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.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

The most significant challenge B2B marketers face is in effectively communicating with target audiences and prospective buyers. 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.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 2, 2020

Assuming that your customers will find you at the exact moment when they’re about to purchase is not only unrealistic, but it also hurts your ability to grow leads and customers. All customers take a journey when making a purchase. Today, this journey often involves the use of search engines. Identify Buyer Personas.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 25, 2023

Buyer personas—fictional representations of the ideal customers and target audience you’re trying to reach with your content—play an essential role in content strategy. Whether you’re writing a blog post, web copy, lead nurture emails, or an e-book, tailoring your content for each buyer persona is a must.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

DemandGen’s “ 2017 Content Preferences Survey Report ” discovered that 46 percent of B2B buyers have moved towards shorter formats of content in the past year. A couple months ago I outlined 14 visualizations meant to aid B2B marketers in understanding the buying journey. The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey.

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SalesGrape

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Understanding the Unique Challenges of B2B Lead Generation in the Pharmaceutical Sector Lead generation is a critical aspect of any business, and it holds particular significance in the pharmaceutical sector. However, generating high-quality leads can be challenging due to various factors unique to this industry.

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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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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. This same urge is being applied to buyer personas.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

It’s true that there are a lot of less-than-actionable personas being built, but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. And, speaking of babies, even though no one likes to hear that theirs is ugly, unlike babies, those buyer personas aren’t going to get any cuter with age. It’s going to take some work.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

It’s true that there are a lot of less-than-actionable personas being built, but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. And, speaking of babies, even though no one likes to hear that theirs is ugly, unlike babies, those buyer personas aren’t going to get any cuter with age. It’s going to take some work.

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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. Use Buyer Personas to Drive Strategy. One of the best ways to do that is with buyer personas.

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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. Buying processes and buyer journeys. Confusion by Adam Gale. Buying criteria and risk factors.

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 8, 2015

We are seeing continued growth in the adoption of buyer personas as a means for understanding buyers and customers. At the same time, the growth is fraught with the perils of buyer personas being misunderstood, mislabeled, and serving as a cover for basic buyer profiling. This is where I need your help.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sales enablement best practices: Know thy audience … define buyer personas When improving sales enablement, always start with your audience by building personas. Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas. Yeah, you probably know that already.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

It is assumptions about the buying journey, I believe, that lead to a number of issues causing angst to sales and marketing leaders. Lack of opportunities, lost customers, losing deals, inability to generate leads or inability to capture the attention of buyers. 3 – Focus on buyer interaction design (BxD).

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Ledger Bennett

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Every year Ledger Bennett work with numerous clients to help them develop Buyer Personas with a clear focus: Build Buyer Personas that make a commercial impact on their business. But now there’s an added complexity and a potential increase in the personas we need to consider. These are the User Personas.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 5, 2016

Understanding How Customers Desire and Perceive Experience Through Buyer Persona Research. Buyer persona research can play a role. That is if organizations truly adopt the original intent and methods of buyer persona research. A place where true goal-directed buyer persona research can be of immense help.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 3, 2016

In 2016, we will mark the fifteenth year since buyer personas were first introduced. The journey, however, continues towards professionals and organizations gaining a true understanding of what buyer persona development entails. by Scott Lewis.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 21, 2020

Regardless of what industry you’re in, all companies are always looking for one thing: ways to increase lead awareness in order to generate more sales. Accurately understanding who your buyers are (start by developing buyer personas ) will ensure that you’re targeting the most valuable potential customers.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2015

As mentioned in previous articles, CMOs in particular, will now have to succinctly discern between buyer profiling and buyer personas. (This discernment is needed for it is unfortunate that conventional buyer profiling and win/loss analysis is being repackaged, if you will, as buyer personas by agencies and individual consultants.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 5, 2011

.  Understanding what buyers are doing in the lead generation to sales cycle gap is proving to be a competitive difference maker.   It also redefines marketing’s role in terms of just lead generation to that of working in tandem with sales through the entire end-to-end process of revenue generation and management. 

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Only B2B

APRIL 30, 2024

Buyer Journey Stage: The B2B buyer journey includes multiple stakeholders at each stage (awareness, consideration, decision). Identify Buyer Personas: Develop detailed profiles of your ideal customers to guide your channel selection. Equally important is converting those leads into loyal customers.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 20, 2011

.  The deeper the understanding, the more targeted and relevant content can be for buyers.    Buyer persona development is a methodology for informing strategy.    Knowing what buyers are researching for determines what should be produced.     Related articles. . 

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Below are the few insights gathered from diverse surveys and research on B2B buyer behavior: Gartner, Inc. reveals that B2B buyers value third-party interactions, like customer references and expert consultations, 1.4x As per Deloitte , B2B buyers exhibit diverse digital behaviors. 75% now use more sources for research.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2011

These strategy areas include content strategy, social marketing, marketing automation, social selling, demand generation, and buyer experience marketing.    Obtaining contextual understanding of the new social buyer persona will be a key element of formulating strategies that are successful and embraced by buyers.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 10, 2011

  Here is a key issue facing organizations today: each time a new social technology is introduced, it ultimately alters the buying behaviors of the new social buyer persona.  This issue and the surrounding complexities call into question, for organizations today, their readiness for adapting to the new social buyer persona. 

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Launch Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here are five ways to generate more leads in a competitive market through effective digital marketing for manufacturers. Consistent branding across marketing channels and platforms can increase not only lead generation but also revenue by up to 23%. How can you create content at an accelerated rate to keep up with buyer expectations?

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Tony Zambito

JULY 10, 2011

In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on how it is important to leave some of the major misconceptions about buyer personas behind in order to peer into the future.    Without a doubt, we are seeing the most dramatic change in buyer behaviors since post World War II. 

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B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

He writes, "ABM is an extraordinarily smart way to make the right tactical decisions when it comes to demand generation, but the elite Account-Based Marketers are still building personas, nurturing every step of the buyer's journey, and know exactly which activities and leads are driving revenue."

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This is the type of mindset that has created a host of problems leading to bankruptcies in the American retail industry. For buyers, they will have expectations of not being forced to choose a platform or channel because one experience is better than the other. It was such a mess every time, I didn’t want to deal with it.”.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The top 3 barriers to effective implementation of marketing strategies were considered to be lack of brand awareness, lack of leads generated and lack of automation of processes. The top 3 2022 marketing priorities include funnel conversion, lead generation and marketing automation. Buyer Journey Mapping.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The imperative for B2B suppliers is to understand how their buyer’s goals are changing. Assuming buyers will have the same goals and objectives can cause severe misalignment. The consequences will undoubtedly lead to falling short of pipeline and revenue opportunities. Buyer Interactions Have Changed.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 21, 2021

Create and Understand Your Buyer Personas. By now, you’ve likely heard this advice before, but creating buyer personas should be one of your first priorities when beginning any marketing project for your brand. Figuring out how to create buyer personas can bring on a whole new set of challenges.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Although buyer personas are typically considered marketing territory, they’re also critical to the prospecting process. Consider the following statistics ( source ): Companies who exceed lead and revenue goals are 4 times as likely to use personas for demand generation compared to those who missed lead and revenue goals.

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Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

Clarity & Focus Targeted precision: Documenting buyer personas ensures laser-focused content and optimizes channel choices for niche industrial audiences. Goals mapped to the buyer journey: Outline SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound) for each stage of the long industrial sales cycle.

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Stevens & Tate

MAY 10, 2022

Inbound Marketing is about offering the right content to the right audience based on where they are within the Buyer’s Journey and developing buyer personas to help target the correct people in the most effective way possible. The best way to understand which format to use for your content is through your buyer personas.

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 26, 2022

You need some organic lead generation strategies! Organic lead generation can boost both your website traffic and business revenue, all without costing you anything. In this article, we’ll go over some tried and true organic lead generation techniques that you can start using today. What Is Organic Lead Generation?

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