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A description of the type of company most likely to buy, succeed with and stay loyal to a product, defined by firmographic and behavioral traits.

A clear ICP directs marketing spend, sales prospecting and product investment toward accounts that close faster, pay more and churn less, and gives sales and marketing a shared rule for what a good lead looks like.

A RevOps team analyzes its 120 best customers by retention and expansion, finds most are logistics firms with 200 to 1,000 employees using Salesforce, and encodes those criteria in the CRM to build ABM lists and score lead fit.

An ICP built on opinion or on a small or outdated customer base can exclude growing segments. It describes companies, not people, so it needs buyer personas for messaging, and it should be reviewed when products, pricing or markets change.

An ICP combines firmographic attributes such as industry, employee count, revenue and region; technographic attributes such as the software stack; and situational attributes such as growth stage, buying triggers and pain points. It is best derived from closed-won, retention and expansion data. The ICP feeds Account-Based Marketing (ABM) account selection, fit criteria in Lead Scoring and qualification rules for a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL).