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55 Questions to Ask When Developing Buyer Personas

SmartBug Media

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?

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Are These 5 Mistakes Preventing Your B2B Marketing Success?

Marketing Insider Group

Putting off Buyer Personas. Interestingly, the study found that 31% of respondents don’t have buyer personas in place today – but plan to build them in coming year to help boost the effectiveness of their demand gen efforts. As noted in a previous post, B2B buyers have never been so difficult to understand.

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PowerViews with Tony Zambito: Buyer Predictability

ViewPoint

In 2002, Tony established the first buyer persona research methodology designed specifically for B2B marketing and sales. This innovation helps leading companies gain better understanding of their buyers, leading to improved lead generation and revenue performance. Don''t Treat Your Leads Like Buyers. Study Lead Behavior.

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B2B Events – What Does Demand Generation Have to Do with It?

ANNUITAS

Great until you come back to the office and have 200 emails and voice mails from people (vendors) you have not met. What are the various personas who are involved in the buying process at your ideal customer? Before you can decide what events to sponsor or even attend, you need to know who your buyer is. What do they read?

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5 Mistakes Companies Make When Automating Their Marketing

ANNUITAS

*This article first ran in VentureBeat on April 2, 2014. These are the macro stages a buyer walks through (with many sub-stages depending on the buyer targets) when making a purchase. Putting product content in at the Engage stage of the buying process means nothing to a buyer. According to Raab Associates, Inc.

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50+ Statistics Designed to Influence B2B Marketing Budgets in the New Year

KoMarketing Associates

Nearly 45 percent of B2B marketers, surveyed by Annuitas, indicated that they are not using buyer personas in demand generation programs and almost half are failing to align content to their buyer’s pain points. B2B buyers are exploring a number of different channels when conducting vendor. source ).

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8 Tips for Marketing SaaS and Software in the Cloud

Everything Technology Marketing

Saugatuck Technology's Bruce Guptill released some interesting market research predicting that by 2014 the majority of new corporate B2B software purchases will be in the form of cloud software solutions (SaaS) rather than traditional on-premise software. The cloud is all the rage these days.