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38 Handy Stats to Prove the Value of Personas

Cintell

PegaSystems saw a 20% increase in pipeline value, 100% increase in sales qualified leads year over year, 50% increase in conversion, and 5X more contacts mapped to a persona and responding to campaigns. Using personas to help sales: Using personas drove a 3X increase in closed sales deals (MarketingSherpa). SiriusDecisions).

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28 Tweetable Moments from Sirius Decisions Summit #SDS12

Marketing Insider Group

The top takeaways for me were when DJ-voiced Jay Gaines (@ izjay ) said that their research showed that “ inbound leads move faster, convert better and close at higher rates and the difference is quantifiable and significant!” We spend too much time and resources selling ourselves and our products and not enough time meeting customer needs.

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions. With marketers who seem more focused on gaming the channels themselves than in the value of the dialogue being created, buyers are now inundated with more product related and meaningless offers than ever.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

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Best B2B Marketing and Sales Strategy Guides and Insights of 2011

Webbiquity

Barbara Bix and Olga Taylor craft an intriguing case for focused market research and targeting using the example of a violin virtuoso playing in a subway for $32, after having sold out a concert with $100 tickets just days before. The Future of Buyer Relationships by Business2Community. Just What Do Marketers Do, Anyway?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Do White Papers Still Engage? They do if.

The ROI Guy

Using this content, buyers are taking control of the buying cycle from direct / channel sales, making the content that marketing delivers more important than ever in driving shorter sales cycles and increasing the number and value of transactions.