Tag Archives: Marketing Dashboard
Four Things to Consider When Automating Marketing Dashboards
- 7th September 2012
- Ross Graber
Automating your marketing dashboards can mean a huge upgrade for your marketing reporting. When used well, automated marketing dashboards make marketing reports easier to produce and use, and they employ visuals that make results easier to understand. Automated dashboarding tools can do great things for organizations with mature programs for measuring marketing – but they’re not a cure-all. If you are in the process of deciding whether now is the right time to automate your marketing dashboards, here are four factors you’ll want to keep in mind.
Continue Reading....Private Equity’s Impact on B2B Marketing
- 12th April 2011
- Ona Koehler
B2B firms are no strangers to private equity and the immense financing opportunities it provides. Many start-ups and small companies — especially those in the high-tech space with high growth ...
Continue Reading....A B2B CMO New Year’s To-Do List
- 5th January 2011
- John Neeson
Instead of more new year’s predictions, we present another post on the imperatives B2B executives must address in 2011 to optimize and evolve their business: Relative Targeting. With fast-growing economies ...
Continue Reading....Marketing Reporting: The New Crystal Ball
- 26th October 2010
- Megan Heuer
It’s that time again. For many marketers, planning and budget season is in full swing; that means it’s time to take a fresh look at what your marketing reporting can ...
Continue Reading....Building a Social Media Dashboard
- 10th September 2010
- Jonathan Block
With social media, it’s no longer a question of can you measure, but do you. And measurements that merely communicate the number of followers and fans, and how much they ...
Continue Reading....Marketing Reporting: Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
- 27th August 2010
- Alden Cushman
We’ve all suffered through one of those conversations with an endless series of questions: “What are you doing? Why? What are you doing? Why?….” As many know, sometimes the only ...
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Three Problems With Product Roadmaps
A product roadmap is an important strategic framework that provides direction and guidance to internal and external stakeholders. It provides a plan for how the product's vision will be realized and reflects strategic priorities including specific market segments and customer needs. However, while there’s general agreement that preparing a roadmap is important, the reality is that often roadmaps are not as effective in practice. The problems generally fall into one of three categories.
- 21st November 2012
- 7998 views
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Five Myths About Account-Based Marketing
It must be something in the spring air, but lately SiriusDecisions clients are coming to us with lots and lots of questions about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is a broad category, including everything from one-to-one marketing to named accounts to customer marketing.
- 1st May 2012
- 7847 views
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Six 2013 Predictions for Marketing Automation
In my last post, I discussed how the marketing automation platform (MAP) space has evolved during the last 12 months. This week, I present six ways SiriusDecisions predicts the MAP market will evolve during the next 12 months. I have broken these into three broad categories – marketplace dynamics, MAP technology and customer usage.
- 9th October 2012
- 7484 views
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Respect Your Competition
Product managers and marketers are naturally competitive. They want their products to win in the marketplace, and they want to beat the competition. This trait is important to the success of a product manager or product marketer. However, it's important to balance support and bias toward your product with the realities of the marketplace. There's a difference between being a champion for your product and being blind to the market, customer needs and perceptions.
- 22nd May 2013
- Jeff Lash
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Prepare Your Reps for Improvisation
I recently watched one of my all-time favorite comedies, the 1984 classic This Is Spinal Tap, a “rockumentary” following the fictitious band Spinal Tap as it tours the U.S. desperately looking to regain its lost popularity. Rob Reiner starred and directed a cast that included Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, all famous for their comic improvisation. Most of the movie was ad-libbed; the actors were given rough outlines instead of scripts to memorize for their scenes and simply worked off each other. The talent and skill of this ensemble resulted in one very funny movie. The job of sales enablement, to a degree, is to prepare reps for improvisation. I’m not talking about showing up on sales calls and making things up off their top off their heads – but the ability to spontaneously adapt and react to whatever happens on a call and with a buyer.
- 21st May 2013
- Jim Ninivaggi
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Maybe You Already Have Enough Data for Analytics: Part II: More Insight With Touch Analysis
In my last post, I described marketing touch analysis and how to use this information to “do more of what works, and less of what doesn’t.” Today, I add more variety to the approach and explain how to gain better insight into the effectiveness of your marketing tactics. I promise to keep the rocket science out of this discussion to help you better understand what this stuff is and how it can help you with your work. There are pragmatic ways you can take advantage of these techniques without a staff of scientists.
- 20th May 2013
- Craig Moore
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Five Myths About Account-Based Marketing
It must be something in the spring air, but lately SiriusDecisions clients are coming to us with lots and lots of questions about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is a broad category, including everything from one-to-one marketing to named accounts to customer marketing.
- 1st May 2012
- 13 comments
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Don’t Do Personas for Personas’ Sake
Formed by combining demographic attributes with preferences, personas embody a type of buyer. A frequent misconception I see as an analyst is when companies presume they should do personas simply ...
- 11th May 2012
- 8 comments
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Making the Case for Teleprospecting
At SiriusDecisions Summit 2012, we revealed our updated demand waterfall, and in the process clarified the important role the teleprospecting function plays in demand creation. Many organizations, however, are just beginning to make the case for incorporating a teleprospecting team (internal or outsourced) into their demand creation efforts.
- 15th June 2012
- 8 comments
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Three Problems With Product Roadmaps
A product roadmap is an important strategic framework that provides direction and guidance to internal and external stakeholders. It provides a plan for how the product's vision will be realized and reflects strategic priorities including specific market segments and customer needs. However, while there’s general agreement that preparing a roadmap is important, the reality is that often roadmaps are not as effective in practice. The problems generally fall into one of three categories.
- 21st November 2012
- 7998 views
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Five Myths About Account-Based Marketing
It must be something in the spring air, but lately SiriusDecisions clients are coming to us with lots and lots of questions about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is a broad category, including everything from one-to-one marketing to named accounts to customer marketing.
- 1st May 2012
- 7847 views
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Six 2013 Predictions for Marketing Automation
In my last post, I discussed how the marketing automation platform (MAP) space has evolved during the last 12 months. This week, I present six ways SiriusDecisions predicts the MAP market will evolve during the next 12 months. I have broken these into three broad categories – marketplace dynamics, MAP technology and customer usage.
- 9th October 2012
- 7484 views
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Respect Your Competition
Product managers and marketers are naturally competitive. They want their products to win in the marketplace, and they want to beat the competition. This trait is important to the success of a product manager or product marketer. However, it's important to balance support and bias toward your product with the realities of the marketplace. There's a difference between being a champion for your product and being blind to the market, customer needs and perceptions.
- 22nd May 2013
- Jeff Lash
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Prepare Your Reps for Improvisation
I recently watched one of my all-time favorite comedies, the 1984 classic This Is Spinal Tap, a “rockumentary” following the fictitious band Spinal Tap as it tours the U.S. desperately looking to regain its lost popularity. Rob Reiner starred and directed a cast that included Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, all famous for their comic improvisation. Most of the movie was ad-libbed; the actors were given rough outlines instead of scripts to memorize for their scenes and simply worked off each other. The talent and skill of this ensemble resulted in one very funny movie. The job of sales enablement, to a degree, is to prepare reps for improvisation. I’m not talking about showing up on sales calls and making things up off their top off their heads – but the ability to spontaneously adapt and react to whatever happens on a call and with a buyer.
- 21st May 2013
- Jim Ninivaggi
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Maybe You Already Have Enough Data for Analytics: Part II: More Insight With Touch Analysis
In my last post, I described marketing touch analysis and how to use this information to “do more of what works, and less of what doesn’t.” Today, I add more variety to the approach and explain how to gain better insight into the effectiveness of your marketing tactics. I promise to keep the rocket science out of this discussion to help you better understand what this stuff is and how it can help you with your work. There are pragmatic ways you can take advantage of these techniques without a staff of scientists.
- 20th May 2013
- Craig Moore
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Five Myths About Account-Based Marketing
It must be something in the spring air, but lately SiriusDecisions clients are coming to us with lots and lots of questions about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is a broad category, including everything from one-to-one marketing to named accounts to customer marketing.
- 1st May 2012
- 13 comments
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Don’t Do Personas for Personas’ Sake
Formed by combining demographic attributes with preferences, personas embody a type of buyer. A frequent misconception I see as an analyst is when companies presume they should do personas simply ...
- 11th May 2012
- 8 comments
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Making the Case for Teleprospecting
At SiriusDecisions Summit 2012, we revealed our updated demand waterfall, and in the process clarified the important role the teleprospecting function plays in demand creation. Many organizations, however, are just beginning to make the case for incorporating a teleprospecting team (internal or outsourced) into their demand creation efforts.
- 15th June 2012
- 8 comments
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Three Problems With Product Roadmaps
A product roadmap is an important strategic framework that provides direction and guidance to internal and external stakeholders. It provides a plan for how the product's vision will be realized and reflects strategic priorities including specific market segments and customer needs. However, while there’s general agreement that preparing a roadmap is important, the reality is that often roadmaps are not as effective in practice. The problems generally fall into one of three categories.
- 21st November 2012
- 7998 views
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Five Myths About Account-Based Marketing
It must be something in the spring air, but lately SiriusDecisions clients are coming to us with lots and lots of questions about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is a broad category, including everything from one-to-one marketing to named accounts to customer marketing.
- 1st May 2012
- 7847 views
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Six 2013 Predictions for Marketing Automation
In my last post, I discussed how the marketing automation platform (MAP) space has evolved during the last 12 months. This week, I present six ways SiriusDecisions predicts the MAP market will evolve during the next 12 months. I have broken these into three broad categories – marketplace dynamics, MAP technology and customer usage.
- 9th October 2012
- 7484 views
-
Respect Your Competition
Product managers and marketers are naturally competitive. They want their products to win in the marketplace, and they want to beat the competition. This trait is important to the success of a product manager or product marketer. However, it's important to balance support and bias toward your product with the realities of the marketplace. There's a difference between being a champion for your product and being blind to the market, customer needs and perceptions.
- 22nd May 2013
- Jeff Lash
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Prepare Your Reps for Improvisation
I recently watched one of my all-time favorite comedies, the 1984 classic This Is Spinal Tap, a “rockumentary” following the fictitious band Spinal Tap as it tours the U.S. desperately looking to regain its lost popularity. Rob Reiner starred and directed a cast that included Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, all famous for their comic improvisation. Most of the movie was ad-libbed; the actors were given rough outlines instead of scripts to memorize for their scenes and simply worked off each other. The talent and skill of this ensemble resulted in one very funny movie. The job of sales enablement, to a degree, is to prepare reps for improvisation. I’m not talking about showing up on sales calls and making things up off their top off their heads – but the ability to spontaneously adapt and react to whatever happens on a call and with a buyer.
- 21st May 2013
- Jim Ninivaggi
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Maybe You Already Have Enough Data for Analytics: Part II: More Insight With Touch Analysis
In my last post, I described marketing touch analysis and how to use this information to “do more of what works, and less of what doesn’t.” Today, I add more variety to the approach and explain how to gain better insight into the effectiveness of your marketing tactics. I promise to keep the rocket science out of this discussion to help you better understand what this stuff is and how it can help you with your work. There are pragmatic ways you can take advantage of these techniques without a staff of scientists.
- 20th May 2013
- Craig Moore
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Five Myths About Account-Based Marketing
It must be something in the spring air, but lately SiriusDecisions clients are coming to us with lots and lots of questions about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is a broad category, including everything from one-to-one marketing to named accounts to customer marketing.
- 1st May 2012
- 13 comments
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Don’t Do Personas for Personas’ Sake
Formed by combining demographic attributes with preferences, personas embody a type of buyer. A frequent misconception I see as an analyst is when companies presume they should do personas simply ...
- 11th May 2012
- 8 comments
-
Making the Case for Teleprospecting
At SiriusDecisions Summit 2012, we revealed our updated demand waterfall, and in the process clarified the important role the teleprospecting function plays in demand creation. Many organizations, however, are just beginning to make the case for incorporating a teleprospecting team (internal or outsourced) into their demand creation efforts.
- 15th June 2012
- 8 comments
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Three Problems With Product Roadmaps
A product roadmap is an important strategic framework that provides direction and guidance to internal and external stakeholders. It provides a plan for how the product's vision will be realized and reflects strategic priorities including specific market segments and customer needs. However, while there’s general agreement that preparing a roadmap is important, the reality is that often roadmaps are not as effective in practice. The problems generally fall into one of three categories.
- 21st November 2012
- 7998 views
-
Five Myths About Account-Based Marketing
It must be something in the spring air, but lately SiriusDecisions clients are coming to us with lots and lots of questions about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is a broad category, including everything from one-to-one marketing to named accounts to customer marketing.
- 1st May 2012
- 7847 views
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Six 2013 Predictions for Marketing Automation
In my last post, I discussed how the marketing automation platform (MAP) space has evolved during the last 12 months. This week, I present six ways SiriusDecisions predicts the MAP market will evolve during the next 12 months. I have broken these into three broad categories – marketplace dynamics, MAP technology and customer usage.
- 9th October 2012
- 7484 views
-
Respect Your Competition
Product managers and marketers are naturally competitive. They want their products to win in the marketplace, and they want to beat the competition. This trait is important to the success of a product manager or product marketer. However, it's important to balance support and bias toward your product with the realities of the marketplace. There's a difference between being a champion for your product and being blind to the market, customer needs and perceptions.
- 22nd May 2013
- Jeff Lash
-
Prepare Your Reps for Improvisation
I recently watched one of my all-time favorite comedies, the 1984 classic This Is Spinal Tap, a “rockumentary” following the fictitious band Spinal Tap as it tours the U.S. desperately looking to regain its lost popularity. Rob Reiner starred and directed a cast that included Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, all famous for their comic improvisation. Most of the movie was ad-libbed; the actors were given rough outlines instead of scripts to memorize for their scenes and simply worked off each other. The talent and skill of this ensemble resulted in one very funny movie. The job of sales enablement, to a degree, is to prepare reps for improvisation. I’m not talking about showing up on sales calls and making things up off their top off their heads – but the ability to spontaneously adapt and react to whatever happens on a call and with a buyer.
- 21st May 2013
- Jim Ninivaggi
-
Maybe You Already Have Enough Data for Analytics: Part II: More Insight With Touch Analysis
In my last post, I described marketing touch analysis and how to use this information to “do more of what works, and less of what doesn’t.” Today, I add more variety to the approach and explain how to gain better insight into the effectiveness of your marketing tactics. I promise to keep the rocket science out of this discussion to help you better understand what this stuff is and how it can help you with your work. There are pragmatic ways you can take advantage of these techniques without a staff of scientists.
- 20th May 2013
- Craig Moore
-
Five Myths About Account-Based Marketing
It must be something in the spring air, but lately SiriusDecisions clients are coming to us with lots and lots of questions about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is a broad category, including everything from one-to-one marketing to named accounts to customer marketing.
- 1st May 2012
- 13 comments
-
Don’t Do Personas for Personas’ Sake
Formed by combining demographic attributes with preferences, personas embody a type of buyer. A frequent misconception I see as an analyst is when companies presume they should do personas simply ...
- 11th May 2012
- 8 comments
-
Making the Case for Teleprospecting
At SiriusDecisions Summit 2012, we revealed our updated demand waterfall, and in the process clarified the important role the teleprospecting function plays in demand creation. Many organizations, however, are just beginning to make the case for incorporating a teleprospecting team (internal or outsourced) into their demand creation efforts.
- 15th June 2012
- 8 comments
-
Three Problems With Product Roadmaps
A product roadmap is an important strategic framework that provides direction and guidance to internal and external stakeholders. It provides a plan for how the product's vision will be realized and reflects strategic priorities including specific market segments and customer needs. However, while there’s general agreement that preparing a roadmap is important, the reality is that often roadmaps are not as effective in practice. The problems generally fall into one of three categories.
- 21st November 2012
- 7998 views
-
Five Myths About Account-Based Marketing
It must be something in the spring air, but lately SiriusDecisions clients are coming to us with lots and lots of questions about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is a broad category, including everything from one-to-one marketing to named accounts to customer marketing.
- 1st May 2012
- 7847 views
-
Six 2013 Predictions for Marketing Automation
In my last post, I discussed how the marketing automation platform (MAP) space has evolved during the last 12 months. This week, I present six ways SiriusDecisions predicts the MAP market will evolve during the next 12 months. I have broken these into three broad categories – marketplace dynamics, MAP technology and customer usage.
- 9th October 2012
- 7484 views
-
Respect Your Competition
Product managers and marketers are naturally competitive. They want their products to win in the marketplace, and they want to beat the competition. This trait is important to the success of a product manager or product marketer. However, it's important to balance support and bias toward your product with the realities of the marketplace. There's a difference between being a champion for your product and being blind to the market, customer needs and perceptions.
- 22nd May 2013
- Jeff Lash
-
Prepare Your Reps for Improvisation
I recently watched one of my all-time favorite comedies, the 1984 classic This Is Spinal Tap, a “rockumentary” following the fictitious band Spinal Tap as it tours the U.S. desperately looking to regain its lost popularity. Rob Reiner starred and directed a cast that included Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, all famous for their comic improvisation. Most of the movie was ad-libbed; the actors were given rough outlines instead of scripts to memorize for their scenes and simply worked off each other. The talent and skill of this ensemble resulted in one very funny movie. The job of sales enablement, to a degree, is to prepare reps for improvisation. I’m not talking about showing up on sales calls and making things up off their top off their heads – but the ability to spontaneously adapt and react to whatever happens on a call and with a buyer.
- 21st May 2013
- Jim Ninivaggi
-
Maybe You Already Have Enough Data for Analytics: Part II: More Insight With Touch Analysis
In my last post, I described marketing touch analysis and how to use this information to “do more of what works, and less of what doesn’t.” Today, I add more variety to the approach and explain how to gain better insight into the effectiveness of your marketing tactics. I promise to keep the rocket science out of this discussion to help you better understand what this stuff is and how it can help you with your work. There are pragmatic ways you can take advantage of these techniques without a staff of scientists.
- 20th May 2013
- Craig Moore
-
Five Myths About Account-Based Marketing
It must be something in the spring air, but lately SiriusDecisions clients are coming to us with lots and lots of questions about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is a broad category, including everything from one-to-one marketing to named accounts to customer marketing.
- 1st May 2012
- 13 comments
-
Don’t Do Personas for Personas’ Sake
Formed by combining demographic attributes with preferences, personas embody a type of buyer. A frequent misconception I see as an analyst is when companies presume they should do personas simply ...
- 11th May 2012
- 8 comments
-
Making the Case for Teleprospecting
At SiriusDecisions Summit 2012, we revealed our updated demand waterfall, and in the process clarified the important role the teleprospecting function plays in demand creation. Many organizations, however, are just beginning to make the case for incorporating a teleprospecting team (internal or outsourced) into their demand creation efforts.
- 15th June 2012
- 8 comments
-
Three Problems With Product Roadmaps
A product roadmap is an important strategic framework that provides direction and guidance to internal and external stakeholders. It provides a plan for how the product's vision will be realized and reflects strategic priorities including specific market segments and customer needs. However, while there’s general agreement that preparing a roadmap is important, the reality is that often roadmaps are not as effective in practice. The problems generally fall into one of three categories.
- 21st November 2012
- 7998 views
-
Five Myths About Account-Based Marketing
It must be something in the spring air, but lately SiriusDecisions clients are coming to us with lots and lots of questions about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is a broad category, including everything from one-to-one marketing to named accounts to customer marketing.
- 1st May 2012
- 7847 views
-
Six 2013 Predictions for Marketing Automation
In my last post, I discussed how the marketing automation platform (MAP) space has evolved during the last 12 months. This week, I present six ways SiriusDecisions predicts the MAP market will evolve during the next 12 months. I have broken these into three broad categories – marketplace dynamics, MAP technology and customer usage.
- 9th October 2012
- 7484 views
-
Respect Your Competition
Product managers and marketers are naturally competitive. They want their products to win in the marketplace, and they want to beat the competition. This trait is important to the success of a product manager or product marketer. However, it's important to balance support and bias toward your product with the realities of the marketplace. There's a difference between being a champion for your product and being blind to the market, customer needs and perceptions.
- 22nd May 2013
- Jeff Lash
-
Prepare Your Reps for Improvisation
I recently watched one of my all-time favorite comedies, the 1984 classic This Is Spinal Tap, a “rockumentary” following the fictitious band Spinal Tap as it tours the U.S. desperately looking to regain its lost popularity. Rob Reiner starred and directed a cast that included Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, all famous for their comic improvisation. Most of the movie was ad-libbed; the actors were given rough outlines instead of scripts to memorize for their scenes and simply worked off each other. The talent and skill of this ensemble resulted in one very funny movie. The job of sales enablement, to a degree, is to prepare reps for improvisation. I’m not talking about showing up on sales calls and making things up off their top off their heads – but the ability to spontaneously adapt and react to whatever happens on a call and with a buyer.
- 21st May 2013
- Jim Ninivaggi
-
Maybe You Already Have Enough Data for Analytics: Part II: More Insight With Touch Analysis
In my last post, I described marketing touch analysis and how to use this information to “do more of what works, and less of what doesn’t.” Today, I add more variety to the approach and explain how to gain better insight into the effectiveness of your marketing tactics. I promise to keep the rocket science out of this discussion to help you better understand what this stuff is and how it can help you with your work. There are pragmatic ways you can take advantage of these techniques without a staff of scientists.
- 20th May 2013
- Craig Moore
-
Five Myths About Account-Based Marketing
It must be something in the spring air, but lately SiriusDecisions clients are coming to us with lots and lots of questions about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is a broad category, including everything from one-to-one marketing to named accounts to customer marketing.
- 1st May 2012
- 13 comments
-
Don’t Do Personas for Personas’ Sake
Formed by combining demographic attributes with preferences, personas embody a type of buyer. A frequent misconception I see as an analyst is when companies presume they should do personas simply ...
- 11th May 2012
- 8 comments
-
Making the Case for Teleprospecting
At SiriusDecisions Summit 2012, we revealed our updated demand waterfall, and in the process clarified the important role the teleprospecting function plays in demand creation. Many organizations, however, are just beginning to make the case for incorporating a teleprospecting team (internal or outsourced) into their demand creation efforts.
- 15th June 2012
- 8 comments