Marketing Interactions

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How Many B2B Buyer Personas Do You Need?

Marketing Interactions

Can you segment your database according to the personas you’ve identified? Segmenting a database by personas is sometimes not as simple as filtering by title. And, how clean is your database? Does work need to be done there first? Buyer personas are not dictated by title, but rather by role.

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Why Marketers Must Have Customer Conversations

Marketing Interactions

They are involved in 1:1 conversations where they can shift on the fly based on what a buyer says, while marketers are usually addressing larger segments at once. I’d also argue that unless you can isolate who viewed the page (by persona or segment) then all you know is that the topic either resonated or didn’t.

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Use B2B Buyer Personas to Gain Consensus on Objectives

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In my work with clients, we’ve found it beneficial to segment by buyer personas and talk to them about the way solving the problem contributes to the company objective. That alignment is critical for gaining commitment to change that benefits the company. But how you get it isn’t as straightforward.

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Marketers Need a Mindset Reset for B2B Personalization

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Personalization in B2B is a combination of personas involved, market segment, stage in the problem-to-solution journey, and knowledge requirements based on desired outcomes. This means identifying where prospects are in their journey to solving a problem and guiding them to advance toward the solution. Connection.

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Use Questions as Your Framework for B2B Buyer Enablement

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But it’s surprising how few marketers use questions as a tool and framework to achieve goals, including: Gaining awareness from specific personas, segments. I admit this seems basic. Really elementary. Building engagement. Advancing buyer enablement. Accelerating pipeline momentum. In support of sales conversations valued by buyers.

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A Review of B2B Content Operations Strategy Benchmarks

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If you start with personalization, building in-depth personas that inform what specific target audiences find most relevant in relation to the problem you solve, then you’ll improve your targeting and segmentation.

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Achieving Maturity with Content Operations

Marketing Interactions

Needless to say, there was no coordination across the enterprise, so it was common for a prospect to get barraged by unrelated, often irrelevant communications because segmentation was lacking, personas were a novelty, and a cohesive strategy was considered one-off projects every quarter.