Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Today, we have solutions like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. What Are Buyer Personas? Basically, personas ensure that everything you do in terms of lead generation and customer acquisition is tailored to your targeted buyers’ needs. This is where personas come in.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Creating a buyer persona lets you target prospects with key messaging that emphasizes your product’s unique problem-solving value. Find ready-to-buy prospects faster Learn how Sales Cloud can help you score your best leads and prioritize them by how likely they are to close. As Howard Brown, CEO of Revenue.io Don’t believe us?

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Content Standard

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Ardath attributes this massive disparity between brand messaging and buyer needs to the “kiss of beige” in B2B marketing – a tendency for B2B companies to play it safe, generalize their audiences, and avoid taking a stance. The result is generic, uninspiring marketing that fails to resonate with buyers.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Put simply, B2B intent data reveals the buying intentions of potential customers. By analyzing this data, you gain valuable insights into their needs, challenges, and stages in the buying journey. Ditch the scattershot approach and focus your efforts on companies demonstrating active buying intent.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Build a comprehensive go-to-market (GTM) strategy that combines careful research with tailored messaging that hits on the right buyer pain points. Find ready-to-buy prospects faster Learn how Sales Cloud can help you score your best leads and prioritize them by how likely they are to close. Why is a go-to-market strategy important?

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Gather Buyer Personas and Data. We recently partnered with a client that shared a wealth of buyer persona insights with us. Some of the buyer persona data shared included: Existing Buying Process. Reporting Tools and Goals – Analytics programs currently being used and existing KPIs. Decision Criteria.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2020

Today, the information that buyers need to make a purchase decision is just a click away. The power in the buying and selling process has shifted from the seller to the buyer. The buying process is transformed. And that means to keep up with today’s empowered buyer, the sales process needs to transform too.

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Marketing Interactions

APRIL 18, 2019

If your buyers were where you are, they’d be customers by now. We focus on how we think our products align to what our buyers need. Buyers don’t care about your products. Complex Buying Processes Require Small Shifts. That’s the key to compelling the decision to buy. We “get” it. But this won’t sway them.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Understanding how sales reps operate, what they need, where they are struggling, and what their goals are, can help to better equip them to build pipeline—faster. You also get to understand their abilities and properly map them to your buyers’ needs. Map Content to the Buying Cycle. Put Solutions Above Sales.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Understanding that information is readily available also reinforces the need to produce content that ranks consistently. Buying Decisions Involve Diverse Stakeholders. Buying decisions include a more diverse group. B2B Buying Isn’t Linear. It outlines your goals, key messaging, buyer personas, and more.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 2, 2023

B2B buyers need more attention and information to make a purchase decision, ideally, a personalized buying experience. You need to use data to identify in-market accounts and their buyer personas. Why Personalization Matters Today’s buyers no longer want a personalized experience; they demand it.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 9, 2023

To increase engagement and create more opportunities for sales, their marketing campaigns needed to target decision-makers and buying personas with more relevant and personalized content that would move them through the funnel faster.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Even if you, personally, know your buyers, can you say the same of every team member who could benefit from that knowledge? Personas create focus. It’s true that it takes a village now more so than ever to make a purchase, but that buying committee does have a limit, and personas will help you narrow your focus to those audiences.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 24, 2021

Buyers need to complete specific jobs before consensus can be reached for a buying decision. They need information that helps them understand what to ask, do, understand, and evaluate. Yet a review by Gartner of over 500 supplier content assets found that only 20% could be categorized as buyer enablement content.

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Cintell

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Reporting live from sunny, chilly Waltham, MA where 50+ B2B marketers sit rapt as SiriusDecisions Research Directors Pat McAnally and Christina McKeon walk through the challenges, goals, and best practices of operationalizing buyer personas. Top Challenges Related to Buyer Personas. The Role and Importance of Personas.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 19, 2016

Case studies are important to the medtech buyer persona because before they make a purchase, they have to know that the solution or device being promoted has been safely and successfully used by others. Getting the attention of the medical technology buyer persona, on its own, is a daunting challenge.

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Including business and the act of buying. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused confidence to wane on the part of business and buyers. What this does say is B2B marketers and sellers will first need to gain buyers insights into two areas. And that her teammates will have confidence in her to help get a winning team score.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 8, 2016

Even if you, personally, know your buyers, can you say the same of every team member who could benefit from that knowledge? Personas create focus. It’s true that it takes a village now more so than ever to make a purchase, but that buying committee does have a limit, and personas will help you narrow your focus to those audiences.

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6sense

JANUARY 19, 2022

Savvy sellers know that these days, B2B customers demand personalized buying experiences now more than ever. In fact, 65% of buyers are likely to switch brands if a vendor doesn’t personalize their communications. This data empowers marketers to personalize multi-channel marketing campaigns with orchestration and segmentation. .

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Mereo

APRIL 22, 2021

And virtual selling capabilities can actually enable you to better serve your buyers — not just for more formal meetings in their buying journey (e.g., Embrace a hybrid model that serves your organization — and your buyer — best. Buying Committee Dynamics Have Elevated. For buyers specifically, Chorus.ai

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 31, 2019

According to Google, who coined the term, micro-moments are the intent-rich moments when consumers turn to their smartphones to find something, do something, buy something, or learn something. Micro-moments are a fleeting but critical step in the buyer’s journey. This person isn’t necessarily looking to buy something.

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Madison Logic

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Retargeting ads Think of these as follow-up ads to target buying group members who visited your page, previously interacted with another ad, or took another action within a specified time frame. Use data to target the right accounts Any ABM strategy requires you to speak directly to buyer needs.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 27, 2017

As B2B marketers, we face a myriad of challenges unique to this space: More specific buyer personas. Products or services tailored to specific buyer needs. This new advertising solution is to help B2B marketers reach target audiences throughout the entire buying journey. Multiple decision makers and influencers.

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Televerde

DECEMBER 27, 2017

With technology in place, the next step toward modern marketing success is to build an engagement strategy that stretches across the buying cycle, from inquiry to close. Here’s how: Define the Prospect Buying Cycle and, Within it, What Constitutes a Sales Accepted Lead. Build Buyer Personas and Map Buyer Journeys.

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Mailmunch

MAY 28, 2021

Start by segmenting your mailing list into smaller homogenous lists based on variables like browsing patterns, products viewed, and buyer needs. You can also build buyer personas and customize your offers based on these personas. A buyer persona is a semi-fictional sketch of your target audience.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MAY 1, 2013

In a Sales & Marketing Management article 5 Steps to the Most Influential Customer Communications , author Michael Cannon points out that typical product launch plans fail to answer the question of why prospective customer should buy. Lack of a deep understanding of buyer needs, desires and behaviors.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 10, 2023

To stand out, marketers need a smarter approach to identify key decision-makers, engage them with relevant content, and optimize their campaigns for maximum impact on pipeline and revenue. Marketers should create and implement optimizations across companies, content, and personas to maximize conversions and accelerate deal velocity.

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Seismic

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Honest – Buyers are navigating the sales process with several vendors, products, and pricing models, yet only 30% of buyers felt that sellers were transparent about pricing. Buyers need sellers who empathize, build relationships, and use their conversations to add value through intelligent recommendations.

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Scoop.it

OCTOBER 29, 2019

A modern seller is savvy enough to want to be a resource to their buyer in part by supplying content that enables them to GUIDE the buyer in their buying journey. What Types of Content Do Salespeople Need? The problem is that salespeople also need content they can share one-on-one. 2: Buyer Persona.

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PathFactory

JULY 6, 2022

The most important point: a deeper understanding of content (and how buyers consume it) is crucial to revenue intelligence. “Let Let the buyer buy” is a saying we often use at PathFactory to emphasize the importance of buyer enablement and creating frictionless content experiences for our audiences as they move through their journeys.

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Sharpspring

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you work in marketing, you probably hear a lot about optimizing the customer experience, tracking buyer journeys and identifying decision-making factors and/or paths to purchase. But what about developing buyer personas? And effectively developing buyer personas can help you do just that. Don’t believe us?

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Directive Agency

JULY 31, 2023

HubSpots – “Make My Persona” Functional content is a great lead magnet when done right. Hubspot does this with its “Make My Persona” content. It’s an innovative and memorable B2B marketing campaign that helps users create a buyer persona by answering a questionnaire. This resulted in 4.3

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Mereo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

I have written about this recently , but a quick recap: Due to the nature of virtual selling, there is greater access to sales cycles by members previously not involved — for both sellers and buyers. Buying committees have a greater mix of stakeholders than in the past. For buyers specifically, Chorus.ai

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Though they draw from similar pools of data, a sales pipeline focuses on where the prospect is in their buying journey, which helps reps determine what they should do to keep deals moving. A prospect lingering in the negotiation stage, for example, may need a change to product price to move them to the contract stage.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 20, 2015

If you’ve taken the time to develop buyer personas, then you are already a step ahead of your peers. However, if those personas have been built heavily on job title and job function, or worse yet, BANT criteria, then you are missing out on key insights that can connect you to your customers across their entire buying process.

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Content4Demand

JULY 21, 2020

The reason why this type of content is so effective is because it includes the buyer’s perspective. This includes their wants, needs, goals, challenges, questions and anything else they would want to be addressed at each step of their buying journey. Why is this perspective so important? Build the Perspective.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 22, 2011

buying experience post, I searched for solutions, interacted with various web sites and engaged with some of the vendor reps, by email or phone. Or that I have friends in the publishing business that are also potential buyers. Speaking of personas, it's a powerful technique to get inside the mind of prospects.

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