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. This is a problem.

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Launch Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

While buyer personas have been the key component of many marketing strategies, what if the key to unlocking more effective and resonant content lies not in demographic details but in the intricacies of an individual’s personality ? Looking to up-level your content marketing and drive more leads?

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Martech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Custom marketing technology-related personas The No. That’s why I now come pre-loaded with several personas to kickstart your process. Each persona is “tuned” with specific context that effectively “primes the pump” so you can start chatting without worrying about telling me to “act like a CMO/lead gen expert/marketing manager” etc.

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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 new shift in buyer goals and interaction preferences will lead to a return of focus on buyer insights and understanding buyer persona goals. Aligning With A New Era Of Buyer Interactions.

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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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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Buyer personas are archetypal representations of actual buyers that articulate insights into their goals. Your buyer personas are a picture in time of your buyers. There is an important caveat to updating buyer insights and buyer personas. That is, to question whether you have buyer personas or buyer profiles.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 20, 2021

This year, in July, will mark the 20th Anniversary of the origins of the Buyer Persona concept. Making the founding goal-directed methods of buyer persona research more critical than ever. For over 20 years, as the founder and innovator of the buyer persona concept, I’ve advocated for achieving a deeper understanding of buyers.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Understanding your target audience is more important than ever for lead generation and improving the ROI of marketing and sales. 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?

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MarketJoy

APRIL 7, 2022

Why You Need Effective Buyer Personas for B2B Lead Generation. A buyer persona is a hypothetical customer that serves as a model of the buyer you want to target. Personas are based on an ideal customer profile (ICP), which is a set of metrics that guide your overall sales strategy. Why do they buy? The answer is yes.

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The Lead Agency

MARCH 17, 2024

But what comes first is the lead. Website lead generation forms are one of the most critical touchpoints in the B2B landscape. They are the front lines of engagement, meticulously designed to convert casual browsers into leads. Combining B2B and B2C statistics, the average conversion rate from lead generation forms is 1.7%.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 5, 2021

Marketing Leaders Can Use 4 Approaches Involving Buyer Personas To Create A Brand Story Buyers Will Want To Read. As the title gives away, the central character is Winston Churchill and Larsen delivers a terrific story on his role in leading the British nation through a difficult time in its history. 2 – Goals Drive Their Pursuit.

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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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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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Atomic Reach

AUGUST 28, 2023

A level of unbiased decisions around AI-informed customer personas that include interest, topic and category insights. Brace yourself, because the persona-first approach doesn’t just fix your why, but it also fixes your who. With persona-first insights, you're not just identifying; you're sculpting.

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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? Basically, personas ensure that everything you do in terms of lead generation and customer acquisition is tailored to your targeted buyers’ needs. This is where personas come in. Check it out!

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 28, 2022

On a recent episode of the SmartBug® on Tap podcast, we dove into buyer personas—but not in the traditional sense. We’re talking about who your buyer personas are outside of their nine-to-five day job. We’re answering questions like: Why should marketing professionals be interested in your buyer personas in their five-to-nine lives?

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 5, 2023

The term “buyer persona” has become more and more popular in the last few years. Many businesses have worked with their internal marketing team or with the help of an agency to develop their buyer personas. Why Are Buyer Personas? Why Are Buyer Personas? Why Are Buyer Personas So Important? Focus your time.

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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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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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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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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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markempa

MAY 30, 2017

When was the last time you looked at the quality and accuracy of your B2B persona and contact data? Mathew works with Salesforce and is the Principal of Marketing Insights to talk about the just released report, B2B Personas: Targeting Audiences. The B2B Persona project from Mathew Sweezey. It’s different day to day.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Marketing campaigns are fundamental to capturing leads on the internet and turning them into sales. Once you’ve outlined yours, here are some other helpful tips you can while implementing it to ensure an effective, lead-generating campaign. Here are 5 of our best tips for creating lead-generating marketing campaigns: 1.

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Launch Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2022

You’ve heard many times before, buyer personas are a crucial component of successful marketing. The characteristics of the personas give insight into what will make the most impact when marketing to them. Importance of Buyer Personas. Here are the three key benefits of creating buyer personas for a B2B product launch.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 13, 2018

We talk about buyer personas a lot on the ZoomInfo blog— for good reason! Marketers use buyer personas to inform every piece of their marketing strategy and ultimately generate more revenue for their respective companies. But buyer personas only work if they’re accurate and include the right kinds of information.

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Only B2B

MARCH 27, 2024

Ah, the never-ending quest for qualified leads! Must Read: MQL vs SQL: Which Lead Matter More & When? As leads express interest and demonstrate fit with your ideal customer profile (ICP) , they progress down the funnel through lead qualification. But what happens after that initial spark of interest?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

One thing is clear — lead generation has never been more central to a business’ success. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs). Here are five lead generation strategies that will lead to success in the new year. .

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Cintell

DECEMBER 20, 2019

And this is why buyer personas are so important. Sure, you’ve heard of buyer personas before, but this blog post isn’t about a step-by-step process to build yours. Personas and States of Being. So, you’ve developed buyer personas. Truth is, personas are not meant to include remedies for buyer problems.

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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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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. But how do you find leads and prime them for buying? Welcome to lead generation marketing. What is Lead Generation Marketing? Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers. Read several blog posts?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

And for a small to medium-sized business (SMB) to maintain that success, they need to focus attention on growth strategies, including lead generation. Lead generation is the practice of capturing interest from potential buyers to purchase your product or service. Why is Lead Generation Important for SMBs?

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 6, 2022

A significant trait that is necessary to lead organizations. In my 20 years since founding the concept of buyer personas , I have seen leaders struggle to answer what seems to be, on the surface, a simple basic question. Using buyer personas as a leadership skill to develop a common language on why their buyers and customers buy.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

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? On a basic level, a buyer persona is essentially a fictional representation of the person who is most likely to buy from your company—your ideal customer. Let’s get into it!

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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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Cintell

MAY 18, 2021

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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