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Bulls, Bears, Bernanke and BtoB Lead Generation

Pointclear

Overall lead rates trended down in 2002 and from 2008 – Q3 2009—yep, just as the economy did. Understanding this can help you pinpoint your marketing investments and generate better than average results. Lead rates trail the GDP by about a quarter. Lead rates never dropped to zero. I am anxious to hear your thoughts.

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Why Your Buyer Personas Are Obsolete

SBI Growth

We have seen a tremendous rise in the interest and use of buyer personas since 2002. Here are a few steps you can take: Identify The Right Targets. They will be of a big help to those using buyer personas tactically for demand generation, content marketing, lead nurturing, and sales. Burton Richter, Nobel Laureate.

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4 Reasons Why CMO’s Should Care About Buyer Personas Today

SBI Growth

(To learn more about how buyers are changing and how this affects demand generation, see the CMO's Guide To Stimulating Demand ). The concept of research-based buyer personas gives companies the knowledge and insight to make informed decisions.

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How I Achieved Alignment With My VP of Sales

Jeff Davis

This laser focus on revenue ensures that everyone knows exactly where we are in hitting our revenue target and also know how their work directly impacts us achieving that goal. Some of the things we would cover would be: Customer Personas - who are we targeting and what business problem(s) are they struggling with? We are 98% to goal."

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Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999?

The ROI Guy

Compared to 2002 where growth was a dismal -31% for system vendors and -18% for service providers, these are happy days. With these targets in mind, we see that IT marketers are too focused on the solution’s technology, products, features, price, performance and technical / tactical buyers.