Marketing Interactions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As the market shifts, much of what you thought was true about your buyer personas and ICPs may be different. A Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise. Timing of touches and developing targeted content for each buyer stage/interest are the top two issues at 49% and 48% respectively. How to Refresh Your Buyer Personas.

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EMagine B2B Blog

JANUARY 6, 2019

Content marketing personas are not new, however, tightly integrating these personas with SEO strategy and tactics is relatively new to most companies and organizations. What is a Content Marketing Persona? What is a Content Marketing Persona? The Importance of Personas.

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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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The Point

APRIL 22, 2020

I posted recently on LinkedIn that, in the current climate, leads from content syndication and other CPL programs may be an ideal replacement for lost trade shows and other events, and indeed can be an effective way to stay engaged in the marketplace at a time when many buyers are laying low. Quality content = quality leads.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

There are a lot of misguided, well-meaning marketers working on beautifully crafted, useless personas. Now, I’m not joining the persona naysayers (you know who you are). 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. Personas create focus.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

There are a lot of misguided, well-meaning marketers working on beautifully crafted, useless personas. Now, I’m not joining the persona naysayers (you know who you are). 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. Personas create focus.

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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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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.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Right now there are a lot of misguided, well-meaning marketers working on beautifully crafted, useless personas. Now, I’m not joining the persona naysayers (you know who you are). 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. Window Dressing-.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) and strategic content creation and distribution mesh perfectly. However, strategic content creation and distribution are great solutions to these challenges. This goes beyond understanding content topics and the search intent behind each keyword. Sharing relevant data points and case studies.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 8, 2016

Right now there are a lot of misguided, well-meaning marketers working on beautifully crafted, useless personas. Now, I’m not joining the persona naysayers (you know who you are). 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. Window Dressing-.

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 8, 2018

If you wanna be the best marketer with the greatest content marketing strategy in town, you should get a load of this. Start with the basics and work your way to content superstardom. What’s this content marketing strategy thing all about? Content is one of life’s essentials. Content, in all its forms, is big.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you not only show leads content that makes sense to them, but you get your audiences excited about buying from you. The groupings allow marketing teams to nurture leads with personalized content and convert them to customers. What Is Customer Segmentation?

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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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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 2, 2016

To create content that boosts lead and demand generation, you need to construct B2B buyer personas that give you a clear picture of your customer, mapping their journey from when they decide to solve a problem to their purchase decision. Many companies create personas, and not one itsy-bitsy thing changes. The result?

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MLT Creative

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In developing b2b buyer personas you have to remember their connection to the buying cycle, as different stages in the buying cycle lead to different content. Demographic information is helpful in. MLT Creative B2B Ideas @ Work Blog. Our ideas, musings, thoughts, reviews on b2b marketing topics.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 10, 2018

Are those stereotypes or personas? presidential election, and NASCAR dads, which became a target audience in the 2004 elections, are closer to personas, though too thinly described. The key to powerful buyer persona development comes down to three important factors: grounded in fact, functional, and more than demographic data.”.

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B2B Marketing Traction

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Marketing must not only attract new prospects but also provide information and content for sales to convert them to customers. Recent surveys show that as much as 57% of the buying decision is done before buyers contact sales ( CEB Study of 1400 Customers ). Marketing Soapbox b2b marketing persona sales'

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Valasys

JUNE 8, 2020

Strategic content mapping is an orchestrated plan to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time to help customers sail through the specific stages of their buying cycles and to figure-out the opportunities to better address the pain-points of your customers. Allows Keyword Mapping in the Content Mix.

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Brandpoint

JULY 1, 2021

Companies that resisted digital investment were suddenly challenged, and the companies with the best content and digital experiences began to win the day. This will necessitate better content experiences to power our sales processes when it will be difficult if not impossible to get all the right decision-makers in a room at the same time.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Content4Demand

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Strategic growth and revenue leader Christine Elliott joined Content4Demand in a recent webinar to discuss the value of content audits to her marketing programs. Cashing In on Content Audits: Uncovering the Hidden Potential & Pitfalls in Your Content Library covered a lot of ground. Also things like stages of the buy cycle.

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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.    What do these new buying cycles look like? 

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This adds to the existing full journey nurture capabilities of the Drift portfolio, but may require deeper configuration and integration with internal content libraries and key workflows, as well as other platforms in the go-to-market stack. And speeding the time to configuration of Conversation Tracks is a critical productivity leap.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Design and Content. Content Marketing. Interactive Content. Your Top Ten Questions About B2B Buyer Personas. Recently, we partnered with Demand Gen Report to present a webinar about the power of personas. Recently, we partnered with Demand Gen Report to present a webinar about the power of personas.

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Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Antonia Wade, head of content and campaign marketing at Thomson Reuters tells us how she rebuilt the marketing function, putting customer emotions at the center. Most thought that emotional marketing had no place in B2B’s rational, long, complicated buying cycles and committees. You aren’t always going to agree.

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Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

“ If you're serious about your content marketing strategy, you have to realize you're writing for an ever-changing audience , says Jaime Bailey, Vice President of Marketing at VHT. Our audience values expert content that is well researched, helps them solve a problem, and keeps them abreast of the latest industry trends.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

This includes providing value through content such as whitepapers and case studies, engaging in conversations via social media channels, offering incentives that build loyalty over time, delivering exceptional customer service , and following up regularly with clients to ensure satisfaction.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 23, 2023

Now, with the help of progressive profiling and tech capabilities of most automation platforms, you can use the same form for different stages of the buying cycle and content offers without sacrificing lead intelligence or conversion tracking. For example, a form field for one persona may not be relevant to another persona.

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Content4Demand

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We recently gathered 10 intent data experts and power users and collected their tips and insights in The Content + Data Connection: 10 Top Marketing Executives Explore the Rewards of Integrating Intent Data into Content Strategies. How should the different data types be applied to content strategy?

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Content4Demand

JULY 7, 2021

As B2B buying trends evolve, it’s important that your content keeps up. According to the recently released 2021 B2B Buyers Survey Report from Demand Gen Report, here are a few of the top trends: Buying committees continue to become more prevalent, and committees are growing larger. Stakeholder Content Needs Differ.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2011

One of the major outcomes of the recent advances in the social age is the resurgence of contextually-based persona development and its’ role in helping to inform as well as shape strategy.  The first definition points to reaching an understanding of the behavioral framework that surrounds the new social buyer persona. 

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you show leads content that gets them excited about buying from you. The groupings allow marketing teams to nurture leads with personalized content and convert them to customers. Demographics might focus on gender, income, and ethnicity (handy for building buyer personas ).

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The Point

JUNE 30, 2021

The danger with that thinking, however, and the risk with an approach to ABM that prioritizes highly personalized, highly orchestrated, content-intensive, high-touch campaigns, is that those programs are expensive, relatively high risk, and can take weeks or months to get in market, albeit with a big payout if they succeed.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 10, 2011

  Here is a key issue facing organizations today: each time a new social technology is introduced, it ultimately alters the buying behaviors of the new social buyer persona.  This issue and the surrounding complexities call into question, for organizations today, their readiness for adapting to the new social buyer persona. 

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 20, 2018

And content marketing plays a big role in this. To get the best results, your content marketing efforts need to run like a well-oiled machine so you can focus on the big picture, do your job better, and achieve more. Here are three ways that content marketing and marketing automation go hand in hand: 1.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Crafting buyer personas for sales reps and treating them like customers by tailoring outreach, tools, and techniques to the needs of different teams will go a long way in improving their sales effectiveness. Develop Sales Rep-Influenced Content. Map Content to the Buying Cycle.

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