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?

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 15, 2022

Two voids that require buyer insights and growth-focused buyer personas. If we look at the first, the lack of buyer and customer understanding, this can create time-consuming fits and starts in implementing growth strategies. Critical buyer insights become essential to growth strategies meeting targets set. .

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 30, 2019

While your team may have all types of strategies in place to carry out marketing messages, without B2B buyer personas, you could be missing the mark when it comes to getting your efforts consumed by target audiences. In this post, we will cover the following key steps: Identify the Need for B2B Buyer Personas.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

In this post, we cover the basics and then move on to the advanced insight strategies for B2B buyer personas that are now possible with AI. What are B2B Buyer Personas? Are Buyer Personas Still Important? Creating buyer personas can feel like a big challenge.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 5, 2021

I speak daily with product, marketing, and sales professionals about the impact that social media can have on developing buyer personas, launching a product, building a brand, or even on individuals standing in their respective marketplace. Developing Your Buyer Personas. That’s Product Marketing 101.

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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. How can we as marketers appeal to the entire persona? How can we as marketers appeal to the entire persona?

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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.

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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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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 27, 2021

I’m really tired of seeing people dismiss B2B buyer personas as worthless. Although, I have to admit that many of the personas I review from prospective clients are little more than recipe cards for disconnected experiences. And shame on those who are building and promoting what I’ll just call fake personas. Yes, I agree.

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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.

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Launch Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2022

You’ve heard many times before, buyer personas are a crucial component of successful marketing. They clearly outline the target audience and ideal buyers for the product. The characteristics of the personas give insight into what will make the most impact when marketing to them. Importance of Buyer Personas.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 13, 2018

We talk about buyer personas a lot on the ZoomInfo blog— for good reason! Marketers use buyer personas to inform every piece of their marketing strategy and ultimately generate more revenue for their respective companies. 56% of companies have created higher quality leads using buyer personas.

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Cintell

DECEMBER 20, 2019

To produce your most engaging content, you must develop an intimate understanding of your audience. And this is why buyer personas are so important. Sure, you’ve heard of buyer personas before, but this blog post isn’t about a step-by-step process to build yours. Personas and States of Being.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

This insight supports the notion that B2B marketers need to continually re-evaluate the B2B buyer journey, in an effort to understand the impact digital marketing tactics have in sales and business development. The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. What Are Buyer Personas?

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BOP Design

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For instance, in B2B companies, there are often a number of stakeholders that weigh in on the purchase decision when considering new vendors. The answer starts with your buyer personas. What Is a Buyer Persona? Not sure what a buyer persona is? Address Buyer Personas by Industry.

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Pam Didner

OCTOBER 22, 2022

To articulate how well you know your customer requires the development of buyer personas, which take a deep dive into the interests and traits of your target audience. I’ll cover the ins and outs of what they are, as well as some tips and tricks for developing them in a DIY format. Many teams utilize buyer personas.

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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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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

The great content marketer Ann Handley advocates for making your customer, rather than your company, the hero of your brand story. In this guide, we’ll show you how to better understand your target audience by creating buyer personas built on social media data. What is a buyer persona?

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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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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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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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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Read any inbound marketing blog or article and it’ll tell you to start any new initiative with, first, your goal(s) and then, second, your buyer personas. Because personas are at the heart of content. Buyer personas allow you to target and attract the right people to your website like sweet-smelling pheromones.

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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.

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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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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Buyers are 48% more likely to consider vendors that personalize marketing to address their specific needs. If you don’t have a detailed B2B buyer persona you’re leaving money on the table. Without a detailed persona your sales and marketing team’s time is being wasted on chasing leads that are a bad fit and likely to churn.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Buyers are 48% more likely to consider vendors that personalize marketing to address their specific needs. If you don’t have a detailed B2B buyer persona you’re leaving money on the table. Without a detailed persona your sales and marketing team’s time is being wasted on chasing leads that are a bad fit and likely to churn.

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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 Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise. Timing of touches and developing targeted content for each buyer stage/interest are the top two issues at 49% and 48% respectively.

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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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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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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

.” One tool that has become essential to defining a target market is the buyer persona, especially with the rise of social media and video. For many marketers, buyer personas are the key to making better video content, but what are they? There are several reasons why you should use them. How can you do this?

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Hubspot

MAY 26, 2021

Buyer personas typically include descriptions like Elizabeth's, along with other demographics and personality information. In the early days of customer segmentation, this would have been more than enough to inform marketing campaigns and product development. Standard Buyer Personas Aren't Enough.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

Evaluating the resources used on customers (old and new) within marketing and product development teams will help with overall GTM execution. Understanding customer pain points can help with messaging development in your GTM strategy. Productivity: Are there opportunities for more efficient ways of working at your customer’s company?

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Hubspot

JUNE 2, 2020

Do you know who your business's buyer personas are? Buyer personas are semi-fictional representations of your ideal customers based on data and research. Okay, so personas are really important to my business. Before you know it, you'll have complete, well-planned buyer personas to show off to your entire company!

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 22, 2017

In the past few years, the yellow cab companies have been unable to stem a rapid decline from the onslaught of Uber, Lyft, Juno, Via, and other ride platforms. One means for the last sixteen years to understand customers and buyers have been the use of buyer persona development. 2 – Market-based vs. Account-based.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 26, 2013

A few weeks back I wrote a column for Search Engine Land on B2B buyer personas. In exploring the persona concept, it further supported my opinion that for SEO to truly be effective for the B2B organization, SEO needs to run hand-in-hand with traditional B2B marketing initiatives. Eight SEO-Related Buyer Persona Questions.

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Webbiquity

MAY 11, 2021

An efficiency audit examines how productively a company achieves its goals and pays attention to policy compliance. Internal—Based on data within the company. You may not notice your weaknesses as readily as someone without an ownership interest in the company. How Do I Conduct an Efficiency Audit on My B2B Company?

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Launch Marketing

MARCH 31, 2020

As we shared in our post on Marketing Adjustments for Turbulent Times , the buyer personas that B2B marketers use to guide their efforts were not developed in the context of a pandemic disruption. It’s important for businesses to remind their personas that they are still here to serve them, even in such a difficult time.

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