Tony Zambito

MAY 2, 2021

Sales Leaders Will Need To Implement A Buyer Persona Driven Sales System To Adapt To New Buyer Behaviors And Preferences. The past year of 2020 into 2021 will be looked at as one of the more transformative years to hit B2B sales in many a decade. And in unimaginable ways throughout the post-pandemic recovery.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 14, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Need To Know The Difference Between Bad Versus Good Buyer Personas To Achieve Growth. Not all buyer personas are created equally. Because if they are not created equally, meaning with proven research rigor and processes, we will wind up with a bunch of really bad buyer personas.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

As organizations tighten budgets and headcount, marketers tend to experience those downstream impacts as longer sales cycles and lower conversion rates. Historically, Sentinel has put a lot of weight on our behavior scores to define an MQL and how we hand off leads to our sales development reps,” says Angelique.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 11, 2022

Buyer insights and buyer personas act as a compass for business leaders in uncertain times. Requiring robust insights and forward-looking buyer personas to inform just how to navigate uncertainty. In what seems like eons ago, buyer personas originated at another time of uncertainty. I was living in Silicon Valley at the time.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 7, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Increase Their Value Through In-House Buyer Insights and Buyer Persona Development Capabilities. Since the origins of the buyer persona concept in 2001, buyers and their buying behaviors have always been in a constant state of change. Because buyers will have moved on.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 28, 2023

Ultimately, making these changes to your small business practices will help improve your bottom line. What data is missing that could help you make better decisions? Inventory management software, for example, can help save you time and avoid the errors of a manual, pen and paper inventory system. Let’s dive in! Get organized.

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sagefrog

APRIL 16, 2024

The B2B buyer’s journey and buyer personas are critical aspects of this carefully constructed process. While almost any B2B marketer worth their salt will swear by the buyer’s journey, some marketers think that B2B buyer personas are a mixed bag. The Buyer’s Journey Stages Creating a B2B Buyer’s Journey What Are Buyer Personas?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Research, outreach, reminders, and tracking all limit the time your sales team has to connect with prospects and solve their problems. At ZoomInfo, we’ve spent years building and refining outreach practices that you can employ in your sales motions. Don’t sell your company first — lean into problem solving, and offer to help.

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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? By now, you probably know what a buyer persona is. By now, you probably know what a buyer persona is.

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The Forward Observer

APRIL 19, 2024

Yet when people hear the word “sales” they think of some version of the overly confident, manipulative, “don’t-take-no-for-an-answer” stereotype. About the Authors Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown are long-time sales leaders, practitioners, teachers, and best friends.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 13, 2022

The 20th Anniversary of Buyer Personas Survey To Help Determine Usefulness. The year 2021 marked the 20 th Anniversary of the concept of Buyer Persona being founded. The world is a completely different one than existed in 2001 when buyer personas were first introduced. It is hard to believe. What do we wish to know?

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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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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Buyer personas are a powerful tool that every business owner and marketer, especially those in the dynamic startup realm, should have in their arsenal. You might be wondering, what exactly are buyer personas, and why are they such a big deal? Firmographics: These are characteristics of organizations each buyer persona is a part of.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 12, 2021

In the world of business, commerce, B2B marketing, and B2B sales, a “new world order” will emerge. One capability B2B marketing and sales will need to strengthen is that of personalization. ” This will put added pressure on marketing and sales professionals to truly understand their buyers.

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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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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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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 10, 2022

Over the last twenty years, since founding the concept of buyer personas, I have worked with many leaders. Leaders that are responsible for their overall business, marketing, or sales functions. That there must be inefficiencies in the way marketing or sales is being done or the performance of their teams. You get it.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 30, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Must Build Core Competency of Understanding Buyer Persona Goals. When it comes to buyer goals, organizations today will need to get more specific about encoding understanding of buyer persona goals into their marketing and sales capabilities. . 2 – Develop Goal-Directed Buyer Personas.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 18, 2022

This puts enormous pressure on businesses to not only understand buyers’ goals but to be aligned in helping buyers to achieve goals. For decades, business leaders have relied on data from sales and marketing to get a read on what buyers prefer and need. Tracking sales opportunities and struggling to identify marketing returns.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 31, 2023

Customer journey mapping tools can range anywhere from cloud-based platforms to collaborative design tools, but they all have the potential to help you better understand your customers, improve your marketing efforts, and drive more sales. Well, it starts with understanding the 4 stages of the customer journey: Awareness.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Calling into question for many B2B sales and marketing leaders how well they know their buyers. Chief officers in sales and marketing are left with the tasks of knowing to what degree and how so have they changed. Redefine Buyer Personas. Knowing how buyers are being affected means revisiting buyer profiles and buyer personas.

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Martech

JANUARY 26, 2024

ICP vs. buyer persona: Which is the way to go? ICP is more of a big-picture strategic direction or target market and high-potential accounts, while buyer persona is more of the people behind it and closing deals with specific individuals. The table below outlines the key differences between an ICP and a buyer persona.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

What is a buyer persona? A buyer persona is a fictional member of your target audience that your sales and marketing teams create – through research – to build their campaigns around. Why are buyer personas important? In that case, you understand the importance of buyer personas. How do you create a buyer persona?

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Studies prove that B2B prospects now prefer a digital buying journey over sales calls. Understanding your target audience is more important than ever for lead generation and improving the ROI of marketing and sales. What are B2B Buyer Personas? Are Buyer Personas Still Important? Think about the Greek gods, for example.

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Engagio

MARCH 19, 2024

As a seller who lives this every day, I’m going to detail how I’m using Demandbase’s new Prescriptive Sales Dashboards to get off zero as quickly as possible. Prescriptive Sales Dashboards offer a unified and prioritized view of a seller’s territory / account list where sellers spend most of their time (i.e. So, what is it?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Creating a buyer persona lets you target prospects with key messaging that emphasizes your product’s unique problem-solving value. Find ready-to-buy prospects faster Learn how Sales Cloud can help you score your best leads and prioritize them by how likely they are to close. Here’s how Sales Cloud does this.)

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Exploring buyer personas in the digital age As outlined by Forbes , a common misstep in crafting brand-specific buyer personas is an overemphasis on demographics, often neglecting crucial situational elements like psychographics, the buyer journey, emotional mapping, and triggering events. Provide insights on nurturing engagement.

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

Buyer personas drive many aspects of your organization but especially marketing. But, it is first important to establish your B2B buyer personas before looking ahead to marketing activities. Here’s how to integrate buyer personas into your messaging, content and sales efforts for better results. Why is this important?

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

John Leonelli is head of sales, B2B Americas, at Babbel, a company that provides subscription-based language learning software and an e-learning platform. They recently moved into the American market, where companies of all sizes are looking for help with Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish language skills.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Conducting market research and gathering customer feedback can help identify any gaps or areas for improvement. Understanding your competitors’ strategies can help you identify opportunities for differentiation. If your product is not readily available or accessible to your target market, it may hinder sales and profitability.

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Martech

APRIL 22, 2024

This will help you tailor your email content and messaging to resonate with your target audience. Set up automated email workflows that deliver timely and personalized content to nurture leads through the sales funnel. Use lead scoring to identify and prioritize high-quality leads for sales follow-up.

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Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

The hurdles in industrial marketing strategy for manufacturers can seem daunting because the long and complex sales cycles involve many stakeholders, from engineers to purchasing and executives. Avoid scattered efforts: Written goals prevent reactive tactics, streamlining decision-making in long sales cycles.

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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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Tiecas

APRIL 23, 2024

To thrive, these companies must consistently attract qualified leads to fuel their sales pipelines. However, this sales-driven environment presents unique challenges for industrial and manufacturing marketers. For more on these challenges, see my earlier blog post, “Industrial Lead Generation for Sales – It’s Complicated!”

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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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Binary Demand

MARCH 1, 2024

Its potential for storytelling and marketing is undeniable, making AI in B2B marketing and sales a transformative force, reshaping interactions with brands, information, and services. In this article Overview What to Look for in an AI Platform How is AI helping in B2B marketing? In AI and B2B marketing , the goal is securing sales.

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ClickDimensions

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Market segmentation is a powerful tool to help businesses target specific groups. Related Blog: ‘Using Segmentation for Survey Success’ Segmentation may sound familiar to another process commonly known as creating buyer personas. This leads to higher conversion rates and customer loyalty.

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