Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 8, 2011

Some advertising agencies charge you hundreds of thousands of dollars to create what they call the “ideal customer persona”. I discussed how you can do this for FREE with Facebook in a prior post called Generating a Buyer Persona with Facebook Advertising but unfortunately you do get what you pay for.

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Tony Zambito

JULY 6, 2011

About a dozen years ago, I became involved with personas through fate by meeting Alan Cooper , at the time he just finished his landmark book The Inmates Are Running The Asylum , and becoming enamored with personas as a process to build more user friendly products.  What Buyer Personas Never Were and Should Not Be In The Future.

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Tony Zambito

JULY 10, 2011

In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on how it is important to leave some of the major misconceptions about buyer personas behind in order to peer into the future.    These being areas related to new social buyer ecosystems, social business models, and new social buying cycles. 

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 12, 2010

The impact of Social Business is proving to be a seminal period in our history.    As the Internet changed our very means of how we view information, social media technology and social media channels are changing our views of customer relationships and conversations. 

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2011

One of the major outcomes of the recent advances in the social age is the resurgence of contextually-based persona development and its’ role in helping to inform as well as shape strategy.  The first definition points to reaching an understanding of the behavioral framework that surrounds the new social buyer persona. 

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 10, 2011

As we continue to experience the evolution of the social age, one thing we can be sure about is the march of progression will pick up its’ steady beat.    The new social buyer is an outcome of this evolution and it has forever changed the dynamics of the seller and buyer relationship. . 

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Tony Zambito

AUGUST 2, 2011

This is the fourth part of a series of reflective articles on the future of buyer personas.    In part 1 through part 3 I focused primarily on misconceptions, what needed to change, and why changes must take place in buyer persona development in the social age.  The Science of Buyer Persona Research.

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SendX

JULY 30, 2023

Among them, you will find your ideal customer personas. No matter the emerging email marketing trends , emails remain one of the most surefire ways to keep new and existing customers engaged, even beating social media. There are approximately 4.37 billion active email users worldwide.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 15, 2023

Buyer Personas. A buyer persona is a semi-fictional representation of an ideal customer, based on data and research. Buyer personas help B2B businesses further understand the needs, pain points, and motivations of their target audience. Social Media. Is it a company CEO, CFO, or head of department?

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Tony Zambito

AUGUST 3, 2011

This is the fifth and final part of a series of reflective articles on the future of buyer personas in the social age.    Leading up to this final part, part 1 through 4, I covered some of the misconceptions, impact of the social age, what changes were needed, and the establishing of a new role and framework. 

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

Effective content strategies require well-developed personas that go beyond basic templates, incorporating deep audience insights to guide content creation. Personas Despite all the discussion and activity around personas, we often find them weak resources to inform both an effective content strategy and quality content.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2020

However, to rock content marketing in today’s omni-channel world, social media plays a key supporting role. For that reason, it pays to learn how to leverage social media to draw your target audience into your content hub. Here are several ways to make your social strategy put in an Oscar-winning performance. Find Your Tribe(s).

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Tony Zambito

MAY 2, 2010

  Social communities are ebbing their way into the conscious minds of all buyers in many facets be it consumer or B2B.     In a funny way I began to wonder if anything new was really happening here and the fixation on social communities perhaps making us miss something.  Image by luc legay via Flickr.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 28, 2023

Instead of trying to guess who your customers are, use a combination of your in-house and third-party data to develop informed customer personas for your business’s ideal customer profiles—the ones that are most likely to become long-term patrons. Follow these three steps to build your personas: Segment. Work across channels.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 12, 2021

Persona-Based Personalization. In this type of personalization, you are using your buyer personas as the standard. Buyer personas include demographics but, more importantly, preferences, motivations, and behaviors. Check out the video below for a primer on buyer personas. Personalizing on personas is challenging.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This question prompts the creation of marketing personas, and the answers vary widely. For most B2B content creation , personas guide marketers in developing tailored pieces that resonate profoundly with a particular group. There are so many social platforms, and new ones are popping up every single day. Research Your Audience.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2021

Use customer personas to tailor your content to every segment in your audience. Research shows that laughing in a social context causes your body to release endorphins, the “feel-good” hormones. Those feelings, a team of Finnish and British scientists discovered, build social bonds. Use Humor to Build Connections.

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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 ? As marketers, we strive to understand and adapt to the dynamic needs of our target audiences.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 18, 2021

Billions of people around the world are on at least one social platform. based businesses larger than 100 employees leverage social media marketing to tap into this large consumer group’s potential. In this blog, we discuss six tips for establishing a social media strategy built for success. Define 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. In order for personas to serve your goals, they need to be data-driven.

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Martech

MARCH 18, 2024

MarTechBot now has 10+ personas to provide more targeted responses. For this prompt, try selecting the Chief Marketing Officer persona. Tracking engagement metrics: You can measure metrics like likes, comments, shares, and click-through rates to gauge the effectiveness of your social media content and campaigns.

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

As we strive towards 2024, the dynamics of B2B social media marketing strategy have witnessed profound changes, reshaping strategies and redefining norms. The strategies, tools and preferences of B2B marketers have shifted, charting new pathways in how businesses engage with their audience on various social platforms.

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illumin

JANUARY 12, 2024

There are many different ways that marketers can build their ad strategies on Meta and their social media marketing does not have to be an island. In fact, social media strategy ideally falls within a broader programmatic strategy, taking advantage of better targeting. This mindset has the power to transform your social strategy.

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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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Martech

JANUARY 9, 2024

External data sources like social media also help to build a complete picture. “It It is up to you to do the research and build the personas and profiles,” said Maxwell. Audience data from these sources will help you create personas. This includes your audience’s preferences, demographics, behaviors and interests.

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Martech

MARCH 26, 2024

Prompt: How often should a new business post on social media? Answer: As a marketing expert, I would recommend that a new business post on social media at least 3-5 times per week. MarTechBot now has 10+ personas to provide more targeted responses. For this prompt, try selecting the Marketing Manager persona.

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EMagine B2B Blog

MARCH 4, 2015

When it comes to social media most marketers admittedly lack a cohesive strategy. With literally hundreds of options to leverage social channels, a clearly defined strategy is critical. Even those who do choose to use social media still seem confused as to how they work or why they are needed. Social Media'

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ClearVoice

JUNE 19, 2023

These include account-based marketing, artificial intelligence, local SEO, persona marketing, podcast marketing, social media, and video marketing. Creating personas is helpful because the process combines research, conversions, and data. billion people worldwide are social media users. G2 ) As of January 2023, 4.76

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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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Scoop.it

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Do that, and watch retention, recruitment, and advocacy shoot up while satisfied employees proudly become influencers who rep your brand and share content across their social channels. At their core, compelling case studies act as social proof and peer validation for what you offer. That builds trust and connection.

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Social media advertising is a great way to quickly generate new customers and create a social media buzz around your (new) product. Social media strategy needs constant tweaking, analyzing, and learning from your or your competitors’ successes and failures. Awario: Position your brand better What engages your social media best?

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 16, 2023

The B2B winners of 2023 will be the businesses that prioritize their inbound marketing strategies and align them with their target personas. Though outbound marketing can be important, too, inbound marketing is what will make your target personas find, engage, and stay with your brand in the long term. New to inbound marketing?

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illumin

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Since the early 2000s, social media has been a forum for community engagement and a great way for marketers to reach audiences and build trust; it follows then, that a strong social strategy is essential for establishing a meaningful digital presence. Social ad spending in 2023 is estimated to be about $83.72 billion USD.

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Brandwatch Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Once you have identified these groups, social data can elaborate your understanding by providing a more holistic view of the groups. Different groups will respond better to different forms of advertising Develop customer profiles Take your data, your segmentation criteria, some educated guesswork, and develop some buyer personas.

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