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. I believe, in part, the issue is fertilized by efforts to capitalize on the emerging popularity of the term buyer persona.

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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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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

From the time of Don Draper in the hit show Mad Men to mega Super Bowl ad spends in the 1980s, marketers traditionally relied on demographics and social trends to target and segment broad audiences. In the 2000s, digital marketing revolutionized marketers’ ability to reach more specific segments.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

When confronted with the details – database management, customer account segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY customer data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way to get started. Sound familiar?

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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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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…. I was faced with a new situation, one where a tech company wanted our guidance on how to penetrate state governments’ buying committees. The Real-Life Example. Trial and Error.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 11, 2011

  We look at opportunities via company name, whether they are Global 2,000 or Fortune 500, deal size potential, and other few factors that likely make up segmentation.    Here is where buyer persona development can be of help.    Here is where buyer persona development can be of help. 

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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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Cintell

JULY 3, 2018

The 2018 B2B Buying Disconnect Report highlights the difference between how B2B technology buyers and vendors view the purchase process. It is understandable that buyers want to feel very confident in their purchase decision, given the money they are spending. Survey participant in the B2B Buying Disconnect Report.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 15, 2023

This can include many strategies you’ve likely already heard of, like: Email marketing Search engine optimization (SEO) Content marketing Live events Social media Image Source: 99 Firms Simply put, digital marketing utilizes various online tactics to reach and engage with other businesses, ultimately convincing them to buy your products or services.

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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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Circle Studio

MARCH 12, 2020

Creating buyer personas helps you visually picture your buyers and understand them on a deeper level. Buyer personas defined. While the term “buyer personas” is fairly common vernacular in modern marketing, the definition is sometimes misunderstood. Personas put a human face to your buyers.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The way we connect with potential customers is by crafting personas and developing stories that help them envision a better future. What’s a persona? Personas are realistic characters who represent key audience segments. Personas are realistic characters who represent key audience segments. Sign up now.

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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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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Market segmentation helps you find and accurately target your customers. Audience segmentation is to B2B businesses what dessert is like to your favorite meal. Every marketer and sales manager wants market segmentation to paint a more realistic image of their customer base, but they’re not quite sure where to begin.

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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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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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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. I think of them as Organizational Personas.

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ClearVoice

MAY 29, 2023

They’re called marketing personas. In this post, we’ll talk about marketing personas, why they’re important, and the best practices for creating one in 2023. What is a marketing persona? Marketing personas are sometimes also called buyer personas. Buyer personas can inform a wide range of marketing activities.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

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. What is a buyer persona? Why must SEOs pay attention to buyer personas? Let’s get into it!

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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. Let's dive into those, now.

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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. Provide insights on nurturing engagement.

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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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DiscoverOrg

AUGUST 14, 2018

When confronted with the details – database management, segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way get started. This brings us to personas.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 28, 2023

Rather, it is the ongoing process involved in maintaining clean data that is complete and error-free. all of the ongoing processes involved in guaranteeing data is clean … and error-free.” Create data-management processes. Follow these three steps to build your personas: Segment. Work across channels.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

B2B marketing targets buying groups within businesses. Decision Making The decision-making process for B2B and B2C marketing differs greatly, primarily due to the type of customer each is targeting. Purchasing Habits Customer purchasing habits differ significantly between B2B and B2C environments.

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Tony Zambito

AUGUST 14, 2016

As the concept of buyer personas has crept into the conscious of both B2C and B2B Marketing, so has misguided representations of buyer personas become prevalent. With many touted frameworks and processes being representative of buyer personas in name only. Information Overload by Jenny Chisnell. Data Overload.

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DiscoverOrg

AUGUST 14, 2018

When confronted with the details – database management, segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way get started. This brings us to personas.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Content has more legs than engaging buyers before they purchase. There’s even more value to communicate after they buy. The buying committee is getting larger. Having this thought process lets you transform. Commercial consists of buying language. Then map your content to the stages of their purchase journey.

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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.

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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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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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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2021

Reduce risks by removing a lot of the guesswork from your processes and strategies. How Does the Predictive Analytics Process Work? Using predictive analytics effectively involves a multi-step process. An example could be, “What marketing qualified leads (MQLs) are most likely to make a purchase this month?”.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Demand generation is the process of building awareness and interest in a brand’s products and services. Rather, successful demand generation connects a brand’s value proposition to potential customers from the beginning of the buyer’s journey when they first start looking for your product, to the point of purchase and beyond.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 22, 2021

In the world of B2B and SaaS, this usually refers to anyone with buying capabilities at an organization. Enter, your target market — a group of potential customers within your TAM who, through market research, interviews, and more, are deemed most likely to purchase your product/service. Identify The Value(s) Your Product Provides.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 27, 2015

There’s plenty of fervor around the need for buyer personas; so why do some fail to deliver real value? Today, you can find over 500,000 search results on the topic, most supporting the need for buyer personas as a foundational component of effective marketing. This gap is what the next phase of buyer persona maturity is all about.

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