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Goal-Directed Marketing: How Marketers Can Help Buyers Achieve Their Goals

Tony Zambito

Marketing and sales still rely on market segmentation and buyer profiling as it has for the last twenty-five plus years. In B2B commerce, for example, we may have a good idea about segments, roles, key initiatives of organizations, pain points, and criteria related to product specifics as well as purchasing.

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State Of Buyer Personas 2016: Strong Correlation Between Effectiveness And Goals

Tony Zambito

The journey, however, continues towards professionals and organizations gaining a true understanding of what buyer persona development entails. Nearly 30% of the respondents stated their buyer personas were very to significantly effective – this is double from the previous year. 80% of the respondents were from B2B organizations.

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State of B2B Multi Channel Marketing Strategy 2022 Uncut: US vs UK

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What do our first party research insights reveal about the state of the B2B marketing strategy on both sides of the Atlantic? While multi channel marketing is no new phenomenon, the art of building scalable, effective and cost efficient multi channel strategies can differ enormously from business to business – and country!

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Beyond Buyer Profiling To Buyer Personification

Tony Zambito

The concept of breaking down a potential market or industry into smaller target segments is a standard technique taught in business schools and used by many organizations. The understanding of not only the segments and organizations that buys but also the individual that buys. Or, did it?

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The Emerging Importance Of B2B Ethnography To Buyer Personas

Tony Zambito

CEOs and their organizations are finding it hard to keep pace with new digital technologies. Many organizations are still relying on a win/loss perspective when it comes to understanding buyers. Which, then leads to organizations staying in the status quo of buyer profiling, as well as, win/loss analysis.).

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Informed Customer Understanding Should Guide Marketing

Tony Zambito

Most survey results in the past two to three years related to content marketing effectiveness has shown that only approximately a third of business marketers considered their content marketing efforts to be effective to very effective. Making use of relevant insights to help guide marketing planning.

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Study Confirms Importance Of Qualitative Research To Success With Buyer Personas

Tony Zambito

A recent survey conducted by Cintell*, entitled 2016 Benchmark Study On Understanding B2B Buyers , indicates that high performing organizations utilized qualitative research for their buyer personas. Documentation Leads To Effectiveness. The survey indicated a top challenge was getting the organization as a whole to value personas.