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38 Handy Stats to Prove the Value of Personas

Cintell

You know deep down that personas lead to more EMPATHY in your organization, and are a vehicle for customer-centricity as your team members internalize the challenges and problems faced by your customers. But empathy is hard to put a dollar value to. 82% of companies using Personas have managed to create an improved value proposition.

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Why You Need to Ditch Marketing Campaigns in 2016

B2B Marketing Directions

For example, Forrester Consulting recently wrote: ". Therefore, the primary output of your planning process should be a marketing communications plan that embodies a cohesive, balanced, and value-driven marketing effort. Value Themes In a marketing communications plan, value themes replace campaigns as the primary organizing principle.

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18 of the Best Content Marketing Strategy Guides of 2013

Webbiquity

Noting that “The old adage — build it and they will come — doesn’t work for content marketing,” Laurie Sullivan reports on Forrester Research guidance on building a content distribution strategy to overcome the glut on content online. Failing Distribution Strategies Smother Great Content by MediaPost.

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

Because of Frugalnomics, an environment where buyers now demand bottom-line value from every investment, B2B sales teams are challenged more than ever to deliver expected results. Sources: 1) SiriusDecisions B-to-B Buyer's Survey 2010 2) New Realities about B2B Buying, Jeff Ogden, SandHill.com Blog, Jun. April 2009.

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

The ROI Guy

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. For example, the typical B2B prospect receives an average of 20.3 As a result, buyers now suffer from Information Overload.

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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Google Removes Page Rank from the Webmaster Tools. Social media use soars among b-to-b marketers. Forrester Predicts Huge Growth for Social Media Marketing. Study: More than 19% of leads are rejected as faulty. Few b-to-b firms are signing up for Super Bowl XLIII advertising.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Marketers are scrambling to address the power shift and overcome lead generation and conversion issues by delivering more content and tools over more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers. Death of a Salesman?