Heinz Marketing

MAY 3, 2023

By Win Salyards , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing Developing an accurate and actionable understanding of the B2B buying committee and the buyer personas that make it can be challenging, especially when your buying cycle is complex. Persona Classifi- What? Action: Where is the Champion?

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

As marketing technology and information access continues to evolve, B2B buying behavior changes as well. For example, recent research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. B2B buyer personas become critical in connecting the dots of this process.

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Content4Demand

MAY 26, 2021

Personas can be incredibly useful in B2B marketing—provided you’re including the right details. Those details might vary depending on your industry or your solution, there are at least four common persona mistakes everyone should avoid. When Content4Demand researches personas, job title is a no-brainer. Using Dated Data.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

In this guide, we’ll show you how to better understand your target audience by creating buyer personas built on social media data. What is a buyer persona? A buyer persona (sometimes referred to as a customer persona, target persona, audience persona or marketing persona) is a fictionalized profile of your target customer.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 5, 2021

I speak daily with product, marketing, and sales professionals about the impact that social media can have on developing buyer personas, launching a product, building a brand, or even on individuals standing in their respective marketplace. Developing Your Buyer Personas. That’s Product Marketing 101. Everything!

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

A recent survey by B2B Marketing, in conjunction with the UK-based agency Tomorrow People, indicated only 38% of marketers considered their content to be “very customer-centric.” 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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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 2, 2016

To create content that boosts lead and demand generation, you need to construct B2B buyer personas that give you a clear picture of your customer, mapping their journey from when they decide to solve a problem to their purchase decision. Many companies create personas, and not one itsy-bitsy thing changes. The result?

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B2B Marketing Traction

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The behavior of today’s B2B buyer means that marketing needs to go far beyond what it did in the past. Recent surveys show that as much as 57% of the buying decision is done before buyers contact sales ( CEB Study of 1400 Customers ). In B2B marketing there no longer can be a hand-off of leads from marketing to sales.

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MLT Creative

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In developing b2b buyer personas you have to remember their connection to the buying cycle, as different stages in the buying cycle lead to different content. MLT Creative B2B Ideas @ Work Blog. Our ideas, musings, thoughts, reviews on b2b marketing topics.

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The Point

APRIL 26, 2018

In a world where demand generation , and marketing in general, is more data-driven than ever, one of the hottest topics in B2B circles is intent data. The lure of intent data is learning which companies are going to buy from you and when. B2B is much different, for a number of reasons: One, the buying cycle is longer in B2B.

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Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The desire for personalization among B2B buyers is growing louder. According to Gartner, 86% of B2B customers expect companies to be well-informed about their personal information during interactions. Moreover, the intricate nature of B2B buying decisions necessitates personalization.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 10, 2021

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. How to Create Successful B2B Relationships. Through the entire buying cycle, we focus on value creation and articulation and try to demonstrate the superiority of our value.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 8, 2018

Here at The Mx Group, we have frequent conversations with our clients about how to create buyer personas , and what a powerful tool they can be when they are really being utilized. Few B2B marketers dispute the value of personas for strategy, messaging and execution across sales and marketing.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

B2B Marketing Strategy. B2B Telemarketing. Your Top Ten Questions About B2B Buyer Personas. Recently, we partnered with Demand Gen Report to present a webinar about the power of personas. We’ve developed personas, but they aren’t getting used. How often should we refresh and update personas?

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Tony Zambito

MAY 12, 2011

Without question, while B2B Marketing is focused on developing its new prominence in the early stages of the buying cycle via content strategy and content marketing, B2B Sales is caught flat-footed on how to adapt to changing buyer behaviors.    How can B2B Sales begin to reinvent themselves starting today? . 

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 17, 2021

You can develop a detailed buyer persona to map out what people need at different points in the buying process. When someone is ready to buy your goods or service, they go through a buying cycle, which is a set of decisions they make before they buy.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Here are five tactics your B2B marketing team needs to master to empower sales people to close deals faster. Crafting buyer personas for sales reps and treating them like customers by tailoring outreach, tools, and techniques to the needs of different teams will go a long way in improving their sales effectiveness.

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EMagine B2B Blog

JANUARY 6, 2019

Content marketing personas are not new, however, tightly integrating these personas with SEO strategy and tactics is relatively new to most companies and organizations. What is a Content Marketing Persona? What is a Content Marketing Persona? The Importance of Personas. What does this mean for SEO?

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 10, 2018

Are those stereotypes or personas? presidential election, and NASCAR dads, which became a target audience in the 2004 elections, are closer to personas, though too thinly described. The key to powerful buyer persona development comes down to three important factors: grounded in fact, functional, and more than demographic data.”.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 15, 2024

The B2B buyer experience is more complex and time-consuming than that of B2C. B2B buyers may spend months assessing an issue, researching solutions, and evaluating possible service providers before deciding on a vendor that fits their needs. This often results in a more intricate and extended buying process.

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Webbiquity

MAY 24, 2016

What trends will drive B2B marketing over the next three to four years? Where should savvy B2B marketers invest their resources to optimize results over the next few years? The initial product of that research was the eBook, B2B Marketing Trends for 2016: 25 Thought Leaders Weigh In , previously summarized here.

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Exo B2B

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

According to a survey conducted by ITSMA, currently 44% of marketers are using personas in B2B. This trend is quite logical and profitable when personas are developed with method and rigor. The evolution of a profile to a persona is made possible, among other things, by the exploitation of digital data from several sources.

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Content4Demand

JULY 7, 2021

As B2B buying trends evolve, it’s important that your content keeps up. According to the recently released 2021 B2B Buyers Survey Report from Demand Gen Report, here are a few of the top trends: Buying committees continue to become more prevalent, and committees are growing larger. What are buyers searching for?

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Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Resolution #2: Balance Personalization with Privacy Longer buying cycles and larger buying committees have increased buyer expectations around relevant and customized experiences. Resolution #4: Build Trust with Your Audience B2B marketing is not just about selling a product or service.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

For instance, types of customer segmentation in B2B marketing might include industry, business size and location, and technology stack. Something to think about: According to Folloze, 77% of B2B sales and marketing professionals believe personalized marketing experiences make for better customer relationships.

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Sana Commerce

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Many B2B companies worry that turning to online sales will hurt their long-standing customer relationships. Personalized marketing in B2B e-commerce is a great way to maintain these business relationships by treating your buyers as individuals online — just as you would offline. So clearly expectations are not being met.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Marketing Interactions

JANUARY 25, 2022

The beginning of the year is an appropriate time to take a stand about the payoffs of commitment in B2B marketing strategies. The beginning of the year is when a lot of B2B companies look at what they want to accomplish this year as a clean slate. They also want buying to be faster. They expect commitment. But here’s the rub.

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The Point

JUNE 30, 2021

Well, it matters only because many B2B marketers who haven’t yet stepped foot in the ABM waters are under pressure, from management or sales or both, to do so. The reality is that ABM (now ABX, in some circles) is ever-evolving and so what qualifies as ABM is a moving target. Also, does it matter?

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 5, 2011

A tough assignment for B2B marketers today is getting a handle on how buyers progress through the buying and selling cycles.    As Sirius Decision and CSO Insights have reported on often, buyers are progressing through 70-80% of the buying and sales cycle before engaging directly with sales. 

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DealSignal

APRIL 27, 2023

ABM intent data is about ABM marrying Ideal Customer Profiles, Buyer Personas, high-quality contact information, and intent data into a strategic go-to-market strategy for B2B firms. The Ideal Customer Profile or Ideal Buyer Profile should not be confused with Buyer Personas , which focus on specific roles at organizations.

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Marketing Interactions

OCTOBER 5, 2022

When B2B marketers think “buyer,” they’re most often thinking about net-new buyers. If not, have you built those personas? Just as your marketing programs nurture net-new buyers across lengthy buying cycles, retention programs must kick in after onboarding and continue across the customer lifecycle.

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Seismic

MARCH 7, 2023

Today’s buyers interact with B2B sales reps in a completely different way than they did a few years ago. More stakeholders are involved in every buying decision and they all look for more than just a great product or service. As a result, the average B2B buying cycle has become even longer and more complex than it was in 2020.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 7, 2019

The question is, are B2B sellers making the necessary changes in their approach in order to find success when it comes to engaging a millennial stakeholder or buying committee? This brings us to the importance of buyer personas. I hope these tips give some insight into the minds of the B2B millennial consumer.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2011

One of the major outcomes of the recent advances in the social age is the resurgence of contextually-based persona development and its’ role in helping to inform as well as shape strategy.  The first definition points to reaching an understanding of the behavioral framework that surrounds the new social buyer persona. 

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SalesIntel

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Enter the realm of data enrichment – a transformative practice redefining how businesses perceive, interact with, and convert B2B leads. The Significance of Enriched Data in Understanding B2B Leads: Enriched data acts as a potent catalyst in deciphering the complexities and nuances embedded within B2B leads.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 24, 2021

Buyers need to complete specific jobs before consensus can be reached for a buying decision. And they benefit from B2B content that shows them how to do those things. There’s a lot more to B2B content marketing than thought leadership, industry trends and infotainment. Aim Earlier with Your B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

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