Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

There’s something interesting you should know about B2B companies and their content strategies. They’re focusing on what each part of their business needs, tailoring their content to these specific areas. They’re all over digital content and online channels. Most of them are doing it at a basic, functional level.

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Contently

APRIL 6, 2023

Love them or hate them, buyer personas are key to creating successful marketing strategies and effective content. But here’s the catch: Developing buyer personas requires research, analysis, and attention to detail. What Is a Buyer Persona? A buyer persona is a detailed profile of a company’s ideal customer.

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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. By understanding your buyer personas, you can: 1.

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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. Armed with data from millions of top-performing marketing campaigns – not to mention your own data from your best-performing campaigns – Anyword can instantly analyze any content to generate the ideal buyer persona for you.

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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. How Do You Create a Buyer Persona?

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InsightSquared

APRIL 23, 2019

The inbound philosophy advocates publishing content through digital channels to entice qualified individuals to consume the content and enter the sales cycle. The philosophy of buying groups is to identify and engage a set of personas involved in making a purchasing decision. A few years ago it was “Inbound Marketing.”

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Contently

JULY 21, 2021

If you work in marketing long enough, you’re bound to encounter a buyer persona. Buyer personas are like scouting reports on a representative of your target audience. The problem with personas. Most brand personas fall short because they don’t help you develop empathy for the audience. Pictured: Happiness.

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2020

At their best, personas can help us better understand users and meet their needs. personas based on poorly sourced data, or worse, no data at all), they can be highly misleading and result in failed product launches, subpar marketing campaigns, and lost sales. In order for personas to serve your goals, they need to be data-driven.

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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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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

By Carly Bauer , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing I was recently asked during a client meeting what the importance was for developing personas. And it’s true, personas and the people we market to are always changing based on their needs, goals, limitations, resources, and many other variables.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 10, 2021

For instance, you most likely have heard or read something about the buyer-aligned sales process within the past few years. And let us not forget – new processes. Producing different forms of content at the ready for buyers when they go seeking. More importantly, helping them navigate their own internal purchasing processes.

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Exo B2B

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Did you know that 72% of marketing professionals use B2B personas to guide their marketing content? In this world where every purchasing decision can involve multiple stakeholders and take months of deliberation, understanding the nuances of B2B personas and the complex journey of the B2B buyer is not only useful, it’s essential.

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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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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. Creating an accurate and actionable B2B buyer persona means asking the right questions about your targets, the outcome of an effective buyer persona isn’t a grouping of stereotypes or uninformed assumptions.

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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. What is a buyer persona?

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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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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 1985, a software designer named Alan Cooper invented a user persona named Kathy to add human context to the development process. Over the years, marketers built on that idea to develop buyer personas – profiles of fictional people that embody several ideal client characteristics.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In this guide, we will go over a step-by-step process for how to develop a B2B marketing strategy. Steps of a Strategic Planning Process in B2B Marketing Step 1: Understand your target audience Understanding your target audience is the foundation of any successful B2B marketing strategy.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 10, 2024

Developing a journey from prospect to customer acquisition demands a specific sales process—and, often, sales and marketing teams aren't sure of which responsibilities they hold during that process. A streamlined sales process can help define who does what and get both teams in sync. Building a sales process can be challenging.

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Contently

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The job’s not over until the paperwork is done—or, for content marketers, until results are measured. For most Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs), the holy grail of content measurement is return on investment (ROI). Gated content can be analyzed using Docalytics. Make content plans that align with campaign goals.

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Launch Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Developing B2B buyer personas is important for many reasons, including crafting targeted messages and personalizing marketing activities. But, before focusing on messaging and personalizing marketing efforts it is key to understand all the components that make up buyer personas, especially demographics.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Creating marketing personas is an important part of marketing strategy in any industry. Personas help you craft spot-on messages that resonate with your audience and elicit an action or response. In this blog post, we’ll discuss what marketing personas are, why they’re important, and how you can create them.

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Anyword

JULY 26, 2022

This is where customer personas come into play. A customer persona represents your brand’s ideal buyer type (you can have multiple), and creating one helps your team or company as a whole better understand who to target with your marketing messaging. What will you be able to accomplish with thought-out customer 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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markempa

MAY 30, 2017

When was the last time you looked at the quality and accuracy of your B2B persona and contact data? Getting the right content to the right people continues to be a challenge in B2B marketing. The B2B Persona project from Mathew Sweezey. Some people leave that persona completely. images/2017/05/Matt-Sweezy-interview.mp3.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 7, 2022

B2B marketers targeting tech personas know well at this point that they make attribution frustratingly tricky. So, how do we make attributions or capture leads when a potential tech contact is moving through your content like a ghost? Understand the decision-making process of your tech personas. I find it near impossible.

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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. The person/role you used to primarily engage with is now removed from the evaluation process, only stepping in at decision time. A Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise. How to Refresh Your Buyer Personas.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

Content marketing can be a time-consuming endeavor, especially for small business owners or marketing teams that only include a few people. While compiling personas is a vital part of the process, many people choose to skip this step because they don’t see the value. What are Personas and Why Are They Important?

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Stevens & Tate

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

You want to make sure that your website looks and feels the way that you imagined it would, while also having incredible content that attracts customers and keeps them coming back for more. There is no magic, one-size fits all approach to web design, but the Growth Driven Design process is a new development method that may benefit you.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

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. What is a buyer persona? Why must SEOs pay attention to buyer personas?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

B2B content marketing is an indispensable strategy for businesses looking to establish their brand, engage their target audience, and drive conversions. What is B2B content marketing? B2B content marketing is the creation and distribution of content, in all its forms, related to your business and relevant to customers.

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Leadspace

AUGUST 16, 2023

A persona refers to a representation of a user or buyer segment that is created to better understand and design for the needs, behaviors, and preferences of that group. Persona creation is common in fields like marketing, user experience (UX) design, and customer service. Often job titles are incorrect and not up to date.

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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. While all of the above may sound great in theory, the truth is, there is an art to creating effective B2B buyer personas.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In order to convert leads into paying customers, you must have a comprehensive lead management process in place. But, the process of lead management is every bit as multilayered and complex as the modern buyer’s journey. As we’ve established, lead management is a complex, multi-step process. Create buyer personas.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 19, 2023

How can you gather intel to help you improve your content marketing strategy? Learn how to perform and ace competitor content analysis in this simple breakdown. Image Source Key Takeaways: Competitor content analysis helps you understand your competition’s content marketing strategies.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content. It is a top tactic.

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ClearVoice

MAY 29, 2023

They’re called marketing personas. In this post, we’ll talk about marketing personas, why they’re important, and the best practices for creating one in 2023. What is a marketing persona? Marketing personas are sometimes also called buyer personas. Buyer personas can inform a wide range of marketing activities.

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