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Buyer personas are semi-fictional representations of your actual customers created based on research and real data based on existing customers. Each buyer persona is a type of client that shares specific attributes and traits that make them interact similarly in the buying process.

An Ideal Customer Profile is a description of a hypothetical company or person that you would most like to do business with.

A Sales and Marketing Gap Analysis is a heuristic analysis framework that analyzes the current state of your sales and marketing assets, tools, resources, and processes and compares them to the ideal state.

SaaS marketing and traditional marketing have some similarities, but how are they different when looked at from a holistic perspective?

By now, we're pretty sure almost everyone in marketing has heard of the benefits of Inbound Marketing and how cost effective this strategy can be. Inbound marketing can help nurture leads at every stage of the customer life cycle and accelerate the buying process.

Paid media is one of the easiest ways to gain awareness and generate leads. But it can also be a considerable risk for companies who are just starting or aren't aware of the downsides and mistakes that can happen when not done correctly.

Despite the advances in technology and automation, in even the most complex and independent sales systems it is likely there is always going to be the need for at least one person to be involved at some point to, for example, control the quality of the lead, interpret the information, answer questions from leads, add missing data or trigger events.

Choosing your digital marketing agency is hard work. Since services offered by agencies rely solely on the people and processes behind them, it’s likely no amount of information you’ll find online will convince you to make a decision until you've talked to a sales rep.

Different companies have different sales processes depending on many variables like the size or their teams, the complexity of the sale, the reiteration of purchase made by customers, the amount of budget they have, among others. 

The line between sales and marketing is constantly getting closer as digital tools help bring them closer than ever before. Marketing’s role is to help your sales team get the tools they need to be able to sell.