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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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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Lead Forensics

APRIL 18, 2024

They can drive more website traffic, increase email activity, help lead generation , and ultimately produce more revenue; almost 80% of the B2B organizations who exceeded their revenue targets last year have buyer personas in action! A buyer persona is essentially your ideal buyer.

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 18, 2024

They can drive more website traffic, increase email activity, help lead generation , and ultimately produce more revenue; almost 80% of the B2B organizations who exceeded their revenue targets last year have buyer personas in action! A buyer persona is essentially your ideal buyer.

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Circle Studio

MARCH 12, 2020

The better you understand your target audience, the more relevant and valuable your content and messaging will be. Creating buyer personas helps you visually picture your buyers and understand them on a deeper level. Buyer personas defined. Personas put a human face to your buyers.

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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.

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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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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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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

Recent surveys of marketing professionals by Rapt Media , Forrester , Seismic, SAP , IBM , and others all indicate that content personalization remains the biggest challenge for marketers this year and for the foreseeable future. The majority of content today is not hitting the mark with buyers and customers.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

More customers are turning to the internet to research, test, and purchase products and services. 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.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 26, 2020

So you have an understanding of your buying committee and how to market to them , now it’s time to build out your buyer personas. By asking the right questions you get a framework for researching and building a buyer dossier that fits within the larger story of your ICP and buyer’s journey. What is in my way?

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

Goals become more complicated to achieve as evolving marketing technology continues to promise an opportunity to target more specifically and create unique customer experiences buyers demand. What Are B2B Buyer Personas? For online marketers, buyer personas can provide direction in the channel-specific campaign development.

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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. Personas and States of Being.

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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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The Lead Agency

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This means going further than demographics to get a real sense of who your buyer is and what drives them. This can be done by building buyer personas. A buyer persona is a research-based profile that depicts a target customer. Steps to Creating a Buyer Persona in B2B. How big is their company?

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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. Everything!

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 25, 2023

You’ve probably heard the phrase “write what you know” before, but that approach doesn’t quite cut it when you’re crafting inbound marketing content. 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.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2016

A recognition of the growing importance of digital content marketing to overall marketing strategies today. As the concept of content marketing has become more prominent in the B2B Marketing landscape, so have terms and compartmentalization. For example, some content marketing pundits believe you should separate out audience personas.

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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

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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Tony Zambito

AUGUST 14, 2016

Information Overload by Jenny Chisnell. 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.

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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

MARCH 20, 2011

The chorus appears to be getting louder and louder on content marketing in bloggersphere, digital media, and traditional media.    In this case, should CMO’s be looking at content marketing or content strategy as the first order of business on the agenda? . 

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Modern B2B

DECEMBER 5, 2023

What do we mean by buyer personas? Buyer personas, sometimes referred to as customer personas or marketing personas, are detailed profiles of your ideal customers. This can be done via desk research or through Social Listening Tools like, Melt water and Hootsuite. Give each persona a name and a face.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

As marketing technology and information access continues to evolve, B2B buying behavior changes as well. For example, recent research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. What Are 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. Video is one of the fastest-growing types of marketing content and with good reason; 52% of marketing professionals worldwide name it as the medium with the best return on investment (ROI).

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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. Follow along with this guide and download these persona templates to simplify this process.

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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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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. Buyer personas are the foundation of all things marketing. Buyer personas guide marketing campaigns, messaging development, and content creation.

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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. To know what motivates a buyer, ask one.

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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. To know what motivates a buyer, ask one.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

If you don’t understand your target audience, how will you produce effective content? The only way to join the 30-40% of people who do understand their buyers is to create buyer personas. Today we teach you how to construct an effective B2B buyer persona profile—keep reading. What is a buyer persona?

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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. Include local communities in your content.

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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. They say ‘content is king’, but, if handled well, it is far more than this.

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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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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. Create persona profiles. Iterate and refine.

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