Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

So before you start assigning points and determining thresholds, recruit active participants to help develop your lead scoring framework from the ground up. 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.

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Rollworks

MARCH 20, 2019

If you want to build an account-based strategy that helps you win big, developing a strong ideal customer profile (ICP) is critical. Ultimately, if you don’t invest enough in your ICP, you could end up with a false list of target accounts—leading to wasted sales and marketing dollars.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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. Are you ready to just let AI loose on your customer targeting and dialogue without significant human intervention?

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Terminus

JANUARY 22, 2019

With account-based marketing, your organization can be proactive and intentional by targeting the best-fit accounts that are most likely to buy from you. To determine your best-fit accounts, you first have to define your ICP. In the B2B world, ICP stands ideal customer profile. Size of their customer base.

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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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Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) strategies are successful when B2B organizations target customers with the highest propensity to buy their solutions. While creating a “wish list” of high-profile companies you want to win seems right, tight marketing budgets force you to take a more systemic approach.

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sagefrog

APRIL 16, 2024

What’s the Difference Between Ideal Customer Profiles & Buyer Personas? The B2B buyer’s journey is the process potential customers go through before purchasing. Providing the right information and support at each stage can guide potential customers toward purchasing and ultimately improve your sales success.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

We’re talking about reaching out to different kinds of customers with content that’s all about marketing and selling. Plus, it’s a big win for staying ahead of the competition and making customers happy. When our clients get this right, they see what they’ve been missing in their content strategy.

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Binary Demand

JULY 26, 2023

It empowers you in B2B customer segmentation that your sales team can effectively utilize to expand your lead pipeline. Better understand client needs: Utilize data to create a comprehensive profile of your clients, gaining deep insights into their requirements and preferences, enabling you to tailor your sales pitch accordingly.

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Oktopost

MARCH 4, 2024

In this highly competitive and saturated market, SaaS companies must continuously meet their KPIs, drive customers down the B2B funnel, and ensure they stand out from their competition. The goal is to implement a range of top, middle, and bottom-of-the-funnel marketing activities covering every funnel stage.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The goal of this re-positioning is to be less about powering transactional conversations, and more about driving personalized experiences with the right people, in the right place, at the right time along the entirety of the customer lifecycle. ANNUITAS can cite very few organizations at this level of go-to-market maturity.)

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Martech

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Implementing a customer data platform (CDP) can be complicated for an organization of any size. But in the bigger picture, the organization also has to consider who is using the CDP and why. “I The two ‘pieces of bread’ are the ingestion and data processing [on one end] and the activation [on the other end],” he added. “The

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Velocity Partners

DECEMBER 13, 2023

You either: Adapted your core story, messaging and tactics for a narrower Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). Or you: Made up new messaging and tactics for a narrower ICP – totally distinct from your core story. is optimized for the people defined in your Ideal Customer Profile.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2024

Has anyone asked you recently about the past, present, and future of Customer Data Platforms? It’s eleven years since the term “customer data platform” appeared in 2013. What was new about CDP was that it was packaged software that was building a customer database. That's odd; people ask me those questions all the time.

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NetLine

MARCH 6, 2024

Pinpointing perfect target accounts with the help of intent data When navigating through the multitude of potential customers, intent data can help you narrow down your target accounts—those accounts that are going to benefit from what you have to offer and bring the most value for your efforts. But how do you do this?

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This can extend to organizations or industries. We describe organizations as being “data-driven” or “research-based” and industries as “cutting edge” or “slow-moving” to help us understand how to position ourselves and improve our messaging. Here’s what this means for B2B marketing organizations.

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B2BMarketing.net

APRIL 26, 2024

Once focused largely on brand and demand, today’s CMOs now find themselves at the nexus of innovation, customer experience, and data-driven decision-making with an influence on the end-to-end lifecycle of how any given customer engages with their organization.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Let’s start with that dream customer. The B2B sales funnel depicts how prospective customers move through the buying process in stages. Post-demo, the rep follows up; leads buy the product and leave the funnel as new customers. Here’s why: If you start ‘selling’ too early, you risk irritating the customer and losing the sale.

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Hands-on exercises and role-play activities can greatly increase your teams’ retention rates and make your kickoff efforts stick. Now I would like to share five of the strongest skill-building activities to consider weaving into your revenue kickoff (RKO). Use this activity to put that to the test.

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SalesIntel

AUGUST 18, 2021

To increase your chances of winning these valuable contracts, one of the main strategies is to make your team focus heavily on converting leads into customers. To help you in this journey, here are 3 great tips to effectively prepare your salespeople to guide your lead into a customer. Define your ICP — Ideal Customer Profile.

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DealSignal

APRIL 27, 2023

ABM intent data is about ABM marrying Ideal Customer Profiles, Buyer Personas, high-quality contact information, and intent data into a strategic go-to-market strategy for B2B firms. Use Ideal Customer Profiles to define your best-fit buyers An Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) simply defines who is your best-fit customers (i.e.,

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Zoominfo

MAY 18, 2022

Companies rely on accurate and comprehensive B2B intelligence to identify new opportunities for growth, prospect and prioritize accounts, expand customer intelligence , surface insights, connect with customers, and close more deals. For most IT leaders, the more data you have, the better. But all data sets are not created equal.

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Zoominfo

MAY 18, 2022

Companies rely on accurate and comprehensive B2B intelligence to identify new opportunities for growth, prospect and prioritize accounts, expand customer intelligence , surface insights, connect with customers, and close more deals. For most IT leaders, the more data you have, the better. But all data sets are not created equal.

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SalesIntel

JULY 19, 2023

B2B data is a strategic asset, providing valuable insights into target markets, customer behavior, and industry trends. It allows organizations to identify and prioritize high-potential prospects, personalize their marketing efforts, and make data-driven decisions.

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Rev

MARCH 8, 2023

In fact, all departments—including marketing, customer success, revenue operations and even finance—play a role in driving the growth of your business. And how do you improve your revenue generation process without sacrificing the customer experience? Which teams are responsible for revenue generation activities? Good questions!

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SalesIntel

OCTOBER 18, 2023

You have a strong foundation built around a well-defined Ideal Customer Profile (ICP), lead scoring, and streamlined marketing operations and automation. Many organizations need help devising an effective ABX strategy because of misalignment between sales and marketing.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2021

Every data point helps your revenue team (sales, marketing, and customer success) determine if this lead fits your ideal customer profile (ICP). Waiting until leads provide more information through progressive profiling. It’s not a race — the revenue team isn’t competing to figure it out first. The result?

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SalesIntel

APRIL 6, 2023

Most sales teams waste a lot of time and resources pursuing accounts that don’t fit their ideal customer profile (ICP). To overcome this challenge, you need to have a clear understanding of your ICP. Once you define your ICP, you can use account-based marketing (ABM) to target accounts that fit your ICP.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 21, 2021

With this kind of spotlight coupled with the connections they make, you’ll find it’s easier to retain customers. The cumulative effects of trust and relationships from employee advocacy result in greater customer retention. This data point illustrates that those roles active in advocating are creating more relationships.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Q: So who are your customers? A: Outside of regulated industries, like schools, municipalities and government, the majority of organizations where we find the most need are manufacturing, production, construction and agriculture services. Dig deeper: It’s time to prioritize customer experience in B2B Q: How do you work with marketing?

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Martech

APRIL 20, 2022

“I think this shifted marketing organizations. Marketers must use them to coordinate their work with sales and other departments to gain a full view of customers. Surround and activate the buyers that fit your ICP. Surround and activate the buyers that fit your ICP.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 6, 2024

Account-based marketing (ABM) takes a more strategic approach to audience targeting that uses data to move away from a generalized dream list of ideal clients to instead focus on the accounts ready to buy or engage. This data-informed list is your target account list—and it’s foundational to your ABM strategy’s success.

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Leadspace

MARCH 22, 2023

This means identifying our TAM (Total Addressable Market), developing our Ideal Customer Profile (ICP), and comparing our ICP throughout our TAM to determine which opportunities to focus on, then get the right campaigns in front of the right targets at the right times – as efficiently as possible.

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SalesIntel

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The question remains: How can you build a database tailored to the specific client profiles you serve? Determining your business’s ideal sales lead database becomes essential, as it directly influences the relevance and accuracy of the B2B data you obtain. How to Invest in the Right Business Lead Database 1.

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Terminus

JUNE 10, 2019

But before you can target and engage your ideal accounts, you’ve got to find out what your account-based landscape looks like (simply put: how many accounts could you be targeting?). You do this by defining your total addressable market (TAM) and ideal customer profile (ICP). Size of their customer base.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

Strategic planning is the process of setting goals, defining objectives, and outlining the actions needed to achieve those goals in a systematic and organized manner. It helps you identify your target market, understand your customers, and outline strategies to reach and engage them effectively. What is Strategic Planning?

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Leadspace

JUNE 28, 2021

But without a solid foundation to capture and categorize new information and log customer interactions, adopting these tools can contribute to your database becoming swamped with dirty data. Customer data decays at least 30% each year and as much as 70% in B2B markets with high employee turnover. You’ve got a snowball effect.

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