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. Buyer profiling is often another quantitative exercise for organizations. Confusion by Adam Gale.

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Lead Forensics

MAY 14, 2024

They have become masters at using marketing automation and their digital strategies continue to grow in sophistication. Amazon continues to be a leading light in this field, showing how marketing automation can help turn a company into a slick selling machine. What is marketing automation?

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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. As you build your program, consider these five key areas.

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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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ClickDimensions

MARCH 14, 2023

One of these technologies is Marketing Automation. Page Contents What is Marketing Automation? How can manufacturers use Marketing Automation? Talk to our Marketing Services team who will provide expert advice on how to improve your campaigns and strategies.

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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. This persona development is extremely useful when developing and evaluating messaging, content and offers that will differentiate your brand from your competitors. Education level.

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PureB2B

JULY 6, 2022

This may seem challenging, but it’s a possibility through the enablement of the modern-day marketing technology stack. When you examine the values and applications of marketing automation, it’s important to look at how it’s going to be used, who’s going to use it, and what the end goal is. Why Marketing Automation?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, we have things like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. And in order to achieve that, you need buyer personas. What Are Buyer Personas? And How Can They Help Marketers? And How Can They Help Marketers? By now, you probably know what a buyer persona is.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 12, 2011

.  This subtle difference can actually be the rock that sends out ripples of influence to other social buyers in the sea of social networks.    A key component for engaging the social buyer persona is that an organization today must offer avenues of engagements that buyers choose. 

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Buyer Strategy. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. Content Marketing. Your Top Ten Questions About B2B Buyer Personas. Bottom-line Results. Technology Expertise.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 18, 2011

  Adam gives us a good sense of the numbers and dollars being invested in demand generation and marketing automation.  In the article, Adam lays out three reasons why failure exists: Your plan is not built around your target buyer. .  If you haven’t read it, I would highly recommend doing so. 

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

If there was a Marketing Automation soiree, I’d be the host. As a marketing automation consultant and a marketing technologist at heart, I work with technology all day, every day. The platforms today can enable just about any marketing task, including automation.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

If there was a Marketing Automation soiree, I’d be the host. As a marketing automation consultant and a marketing technologist at heart, I work with technology all day, every day. The platforms today can enable just about any marketing task, including automation.

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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. .      Related articles. . 

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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

APRIL 17, 2011

These strategy areas include content strategy, social marketing, marketing automation, social selling, demand generation, and buyer experience marketing.  The first definition points to reaching an understanding of the behavioral framework that surrounds the new social buyer persona. 

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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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SendinBlue

MARCH 16, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out or looking to improve on your existing activities, these marketing automation best practices will make sure you get the most from your efforts. And it’s true, automation has the potential to bring significant benefits for your marketing strategy. But only when it’s done right.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Overwhelmingly, most of this engagement can be achieved with a marketing automation platform. In this blog, I’ll cover five marketing automation features that drive engagement. Email Marketing: Nurturing Your Audience with Timely and Personalized Messaging.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 29, 2013

The master exclude functionality in marketing automation is like the find and replace feature in Microsoft Word. Blog Buyer persona marketing automation master exclue progressive profiling Strategic Demand Generation'

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 23, 2018

If you’ve been hanging around marketing – particularly B2B marketing – for any length of time, you’ve probably heard one version or another of that statement. Through a blend of marketing automation, personalization, and enhanced customer experience, it is increasingly possible to nail that goal.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Today, we have solutions like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. What Are Buyer Personas? And How Can They Help Marketers? Basically, personas ensure that everything you do in terms of lead generation and customer acquisition is tailored to your targeted buyers’ needs.

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NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You cannot automate a process that does not exist. In a nutshell, marketing automation often comes to a grinding halt because of the lack of people and processes to support it. If you choose and implement your marketing automation before defining your processes and the roles of individuals, you cannot move forward.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

If there was a Marketing Automation soiree, I’d be the host. As a marketing automation consultant and a marketing technologist at heart, I work with technology all day, every day. The platforms today can enable just about any marketing task, including automation.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 12, 2017

Just as well, the realization also has materialized that what has worked in the past, is not working today when it comes to understanding buyers. B2B companies are struggling to make gaining buyer insights more than the gathering of analytics, buyer intelligence, sales intelligence, and buyer personas couched in factual data.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

You know the basics of marketing automation: it streamlines, automates, and monitors routine marketing tasks. But a good marketing automation platform is about more than making life easier for the marketing team—it should also help you close more deals. Check out these seven tips: 1.

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Net-Results

JUNE 5, 2019

As someone who worked as a freelance marketing automation expert for 6 years, let me give you my perspective on this question. The trick to getting marketing automation right is not just understanding the software: it’s also understanding marketing and content strategy. appeared first on Net-Results.

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Sharpspring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you’re shopping around for marketing automation software, it (hopefully) indicates that you’ve already got a pretty good handle on what marketing automation means and how it can help your business. You know that to keep up with the pace of digital marketing, automation has become a nearly necessary business tool.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 5, 2011

.  This lead-to-revenue management (L2RM as coined by Forrester) model in many ways heightens the importance of buyer personas in developing end-to-end revenue management strategies and processes.    A cornerstone principle for buyer personas is that they are created from qualitative interviewing of buyers. 

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Sharpspring

AUGUST 25, 2020

When it comes to marketing automation, both internal and external tactics are necessary for running a successful business. In the following post, we’ll discuss the main types of marketing automation and why each one is vital for your company to survive and to thrive. Internal vs. External Marketing.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 29, 2010

For senior level executives today, the need for a rallying speech of the century may not be that pressing but they need to rally personnel around a deep understanding of customers and buyers like never before.  A struggle for any CEO is to communicate the story of how the organization can and will best serve the goals of it’s’ buyers. 

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 12, 2021

Persona-Based Personalization. In this type of personalization, you are using your buyer personas as the standard. Buyer personas include demographics but, more importantly, preferences, motivations, and behaviors. Check out the video below for a primer on buyer personas.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 1, 2020

One technology improvement has made marketers’ lives abundantly easier, however — marketing automation. This guide will walk you through the ins and outs of marketing automation, including: Let’s dive in. We’ll talk more about email marketing automation below. Benefits of Marketing Automation.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Check out the tech and tactics fueling the above mentioned shift: Intent data Account-based marketing (ABM) Personalization Marketing automation Predictive analytics Adapting to the merging of modern B2B buyers and the trends driving B2B demand generation strategies is crucial for thriving in today’s evolving B2B landscape.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools. In turn, sales and marketing efforts — from prospecting to running email campaigns — are less effective. Buyer personas don’t hold up. How Can You Use Data to Build Better Personas? July 13, 2020 | 6 minute read.

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GreenRope

MARCH 18, 2014

Establishing Buyer Personas: The Basics. How do you plan to market your business if you don’t know who your buyers are? Smart marketers create formal buyer personas for each of their buyer personas. This is the basis for your buyer persona. What is a Buyer Persona?

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