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Ideal customer profile (ICP)

Ideal customer profile (ICP)

Your ICPIdeal customer profile (ICP)A precise description of the accounts most likely to become your best, longest-lasting customers, used to focus targeting, qualification and spend.View in glossary describes the accounts that become your best, longest-lasting customers: by firmographics (size, sector, geography), by need, and by behaviour. It is built from your existing winners, not your wish list.

A sharp ICPIdeal customer profile (ICP)A precise description of the accounts most likely to become your best, longest-lasting customers, used to focus targeting, qualification and spend.View in glossary is a force multiplier: it focuses targeting, tightens qualification, and stops you spending on leads that will never retain.

Build it from data
Start from your top decile of customers by retained margin and ask what they have in common. That pattern is your ICP, not the biggest logo you'd love to land.
Ideal customer profile (ICP)