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Are Your Buyer Personas Data Overkill?

Tony Zambito

As the concept of buyer personas has crept into the conscious of both B2C and B2B Marketing, so has misguided representations of buyer personas become prevalent. With many touted frameworks and processes being representative of buyer personas in name only. This same urge is being applied to buyer personas.

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Confusing Customer Segmentation, Buyer Profiling, and Buyer Personas Harms Marketing

Tony Zambito

In the 15 years since originating the concept of buyer personas in 2001, there has been one issue that continues to plague fully understanding exactly where, how, and why buyer personas can be beneficial. Buying processes and buyer journeys. Confusion by Adam Gale. Buying criteria and risk factors.

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State Of Buyer Personas 2016: Strong Correlation Between Effectiveness And Goals

Tony Zambito

In 2016, we will mark the fifteenth year since buyer personas were first introduced. The journey, however, continues towards professionals and organizations gaining a true understanding of what buyer persona development entails. by Scott Lewis.

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How B2B CMOs Can Achieve Customer-Centric Marketing With Buyer Personas

Tony Zambito

In this same survey mentioned above, it was found 50% or more of marketers surveyed have not engaged in researching and creating buyer personas for their marketing efforts. One of the key premises of user personas and buyer personas, since their origins, are they can foster a common view of customers within organizations.

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The Buyer Mindset Is Your Key To Post Pandemic Recovery

Tony Zambito

And be careful about digitizing outdated means of connecting with buyers. Doing so will only automate the very seller-side behaviors buyers have come to resent. Resentment can be an example of an attitudinal element in the makeup of a Buyer Mindset. To gain deep understanding of the new Buyer Mindset.

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Buyers Ignoring You Is Not The Only Change Going On

Tony Zambito

Especially when faced with a shift towards virtual selling and the challenge of getting on the buyer’s radar screen. One answer is to develop a perspective that buyers are undergoing a shift in goals, mindsets, and behaviors. Such a perspective will help to open up a gateway towards truly understanding the buyer’s mindset.

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Does Account-Based Marketing Make Buyer Personas Unnecessary?

B2B Marketing Directions

He writes, "ABM is an extraordinarily smart way to make the right tactical decisions when it comes to demand generation, but the elite Account-Based Marketers are still building personas, nurturing every step of the buyer's journey, and know exactly which activities and leads are driving revenue." Webster, Jr.