Tony Zambito

MAY 5, 2021

Marketing Leaders Can Use 4 Approaches Involving Buyer Personas To Create A Brand Story Buyers Will Want To Read. Without researching and interviewing people about this moment in history and about Winston Churchill, such a terrific story could not come together. 4 – Tell A Narrative That Maps To Buyers’ Narratives.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Redefine Buyer Personas. Knowing how buyers are being affected means revisiting buyer profiles and buyer personas. When the concept of a buyer persona was originated in 2001, they were derived from the experiences in creating goal-directed user personas for product design.

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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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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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Anyword

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Building buyer personas used to be a maze of interviews, research, drafting, testing, and seemingly endless refinements. Delving into the Depths of Buyer Personas Before we get into the specifics, let’s take a look at what makes a buyer persona tick. Embrace the streamlined future of persona crafting.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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Tony Zambito

JUNE 5, 2016

Customer experience has been and will continue to be one of the major influences on how buyers make choices. Recent research by SiriusDecisions found that for 80% of B2B buyers surveyed, customer experience counted as the top significant reason why they chose to work with a specific provider over another. by Creative Stall.

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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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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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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. Wouldn’t you?

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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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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 20, 2015

A recent survey conducted by Cintell*, entitled 2016 Benchmark Study On Understanding B2B Buyers , indicates that high performing organizations utilized qualitative research for their buyer personas. The study focused entirely on the use of buyer personas for understanding B2B buyers.

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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

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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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.

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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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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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Stevens & Tate

JANUARY 11, 2021

Creating buyer personas is an essential part of an inbound marketing strategy because they help define your target audience and help you tailor your advertising towards that audience. Buyer personas are an important part to attraction marketing. What is a buyer persona? How do I create a Buyer Persona?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2020

We decided to compile some of the most important thought leadership best practices from recent research and surveys. Thought leadership is a content marketing approach that spotlights expertise to build credibility. Thought leadership content includes three vital attributes: expert insights, influence, and a point of view.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

For example, recent research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. 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.

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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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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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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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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Blog Learn More Know your persona First things first: make sure your sales, marketing, and other relevant teams (like product) are in agreement on what your ideal customer looks like. This means having well-documented and up-to-date ideal customer profiles (ICP) and buyer personas, which will be essential in step five.

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