Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organic search remains an invaluable marketing channel for business-to-business (B2B) organizations looking to capture relevant non-brand search demand and manage their brand reputation. Many B2B companies view organic search as a way to build their brand and drive sales. Dig deeper: Do personas REALLY matter in content marketing?

B2B 114

B2B B2C Non-Profits Education 114

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 22, 2023

By Sarah Threet , Marketing Consultant You’re building your buying committee based off your ideal customer profile, but you’re feeling stuck… What if one buying committee doesn’t feel all-encompassing of who has been reported to you by your sales department? Maybe it’s really a case-by-case situation?

Finance 104

Finance Strategize Account management Engineering 104

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 25, 2023

I’ve been noticing a torrent of “hints and prompts” from the ChatGPT guru’s looking at email personalization, specifically around business personas. I decided to follow the advice of a couple of experts, I used their advice and prompts to profile various personas In ChatGPT. Managing financial performance.

Prospecting 101

Prospecting Technology Technology Conversion 101

Sales Hacker

MAY 14, 2024

Holly Chen is the Managing Partner of ExponentialX, a Marketing and Growth Advisory Collective for high-growth SaaS startups, advising companies like Miro, Loom, ServiceNow, Appsflyer in their growth journeys. Previously, Holly was the Global Head of Digital Marketing at Slack, helping it grow $100M to $700M ARR and going public.

GTM 78

GTM Price Customers B2C 78

Salesforce

DECEMBER 5, 2023

You have managed systems rollouts and cloud migrations. Are you addressing lagging sales? Define the desired end state by use case and persona. Develop a risk profile for your app, using the NIST AI Risk Management Framework , and determine whether you can support it. AI isn’t news to you or your IT team.

Healthcare 122

Healthcare CRM Engineering Start-ups 122

ClickFunnels

AUGUST 2, 2021

Want Russell To Teach You How To Build Your First Sales Funnel? #1 Their reasoning goes like this: “More potential customers means more sales, right?”. This might sound counterintuitive, but the smaller your target audience is, the easier it will be for you to make sales. Marketing Sales. 4 Create a Buyer Persona.

Niche 290

Niche Follow-up Up-sell Start-ups 290

Salesforce

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Creating a buyer persona lets you target prospects with key messaging that emphasizes your product’s unique problem-solving value. Find ready-to-buy prospects faster Learn how Sales Cloud can help you score your best leads and prioritize them by how likely they are to close. Here’s how Sales Cloud does this.)

Go To Market 119

Go To Market GTM Objectives and Key Results Price 119

Search Engine Land

MARCH 13, 2024

When I talk about personas, these personas are created with motivation at the heart rather than demographics. Therefore, if you fall into the trap of demographics leading the personas, you miss the superpower of knowing your audience. It is easy to measure performance for lower funnel content aiming to drive an inquiry or sale.

Drivers/motivators 103

Drivers/motivators B2B B2C Quota 103

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

By Carly Bauer , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing I was recently asked during a client meeting what the importance was for developing personas. And it’s true, personas and the people we market to are always changing based on their needs, goals, limitations, resources, and many other variables.

Consult 102

Consult Prospecting Contact Campaign 102

Martech

MAY 1, 2024

Rapidly advancing generative AI models promise to help scale marketing and sales functions by automating customer conversations. Information management and storage company Iron Mountain adopted a gradual and surefooted approach to adopting digital assistants and making conversational AI a driver of engagement and revenue growth. “Our

Conversion 109

Conversion Objectives and Key Results Drivers/motivators Trust 109

ClickFunnels

JUNE 23, 2021

Fortunately, if you are already making sales, then narrowing down your target audience is pretty straightforward: Analyze the sales data. Create a buyer persona based on those shared traits. That’s what you want in your sales funnel. Your lead magnet landing page is its sales page. Sales pitch.

Lead generation 219

Lead generation Appointment A/B testing Pitch 219

Salesforce

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Closing sales requires the ability to develop trust and personalize the way you communicate. The way we connect with potential customers is by crafting personas and developing stories that help them envision a better future. What’s a persona? Personas are realistic characters who represent key audience segments.

Customers 98

Customers UX Represent Cross-sell 98

criteria for success

DECEMBER 1, 2021

You might also have another group of clients where you typically engage with a manager within a specific department such as supply chain management. Use Buyer Personas. As you work toward better targeting, take the time to develop rich buyer personas for your ideal clients. Sales & Marketing Alignment.

Clients 98

Clients Drivers/motivators Territory Contact 98

Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 26, 2020

So you have an understanding of your buying committee and how to market to them , now it’s time to build out your buyer personas. Creating an accurate and actionable B2B buyer persona means asking the right questions about your targets, the outcome of an effective buyer persona isn’t a grouping of stereotypes or uninformed assumptions.

B2B 140

B2B Campaign Represent Education 140

Martech

MAY 9, 2024

Understanding ICP entry points The ideal customer profile (ICP) entry point occurs when your potential customer is experiencing a problem, not when engaging with your sales or marketing efforts. Step 1: Define your ICP and buyer persona This is its own detailed process and must be completed before entry points.

Presentation 92

Presentation Represent Prospecting Customers 92

Search Engine Land

APRIL 30, 2024

If you’ve ever tried using avatars or buyer personas to write a Google Ads headline, you know it can be frustrating and fruitless. Eventually, you craft a detailed persona : Alex, 37, from Chicago, who enjoys protein smoothies, drives a Lexus and dreams of traveling to Asia.

CTR 108

CTR Real Estate Legal Clients 108

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Also, IT project managers, systems engineering managers, business analysts. ” Quickly a response came, “They are responsible for managing the IT organization and delivering IT services in the company… ” Then I asked, “What is it they do to make sure those things are done? ” I asked.

Customers 81

Customers Finance Legal Conversion 81

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

Newsflash: buyer personas are useless. First, how does the knowledge that Terry is married and loves eating Smarties help your reps make a sale? Or any of the other buyer personas you so carefully put together? Now that we’ve got your attention, we can come clean: buyer personas aren’t really useless.

Objectives and Key Results 114

Objectives and Key Results Sales Growth Up-sell 114

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

First, the very important disclosure that marketing spend effectiveness is highly dependent on company stage, industry, ideal customer persona, sales cycle, etc. Take the engaged persona and accounts and convert them further with these events. For the lower level persona content and webinars still show engagement.”

GTM 102

GTM Growth B2C Territory 102

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 5, 2022

Regardless of the size of the sales org, the challenges remain the same. There are four key steps to building a sequence: Identify and define your personas. Identify and define your personas. A persona-based sequence approach will set the foundation. Not sure who your buyer personas are? Design your blueprints.

A/B testing 88

A/B testing Government Quota Follow-up 88

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

What you need is an easy-to-understand sales playbook to guide your team to victory. We’ll walk through everything you need to know to create the right mix of winning plays that guide your sales team to big wins. What you’ll learn What is a sales playbook? Learn more What is a sales playbook?

Objectives and Key Results 59

Objectives and Key Results Technique CRM Follow-up 59

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

In this article, we’ll explain how to create a marketing playbook to align your teams and boost your sales opportunities. A marketing playbook is a reference guide that outlines how a business will manage its marketing on a particular channel or campaign. Your customer profiles and buyer personas. Target audience.

Campaign 149

Campaign Objectives and Key Results Launch Click Through Rate 149

Martech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

B2B marketing, usually kept at arm’s reach from customers, can now know them as well as account managers who have long-standing customer relationships. In the past, developing different personas and buyer journeys could be time-consuming and require a lot of guesswork. That nugget of wisdom is gold for sales.

B2B 120

B2B Construction Drivers/motivators Campaign 120

Partners in Excellence

MAY 18, 2021

Developing rich buyer personas is critical to helping us identify the key people and roles we need to be working with, what they do/how they are measured, the problems they face and so on. These personas are critical as we look at how we engage them with relevance. The post Buyer Personas Are Not The Same, Even For The Same Persona!

Drivers/motivators 88

Drivers/motivators Technology Technology Start-ups 88

Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2021

By Jamie Montoya , Client Engagement Manager. Create persona profiles. Personas act as a guide that will direct content, format and messages your target audience will most likely consume. Luckily – there is no wrong answer tp what you can include in your persona profiles. Align Your Sales & Marketing Teams.

B2B 119

B2B User Experience CRM Clients 119

Salesforce

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Find ready-to-buy prospects faster Learn how Sales Cloud can help you score your best leads and prioritize them by how likely they are to close. Creating a buyer persona lets you target prospects with key messaging that emphasizes your product’s unique problem-solving value. Here’s how Sales Cloud does this.)

Go To Market 72

Go To Market GTM Objectives and Key Results Price 72

Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Sales customer insights. Persona insights: Intelligence on the typical decision-makers, influencers and users of your proposition. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales. Persona insights and intelligence. Other personas they work with.

Conversion 109

Conversion Customers Drivers/motivators Sales 109

Salesmate

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A dried-up sales pipeline is an unpleasant sight that most sales reps dread. Several sales managers and reps are aware of the buzzword “sales pipeline”. However, most of them do not pay attention to it and manage it effectively. They are the ones who succeed in sales. What is the sales pipeline?

Pipeline 143

Pipeline Negotiate Appointment Sales 143

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. Understanding ICPs.

Customers 94

Customers Teamwork B2C Technique 94

Search Engine Land

AUGUST 8, 2023

Client persona workshops In your organization, you’ll have colleagues who interact directly with customers, like sales or customer service teams. Persona workshops leverage their knowledge to validate hypotheses or test findings. These personas go beyond demographic details to focus on: Motivations. What they are feeling.

Angle 91

Angle Strategize Drivers/motivators Follow-up 91

SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Today’s top-performing sales reps use data, intelligence, and productivity tools 30% more than average performers. Whether you need to gain visibility into pipeline activity, manage deals, or decrease rep ramp time, Sales Engagement tools can help you improve efficiency, leading to sustained growth and profitability.

Territory 105

Territory Sales Technology Technology 105

Heinz Marketing

JULY 28, 2023

By Karla Sanders , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing In the fast-paced world of B2B sales and marketing, the key to achieving outstanding results lies in the art of marketing orchestration. Alignment of Sales and Marketing : Effective marketing orchestration bridges the gap between sales and marketing departments.

B2B 93

B2B Objectives and Key Results A/B testing Campaign 93

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

A highly curated group of 200 GTM leaders, 85% director level and above across Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships. Because they’ve already established their brand, audience, and distribution , launching a product to their supporters garners immediate sales. A chance to tour (and maybe even race on?) Austin’s F1 track.

GTM 72

GTM Launch B2B Growth 72

Outreach

MARCH 25, 2020

Part of our job in sales has always been putting ourselves in the buyer’s shoes, and this is still true now. Before you change anything in your Outreach instance, think critically about how your value proposition and personas should be changed. Sales & Marketing Leaders: Update Your Value Proposition and Personas.

Sell 134

Sell Pitch Strategize Meeting 134

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Here’s the hard truth: “You don’t know if they’re ready to buy until they tell you they’re ready to buy, and you can’t believe it until you get a signed contract,” said Richard Harris , sales coach and founder of The Harris Consulting Group. This gets you to quota faster, which helps you hit company-wide sales targets.

Contract 119

Contract Negotiate Follow-up Contact 119

PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Sales enablement tools like CRM platforms help increase sales velocity.

Pipeline 52

Pipeline Legal Objectives and Key Results Lead generation 52

Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

By Carly Bauer , Marketing Coordinator at Heinz Marketing At Heinz Marketing, we regularly talk about sales and marketing alignment– A strategic and collaborative approach in which a company’s sales and marketing teams work closely together to achieve common goals, increase efficiency, and improve overall business performanc e.

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Meeting Campaign Lead generation Strategize 111