decade, I don’t have much experience with podcasts, professionally or personally. Where might your ICP be hanging out?

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Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2022

Account-based marketing (ABM) is now table stakes for B2B marketers and salespeople looking to hit — and exceed — their goals. In fact, a recent survey of marketing leaders found broad agreement that ABM programs produce better pipeline growth, revenue growth, and return on investment than competing approaches.

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