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How Many B2B Buyer Personas Do You Need?

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Which B2B buyer personas, when engaged, will help marketers drive contribution to revenues? After all, the reason to develop personas in the first place is to build an engaged audience of potential prospects who can and are likely to become customers. Then look in your database to see who’s in your existing prospect pool.

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Why Marketers Must Have Customer Conversations

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Note: I do this to gain a foundation of insight for the project, but also to involve sales and learn what they want to know that will help them buy into the persona project. They are involved in 1:1 conversations where they can shift on the fly based on what a buyer says, while marketers are usually addressing larger segments at once.

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Use B2B Buyer Personas to Gain Consensus on Objectives

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Together, the combo can help you combat the lack of consensus, the stallers, and the regret that looms large— at 56% of buying organizations —per Gartner’s research. In my work with clients, we’ve found it beneficial to segment by buyer personas and talk to them about the way solving the problem contributes to the company objective.

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Marketers Need a Mindset Reset for B2B Personalization

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This means identifying where prospects are in their journey to solving a problem and guiding them to advance toward the solution. Personalization in B2B is a combination of personas involved, market segment, stage in the problem-to-solution journey, and knowledge requirements based on desired outcomes. Connection.

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Achieving Maturity with Content Operations

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Needless to say, there was no coordination across the enterprise, so it was common for a prospect to get barraged by unrelated, often irrelevant communications because segmentation was lacking, personas were a novelty, and a cohesive strategy was considered one-off projects every quarter. It’s easier with a bit of help.

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SMS Messaging Moves Businesses Beyond Transactions

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To move beyond the transaction, you must consider what you want your prospects and customers to do. You’re not just informing them of something, but rather helping them to engage with your brand. Take the opportunity to learn more about your customers and segment them according to interests.

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