Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2020

We decided to compile some of the most important thought leadership best practices from recent research and surveys. To reap these rewards, you’ll want to follow thought leadership best practices based on data, surveys, and research. By executing a thought leadership strategy, you can gain credibility and showcase your expertise.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sales enablement best practices: Know thy audience … define buyer personas When improving sales enablement, always start with your audience by building personas. Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas. Create persona profiles. Create persona profiles.

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markempa

MAY 30, 2017

When was the last time you looked at the quality and accuracy of your B2B persona and contact data? Mathew works with Salesforce and is the Principal of Marketing Insights to talk about the just released report, B2B Personas: Targeting Audiences. What motivated you or inspired you to do this research?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 1, 2023

Learning about your audience to connect with them effectively requires extensive research. While interviews are a great way to gain insight into your target audience, they can be extremely time-consuming. Can you build a marketing persona with the following attributes? But note that AI is still just a tool.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2023

It’s about establishing yourself as a market-leading share of voice to your target audience. To effectively become a category leader, you should aim to get involved in a community of key buyer personas in existing community formats. Ideally, it’s a multi-touch, multi-threaded campaign that will engage your targets.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 15, 2023

In this article, we’re outlining everything you need to know about B2B digital marketing, from identifying your target audience and analyzing competitors, to exploring different digital channels and building trust with your customers. Identify Your Target Audience Once you understand your brand’s mission, you need to understand your audience.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

Quick Takeaways Understanding your audience transforms your content strategy from generic messaging to targeted communication that resonates with their specific needs and desires. Effective content strategies require well-developed personas that go beyond basic templates, incorporating deep audience insights to guide content creation.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This bit of data from SurveyMonkey means marketers must up their original research game to help audiences better understand the markets that impact their businesses and the customers they support. And there are several reasons why original content research will improve your message, your marketing, and even your business bottom line.

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Modern B2B

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Quantitative research: Unveiling insights from numbers Quantitative research involves the collection and analysis of numerical data. Surveys, social media monitoring, and data analytics are the most common methods used in quantitative research. If you need to identify patterns, quantitative research is appropriate.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2022

The research supporting the shift to a Converged Growth model, led by a Chief Growth Officer, is significant: Gartner : “B2B organizations that unify commercial strategies and leverage multithreaded commercial engagements will realize revenue growth that outperforms their competition by 50%.” This results from a.)

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PureB2B

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

How, where, and why do I begin this research? Research Recommendations. Look at the company’s reach into your specific buyer persona. When you start researching content syndication vendors, you’ll realize there is almost no end to amount of solutions that are available. Research Recommendation.

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Contently

APRIL 6, 2023

Love them or hate them, buyer personas are key to creating successful marketing strategies and effective content. But here’s the catch: Developing buyer personas requires research, analysis, and attention to detail. What Is a Buyer Persona? A buyer persona is a detailed profile of a company’s ideal customer.

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Optinmonster

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Do you want to learn about the types of qualitative research and some examples of methodologies? Qualitative studies are vital to the market research process. If you’re new to this kind of market research, you’re in the right place. In this guide, you’ll learn the basics of qualitative market research.

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Inbox Insight

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Inbox Insight are proud to announce the release of InboxINTELLIGENCE – their new customized market research product designed to grow unique knowledge of your target audience. To celebrate the launch of their new custom research product, InboxINTELLIGENCE, Inbox Insight are running an exciting competition.

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sagefrog

APRIL 16, 2024

The B2B buyer’s journey and buyer personas are critical aspects of this carefully constructed process. While almost any B2B marketer worth their salt will swear by the buyer’s journey, some marketers think that B2B buyer personas are a mixed bag. The Buyer’s Journey Stages Creating a B2B Buyer’s Journey What Are Buyer Personas?

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Tony Zambito

MAY 14, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Need To Know The Difference Between Bad Versus Good Buyer Personas To Achieve Growth. Not all buyer personas are created equally. Because if they are not created equally, meaning with proven research rigor and processes, we will wind up with a bunch of really bad buyer personas.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2021

You’ve decided to open up new markets for your products, but you have a major challenge: how to build brand awareness among your new target customers. Quick Takeaways: Conduct a market analysis to identify target segments. Create buyer personas and research content that meets their needs. Create Buyer Personas.

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Conductor

APRIL 21, 2020

With this in mind, we created this list of Covid-19 keyword research tips so you can identify the terms that matter most to your customers and support them through this hard time. Think About Your Customer Personas. Personas are the foundation of your marketing strategy. Use Google Trends.

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Vision Edge Marketing

JANUARY 18, 2018

Our 2017 target for the number of new customers was significant, so, with all the rage about Account Based Marketing (ABM), we decided to experiment with the concept. And being a metrics-based organization, we wanted to establish specific measures of success, key performance targets, and a quantifiable outcome.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

What is a buyer persona? A buyer persona is a fictional member of your target audience that your sales and marketing teams create – through research – to build their campaigns around. Why are buyer personas important? In that case, you understand the importance of buyer personas. Develop your buyer personas.

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Buyer Personas Psychographics Advertising Agencies Ideal Customer Profiles 97

DivvyHQ

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sure, this might be easier said than done, but Victor Blasco of YumYum Videos is on the Divvy blog today with a behind-the-scenes look at how to do audience research to guide your video marketing strategy. Start with the basics: know your audience and give them what they want!

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2021

Use customer personas to tailor your content to every segment in your audience. Research shows that laughing in a social context causes your body to release endorphins, the “feel-good” hormones. All your research, great writing, and video production can set the stage. Focus on the People in Your Target Audience.

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BenchmarkONE

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Keyword research is the first step in a well-thought-out and successful SEO strategy. Because keyword research is such a determining factor in whether or not prospects discover your business, it’s natural to want to handle it with the utmost of care. Gone are the days of off-the-cuff keyword research. The results?

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Launch Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

A successful framework produces coherent and consistent messaging that resonates with target audiences, differentiates your organization from the competition and communicates key value propositions. Your buyer personas should cover a variety of information, including demographic , firmographic, behavioral and psychographic information.

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BenchmarkONE

MAY 14, 2020

We all remember doing research projects in school. I’m sure a lot of us promised ourselves we wouldn’t put ourselves through that kind of ordeal again, but we weren’t banking on required work-related research. . It would be simple if market research wasn’t needed. It would be simple if market research wasn’t needed.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 10, 2023

Identify and Prioritize In-Market Accounts and Buying Committee Members The demand for collaboration solutions reverberates across companies of all sizes; however, a distinct pattern emerges as larger corporations amplify buyer research efforts. According to Forbes, the global clinical and collaboration market forecasts a 17.3%

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Madison Logic

JULY 6, 2023

Although the widespread use of AI is predominantly observed among leading enterprise companies, there has been a significant surge in research on AI solutions by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). However AI-related content targeting for SMBs has been relatively low, making them a prime category of buyers providers should target.

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BenchmarkONE

APRIL 18, 2019

But in order to get to that point, you absolutely must perform in-depth market research. This is what will ultimately help you understand exactly where your buyers are and the best way to target them with your product or service. Define your buyer persona. This is where creating a buyer persona comes into play.

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Anyword

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Building buyer personas used to be a maze of interviews, research, drafting, testing, and seemingly endless refinements. Delving into the Depths of Buyer Personas Before we get into the specifics, let’s take a look at what makes a buyer persona tick. But fear not, as the era of tedium is over !

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Martech

JANUARY 26, 2024

An ICP identifies your best-fit target customers that you can serve exceptionally well. ICP vs. buyer persona: Which is the way to go? ICP is more of a big-picture strategic direction or target market and high-potential accounts, while buyer persona is more of the people behind it and closing deals with specific individuals.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Profiling Enterprise Management Work Management 126

Content Standard

APRIL 2, 2019

Audience personas, segmentation, and journeys are common pillars of content marketing —informing all elements of the content strategy, targeting techniques, and distribution methods. Original research for content marketing takes the guesswork out of audience development. Original Research Leads to Personalized Content.

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Business Brainz

DECEMBER 17, 2021

sales research is one of the big keys to success. Sales Research lays the very foundation for your strategic sales plan that you and your company are trying to achieve. It’s because sales professionals don’t put in the effort to properly understand their target accounts rather just focus on the end goal which is “to sell”.

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Research B2B Sales Paid Search Agency Buyer Personas 52

Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Be honest: when’s the last time you conducted market research? And taking the time to do research might not seem like much of a priority. Given the wealth of tools and information available, businesses today can’t ignore the importance of regular market research. Why is market research so important, anyway?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Meanwhile, a competitor does their research, knows what buyers want, and delivers it. Build a comprehensive go-to-market (GTM) strategy that combines careful research with tailored messaging that hits on the right buyer pain points. This includes market, customer, and competitive research that uncovers problems your product can solve.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Prompt: Our product is loss-making for two years in spite of researched marketing plans. Answer: As a marketing expert, I understand that it can be frustrating when a product continues to be loss-making despite implementing researched marketing plans. MarTechBot now has 10+ personas to provide more targeted responses.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Understanding your target audience is more important than ever for lead generation and improving the ROI of marketing and sales. In this post, we cover the basics and then move on to the advanced insight strategies for B2B buyer personas that are now possible with AI. What are B2B Buyer Personas?

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