Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 25, 2020

Unlike yesterday’s robocalls or email blasts, today’s sales automation all boils down to personalization. With the aid of today’s sales automation software, you can learn which salesperson is the best fit for each customer and assign them automatically. Taking a silo-free approach to sales automation can also boost revenue.

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 8, 2015

We are seeing continued growth in the adoption of buyer personas as a means for understanding buyers and customers. At the same time, the growth is fraught with the perils of buyer personas being misunderstood, mislabeled, and serving as a cover for basic buyer profiling. This is where I need your help.

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Launch Marketing

MARCH 31, 2020

As we shared in our post on Marketing Adjustments for Turbulent Times , the buyer personas that B2B marketers use to guide their efforts were not developed in the context of a pandemic disruption. Persona needs and wants undergo shifts over time even during normal business operations, but now they’ve quite possibly been turned on end.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

We have seen this in marketing and sales with CRM, sales automation, marketing automation, and now content automation. Buyer Persona Research. This premise still remains foundational to buyer personas. Many mislabeled buyer persona approaches are not grounded in this essential concept.

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In the 15 years since originating the concept of buyer personas in 2001, there has been one issue that continues to plague fully understanding exactly where, how, and why buyer personas can be beneficial. Buyer profiling is often another quantitative exercise for organizations. Confusion by Adam Gale.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Marketing Automation Migration: Switching Platforms Made Easy Migrating your marketing automation platform doesn’t have to be difficult. Blog Learn More Know your persona First things first: make sure your sales, marketing, and other relevant teams (like product) are in agreement on what your ideal customer looks like.

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Sprout Social

MAY 15, 2024

Automation saves time—Sprout’s Social Media Productivity report highlights that almost 60% of marketers using tools have time to get work done and focus on the activities that really need their attention. Social media automation tools like Sprout Social take the heavy lifting out of social media management. AI automation helps.

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Martech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For example: Marketing automation Platforms like HubSpot, Constant Contact, Marketo and others have opened all sorts of possibilities for marketers. We can now automate most of our marketing efforts. Marketing automation platforms have revolutionized marketing. Develop your buyer personas. Distrust but verify.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 11, 2019

A B2B buyer persona represents your ideal client decision-maker. When developing your buyer persona, address all the issues and aspects that may have an impact on how, when, and why the person will buy. Personas are marketing code for “knowing your audience.” Personas are marketing code for “knowing your audience.”

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Binary Demand

JUNE 7, 2023

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/]In the ever-evolving world of B2B marketing, harnessing the power of automation is paramount. Let’s start with a glimpse of what B2B marketing automation is, then explore its working, importance, distinction from CRM, and other insights.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sales enablement best practices: Know thy audience … define buyer personas When improving sales enablement, always start with your audience by building personas. Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas. As you build your program, consider these five key areas.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Buyer personas are the second most popular criteria for content segmentation according to B2B marketers yet only 44% actually utilize them. The written characterizations that a B2B marketer creates about the buyers who make vital decisions regarding the product, service or solution that is being offered is known as a buyer persona.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 14, 2019

Marketing automation has seen incredible growth in the last decade. In fact, 55% of B2B companies report using marketing automation as part of their marketing strategy ( source ). In fact, a recent study reported only 14% of marketers describe their use of marketing automation as “good” or better ( source ).

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SmartBug Media

JUNE 6, 2019

This is where buyer personas come into play. Why Buyer Personas Are Crucial in B2B. At SmartBug™, before we develop any content for clients, the first thing we do after our discovery calls is start talking to customers and prospects in order to develop buyer personas. Building Content for Personas.

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Sharpspring

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Solidify Your Market Positioning and Buyer Personas. Be realistic about your product’s positioning in the market and your buyer personas. If your positioning or your buyer personas are not reflective of your actual customers, your marketing and sales efforts could go to waste. Breaking It Down.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Automation has been a big win for small and large businesses alike. Automating means your business can continue to convert and nurture visitors to leads, and leads to opportunities, at any hour of the day. When you’re weighing your options to know whether if automation is the solution, think clearly and objectively.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Check out the infographic below to learn how B2B data cleansing in the form of automated data maintenance is the best gift you can give yourself this year. Automated Database Maintenance: The Future of Data Hygiene. Buyer Personas: The Missing Piece to Your Lead Generation Puzzle [Infographic].

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, we have things like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. And in order to achieve that, you need buyer personas. What Are Buyer Personas? By now, you probably know what a buyer persona is. This is where personas come in. How To Create Buyer Personas.

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

One of the key foundational elements to a content marketing strategy is a buyer persona. Yet merely 57% of B2B marketers say they have a deep understanding of the buyer personas included in their strategy. A B2B Buyer Persona is a Functional Tool—Not a Poster with a Few Platitudes. Everyone is busy.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 12, 2011

.  This subtle difference can actually be the rock that sends out ripples of influence to other social buyers in the sea of social networks.    A key component for engaging the social buyer persona is that an organization today must offer avenues of engagements that buyers choose. 

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ClickDimensions

MARCH 14, 2023

One of these technologies is Marketing Automation. Page Contents What is Marketing Automation? How can manufacturers use Marketing Automation? Marketing Automation is a technology which businesses can use to help find, nurture, and convert prospects by guiding them through the buyer journey across multiple different platforms.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Buyer Strategy. Marketing Automation Optimization. Your Top Ten Questions About B2B Buyer Personas. Recently, we partnered with Demand Gen Report to present a webinar about the power of personas. We are in the early stages of persona use and development. Technology Expertise. B2B Marketing Strategy.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 18, 2011

  Adam gives us a good sense of the numbers and dollars being invested in demand generation and marketing automation.  In the article, Adam lays out three reasons why failure exists: Your plan is not built around your target buyer. .  If you haven’t read it, I would highly recommend doing so. 

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Tony Zambito

MAY 11, 2011

  Usually a component of this effort is the target role and title you’ve got neatly pegged into a sales automation or CRM application.    This may have been just fine – that is – until buyers have become fairly self-directed in the buying process as well as enabled by the Internet and social technologies. 

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PureB2B

JULY 6, 2022

A common challenge in the B2B demand generation world centers around the balance of automation and reporting software. The goal with most B2B marketers is to get their automation to a point of fluidity that it requires very little human input. But if you want to make the most of your automation software, read on. Productivity.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This implies that trigger events are not created equal; therefore, an in-depth knowledge of your ideal customer profile, buyer personas, and purchasing behaviors is required for creating a successful B2B trigger event selling approach. Buyer Persona Role Changes. Hiring Surges. News/Media Mentions. Fundraises.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 11, 2019

While you can figure these email preferences out on your own, Crystal automates them so you can spend less time focused on personality assessments and more time on other aspects of selling. The more specific you can be with your personas, the more empathetic your proposed solutions can be. Follow similar styles with the closings.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 20, 2011

.  The deeper the understanding, the more targeted and relevant content can be for buyers.    Buyer persona development is a methodology for informing strategy.    Knowing what buyers are researching for determines what should be produced. .      Related articles. . 

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Lead Forensics

MAY 14, 2024

They have become masters at using marketing automation and their digital strategies continue to grow in sophistication. Amazon continues to be a leading light in this field, showing how marketing automation can help turn a company into a slick selling machine. What is marketing automation?

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

If there was a Marketing Automation soiree, I’d be the host. As a marketing automation consultant and a marketing technologist at heart, I work with technology all day, every day. The platforms today can enable just about any marketing task, including automation. It’s more than automation, but how much more?

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Tony Zambito

MAY 4, 2011

Buyer Persona Development and the qualitative research methodology applied to creating buyer personas have proven to be an effective means for B2B organizations to reach a deeper understanding of their buyers.    Buyer persona development methodology is at its core a research methodology. 

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Tony Zambito

JULY 10, 2011

In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on how it is important to leave some of the major misconceptions about buyer personas behind in order to peer into the future.    Without a doubt, we are seeing the most dramatic change in buyer behaviors since post World War II. 

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2011

These strategy areas include content strategy, social marketing, marketing automation, social selling, demand generation, and buyer experience marketing.    Obtaining contextual understanding of the new social buyer persona will be a key element of formulating strategies that are successful and embraced by buyers.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

If there was a Marketing Automation soiree, I’d be the host. As a marketing automation consultant and a marketing technologist at heart, I work with technology all day, every day. The platforms today can enable just about any marketing task, including automation. It’s more than automation, but how much more?

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

In a previous post, I shared a four-step process for creating in-depth B2B buyer personas. In this post, I’ll discuss how the details of a buyer persona inform a content marketing strategy. 9 Components of a B2B Buyer Persona. A Day in the Life. It’s written in the first person as if they are talking to you.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 12, 2017

Just as well, the realization also has materialized that what has worked in the past, is not working today when it comes to understanding buyers. B2B companies are struggling to make gaining buyer insights more than the gathering of analytics, buyer intelligence, sales intelligence, and buyer personas couched in factual data.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 28, 2021

And be careful about digitizing outdated means of connecting with buyers. Doing so will only automate the very seller-side behaviors buyers have come to resent. Resentment can be an example of an attitudinal element in the makeup of a Buyer Mindset.

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