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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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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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

While we all have goals and objectives for lead generation, brand development, and customer experience as examples, the overarching challenge is making the right decisions to achieve them. What Are B2B Buyer Personas? For online marketers, buyer personas can provide direction in the channel-specific campaign development.

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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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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

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? Most brands develop many personas to stand in for the various people who participate in the buying cycle for their particular product or service.

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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

APRIL 17, 2016

Projects often afflicted in an analogous way like troublesome commercial real estate development. To get at the core of overcoming the content personalization challenge today, organizations will need to develop a deeper understanding of buyers and customers. Buyer Persona Research.

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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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Content Standard

MAY 10, 2019

Alternatively, those who develop CX plans grounded in survey, demographic, and behavioral data will have much better outcomes with consumers. To get there will be a journey in itself, though, and will involve loads of research , from social listening, customer surveys, focus groups, and analyzing website data.

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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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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. And, conversely, many users are buyers. 2 – Market-based vs. Account-based.

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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. I have read books, eBooks, articles, postings, whitepapers, and the likes about the topic of buyer personas.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Better, deeper, insightful, and well-rounded understanding of customers and buyers is on the top of the list for many CEOs and CMOs today. In recent studies by IBM and other research studies on CEO sentiments, customer insight and understanding are identified as a top focus for CEOs. A case in point is the term “buyer’s journey.”

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Tony Zambito

MAY 4, 2011

Buyer Persona Development and the qualitative research methodology applied to creating buyer personas have proven to be an effective means for B2B organizations to reach a deeper understanding of their buyers.    Buyer persona development methodology is at its core a research methodology. 

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

In this same survey mentioned above, it was found 50% or more of marketers surveyed have not engaged in researching and creating buyer personas for their marketing efforts. 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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Stevens & Tate

MAY 12, 2023

A well-designed site is vital to the online success of your business. Recent studies show that at least 94% of respondents rarely trust websites with poor designs. On the other hand, a growth driven web design is intuitive and positively impacts brand perception and lead conversion.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 15, 2023

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. In fact, 70% of marketing technology buyers look for content on vendor websites. Know your decision maker to develop a message that resonates. Buyer Personas.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 20, 2011

.  The deeper the understanding, the more targeted and relevant content can be for buyers.    Buyer persona development is a methodology for informing strategy.    Knowing what buyers are researching for determines what should be produced. . 

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Stevens & Tate

JANUARY 10, 2023

Your website design is arguably the most important element of a successful inbound marketing strategy. When it comes to designing your website, there are two main ways to go about it. What Is A Growth Driven Design? The Three Phases of Growth Driven Design. The following are the three phases of a growth driven design: 1.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Here are 5 important factors: Buyer Insight : Revenue and Sales leaders will need to possess deep insight into how buyers are changing. Conducting buyer research to gain insight into new goals and situational challenges buyers are experiencing. There is no room for guesswork on understanding buyers.

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Launch Marketing

JULY 6, 2022

As software as a service (SaaS) solutions grow in popularity, so does the number of competitive solutions, which means taking new developments to market in an impactful way is more critical than ever. Here are four tactics for developing an effective SaaS go-to-market strategy. Craft Messaging to Address Pain Points.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 8, 2020

A quarterly monitoring study of buyer attitudes about buying decisions during and after the COVID-19 Crisis, the COVID-19 Buyer Outlook Insights study will bring timely and essential buyer persona-based decision-making about when and how to resume marketing and sales. About Tony Zambito.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 21, 2022

In the mid-to-late 1990s, the concept of human-centered design or human-interaction design was born. And user research and user personas were originated to convey human-centered insights about user behaviors. With this experience in hand, I set out to create the same concept for buyers.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 28, 2021

All of these efforts designed to reach and gain the attention of buyers. And to affect The Buyer Mindset. Without a doubt, affecting how buyers go about accomplishing their goals, making choices, and arriving at decisions. . Not doing so will make getting the attention of buyers feel insurmountable. .

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Tony Zambito

MAY 21, 2021

We adapted by finding new ways to work, wearing protective masks, and developing new routine social behaviors. Becoming evident is that capturing buyers’ attention is the number one challenge facing B2B marketing and sales at this stage of the pandemic. 2 – Identify Situational Challenges Your Buyers Face.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

This new reality will put added pressure on CMOs and CSOs to coordinate strategies impacting the development of digital buying experiences. It is the type of development B2B organizations will have to attain deep buyer insights about if they hope to accelerate their revenue growth. At least have a chance to.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 12, 2011

Without question, while B2B Marketing is focused on developing its new prominence in the early stages of the buying cycle via content strategy and content marketing, B2B Sales is caught flat-footed on how to adapt to changing buyer behaviors.  Image via Wikipedia.

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Cintell

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

If you haven’t read the Understanding B2B Buyers 2016 Benchmark Study, you may not know that companies who exceed revenue and lead goals are more effective at creating, using, and consistently maintaining personas than those who miss their targets. (Or But getting to a state of persona nirvana is easier said than done.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 30, 2020

What Makes for Great Web Design? Now, on to the top 10 best examples of web design from this year. Ten of this year’s best web designs (in no particular order): Superior Technologies : Mobile Responsive, Brand Refresh. Burroughs : New Logo + Web Design + Content Strategy. CatholicMom : Clutter-Free Whimsical Design.

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Tony Zambito

AUGUST 22, 2011

During a series of articles entitled The Future of Buyer Personas is Social , I referenced several times that the social age will cause a rethinking of buyer persona research and development.     The constant evolution of buyer behavior is the primary driver behind this principle. 

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Tony Zambito

JULY 18, 2011

This is the third part of a series of reflective articles on the future of buyer personas.    In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on some of the misconceptions about buyer personas and in part 2 , I offered perspectives on why changes were needed to be relevant to the social age. 

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Tony Zambito

MAY 10, 2021

Oh, I know we have the buyer’s journey, curve shapes, non-linear shapes, flywheels, and etc. But if you and I are being honest, the most significant development is the funnel was flipped from its vertical view to a horizontal view. And, instead of calling it the funnel, we call it the buyer’s journey.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 11, 2011

  Here is where buyer persona development can be of help.    In a previous article, Buyer Personas Require Qualitative Research and Contextual Inquiry , I mentioned that buyer persona development is at its’ core a research methodology grounded in the practices of qualitative research and contextual inquiry. 

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Design and Content. Digital Development. Mobile App Development. Web Design and Development. Your Top Ten Questions About B2B Buyer Personas. Recently, we partnered with Demand Gen Report to present a webinar about the power of personas. What role should Sales play in the development process?

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Optinmonster

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Do you want to learn about the types of qualitative research and some examples of methodologies? Qualitative studies are vital to the market research process. If you’re new to this kind of market research, you’re in the right place. In this guide, you’ll learn the basics of qualitative market research.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Yet, it is a time to hang onto the hope of promising news on the development of high efficacy vaccines. More Research. What we are seeing is buyer goals, challenges, psychology, behaviors, and situations are undergoing rapid shifts. This is exactly the time to conduct buyer research. Situations.

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Tony Zambito

JULY 10, 2011

In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on how it is important to leave some of the major misconceptions about buyer personas behind in order to peer into the future.    Without a doubt, we are seeing the most dramatic change in buyer behaviors since post World War II. 

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