SnapApp

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Think Beyond Personas (B2B customers are B2C customers, too). Don’t get us wrong – personas are an effective way to better understand your audience. But taken too far, personas can blind us to the individual needs of our customers and prospects. But don’t get too caught up in your persona definitions. And it should.

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Content Standard

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As a result, competitors put the company on blast, and, arguably, its reputation has suffered. based on the information in the source content, adapting the style and context for different personas and specific brand tones in the process.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 25, 2016

Let’s say for example that you sell enterprise software to businesses and because of the large investment, most companies stay with their current vendor least five years before making major changes. That means one in five years, 20%, companies in your space are potentially in the market for new vendor. Especially extreme video.

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Televerde

AUGUST 29, 2019

For each of these tools, there is no shortage of vendors to choose from. Persona-based email campaigns. The increased adoption of ABM is driven by several factors: B2B buyers are no longer responding to generic messaging, as they increasingly expect marketers to speak directly to their unique needs (industry, role, etc.)

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 14, 2015

Risking it all on a blast to a million people is an amateur approach in today’s sophisticated marketing milieu. The question is, can the software in question transcend the simple batch-n-blast and do more? Fun fact: only 6.8 With batch emails, we are only right 6 percent of the time, and that’s a pretty weak number.

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Hubspot

MARCH 12, 2018

Talk to your prospect's vendors. Vendors are another resource to learn about a company. Make sure you get permission to use names when referencing vendors. Then, you're free to write, "[Vendor] asked me to email you to see if I could help." Or just call and start off with "I was talking to [Vendor], and … ".

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DivvyHQ

AUGUST 7, 2018

And many knowingly choose that; they simply don’t do any segmentation or audience persona development and opt for blasting one-size-fits-all content to a big list. For each product/service area, list 1-3 personas or audience segments that are the most relevant and reachable via the content initiatives you manage/contribute.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Here's how we broke it down on what and what not to do as well as anecdotes of what to avoid: Who, What & How - The First Step is Critical: Taking the time to develop a complete persona for your target audience, will make later steps a lot easier.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 7, 2014

Forrester suggested that a B2B buyer’s journey could be anywhere from 65-90% complete by the time he or she contacts the vendor to move forward with a sale. That being said, multi-channel lead nurturing is not effective if you are simply blasting the same message to all leads across as many platforms as you possibly can.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 21, 2021

This helps marketers to link age, gender, education and social status, race and ethnicity, and location to produce a richer, more holistic customer persona. They would prefer to engage with brands and vendors who provide personalized marketing messages, rather one-size-fits-all generalized email blasts.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims. Matter of Trust - although the research indicates that buyers truly rely on vendor content to help drive purchase decisions, with so much noise, buyers have become skeptical of vendor claims.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Who We Are Depends on Where You Reach Us Software vendors are realizing that the social media is more than just a networking fad – CB radio for the Millennials – but rather represents a society living in multiple locations at once. Group them into personas related to the tagged characteristics. Thanks for the insightful blog post.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 9, 2024

Lead nurturing emails have a response rate of four to 10 times compared to standard email blasts. Use online alerts to the main phrases in your industry to find content from bloggers and industry publications that are vendor agnostic and can share with your lead nurturing audience through a short synopsis and a link.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

During the B2C Internet revolution many a vendor’s world was turned upside down by failing to recognize and invest in the fundamental shift towards empowering consumers with content and buying tools. The influence of vendors as a trusted source of information lags dramatically, at only 8.1% this year, an increase from 3.1%

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s where list vendors and databases come in—ZoomInfo, LeadIQ, Seamless.AI. Here’s a blog post on evaluating potential list vendors , if this is the route you want to take. Don’t blast your entire database with each email you build. But this takes time and resources.

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NetLine

AUGUST 2, 2023

3… 2… 1… Blast off! There are also other lead types defined by industry bodies, technology vendors, and research firms as part of their own frameworks. To add to potential confusion, the exact definition of what ‌a “lead” is will vary between technology vendors and organizations. Still Struggling?

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chiefmartech

APRIL 19, 2017

By no longer doing “spray and pray” email blasts to thousands of contacts for lead generation, marketers are adhering to an account-based approach that leverages existing B2B marketing technology. And with so many vendors claiming they can do ABM, I came up with another idea to help educate B2B marketers on how to actually do ABM.

Account Based Marketing 43

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 28, 2016

It’s a large investment, and because of that, the companies in your space tend to stay with their current vendor for at least five years before making a major change. That means that in any given year, one in five (20%) of the target companies in your space are potentially in the market for a new vendor.

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Hinge Marketing

MARCH 21, 2019

Making this expertise known will get your firm into more sales conversations and on more short lists for vendor evaluations. You need to take the time to create some groupings of buyer personas and be able to speak to each of them differently. What are the challenges, goals, needs, and journeys of these personas?

Demand Generation Agencies 101

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PathFactory

AUGUST 31, 2018

How do you select the right content syndication vendor to work with? Brooke : I’m obviously biased to IDG as a vendor, but overall I’d say select a reputable vendor that has a strong presence within the market you’re targeting. Kate : Start with working out your personas and being clear on how they’re doing their research.

Top of Funnel 40

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Martech Advisor

MARCH 5, 2020

Lead management: Lead management is primarily a B2B marketing need, where value and effort per customer acquisition is much higher and takes since each prospect has a unique persona, different buying potential and are at different stages in the sales funnel, lead automation helps you nurture, engage and serve them relevant content.

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Content Standard

JANUARY 15, 2015

We confront marketing technology vendors with demands like, “Teach me something new about my audience and my customer,” and “Prove it.” Unfortunately, many times marketers fall into the habit of building email nurture tracks that blast out components of a single campaign over time.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It’s about changing the face of marketing, moving from assumption-based, batch-and-blast approaches to meaningful, personalized customer experiences. “If Explore capabilities from vendors like Adobe, Pointillist, SharpSpring, Salesforce and more in the full MarTech Intelligence Report on customer journey analytics platforms.

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SnapApp

JANUARY 11, 2018

This is the death of one-size-fits-all email blasts. According to Forrester, prospects wait until they are 65-90 percent of the way through their journey before approaching a vendor. . Out with personas, generic email blasts, and assumptions. People, Not Personas. . Source ). . .

Top of Funnel 89

Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services Sales Management Webinar Metrics 89

Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 19, 2018

On each block, write one word or phrase that relates to your products and services: attributes, content themes, personas , customer challenges, stage in the buyer journey – anything that relates to your marketing. Everyone had a blast. Get a bucket of blocks (use DUPLO if you want bigger ones). Pull apart those blocks and start again.

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PathFactory

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

We work with them in terms of the emails they send and how customized they are by the different account segments or personas. We need a good sense of the volume of emails that we’re sending out per week to make sure we’re not bashing and blasting or spraying and praying. Kellie : It’s definitely an operational challenge.

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LEADership

AUGUST 20, 2013

The buyer is looking for vendor comparison data, competitor pricing charts, product/service features Vs. benefit matrixes, and other holistic market intelligence. IDENTIFY BUYER PERSONAS AND BUYER BEHAVIOURS. What must we do differently now to feed the research hunger of the B2B buyer? It’s not about YOU. It’s about THEM.

Lead Generation 40

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Throw all that research into the needs, interest, and problems of your buyer personas out the window. Just batch and blast all of your contacts with the same email so that everyone gets this generic, vaguely relevant piece of content that barely provides any value (or none) at all. You got this. 57) Don't segment your list.

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