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Buyer Persona

How to Build a Buyer Persona: Gathering Intelligence

Say hello to your buyer persona. You've probably seen them before. Maybe at a trade show, or an industry conference, or browsing through your shop. They're always vaguely familiar ...

protocol 80 · Oct 2020
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Buyer Persona

Why Medical Technology Marketing Agencies Fail at Lead Generation

Choosing a medical technology marketing agency or finding the right internal staff to handle your marketing is important. Far too often, businesses align themselves with an agency ...

protocol 80 · Aug 2020
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Social Media

HubSpot Academy Inbound Marketing Certification: 5 Takeaways

“Inbound marketing is a business methodology that attracts customers by creating valuable content and experiences tailored to them.” -- HubSpot If you’re new to the world of inboun...

protocol 80 · Feb 2020
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Social Media

6 Ways to Write to a B2B Audience Persona

Before you start writing blogs, before you even start an inbound marketing campaign, you need to know who your audience is and how to talk to them. If you’re not truly speaking to ...

Adam Vosler · Feb 2019
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Buyer Persona

Applying the Buyer's Journey - Online Marketing Plan for Manufacturers

Hey Sales and Marketing Professionals! What does your ideal buyer's buying process look like? Well, if you think that it starts when they land on your website and submit an RFQ, yo...

Donny Kemick · Aug 2018
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Buyer Persona

Building a Buyer Persona - Online Marketing Plan for Manufacturers

Hey Sales and Marketing Professionals! This is part 3 of our online marketing plan for manufacturers (Parts 1, 2). Today we're going to dive into Building a Buyer Persona. We're go...

Donny Kemick · Aug 2018
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Buyer Persona

Can I Implement Inbound for Multiple Buyer Personas at the Same Time?

If your company works with a variety of buyer personas, you're not alone. Manufacturers often sell to professional buyers as well as design engineers. Two very different types of b...

Donny Kemick · May 2017
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Buyer Persona

How Much of My Time Will an Inbound Marketing Agency Need?

As an inbound marketing agency, this is a question we receive often. It comes up almost every time we’re hired, and we get it. You need to know how much time to give up each week s...

protocol 80 · Apr 2017
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Buyer Persona

B2B Inbound Marketing: Why You Need to Sell Less to Sell More

Sometimes, things don't work the way we think they should.

protocol 80 · Oct 2016
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Buyer Persona

Smarketing: Closing the Great B2B Sales and Marketing Divide

There’s a great divide between many B2B sales and marketing teams. Generally, the two just don’t seem to like each other - even though their goals are the same.

protocol 80 · Sep 2016
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