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Why You Need to Revisit B2B Buyer Personas and ICPs

Marketing Interactions

As the market shifts, much of what you thought was true about your buyer personas and ICPs may be different. A Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise. Only 16% of B2B marketers rate their current lead nurturing initiatives as excellent, per the 2022 Lead Nurturing & Acceleration Benchmark Survey.

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Marketing Automation: What it is and How to Use it to Drive B2B Sales

Lead Forensics

If you Google the term ‘marketing automation’ then you’ll find various different descriptions online, including this one from Marketo : According to Emailmonday , on average 49% of companies are currently using marketing automation, with more than half of B2B companies (55%) adopting the technology. What is marketing automation?

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5 Mistakes Companies Make When Automating Their Marketing

ANNUITAS

Good content that will help drive demand and can be automated, is content that is relevant to your buyer at each stage of their buying process. Most marketers do not have a deep understanding of their buyers pain points, buying triggers, market conditions and buying process and as a result, are not generating the right kind of content.

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How to Qualify a Lead: The Battle-Tested B2B Framework

SnapApp

By defining your buyer personas, you can make accurate assumptions about how to approach a lead and make the qualification process much easier — if the leads you’re generating don’t match the persona, they can be disqualified without any further wasted time and money. Understand the lead scoring model.

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How to Diagnose Your Funnel to Create Predictable Growth

Hubspot

The 8 Conditions of a Marketing & Sales Funnel. When measuring these conditions, it’s important to note that strong or weak are relative terms. For help, you can review our recent post on The 9 Metrics You Must Be Tracking to Scale B2B Sales or use our lead generation calculator.

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Sights and Sounds of SXSW: Transformational Marketing and The Era of Engagement

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

No lead nurturing , and too much focus on the bottom-of-the-funnel. Created buyer personas and journeys. Created a multi-channel lead generation program that would enable lead capture and nurture through Marketo. They had: Clear on growth goals, but no one knew how to get there.

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What Is a Sales Quota? Understanding Types, How to Set, and How to Achieve It

SalesIntel

Activity Quota These quotas are based on the amount of lead nurturing actions your salespeople perform to progress a transaction from early-stage awareness to assessment and closure. Then, consider what your team can sell based on past performance statistics and current market conditions.