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10 Tough Questions to Evaluate Your Target Account List

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The target account list is the foundation for any successful ABM initiative, and yet, too often, selecting accounts can be an aspirational exercise (“these are the accounts sales says they want to go after”) versus one based on hard facts, research, and data-based insights. Who are known contacts in the buying groups and are they engaged?

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Lead Scoring Model: Building a Framework to Drive Conversion

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Blog Learn More Know your persona First things first: make sure your sales, marketing, and other relevant teams (like product) are in agreement on what your ideal customer looks like. This means having well-documented and up-to-date ideal customer profiles (ICP) and buyer personas, which will be essential in step five.

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How to find new customers and increase sales

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When most B2B companies set out to find new customers and increase sales, they rely on an outdated ideal customer profile, use one-size-fits-all marketing tactics and hope for the best.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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How to better understand your customers’ needs (without the limitations of traditional customer data)

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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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An Actionable Guide to Building Out an Account-Based Marketing Strategy in a Single Quarter

Speaker: Justin Keller, VP of Marketing, and Brad Beutler, Director of Content at Terminus

Or maybe you’ve done your research on ABM, understand the benefits, and now you want to see some tactical ways on how to get started? During this webinar you will learn: Today’s best data sources when building out your ideal customer profile.

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B2B Lead Generation: The Ultimate Guide

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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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5 Ways to Make Your Prospecting Emails Less Impersonal

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Once he and his team identified their ideal prospect, they did some research and found that one of his first jobs was at an apple orchard. Stick to your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). But the very first step, he insisted, was creative outreach. Sure enough, he responded.