Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2021

When you leverage content marketing to expand your business into new territory, you’ll be a step ahead of your competitors. Quick Takeaways: Conduct a market analysis to identify target segments. Expand your team to handle the larger content workload. Create buyer personas and research content that meets their needs.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 12, 2021

While content personalization isn’t easy, there are lots of opportunities to delight your customers with it. To provide content marketers with some guidance, we’ve gathered some great personalization strategies you’ll want to try. Content personalization is a way to build trust and loyalty with customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 6, 2023

Now is the time to become an expert on creating video content. Not only are 91% of businesses already using video as a marketing tool in 2023, but 96% of marketers are placing ad spend on video. If you haven’t already, this is your sign to hop on the video content bandwagon. But what exactly qualifies as video content?

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Cintell

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Video marketing is officially the top content format B2B marketers used in 2019. While video has become a quintessential component of today’s content marketing strategy , it’s like any other medium. To produce your most engaging content, you must develop an intimate understanding of your audience.

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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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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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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While some invest a tremendous amount of money in traditional advertising channels, many use the power of content instead. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. Here’s your current B2B buyer. Quick Takeaways. We Live in a Digital Marketplace.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 14, 2021

Videos are easy to digest, can help people understand your business better, and will bring life and motion to your content and messaging. Here are several impressive video marketing stats : 86% of businesses use video for marketing. 86% of video marketers say video has increased website traffic. Create Your Video Content.

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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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Scoop.it

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Fortunately, however, there are various strategies that can allow your ecommerce business to attract web visitors and turn them into buyers. Content marketing is, without a doubt, one of the best ways to achieve this goal. So, how do you use content marketing to boost conversions? Let’s dive in.

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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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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. So, choosing not to shift your view as their perspectives, needs, and preferences change, is choosing to watch the effectiveness of your marketing programs diminish as they become more irrelevant over time.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 9, 2019

How do you feel about your content marketing strategy? Content marketing isn’t a perfect science —nor is it a one-and-done kind of activity. Even if your content is performing well, your content marketing strategy may still need adjustments. Is Your Content Strategy Fully Integrated?

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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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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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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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Navigate the Channel

DECEMBER 15, 2023

One powerful strategy that has emerged as a game-changer is content marketing. In this article, we will explore why content marketing is crucial and how you can effectively incorporate it into your overall business strategy. RELATED: How to Diversify Your Content Strategy 4.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 2, 2021

When it comes to content marketing, how do you know what to write about? The answer is simple: conduct a content gap analysis. In short, this analysis will help you find gaps in your content marketing strategy and show you exactly how to fill them. What is Content Gap Analysis? Quick Takeaways.

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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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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. It requires a deep understanding of your target audience along with the ability to create and deliver content relevant to each individual.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2016

The term, audience development , has become more ubiquitous in the world of marketing. A recognition of the growing importance of digital content marketing to overall marketing strategies today. For example, some content marketing pundits believe you should separate out audience personas.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

A recent survey by B2B Marketing, in conjunction with the UK-based agency Tomorrow People, indicated only 38% of marketers considered their content to be “very customer-centric.” One of the key premises of user personas and buyer personas, since their origins, are they can foster a common view of customers within organizations.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of 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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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. A Day in the Life. Objectives. Orientation.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 15, 2023

B2B digital marketing refers to the promotion of products or services between businesses using digital channels. B2B digital marketing is vital to modern business, as more and more companies rely on digital channels to find, research, and purchase products and services. Buyer Personas. Content Marketing.

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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. Where customer segmentation can get tricky is when there are relevant sub-groups of segments. Professions.

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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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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2015

These two are: CEOs and CMOs have a growing concern about the relevancy of their products and services in the digital economy. Redefining The Meaning Of Buyer Understanding. Which, then leads to organizations staying in the status quo of buyer profiling, as well as, win/loss analysis.).

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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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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. Then, you’re ready to dig into #6… DUN, DUN, DUN… pillar content.

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Marketing Interactions

MARCH 25, 2023

Going back to the stat above – less than 2 respondents find B2B marketing meaningful for humans. If this doesn’t concern you as a B2B content marketer, it should. Buyers are the ultimate arbiters for engagement. B2B content is plentiful. Just not content that’s meaningful, provocative, or forward-thinking.

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Launch Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

As marketers, we strive to understand and adapt to the dynamic needs of our target audiences. While buyer personas have been the key component of many marketing strategies, what if the key to unlocking more effective and resonant content lies not in demographic details but in the intricacies of an individual’s personality ?

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DivvyHQ

MARCH 9, 2023

It's no secret that creating relevant content is key to a successful marketing strategy. But with so many moving parts (and so much competition), it can be tough to know where to start. Our latest article breaks down the process into 8 easy-to-follow steps. Let's go!

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2020

While companies have relied on traditional marketing strategies for decades, some are still wondering, what is content marketing really? Content marketing, when you peel away all the layers of techniques, trends, and possibilities, is a business opportunity. What Is Content Marketing Really?

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Trade Press Services

MARCH 4, 2024

Whether your goal is to acquire leads, boost sales, or increase conversions, content is vital to moving people through the buyer’s journey. From bylined articles to informational videos, content helps prospects learn about brands and gather information about their products and services.

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