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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Square 2 Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Enter the B2B buyer persona – a semi-mythical representation of your ideal customer. But why exactly are personas so important and, perhaps even more importantly, how do you bring them to life? The term “buyer persona” might conjure up images of a Mad Men -esque character whimsically crafted to fit the tastes of a certain demographic.

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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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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? Behavior: This is the final piece of the buyer persona puzzle.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. Today, we have solutions like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. What Are Buyer Personas? And How Can They Help Marketers? This is where personas come in. And who wouldn’t?

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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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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. You have to wonder; has the enormous growth of marketing and sales tech stacks caused B2B to be so busy managing their marketing or sales operations that they forgot about the buyer? But does not stop there.

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Martech

JANUARY 22, 2024

It’s been a while since my last update, and I’ve been watching with joy as you and your fellow marketers have collectively engaged in more than 2,100 chats with me! In fact, over at Search Engine Land , more than 1,000 people have registered to gain access to SearchBot, a search marketing version of MarTechBot.

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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

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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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 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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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.

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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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Launch Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

Buyer personas drive many aspects of your organization but especially marketing. Understanding the people your products or services benefit from should inform and guide all your marketing efforts. But, it is first important to establish your B2B buyer personas before looking ahead to marketing activities.

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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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Tony Zambito

MAY 5, 2021

Marketing Leaders Can Use 4 Approaches Involving Buyer Personas To Create A Brand Story Buyers Will Want To Read. Buyer Personas , archetypal representations of actual buyers based on qualitative research, have been helping to inform brand storytellers about their central buyers and insights into the story 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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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.

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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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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. So what, exactly, does a data driven persona look like?

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 15, 2022

Two voids that require buyer insights and growth-focused buyer personas. When buyer personas were first originated in 2001, they were designed to be strategic in discovering as well as validating business growth strategies. Investing in buyer insights research and buyer persona development to execute on new growth opportunities.

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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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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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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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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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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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Atomic Reach

AUGUST 28, 2023

Greetings, seasoned influencer marketing aficionados! As someone who's well-versed in the art and science of influencer marketing, you know that it's more than just pairing a product with a pretty face. What if we told you there's an approach that takes influencer marketing to the next level? But here's the game-changer.

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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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Content4Demand

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Buyer-focused marketing requires us to develop content that speaks to buyers about what they want and need. That’s what makes personas so incredibly important. You need to do your research to understand who your key personas are. The post Researching Personas? What are they concerned about? Your sales team.

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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? From the outset, we should say “buyer persona” because B2B personas are semi-fictional representations of the people involved in the decision-making process in your target companies.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

The most significant challenge B2B marketers face is in effectively communicating with target audiences and prospective buyers. Goals become more complicated to achieve as evolving marketing technology continues to promise an opportunity to target more specifically and create unique customer experiences buyers demand.

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ClearVoice

MAY 29, 2023

Marketing Manager, Mark. They’re called marketing personas. Today’s marketers can’t live without them. 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? Virtual Assistant, Annette.

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Stevens & Tate

MAY 9, 2022

Your business should know about senior living marketing to help present itself to potential clients. Buyer personas can help you when it comes to senior living marketing. What Buyer Personas Do You Need for Your Senior Living Business? On the surface of it, the buyer persona for a senior living business seems obvious.

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