Contently

APRIL 6, 2023

Love them or hate them, buyer personas are key to creating successful marketing strategies and effective content. But here’s the catch: Developing buyer personas requires research, analysis, and attention to detail. What Is a Buyer Persona? A buyer persona is a detailed profile of a company’s ideal customer.

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Martech

JANUARY 22, 2024

We’ve seen chats ranging from simple queries on how to buy marketing technology to folks asking for help evaluating vendors, creating marketing strategies and email copy — and so much more. Custom marketing technology-related personas The No. That’s why I now come pre-loaded with several personas to kickstart your process.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 26, 2021

Marketing And Sales Teams Should First Align With An Important Buyer Mindset Before Jumping In Helping Buyers To Buy. The phrase – “helping buyers to buy” – has been a new mantra for the past three to five years. Especially as an idea to examine in buyer persona development. The phrase certainly makes sense. A purchase.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Leverage Buyer Insights To Create Rewarding Digital Buying Experiences For Buyers. One significant outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the increasing desire on the part of buyers for digital buying experiences. What has become evident in the past 14-16 months is B2B buying has undergone radical change.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Studies prove that B2B prospects now prefer a digital buying journey over sales calls. Understanding your target audience is more important than ever for lead generation and improving the ROI of marketing and sales. What are B2B Buyer Personas? Are Buyer Personas Still Important? Think about the Greek gods, for example.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Buyer personas are archetypal representations of actual buyers that articulate insights into their goals. Your buyer personas are a picture in time of your buyers. There is an important caveat to updating buyer insights and buyer personas. That is, to question whether you have buyer personas or buyer profiles.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 23, 2019

Now, we have “Buying Groups.” The philosophy of buying groups is to identify and engage a set of personas involved in making a purchasing decision. What the Heck Are Buying Groups? This new way of thinking about people involved in making a purchasing decision is called buying groups. So, Where Do You Start?

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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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The Lead Agency

MARCH 17, 2024

But what comes first is the lead. Website lead generation forms are one of the most critical touchpoints in the B2B landscape. They are the front lines of engagement, meticulously designed to convert casual browsers into leads. Combining B2B and B2C statistics, the average conversion rate from lead generation forms is 1.7%.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 28, 2022

On a recent episode of the SmartBug® on Tap podcast, we dove into buyer personas—but not in the traditional sense. We’re talking about who your buyer personas are outside of their nine-to-five day job. We’re answering questions like: Why should marketing professionals be interested in your buyer personas in their five-to-nine lives?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Today, we have solutions like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. What Are Buyer Personas? Basically, personas ensure that everything you do in terms of lead generation and customer acquisition is tailored to your targeted buyers’ needs. This is where personas come in.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But do they really want to buy, or are they just window shopping? Here’s the hard truth: “You don’t know if they’re ready to buy until they tell you they’re ready to buy, and you can’t believe it until you get a signed contract,” said Richard Harris , sales coach and founder of The Harris Consulting Group.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. But how do you find leads and prime them for buying? Welcome to lead generation marketing. What is Lead Generation Marketing? Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers.

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Exo B2B

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Did you know that 72% of marketing professionals use B2B personas to guide their marketing content? In this world where every purchasing decision can involve multiple stakeholders and take months of deliberation, understanding the nuances of B2B personas and the complex journey of the B2B buyer is not only useful, it’s essential.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 6, 2023

If you're a marketing professional, you've probably heard the term "buyer persona" more times than you can count. Buyer personas are an essential part of a successful marketing strategy because not only do they define precisely whom you’re trying to reach, but they also inform so many aspects of your business. What is a buyer persona?

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 1985, a software designer named Alan Cooper invented a user persona named Kathy to add human context to the development process. Over the years, marketers built on that idea to develop buyer personas – profiles of fictional people that embody several ideal client characteristics. Buying Behavior: Is this a B2B or B2C customer?

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Leadspace

AUGUST 16, 2023

A persona refers to a representation of a user or buyer segment that is created to better understand and design for the needs, behaviors, and preferences of that group. Persona creation is common in fields like marketing, user experience (UX) design, and customer service. Often job titles are incorrect and not up to date.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 25, 2020

Automatic reminders to follow up, scheduling software so customers can meet with you at a time that suits both parties, customer information at your fingertips – all are yours with leading-edge sales automation programs. The technical knowledge they can provide might be the nugget of proof your prospect needs to move him or her to buy.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It forces you and your team to get very, very specific about the people within an account who buy and to define and measure your wins. Allowing every salesperson to define their buying group differently, and record it differently in the CRM, no longer works in ABM. Defining your buying group. Define your personas.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

In today’s blog post we explain why buyer personas are a critical—but often missing—element of your SEO strategy. What is a buyer persona? On a basic level, a buyer persona is essentially a fictional representation of the person who is most likely to buy from your company—your ideal customer. Let’s get into it!

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Creating marketing personas is an important part of marketing strategy in any industry. Personas help you craft spot-on messages that resonate with your audience and elicit an action or response. In this blog post, we’ll discuss what marketing personas are, why they’re important, and how you can create them.

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Launch Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Developing B2B buyer personas is important for many reasons, including crafting targeted messages and personalizing marketing activities. But, before focusing on messaging and personalizing marketing efforts it is key to understand all the components that make up buyer personas, especially demographics.

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Cintell

MAY 18, 2021

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.

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Launch Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2022

You’ve heard many times before, buyer personas are a crucial component of successful marketing. The characteristics of the personas give insight into what will make the most impact when marketing to them. Importance of Buyer Personas. Here are the three key benefits of creating buyer personas for a B2B product launch.

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markempa

MAY 30, 2017

When was the last time you looked at the quality and accuracy of your B2B persona and contact data? Mathew works with Salesforce and is the Principal of Marketing Insights to talk about the just released report, B2B Personas: Targeting Audiences. The B2B Persona project from Mathew Sweezey. It’s different day to day.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

While we all have goals and objectives for lead generation, brand development, and customer experience as examples, the overarching challenge is making the right decisions to achieve them. What Are B2B Buyer Personas? For online marketers, buyer personas can provide direction in the channel-specific campaign development.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In this short video, our product content lead, Emily Dumas, covers new features and optimizations for ZoomInfo for Sales, Engage, and Recruiter. We’ve introduced a new feature called Buying Committee to our ZoomInfo for Sales platform. We’ve introduced a new feature called Buying Committee to our ZoomInfo for Sales platform.

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Marketing Interactions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As the market shifts, much of what you thought was true about your buyer personas and ICPs may be different. A new role now has a major influence on buying decisions for what you sell. A Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise. Buying committees are getting bigger. How to Refresh Your Buyer Personas.

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Cintell

JULY 3, 2018

The 2018 B2B Buying Disconnect Report highlights the difference between how B2B technology buyers and vendors view the purchase process. How Vendors Can Address the B2B Buying Disconnect: Transparency & Resources. Survey participant in the B2B Buying Disconnect Report.

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Sales Engine

JULY 29, 2016

Sales reps need leads, and it’s marketing’s job to get at least some of them—a majority would be nice. As much as I hate the term “lead generation,” I don’t know a better one, so let’s start by defining what it is not. If it were, then we could buy a list and have our sales people cold call until they got appointments. (

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The Lead Agency

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This can be done by building buyer personas. A buyer persona is a research-based profile that depicts a target customer. Buyer personas describe who your ideal customers are, what their days are like, the challenges they face, and how they make decisions. Steps to Creating a Buyer Persona in B2B. How big is their company?

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Leadspace

APRIL 19, 2023

In our last blog , we discussed using Fit (propensity) models to determine the companies within your TAM who need your product, and how to determine which of those companies are actually ready to buy with Intent scores. Does their role at the company line up with the personas of your historical successes?

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Inbox Insight

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In the realm of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), two terms frequently arise that B2B marketers often struggle to comprehend – demand generation and lead generation. Yet, understanding the difference between demand gen and lead gen is crucial to the success of your marketing efforts. Unlike demand gen, lead gen is more transactional.

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Content4Demand

MAY 26, 2021

Personas can be incredibly useful in B2B marketing—provided you’re including the right details. Those details might vary depending on your industry or your solution, there are at least four common persona mistakes everyone should avoid. When Content4Demand researches personas, job title is a no-brainer. Missing Key Job Titles.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? Plus, let’s not forget, every customer starts out as a lead. No matter where the lead was sourced. But how do we distinguish good leads from bad leads? How do you define a lead?

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The Lead Agency

MARCH 17, 2024

But what comes first is the lead. Website lead capture forms are one of the most critical touchpoints in the B2B landscape. They are the front lines of engagement, meticulously designed to convert casual browsers into leads. While easy to introduce, B2B lead capture forms are not so straightforward to master.

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Lattice

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Some marketers have been fumbling with developing models of their ideal buyer personas to determine what influences their buying decision.

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