The Point

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A client asks: “We recently purchased a list of email addresses from a reputable vendor for use in a campaign targeting competitive installations. True personalization – understanding your prospect and segmenting message and offer by persona, industry, and other categories – is something else entirely.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

32% note that targeted ads positively influence their view of vendors. Forrester’s 2022 Buyer Insights Essential Research reports encompass factors influencing business and vendor choices, interaction preferences, generational variances, and participation levels throughout the buyer’s journey phases.

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Martech

MARCH 28, 2024

Fortunately for marketers and business users in other areas of the business, software vendors are moving fast to incorporate AI into their existing applications. Where available, we’ve linked vendor mentions in this article to video examples of the AI capabilities built into their tools.

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

Buyer personas drive many aspects of your organization but especially marketing. But, it is first important to establish your B2B buyer personas before looking ahead to marketing activities. Here’s how to integrate buyer personas into your messaging, content and sales efforts for better results. Why is this important?

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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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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2021

Create buyer personas and research content that meets their needs. Create Buyer Personas. Create well-researched buyer personas for each segment to help your teams focus on their needs. In a 2013 Google study , 50 percent of the companies surveyed indicated that they had emotional ties to their vendors.

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Cintell

JULY 3, 2018

But according to a recent report from TrustRadius , many vendors fall short in this arena. The 2018 B2B Buying Disconnect Report highlights the difference between how B2B technology buyers and vendors view the purchase process. Buyers Want the Full Picture in Making a Decision – and that’s where many vendors fall short.

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Tomorrow People

JANUARY 8, 2021

Customers: Who are your target personas? In such sectors tech personas (CTO, CIO, Head of engineering etc) will play more important roles in choosing technology solutions and partners. How this is done: persona research. At Tomorrow People, we conduct extensive persona research to compile a detailed persona matrix.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 15, 2022

This is especially true for B2B vendors, as the buyer’s journey is often complex — one purchase can be months in the making and require input from multiple decision-makers. Buyer personas and similar marketing techniques can help you consider diverging needs when building your CRO strategy. You Use the Right Tools.

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Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

Clarity & Focus Targeted precision: Documenting buyer personas ensures laser-focused content and optimizes channel choices for niche industrial audiences. Seamless partnerships: Streamline onboarding and set expectations for industrial marketing agencies or external vendors with clear guidelines.

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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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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A trigger event is an occurrence that promotes buyer awareness of the possibility for change or the need for what a vendor provides. Buyer Persona Role Changes. As a result, every business or sales person will need their own correctly identified ICP and buyer personas. What is a Trigger Event? Hiring Surges. News/Media Mentions.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Site visitors can access more personalized content, answers and other resources based on how the AI identifies them in terms of persona and where they are in the customer journey stage. Drift’s new product innovations fall into three, distinct new feature sets: Site Concierge creates a new type of self-service environment.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Positioning Marketing Analytics Tools Lead Ranking 130

KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

B2B buyer personas provide a foundation for accomplishing the research and development of effective online marketing campaigns designed to achieve strategic marketing objectives. What Are B2B Buyer Personas? For online marketers, buyer personas can provide direction in the channel-specific campaign development.

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BOP Design

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For instance, in B2B companies, there are often a number of stakeholders that weigh in on the purchase decision when considering new vendors. The answer starts with your buyer personas. What Is a Buyer Persona? Not sure what a buyer persona is? If you’re a B2B marketer, you likely have more than one buyer persona.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2022

Identify your different value propositions and personas, and use the content you create as a vehicle to deliver those key messages. Are they still learning about their problem, or are they deciding between vendors? Your buyer persona is the VP of sales for both. Do they experience the problems your solution solves?

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PureB2B

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

So, it’s worth asking, do I need a content syndication vendor to do this for me? Will that vendor/ partner make my job easier, or can I do this on my own? This can create vendor fatigue over time. Look at the company’s reach into your specific buyer persona. How, where, and why do I begin this research?

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In a recent survey of buyers my MarketingCharts: 68% reported choosing a vendor because they understand their needs 62% because they produce higher-quality content And 59% because they demonstrate knowledge of the industry These are all either directly about content marketing or an impact of content marketing. Go in-depth with your personas.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

If you want to access the full set of customized personas or the image generator , those are all available as well. ” “What do I need to consider when choosing a vendor for marketing technology solutions?” Clicking that will open MarTechBot and allow you to start messaging immediately. Click to expand.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

Affiliate sales support independent publishing Additionally, because B2B purchases tend to involve multiple stakeholders with different levels of influence, it is essential for marketers to understand the different buyer personas involved in order to tailor the communication and sales process accordingly.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 15, 2022

By gathering and applying in-depth buyer intelligence with buyer personas, you can mitigate non-consensus due to differing objectives that stall deals and escalate regret. Gartner’s approach to the issue of conflicting objectives is to recommend forgetting personas and focusing on what they call Enterprise Technology Adoption (ETA) profiles.

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Buyer Personas Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Gartner 75

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 16, 2023

Sometimes we have vendors provide demos and teach us about their product/solution so we can better serve our clients. One of those vendors is Relevvo , an AI-powered platform that helps Sales and Marketing leaders 2x their pipeline generation with smaller teams and smaller budgets. Reach all the right personas.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Creating a buyer persona lets you target prospects with key messaging that emphasizes your product’s unique problem-solving value. Create your buyer persona Selling is about delivering value to your target buyer, and that often takes the form of a solution to a unique problem. Let’s run through how to do that in six steps.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 19, 2022

Buyers spend nearly half their time researching independently ; another 22% is spent talking to other decision makers, and only 17% of their ‘buying’ time is spent meeting with potential vendors. If you haven’t already, start by understanding the personas you target and the buying stages that each persona will move through.

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Content Standard

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Imagine every piece of content across their digital journey has to be tailored for at least six different audience personas that the technology is programmed to recognize. Similarly, our Content Atomization feature allows users to customize the different versions of content they need for specific personas.Â

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Martech

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Since 2015, my team has conducted vendor-agnostic primary research into high-performance account-based sales and marketing strategies. Remember to identify the personas within those accounts: Who made the purchase decision. How the decision was made. The influencers of the decision.

Ideal Customer Profiles 113

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DealSignal

MAY 15, 2023

If you’re actively trying to grow your email list or ramp up email marketing campaigns, you’ve probably become familiar with email validation software vendors, such as Zerobounce or DeBounce. We tested out a few email validation software vendors and have shared the results with you here. How Does DealSignal Do It? So, why is that?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In fact, we often recommend that marketers analyze their existing customer base to create buyer personas as the first step of any new marketing initiative. Unfortunately, if your database contains inaccuracies you might be basing your buyer personas on completely false information. The Old Solution: A B2B Data Audit. Append your data.

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re a partner, not a vendor I know everyone says that, but without being boastful, I can honestly say we live it at Demandbase. Built out journeys, enablement, and nurture programs by persona to ensure we are actively guiding many customers forward based on the needs of their specific role.

Peer-to-peer 83

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Martech

MARCH 10, 2022

More and more, the buyer journey is conducted digitally: Two-thirds of B2B buyers say they are now “self-serving” more information before contacting vendors. 62% say they can now develop selection criteria or finalize a vendor list — based solely on digital content. Why use them? more collaboration and fewer silos).

Account Based Marketing 101

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

A recent study suggests B2B buyers rely most on product demos and vendor websites. 4 Tips for Using Personas in Account-Based Marketing. Understanding company information is just one part of the ABM equation, here’s how to use personas in your ABM strategy. Thanks for your thoughts, Sondra Wolfer. Great read, Ayaz Nanji.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

“Initially we were spending media dollars on account-based ad platforms and were generally getting a high volume of clicks and traffic to our site,” said Kuperstein, “However, the data could not confirm if we were connecting with our personas or really just anyone from a target account.”. Persona-specific and personalized ads.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 5, 2023

To discover the best place to launch an AI app, Prakash Kota, senior vice president and CIO at Autodesk , started by defining use cases and user personas: “We have an engineering persona, employee persona, and a sales persona, and we’re talking about the outcomes we want to achieve with those,” he said.

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PureB2B

JUNE 9, 2022

Too often, content syndication programs are plagued with poor-performing leads due to the vendor not truly addressing the challenge at hand. Not all marketing campaigns are created equal, and content syndication can, and should, be formatted to fit your specific demand gen criteria, as well as your buyer persona and customer profile.

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Vendors Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 62

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 28, 2023

Buying signals could include recent funding, recent layoffs or hiring, current contracts with existing SaaS vendors expiring, etc. This is useful information for documenting your buying committee and personas. Lastly, once you have mapped out the buying committee, it is important to document the personas.

Ideal Customer Profiles 101

Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Analytics Tools Business Validation 101

Martech

MARCH 30, 2023

One thing that drives Adele Revella, founder of the Buyer Persona Institute, completely nuts is when people develop so-called buyer personas, having never spoken to an actual buyer. Perceived barriers : This is where the buyers tell you why they did not select certain products or vendors, including yours.

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