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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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

Marrying the creative side of content marketing with the more technical parts of SEO is an art form many have yet to master. 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? So, what is a modern SEO professional to do?

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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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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. To create an effective marketing, sales or social media strategy, you must first have a clear idea of who is consuming your content and why. What is a buyer persona?

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 3, 2023

Most marketers understand this basic concept: You should create personalized content for your site visitors. But the question is where to start, especially if your product or service targets multiple buyers. Delivering the right content to the right person at the right time may seem like a daunting task at first glance.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

It is clear that one of the top challenges facing marketing, especially B2B marketing, is the ability to connect with potential buyers on a personal level. The percentages of marketers indicating this as their top challenge are not measly either. The correlation is evident. Could there be a correlation here also?

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

What does a good content marketing strategy look like? Why is content marketing king? Whether you are new to the riveting world of content or are a self-ascribed expert (i.e. content addict), there is always more to learn. You may have noticed that we’re talking about more than a marketing tactic.

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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. More buyers are now Millennials or Gen X more so than Boomers. The person/role you used to primarily engage with is now removed from the evaluation process, only stepping in at decision time.

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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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ClearVoice

AUGUST 16, 2023

Personalized content is more likely to be engaged with remembered than generic content, helping build customer relationships and creating a more positive brand experience. Scaling personalization without the correct expertise and resources is a significant challenge.

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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.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 16, 2021

When it comes to driving value, content marketing beats advertising (almost) every time. They can coexist and support each other, but there’s no better ROI for your efforts than what you’ll experience with content marketing. Content marketing has a consistently higher ROI than advertising.

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Pam Didner

OCTOBER 22, 2022

I often say knowing your customers well is a marketer’s superpower. 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. To get started, identify whom you will market to. Many teams utilize buyer personas.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 14, 2021

Video can be entertaining and educational while helping you connect with your audience on a deeper level than other types of content marketing. How to Build a Successful Video Content Marketing Strategy to Grow Your Audience. Personalized messages. Create Your Video Content. Quick Takeaways.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 22, 2017

One means for the last sixteen years to understand customers and buyers have been the use of buyer persona development. It is time to rethink buyer persona development in this new era of digital disruption. When the concept of buyer personas was first launched in 2001, the world was a very different place.

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RDIGS

JUNE 13, 2023

Updated May 2023: The results of your content mostly depend on the quality of your B2B content marketing strategy. Recent artificial intelligence (AI) developments have flooded the internet with a tsunami of new content — its calibre is questionable. What is Content Marketing?

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 5, 2016

Understanding How Customers Desire and Perceive Experience Through Buyer Persona Research. Experience, by nature, is highly personal and subjective. Buyer persona research can play a role. That is if organizations truly adopt the original intent and methods of buyer persona research.

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

While 89% of B2B marketers have embraced content marketing, only 37% have a documented content marketing strategy, and only 22% say they are extremely successful with their overall approach to content marketing. One of the key foundational elements to a content marketing strategy is a buyer persona.

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Marketing Interactions

JANUARY 27, 2020

In a lot of the conversations I have with B2B marketers, many are overwhelmed when confronted with how to build truly actionable buyer personas. Building actionable personas takes a fair bit of time and effort. And along with that, so is your persona project. 3 B2B Buyer Persona Types.

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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. Obviously, you would not identify a segment group of personal fitness trainers to target. Professions.

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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.” So, what are you waiting for?

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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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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of the content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content.

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ClearVoice

JUNE 19, 2023

Content marketing is still driving success for companies that do it right. Several content marketing areas expect significant growth and change in 2023. These include account-based marketing, artificial intelligence, local SEO, persona marketing, podcast marketing, social media, and video marketing.

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

In a previous post, I shared a four-step process for creating in-depth B2B buyer personas. In this post, I’ll discuss how the details of a buyer persona inform a content marketing strategy. 9 Components of a B2B Buyer Persona. It’s written in the first person as if they are talking to you.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Today, personalization is more important than ever, as consumers and business decision makers alike are overloaded with content. While a lot of information gets ignored, personalized content tends to hit home. A similar reaction takes place in the brain when people receive personalized content.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 25, 2020

If you want to scale up your content marketing efforts, you need to create more content. Outsourcing all or part of your content marketing is more cost-effective than employing a full-time in-house team. But, how do you make sure external contractors and freelancers produce content with a consistent brand voice ?

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Golden Spiral

MARCH 14, 2018

As a B2B tech marketer, one of your biggest challenges is understanding who your buyers are and, based on that information, how best to communicate with them. That’s where buyer personas come in. In our experience, buyer personas really become valuable when you start segmenting content to each of them.

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the dynamic world of B2B marketing, one strategy stands out as a game-changer: personalization. It’s not just about addressing your audience by their first name in emails; it’s about tailoring your entire marketing approach to meet the specific needs, preferences, and pain points of each potential client.

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Content Standard

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

What’s the first thing we all say about the best content strategies? Marketers develop buyer personas to better understand the brand’s audience intimately, and then build a content strategy around the information needs of those personas. Developing Buyer Personas Based on Audience Insights.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 31, 2021

Learning how to tailor your marketing content to a local audience, therefore, is critical to content marketing success. Learn how to master customizing content to each locality, and you’ll have a formula for content marketing success no matter what markets you move into.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 25, 2020

Unlike yesterday’s robocalls or email blasts, today’s sales automation all boils down to personalization. Even better, some sales automation programs allow you to integrate them with your content marketing platform. Quick Takeaways: Today’s sales automation technology allows you to custom-tailor content to each customer segment.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 20, 2011

With the new hype of content creation now making the rounds of webinars, books, and whitepapers another term has regained the spotlight: the buyer persona. Another common problem you might encounter when trying to create Buyer Persona profiles, is that it may be confused with User Persona – something totally different.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 6, 2020

Pillar content. The phrase strikes fear into the hearts of many content marketers and creators — those who went all in and failed to make the impact they assumed would happen after slaving over a long-form, authoritative piece. Pillar content is the sixth level of the content marketing hierarchy.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 19, 2023

How can you gather intel to help you improve your content marketing strategy? Learn how to perform and ace competitor content analysis in this simple breakdown. Image Source Key Takeaways: Competitor content analysis helps you understand your competition’s content marketing strategies.

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SalesIntel

JULY 13, 2021

Your overarching growth marketing strategy needs to speak to your sales goals and objectives as a business. With one of the top trends for 2021 being personalization, you must understand who you’re talking to and how you will relay your message. Here’s how personalization will take your B2B strategy to the next level.

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Marketing Interactions

MARCH 8, 2017

If you know me, you know I’m all about creating and using B2B buyer personas to drive content marketing strategy. I’ve created more than 400 buyer personas over the last four or five years. A B2B buyer persona should never be treated as a silo. There’s just one thing. I can hear you.

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