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. Customer Segmentation. In fact, it can be quite a complex effort for organizations to undertake. Professions.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

The digital nature of our current business landscape has caused a dramatic shift in the way companies market their products. More customers are turning to the internet to research, test, and purchase products and services. In today’s blog post we explain why buyer personas are a critical—but often missing—element of your SEO strategy.

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BOP Design

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The answer starts with your buyer personas. What Is a Buyer Persona? Not sure what a buyer persona is? Hubspot has an excellent in-depth overview , but in a nutshell, it’s this: A buyer persona is a profile of your typical prospective customer. Address Buyer Personas by Industry.

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Marketing Interactions

JANUARY 19, 2020

One of the first things potential clients say to me is something along the lines of how many buyer personas they think they need to create. The average is three to five B2B buyer personas. Which B2B buyer personas, when engaged, will help marketers drive contribution to revenues?

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The Lead Agency

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This means going further than demographics to get a real sense of who your buyer is and what drives them. This can be done by building buyer personas. A buyer persona is a research-based profile that depicts a target customer. As such, in many cases, B2B businesses will have more than one buyer persona to target.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 15, 2022

With 8 to 15 buyers involved in a complex B2B purchase, ensuring a no-regret deal can be as difficult as herding cats. By gathering and applying in-depth buyer intelligence with buyer personas, you can mitigate non-consensus due to differing objectives that stall deals and escalate regret. Don’t get me wrong.

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Hubspot

MAY 26, 2021

All of this information helps you place her in a category in your mind — but none of that information tells you why she buys your product. Buyer personas typically include descriptions like Elizabeth's, along with other demographics and personality information. Standard Buyer Personas Aren't Enough.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you not only show leads content that makes sense to them, but you get your audiences excited about buying from you. What Is Customer Segmentation? Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. What Are Key Segments in Marketing?

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MarketJoy

APRIL 7, 2022

Why You Need Effective Buyer Personas for B2B Lead Generation. A buyer persona is a hypothetical customer that serves as a model of the buyer you want to target. Personas are based on an ideal customer profile (ICP), which is a set of metrics that guide your overall sales strategy. Why do they buy?

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Marketing Campaigns Manager, advises that product teams should be included in lead scoring. “If If you’re releasing new products or features, it’s important to know what those are because you want to pull in the people who will find them most valuable. So loop in Product, because they will have those insights.”

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. While there is no precise recipe to segment audiences, we’re here to help you nail down the fundamentals. While it can be used to help you qualify leads, it’s also an excellent strategy to segment audiences.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Enter email list segmentation—the key to successful email marketing. Today’s blog post answers your most pressing questions about list segmentation and explains why you should segment your lists today. The Beginner’s Guide to Email List Segmentation. What is list segmentation? How do I segment my email lists?

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

As marketing technology and information access continues to evolve, B2B buying behavior changes as well. For example, recent research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. What Are Buyer Personas?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Influence their buying decisions? Or form productive relationships with them? The only way to join the 30-40% of people who do understand their buyers is to create buyer personas. Today we teach you how to construct an effective B2B buyer persona profile—keep reading. What is a buyer persona?

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Business Brainz

JULY 19, 2021

B2B revenue leaders and marketers are spending a lot of their time focusing on understanding buyer personas. Since B2B buyers have become more cautious, it becomes monolithic to understand them and their changing behavior. One of the best ways to dive deep into your prospective customers is by building a buyer persona insight.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 15, 2023

B2B marketing may help businesses promote their products or services, but it’s more than that – it focuses on building customer relationships, establishing trust, and driving revenue through an optimized digital experience. B2B digital marketing refers to the promotion of products or services between businesses using digital channels.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Successful marketing in the B2B space relies on segmenting and defining your business’s total addressable market. As decision making has evolved over time, it’s become more imperative that you not only target different companies based on varying criteria, but that you break down your audience into buyer personas based on their unique needs.

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Metadata

JANUARY 25, 2024

He continued, “The fundamentals allow you to focus on your core buyer, be more efficient, and stop wasting money and time on trying new things just because others are doing it.” Hone your target market with segmentation We can hear you now: But Metadata, we already know our market and target audience. So, what are Roger’s fundamentals?

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

In this same survey mentioned above, it was found 50% or more of marketers surveyed have not engaged in researching and creating buyer personas for their marketing efforts. One of the key premises of user personas and buyer personas, since their origins, are they can foster a common view of customers within organizations.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

That’s why email list segmentation is the key to successful email marketing. Today’s blog post answers your most pressing questions about email list segmentation and explains why you should segment your lists today. What is Email List Segmentation? How is List Segmentation Effective? Unfamiliar with the term?

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Martech

JANUARY 26, 2024

ICP vs. buyer persona: Which is the way to go? ICP is more of a big-picture strategic direction or target market and high-potential accounts, while buyer persona is more of the people behind it and closing deals with specific individuals. The table below outlines the key differences between an ICP and a buyer persona.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2016

For example, some content marketing pundits believe you should separate out audience personas. Because these are different, in theory, from your buyer personas. I believe this approach may only exacerbate the compartmentalization based on the faulty premise of making personas about the “who”.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you show leads content that gets them excited about buying from you. What Is Customer Segmentation? Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. Get a Demo What Are Key Segments in Marketing? Australasia or the European Union).

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

New product or service launches can be rollercoaster rides, ranging from excitement about launch day to anxiety about early results. However, there is one question you must answer that is critically important to your product’s long-term success: Whose needs are you solving with your product? Targeted Product Launch.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 23, 2024

This includes advertising; developing email marketing campaigns with specific targeting; buying, renting, and building email lists; email marketing tools ; and other essential marketing components. You may make your communications more relevant by segmenting your email lists according to industry, job description, or previous contacts.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Mapping a B2B buying committee is no easy feat. I’ll tell you a little story about a buying committee I was tasked with identifying this past month…. Here at Heinz Marketing, our typical clients sell their products or services to other companies in the private sector, hence our specialty in “B2B marketing”. Trial and Error.

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Optinmonster

MARCH 16, 2020

Email segmentation can drastically improve the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns. In this guide, we’ll share 50 email segmentation ideas that the pros use to create targeted email lists. Because smart marketers know the value of email list segmentation. For this, email segmentation is an absolute must.

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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.” Build buyer personas with collective knowledge.

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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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Zoominfo

JANUARY 31, 2018

Enter: email list segmentation—the key to successful email marketing. Today’s blog post answers your most pressing questions about list segmentation, and explains why you should segment your lists today. The Beginner’s Guide to Email List Segmentation. What is list segmentation? Unfamiliar with the term?

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While it’s nice to believe that everyone would be interested in purchasing your product or service, it’s not wise to define your target market as such. This is where segmentation, targeting, and positioning come into play. Let’s unpack each part of the segmentation-targeting-positioning model. Segmentation. Let’s dive in.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 8, 2018

Here at The Mx Group, we have frequent conversations with our clients about how to create buyer personas , and what a powerful tool they can be when they are really being utilized. Few B2B marketers dispute the value of personas for strategy, messaging and execution across sales and marketing. Number of personas: 5 or more.

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Sharpspring

JULY 7, 2020

Segmenting customers based on their buying and decision-making patterns is essential to effective, personalized marketing. Human beings are creatures of habit, and those habits show up in the way people purchase products both in-person and online. What Is Behavior-Based Segmentation? Tip #2: Use Income-Based Segmentation.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

At the heart of it, two substantial forces come into play: The changing B2B buyer behavior An essential element of the contemporary buyer’s journey involves the increasing prevalence of buying groups and committees, encompassing multiple members from various departments within a business.

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Stevens & Tate

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

You want potential buyers to understand what their problem is, and how your products or services can solve that problem. It’s why commercials consist of much more than an explanation of a product’s use. It’s why you should develop buyer personas. Informing your audience is important.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

It’s the day of a new product launch. Launching a new product stirs excitement for any company, regardless of size. GTM strategies help specifically with expanding a brand’s new product or services. With a quality data-driven strategy you can identify exactly how to approach target buyers. Find Your Buyer Personas.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 12, 2011

Without question, while B2B Marketing is focused on developing its new prominence in the early stages of the buying cycle via content strategy and content marketing, B2B Sales is caught flat-footed on how to adapt to changing buyer behaviors.    What do these new buying cycles look like?  Image via Wikipedia.

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