KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

The most significant challenge B2B marketers face is in effectively communicating with target audiences and prospective buyers. 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.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 30, 2019

As a B2B marketer, there’s a good chance you are a part of a large team, which is one piece of a much larger organization. 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.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

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. 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? Glad you asked.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

More customers are turning to the internet to research, test, and purchase products and services. 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? Why must SEOs pay attention to buyer personas? Let’s get into it!

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Cintell

DECEMBER 20, 2019

And this is why buyer personas are so important. They provide a clear picture of who your ideal customers are, what challenges and pain points they experience along the buyer’s journey, and exactly what they need to be able to take the next step towards your solution. Personas and States of Being.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 21, 2022

If you’re a B2B social media manager, you’ve probably noticed that organic social media reach has been on the decline in recent years. With increases in paid ad content and algorithms constantly in flux, it’s easy to see why it’s becoming increasingly challenging to reach followers with organic campaigns. Study Best Practices.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

This coincides with previous studies and surveys showing content marketing effectiveness continues to be an enormous struggle. The majority of content today is not hitting the mark with buyers and customers. Bringing organizations, no closer to customers or buyers than when they first began technology implementation.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 3, 2016

In 2016, we will mark the fifteenth year since buyer personas were first introduced. The journey, however, continues towards professionals and organizations gaining a true understanding of what buyer persona development entails. by Scott Lewis.

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Circle Studio

MARCH 12, 2020

Effective B2B marketing requires an audience-centric approach from all angles. 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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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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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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Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2016

For example, some content marketing pundits believe you should separate out audience personas. Because these are different, in theory, from your buyer personas. I believe this approach may only exacerbate the compartmentalization based on the faulty premise of making personas about the “who”. Focus on Customer Scenarios.

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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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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. What Are Buyer Personas?

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Enabling sales: How to build an effective program Building any new strategy starts with goals. With these goals in mind, you can more effectively focus on the strategies and tools that help you get there. Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas.

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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. Your organization can benefit from using thought leadership, including boosting traffic and lead generation efforts. Quick Takeaways. What Is Thought Leadership? surveys, polls, and other data gathering that you do).

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This implies that trigger events are not created equal; therefore, an in-depth knowledge of your ideal customer profile, buyer personas, and purchasing behaviors is required for creating a successful B2B trigger event selling approach. Buyer Persona Role Changes. Hiring Surges. News/Media Mentions. Fundraises.

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Lake One

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Do you fully understand your B2B buyer personas? After all, 71% of companies who exceed revenue and lead goals have documented personas. Understanding your B2B buyer personas is a vital part of any effective marketing plan. Researching Your B2B Buyer Persona. Don’t have them?

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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. In fact, it can be quite a complex effort for organizations to undertake. Buyer Profiling.

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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. Redefining The Meaning Of Buyer Understanding.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

This mirrors findings of other surveys related to content marketing and customer-centric marketing, which consistently hovers in the 35- 40% range of “very customer-centric” or “very effective content marketing.”. B2B CMOs can be caught in a maze of an organization faced with marketing complex solutions for complex problems.

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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. Buyer Personas. Why Is B2B Digital Marketing Important? Pain Points.

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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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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 22, 2017

Making the need for organizations to understand customers a centerpiece of their growth strategies. 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.

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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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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Read any inbound marketing blog or article and it’ll tell you to start any new initiative with, first, your goal(s) and then, second, your buyer personas. Because personas are at the heart of content. Buyer personas allow you to target and attract the right people to your website like sweet-smelling pheromones.

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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.    The story and narratives of users were told through personas. 

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ANNUITAS

MAY 21, 2015

A recent article on MediaPost raised the question “Are Buyer Personas a Waste of Time?” Based on this and the belief from 48Bricks that you simply cannot understand your customers, the assertion is that putting effort into the development of Buyer Personas is a waste of time. But don’t go crazy.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Buyer personas are the second most popular criteria for content segmentation according to B2B marketers yet only 44% actually utilize them. The written characterizations that a B2B marketer creates about the buyers who make vital decisions regarding the product, service or solution that is being offered is known as a buyer persona.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This transformative upending in B2B commerce has led to both buyers and B2B organizations viewing customer experience as a more important factor than product and price. Many customer experience efforts by B2B organizations have content marketing as a cornerstone for such initiatives. Perhaps even more.

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Launch Marketing

JULY 6, 2022

As the way we work continues to evolve, organizations continue to turn to cloud-based solutions to facilitate work efficiently in remote and hybrid working environments. That is why organizations need an effective go-to-market strategy. Here are four tactics for developing an effective SaaS go-to-market strategy.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 26, 2013

A few weeks back I wrote a column for Search Engine Land on B2B buyer personas. In exploring the persona concept, it further supported my opinion that for SEO to truly be effective for the B2B organization, SEO needs to run hand-in-hand with traditional B2B marketing initiatives.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2023

To effectively become a category leader, you should aim to get involved in a community of key buyer personas in existing community formats. Some try to carve a niche in their category and one of the best ways to generate interesting and relevant content is by regularly doing industry research. How do I get started?

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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.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 8, 2018

Here at The Mx Group, we have frequent conversations with our clients about how to create buyer personas , and what a powerful tool they can be when they are really being utilized. Few B2B marketers dispute the value of personas for strategy, messaging and execution across sales and marketing. Number of personas: 5 or more.

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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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