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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Binary Demand

APRIL 8, 2024

Empowering precision : Market segmentation emerges as your ace in the hole. You gain precision in identifying, targeting, and engaging with your customers by dissecting your market into distinct segments. The term “market segmentation” traces back to 1956 when Wendell R. So, let’s get the ball rolling! Smith first introduced it.

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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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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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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. While there is no precise recipe to segment audiences, we’re here to help you nail down the fundamentals. While it can be used to help you qualify leads, it’s also an excellent strategy to segment audiences.

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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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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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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

When confronted with the details – database management, customer account segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY customer data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way to get started. Sound familiar?

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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. And who wouldn’t? Check it out!

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you not only show leads content that makes sense to them, but you get your audiences excited about buying from you. What Is Customer Segmentation? Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. What Are Key Segments in Marketing?

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Brandwatch Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Segment these groups You cannot undertake an accurate customer analysis without segmenting your audience into groups whose members are homogenous while being distinct from other groups. It helps to have personas so you can visualize a human rather than aiming for an abstract idea.

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In the 15 years since originating the concept of buyer personas in 2001, there has been one issue that continues to plague fully understanding exactly where, how, and why buyer personas can be beneficial. I believe, in part, the issue is fertilized by efforts to capitalize on the emerging popularity of the term buyer persona.

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Brandwatch Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Segment these groups You cannot undertake an accurate customer analysis without segmenting your audience into groups whose members are homogenous while being distinct from other groups. It helps to have personas so you can visualize a human rather than aiming for an abstract idea.

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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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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Enter email list segmentation—the key to successful email marketing. Today’s blog post answers your most pressing questions about list segmentation and explains why you should segment your lists today. The Beginner’s Guide to Email List Segmentation. What is list segmentation? How do I segment my email lists?

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2021

Segmentation is a great tool to help laser your focus on that magic 20%. Segmentation helps efficiently use your marketing strategy by hitting those customers who will mostly likely engage with your product or service. Benefits to Segmentation. Popular Types of Segmentation. Create persona profiles. Boosts revenue.

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

From the time of Don Draper in the hit show Mad Men to mega Super Bowl ad spends in the 1980s, marketers traditionally relied on demographics and social trends to target and segment broad audiences. In the 2000s, digital marketing revolutionized marketers’ ability to reach more specific segments.

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Leadspace

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Now let’s look at how to turn the profiles within your TAM into actionable segments to drive your business. What makes a segment more “closeable”? We believe that the best segment strategy starts with two things – coverage and context. Do your segments start with your Total Addressable Market and cover its entirety?

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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

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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Biznology

AUGUST 25, 2016

All marketers worth their salt have created a set of personas. Personas give your writers a specific person to write for. The problem comes in when you haven’t thought through how those personas relate to market segments. Often, sales teams take different approaches with different market segments.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Many businesses struggle with how to create a buyer persona. They even provided these helpful answers to your top questions: What is a buyer persona? A buyer persona is a fictional person that represents a key segment of […].

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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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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The way we connect with potential customers is by crafting personas and developing stories that help them envision a better future. What’s a persona? Personas are realistic characters who represent key audience segments. Personas are realistic characters who represent key audience segments. Sign up now.

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Unbounce

MAY 1, 2021

A stock image of a woman holding her Yorkie grins at you from above this user persona description. Don’t get me wrong—personas can be great for understanding your audience at a surface level. Let’s start with demographic segmentation. This practice will define your audience in more detail than a high-level persona.

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Golden Spiral

MARCH 14, 2018

That’s where buyer personas come in. In our experience, buyer personas really become valuable when you start segmenting content to each of them. Segmentation allows you to deliver hyper-personalized marketing communications that resonate with your audience, and even has the potential to lower the cost of acquiring new leads.

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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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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Successful marketing in the B2B space relies on segmenting and defining your business’s total addressable market. As decision making has evolved over time, it’s become more imperative that you not only target different companies based on varying criteria, but that you break down your audience into buyer personas based on their unique needs.

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Metadata

JANUARY 25, 2024

Hone your target market with segmentation We can hear you now: But Metadata, we already know our market and target audience. We’re not saying you don’t know them, but this exercise is worth another visit because according to Roger, even the best CEOs and Marketing leaders struggle to get segmentation right. Be ruthless.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

That’s why email list segmentation is the key to successful email marketing. Today’s blog post answers your most pressing questions about email list segmentation and explains why you should segment your lists today. What is Email List Segmentation? How is List Segmentation Effective? Unfamiliar with the term?

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Market segmentation helps you find and accurately target your customers. Audience segmentation is to B2B businesses what dessert is like to your favorite meal. Every marketer and sales manager wants market segmentation to paint a more realistic image of their customer base, but they’re not quite sure where to begin.

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Optinmonster

MARCH 16, 2020

Email segmentation can drastically improve the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns. In this guide, we’ll share 50 email segmentation ideas that the pros use to create targeted email lists. Because smart marketers know the value of email list segmentation. For this, email segmentation is an absolute must.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Clients ask us all the time to help them with the right characteristics for personas–which are essentially market segments. We focus mainly on these characteristics to target marketing messages, but they are also highly valuable for segmenting your analytics. The post How do you segment your market? Like this post?

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Marketing Interactions

JANUARY 19, 2020

One of the first things potential clients say to me is something along the lines of how many buyer personas they think they need to create. The average is three to five B2B buyer personas. Which B2B buyer personas, when engaged, will help marketers drive contribution to revenues? Which B2B Buyer Personas Should You Build?

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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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Leadspace

APRIL 19, 2023

Does their role at the company line up with the personas of your historical successes? Is their persona typically responsible for making decisions to buy your type of product or service? This is where an AI-powered persona scoring model comes into play. This is where an AI-powered persona scoring model comes into play.

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