Buyer Personas help you create better marketing content, plain and simple.

Adele Revella of The Buyer Persona Institute and Tony Zambido are the top experts in buyer personas. Suggest you visit their websites to learn more about Buyer Personas.

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The area I suggest you start with is developing a deep understanding of your buyers.  Why?

If you want to write meaningful content to buyers, you need to understand how they buy and the terms they use.

After all, future potential buyers will use the same terms and thoughts as past buyers. In fact, Joe Pulizzi book said Epic Content means less marketing, and that’s true.

How can you create epic content without understanding buyer and the process and words they use to solve their business problems?

According to Adele Revella of The Buyer Persona Institute. almost 1/2 of companies (44%) but almost 9 out of 10 say they are not using them effectively.

The reason I believe is that buyer personas are like scuba diving. You don’t scuba dive unless you are trained and certified. (I am a NAUI certified scuba diver, by the way.)

Buyer Personas require expertise that comes from good training.

Pre-defined survey questions do not work, because you cannot predict responses. You are a detective doing personas.

In the great book by my friend Joe Pulizzi of The Content Marketing Institute, his recent book, Epic Content Marketing, talked about the importance of “audience personas.”

Please keep in mind what is required to do good customer interviews:

1. Know whom to interview.
2. Know how to conduct a successful interview.
3. Know how to document your findings.
4. Know how to use those documented findings in your marketing campaigns to create better marketing content.

With that in mind,we believe the best way is to use people who are trained by the Buyer Persona Institute, in the Buyer Persona Master Class, like Jeffrey L. Ogden of Find New Customers was a long time ago, but we still have the content from that class. (So sorry the Find New Customers website is not working, but it’s coming soon I hope.)

Spend some time investing in learning the behavior of recent buyers and your marketing will vastly improve.

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This blog is written by the award-winning marketing expert Jeffrey L. Ogden, the Fearless Competitor - President of Find New Customers. You can follow me on Twitter at @fearlesscomp like thousands of people do today.