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Should your B2B Marketing Plan Include Company Personas?

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Part 1 of 2: The Confluence of Buyer Personas and Company Personas (look for part 2 coming soon with our partners at HG Data). The idea of creating buyer personas has long been used by marketers to create a human profile of our buyers.

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Buyer Persona Breakdown: 10 Components to Understanding Your Audience

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After you’ve gone through the planning steps for creating content with a purpose, it’s time to start thinking about your audience. Ask yourself Who am I trying to talk to? Your answer to that question might be a little complex, and that’s OK.

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A Framework for Optimizing Personas

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Each stage covers the critical areas of planning & resourcing, using, creating and maintaining personas. Fully optimized teams systematically update personas at least twice a year, have comprehensive training programs and heavily use personas across the business. You can find the complete framework here.

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How Marketers Use Data to Develop Personas

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Others who have a dedicated resource to personas, KPIs to support the creation and maintenance of them, and a plan for operationalizing personas throughout the business may be in a different boat. It is likely a matter of maturity in the persona optimization process – for some organizations, this is a helpful starting place.

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17 Things High-Performing Companies Do to Optimize Their Buyer Personas

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They make personas fully accessible across all lines of business, and use them as a mandatory part of the planning process, new offer launches, sales conversations, and campaign development. They have at least one internal resource accountable for owning personas with a related KPI.

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Live Blogging from the SiriusDecisions Forum on Operationalizing Personas

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In product planning, personas can then ensure the needs of both buyer and user personas are considered. Channel marketing can benefit from training partners with knowledge and insights about target buyers, not just the product features you’re promoting. Measuring Persona-based Performance.

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Why Personas Fail

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In fact, 73% of companies currently use, or plan to use, buyer personas (ITSMA). Ask an industry thought leader, and you will hear similar validation, “ personas are more important than ever ” and “ know your buyer first. ” But there is a very sobering gap between the perceived value of buyer personas and the actual, realized value.