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Overcoming The Content Personalization Challenge With Buyer Persona Research

Tony Zambito

It is clear that one of the top challenges facing marketing, especially B2B marketing, is the ability to connect with potential buyers on a personal level. Interestingly enough, as well, is after a few years of CMO tenure trending upwards, the average tenure is trending downward. Buyer Persona Research.

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17 Things High-Performing Companies Do to Optimize Their Buyer Personas

Cintell

If you haven’t read the Understanding B2B Buyers 2016 Benchmark Study, you may not know that companies who exceed revenue and lead goals are more effective at creating, using, and consistently maintaining personas than those who miss their targets. (Or But getting to a state of persona nirvana is easier said than done.

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Reboot Buyer Insights To Drive B2B Growth

Tony Zambito

B2B companies are struggling to make gaining buyer insights more than the gathering of analytics, buyer intelligence, sales intelligence, and buyer personas couched in factual data. Let us examine 5 signs indicating to senior executives it is time to reboot: Your Buyer Personas Are Outdated.

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10 Tips for Sales and Marketing Content Alignment

Seismic

When organizations think of sales and marketing alignment, they often focus on demand generation. Because buyers are savvier and more educated, they expect salespeople to present them with content that is relevant to them in their buying journey. Sales and marketing must work together to deliver on the promise of alignment.

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Simplify Your Approach with Technology

Televerde

Marketers who follow state-of-the-art business practices—aka “modern marketers”—are more successful than those who don’t keep up with current trends. According to a Forrester survey of marketing decision makers in the U.S. ♦ 55% of modern marketers say they’ve increased sales by upgrading their business practices. 1] Forrester.

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Demand Generation Marketing: A Catalyst for Professional Services High Growth

Hinge Marketing

Our research validates the trend. While referrals remain the top search method for buyers in need of a new professional service provider (as shown in Figure 1), the use of referrals as a search method has dropped by 15% over the last five years according to a study from the Hinge Research Institute , Inside the Buyer’s Brain, Second Edition.

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Drive growth with account-based marketing

Martech

This focuses on targeting top potential customers and uses both marketing and sales initiatives to capture the prospect’s interest and nurture them through the buying journey. 70% of the buyer’s journey is complete before a buyer even reaches out to sales. Here’s a guide on how to do that. beforehand.