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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Create buyer personas. Think about it— if you don’t understand your best buyers, how can you accurately qualify them, nurture them, or route them to sales at precisely the right moment? For this reason, buyer personas are essential to your lead management strategy. But if you’re not, here’s a quick rundown.

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JULY 5, 2018

We cover topics related to sales, marketing, recruiting, and business—just as we do on our own B2B blog. 6 Ways to Be a Better B2B Designer. Today we make the critical distinction between B2C design and B2B design. Then, we give you tips and tricks to make you a better B2B designer. Let’s get into it! Continue reading.

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JUNE 26, 2018

In modern business, data is a hot commodity. Everywhere we look there’s talk of data-driven sales, data-driven marketing, predictive learning, data hygiene , and so on. Data is a critical component of business success—no matter the industry, the size of the business, or how the business operates.

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MARCH 4, 2021

The B2B selling process is slow but steady. On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Use your defined buyer personas and ideal customer profiles (ICPs). Engagement.

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JULY 9, 2020

Although most companies have now adopted some version of a data hygiene strategy, dirty data is still very much alive and well. How can it be that technology has come so far, and yet data quality issues still plague sales and marketing professionals? What is data hygiene and why is it important?

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MARCH 8, 2022

Buyer personas don’t hold up The key to generating product interest and brand awareness is sending relevant messages to the right audience at the right time. Your buyer personas play a significant role in directing appropriate content to the right buyers.

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MARCH 3, 2021

The B2B selling process is slow but steady. On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Use your defined buyer personas and ideal customer profiles (ICPs).

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JULY 29, 2019

Although most companies have now adopted some version of a data hygiene strategy, dirty data is still very much alive and well. How can it be that technology has come so far, and yet data quality issues still plague sales and marketing professionals? None of it would be possible without data. Click to tweet.

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Content4Demand

MAY 21, 2020

Written by Marjorie Romeyn-Sanabria & Michael Rodriguez Republished with permission from Demand Gen Report With in-person engagement on hold this spring and possibly into summer, B2B marketers continue to pivot their strategies to make up for lost leads, maintain relationships with clients and attract new business.

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APRIL 15, 2018

Fortune 1000 enterprises lose more money in operational inefficiency due to data quality issues than they spend on data warehouse and customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives ( source ). Bad data in customer communications can negatively impact total revenue by as much as 25% ( source ). Time to get started!

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Just as you need to understand your product and the role it plays in the market, you also need to understand your buyers and the factors that drive them to make purchases. We often discuss the value of tools like buyer personas and ideal customer profiles as vehicles through which sales professionals can better understand their buyers.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

And, because contact and account data is a high-value form of currency in the corporate world, it often feels like the human element of B2B is gone. But, the rapid influx of available data seems to be shifting businesses back to the basics and back to the who of it all. The difference between data and intelligence.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

For a more in-depth look at personalized marketing and customer-centric business strategies, we recommend the following articles: B2B Guide to Marketing Personalization Role of Personalization in B2B Sales 2. Progressive persona profiling. Hygienic data is critical to all essential business processes.

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JULY 30, 2019

There’s no universal set of rules for successful B2B branding, as much as we marketers would love for such a thing to exist. In fact, 77% of B2B marketing leaders say branding is critical to growth ( source ). In today’s blog post, we break down the most common B2B branding mistakes and help your business avoid them.

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JULY 10, 2018

It’s no secret: The B2B content landscape is more crowded than ever before. And, as a result, today’s B2B buyers are faced with many different buying options. Enter data-driven marketing. What is Data-Driven Marketing? Data-Driven Marketing in 2018. Up to 25% of B2B database contacts contain critical errors.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Just as you need to understand your product and the role it plays in the market, you also need to understand your buyers and the factors that drive them to make purchases. We often discuss the value of tools like buyer personas and ideal customer profiles as vehicles through which sales professionals can better understand their buyers.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

For more information about setting clear, attainable marketing goals, check out the following articles: 5 B2B Marketing Metrics that Matter. Learn more about B2B branding in the following blog posts: Contact Data Hygiene and the Future of Branding. 9 Great Examples of B2B Brand Storytelling.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Here on the ZoomInfo blog, we regularly cover topics related to business data and business data management. In fact, there are very few aspects of business data we have yet to cover. But, today we’re venturing into uncharted territory to discuss a recent—and necessary—trend in business data.

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Best of B2B Marketing. The richness of insights that can be gained with a deep understanding of how buyers are using search is nearly without parallel. True Confession: I Don’t Have a Social Media Strategy - Dianna Huff - B2B MarCom , July 22, 2010 Social media gurus tell you to have a strategy. July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010.

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