Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The post Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales? One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. Typical buyer personas include a character sheet full of your prospects’ demographics, challenges, goals, and KPIs. Here’s why.

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PandaDoc

JUNE 23, 2021

Due to the staggering number of new businesses and potential clients that inhabit the marketplace, companies must know the difference between ideal customer profiles (ICPs) and buyer personas, in order to craft the perfect strategy for using them. How to know whether to use ideal customer profiles or buyer personas.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Profiles must explain how your sales reps solve the market problems of your prospects. Therefore, you must begin by creating buyer personas and buying process maps. In this way, profiles become buyer centric and appeal to prospective customers. LinkedIn is software. Otherwise they are not effective sales aids.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 21, 2013

As a Sales & Marketing Leader, you are hungry for high quality B2B leads. B2B Marketers have tested many forms of social advertising. Marketing leaders must challenge past assumptions of how to leverage social advertising opportunities. The end result for B2B Marketing leaders is higher quality leads for the sales force.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

With the right sales enablement process, revenue leaders can confidently improve sales team skills, boost customer retention, expand market differentiation, and drive revenue growth. That reflects the fact that effective enablement relies on contributions from multiple teams, including product, marketing, and customer success.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

This past year, I’ve discuss content marketing with top marketers. Today’s post focuses on 2 marketing leaders in the SaaS industry. At the end, I’ll provide the Insource vs. Outsource Content Marketing Evaluation tool. The marketing leaders’ content goals were the same. Maybe content marketing wasn’t the answer.

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 10, 2025

They cannot rely on guesswork or assumptions to understand market dynamics. Sales teams today need relevant data and insights to meet the buyer expectations precisely. That is where sales intelligence software comes into play. What is sales intelligence software?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Planning for new analytics software, Business Intelligence platform or new/upgraded CRM? There’s solid evidence that your Marketing counterparts are responding. According to a recent Content Marketing Institute survey: 73% of marketing leaders are producing more marketing content than last year.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2019

I’ve seen it time and time again… A company’s marketing team dedicates their already stretched resources to develop strong, accurate buyer personas — but no one actually uses it. As it turns out, buyer persona research is one of — if not THE — most critical foundations for successful sales. Better, right?

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 26, 2014

Sales or marketing challenges exist in every organization. Or Marketing isn''t connecting with the market. aren''t the same today (social prospecting, content marketing, buying process maps, etc.). HR, Sale and Marketing leaders alike will want to read this. Sales performance may be suffering. 3 Key Mistakes.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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SBI Growth

JULY 5, 2013

If your organization has done buyer persona work, bucketing by persona is effective. Note what articles are trending and keep the pulse of the market. Deb saw Tony shared an article on preparing software applications for the future. Deb’s marketing team recently produced a How To guide for Seamless Integration.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2021

copper baking pans,” or “data privacy software”). Find out exactly who to target in your SEO strategy – Buyer Personas: The Missing Piece of Your SEO Strategy. For example, would you search for “automated invoicing cloud-based software,” or would you rather go for “online payment solutions”?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

The email inboxes of B2B executives are already filled with so much marketing clutter. Yet the people who actually might be interested in buying your product or service also play a big role in your target market. Creating customer profiles for these prospects is crucial for your marketing campaigns—and in the end, your sales.

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SBI Growth

JULY 31, 2013

Agile is an approach borrowed from software development. The focus is on the transfer of knowledge and adapting to a rapidly changing buyer environment. It is customized to the market segment, product and buying persona. Monthly sessions to discuss changes in key buyer persona behavior is a norm.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 2, 2012

a provider of software to simplify and improve business operations and customer communications. They prefer to work solo and don’t very effectively engage resources like presales or product marketing. Job fit profiles vary depending on the buyer and the sales process. Start with the buyer persona.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 20, 2012

From software to business services, the message is clear: re-evaluate your Sales Force Structure by piloting, expanding, or reconsidering your commitment to Inside Sales. This is a great time to add in other questions to help you understand their “Buyer Persona” better. Today’s Buyer is more comfortable in the virtual world.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 4, 2018

Account-based selling isn’t a new concept– but it’s recently exploded as a common practice in sales and marketing circles. In fact, 86% of sales and marketing professionals have begun using targeted account strategies to generate new business for their companies ( source ). 3. Create specific buyer personas.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The premise of content marketing is simple: Offer something of value and, in exchange, earn the trust of potential customers. Yet, when it comes time to execute, many marketers stumble. If you’ve ever asked yourself a similar line of questions, fear not, dear marketer. Content Marketing Calendar Goals and Key Considerations.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Enter: Call recording software. Call Recording Software. Call recording software records phone calls in a digital format via voice over internet protocol (VoIP) — which allows you to make calls over internet connection — or traditional phone. Benefits of Call Recording Software. Call Recording Software.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 18, 2013

Marketing is tired of taking the blame. Buyer Personas-Who You Know is More Important than What You know. Quality defined as “the number of key buyers of my product/service in my network.”. You see an example of an enterprise software rep’s network. The ability to prospect. You are frustrated. No, the saying isn’t.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The February edition features content about recruiting nightmares, inadequate buyer personas, key considerations for technology buying, and so much more. But, even if you don’t have access to the latest recruiting software, you can still put each job candidate to the test. 5 Reasons Your Buyer Personas Aren’t Good Enough.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s a unique, product specific, customer focused go-to-market strategy. From poorly thought out plans to unidentified buyer personas, a small crack in the foundation can lead to the crumbling of the entire structure. A go-to-market strategy , more than anything, is a plan. GTM motions can fail for a variety of reasons.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The importance of lead generation is ingrained in the mind of every modern marketer— the more high-quality leads you bring in, the better. But, as the buyer’s journey becomes increasingly multifaceted, it’s now clear that lead generation is just one piece of the marketing puzzle. Create buyer personas.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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Zoominfo

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). Having a scoring and qualification system in place will weed out unfit leads and save sales and marketing teams time.

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Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2022

Profiling prospective customers is vital to ensuring that a marketing campaign is targeting the right people with the right message. Remember, nobody buys business software for its own sake. People invest in business software to solve specific problems. Marketers can attract and retain prospective customers more effectively.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

Focused on identifying game changing market opportunities. To be a game changing Sales Operations leader, you should be asking yourself the following: What is the market for our products/services? Are we currently covering or capturing buyers in our target market? How well do we know the buyer of our product/service?

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Pointclear

JULY 16, 2013

According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows. The same inbound marketing experts will tell you that it might take 50 blogs to impact your website visits.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 21, 2020

With over a hundred and one different things that could kill your cloud software business, poor marketing is the slow poison that can put it to sleep for good. With every SaaS market crowded these days— G2 lists over 2,800 solutions for “ CRM ” alone—there’s little room for error in your marketing. Target users.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. The groupings allow marketing teams to nurture leads with personalized content and convert them to customers. For instance, types of customer segmentation in B2B marketing might include industry, business size and location, and technology stack.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 7, 2022

Enter cold calling software — the tools that take some strain off of cold calling reps and the managers that guide them. Here, we'll take a look at seven of the best of these resources on the market. HubSpot Sales Hub's extensive call tracking capabilities make it one of the premier cold calling software solutions available.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This could look like a technology company selling marketing software to other companies and wholesalers selling products to supermarkets. The industrial sales industry is also a very specific market. A significant differentiating factor of industrial sales is that the customer base is considerably smaller than other B2B markets.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 26, 2020

We were caught in a perpetual struggle between Sales and Marketing. Sales blamed Marketing for not attracting enough high-quality leads , and Marketing claimed Sales wasn’t nurturing leads enough. Marketing never knew what happened to their inbound leads, and Sales would work with leads they knew nothing about.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Tunnel Vision: The Sales Funnel in the Age of Buyer Empowerment Stages of a Sales Funnel: Two Perspectives Funneling Success: Using KPIs to Measure Effectiveness How Do I Create a Sales Funnel? Marketing Funnel vs. Sales Funnel Resources. The traditional sales funnel is a stage-based approach to turning prospective leads into buyers.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Here’s the scenario: Company ABC and Company 123 have identified the same exact target audience to sell their software to. Here’s an example from VentureBeat : A financial tech firm noticed that Eloqua marketing automation was a predictive signal for its top prospects. 3. Penetrate new markets. And new markets.

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