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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We use this monthly post to highlight the great work the ZoomInfo team has contributed to outside publications. The February edition features content about recruiting nightmares, inadequate buyer personas, key considerations for technology buying, and so much more. 5 Reasons Your Buyer Personas Aren’t Good Enough.

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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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JULY 5, 2018

Data Hygiene and The Future of Recruiting. Think about it: The competitive nature of recruiting means the company that reaches a candidate first is most likely to secure an interview with him or her—and, you can’t do that without the right data. 4 Ways Your Buyer Personas Can Improve Your Keyword Strategy.

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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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MARCH 4, 2021

Research is essential in this stage — you want to know who’s fit to be a buyer, and you want to tell them exactly what they want to hear. Use your defined buyer personas and ideal customer profiles (ICPs). Practice data hygiene in all data systems. So let’s begin our list of tips!: Engagement.

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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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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 3, 2021

Research is essential in this stage — you want to know who’s fit to be a buyer, and you want to tell them exactly what they want to hear. Use your defined buyer personas and ideal customer profiles (ICPs). Practice data hygiene in all data systems. So let’s begin our list of tips!:

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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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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 ).

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Content4Demand

MAY 21, 2020

This years’ Campaign Optimization Series , hosted by Demand Gen Report , put a spotlight on the strategies and tools marketers have seen success within this new environment, with targeted webcasts led by industry thought leaders addressing topics such as ABM for sales success, virtual event best practices, data strategies and more.

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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

Today, we’re taking a deep dive into the B2B data landscape to help you understand the changes happening in data and the ways in which you can better connect with the humans behind the numbers. The difference between data and intelligence. In sales and marketing, the way we refer to data changes regularly.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Progressive persona profiling. Here at ZoomInfo we talk a lot about buyer personas —what they are, why you need them, and how to create them. But, what we have failed to acknowledge is that, although useful, the standard buyer persona is static—unlike real human beings. You guessed it—dynamic data.

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JULY 30, 2019

Above all else, this branding mistake is the result of poor data hygiene. Without access to clean and accurate customer data, you’ll lack the insights you need to develop a comprehensive understanding of your target audience. From there, you can create buyer personas that fully represent your ideal buyers.

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JULY 10, 2018

As SiriusDecisions put it, “Organizations must shift their focus from one-time data cleansing to ongoing data maintenance to turn the tide.”. Thankfully, recent technological advancements have made it easier than ever to prioritize ongoing data hygiene and automate this process. These are your buyer personas.

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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

Learn more about B2B branding in the following blog posts: Contact Data Hygiene and the Future of Branding. Work with other members of your company to compile the necessary data to construct buyer personas— or semi-fictional profiles made up of real characteristics and traits used to represent different segments of your customer base.

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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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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Dig Deep with B2B Buyer Personas - The Content Factor , July 6, 2010 Every B2B marketer I talk to is on board with the concept of user personas to guide their web content strategy. Smarketer, ZoomInfo: In light of the ongoing upheaval in b-to-b sales, what are your biggest challenges for the remainder of the year?

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