KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

Goals become more complicated to achieve as evolving marketing technology continues to promise an opportunity to target more specifically and create unique customer experiences buyers demand. What Are B2B Buyer Personas? The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. SEO and PPC Keyword Research.

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PureB2B

JUNE 23, 2022

While online B2B buying habits have changed dramatically in the past decade, today's B2B buyer journey looks a lot different than it did just a couple of years ago. But at the end of the day, the only types of buyers that really matter are the ones relevant to your business. B2B Buyers’ Frustrations with the Customer Journey .

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Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

There has been a subtle shift in buying behavior I’ve detected in recent in-depth buyer interviews. This is a significant buying behavior shift. The questions related to this buying behavior shift are simply straightforward: Are you ready? And their buying behaviors. 3 – Focus on buyer interaction design (BxD).

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 25, 2023

Buyer personas—fictional representations of the ideal customers and target audience you’re trying to reach with your content—play an essential role in content strategy. Whether you’re writing a blog post, web copy, lead nurture emails, or an e-book, tailoring your content for each buyer persona is a must.

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Tony Zambito

AUGUST 14, 2016

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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Business Brainz

JULY 19, 2021

B2B revenue leaders and marketers are spending a lot of their time focusing on understanding buyer personas. Since B2B buyers have become more cautious, it becomes monolithic to understand them and their changing behavior. A study by Gartner revealed 80% of the average B2B buyer journey took place online in 2020.

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

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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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. The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. What Are Buyer Personas?

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ANNUITAS

MAY 21, 2015

A recent article on MediaPost raised the question “Are Buyer Personas a Waste of Time?” The article quoted Michael Jaschke, CEO of 48Bricks , an ad tech company, as saying, “The premise of trying to model consumer behavior based on massive amounts of data does not work.” But don’t go crazy.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Millennials, who will evolve into comprising the majority of buyers, are already showing nearly a 45%-50% preference for no sellers involved. Once behaviors change and digital commerce transform, there will be no turning back. Revenue and sales leaders will need to adapt to an accelerated rate of change in buying behaviors.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 5, 2016

Understanding How Customers Desire and Perceive Experience Through Buyer Persona Research. Buyer persona research can play a role. That is if organizations truly adopt the original intent and methods of buyer persona research. A place where true goal-directed buyer persona research can be of immense help.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 3, 2016

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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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

Buyer Persona Research. When I first began my involvement with personas in the ‘90’s, they were primarily aimed at attaining a deeper understanding of user behaviors to inform overall design strategies. This premise still remains foundational to buyer personas. And repeat the mistakes of the past.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The promises of Big Data and analytics are limited in their ability to detect changes and cannot offer deeper assessments related to behaviors. In today’s robust evolution of digital technologies, CEOs and CMOs seek buyer understanding to address these three concerns. Changing the way people collaborate and buy.

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 8, 2015

We are seeing continued growth in the adoption of buyer personas as a means for understanding buyers and customers. At the same time, the growth is fraught with the perils of buyer personas being misunderstood, mislabeled, and serving as a cover for basic buyer profiling. This is where I need your help.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 29, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Will Need To Activate Critical Buyer Insights To Meet New Buyer Behaviors in a New Era for B2B. Getting your hands on critical buyer insights that show how to gain the attention of buyers remains the most significant challenge facing B2B leaders. Resulting in ineffective buyer personas.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

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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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

At the heart of it, two substantial forces come into play: The changing B2B buyer behavior An essential element of the contemporary buyer’s journey involves the increasing prevalence of buying groups and committees, encompassing multiple members from various departments within a business.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

It is being used to describe the effects of COVID-19 in shaping B2B buyer behaviors. Pre-pandemic, it was expected buyer behavior trends may evolve over a five to ten-year period. Now, buying behavioral trends have been lit with lighter fluid as the coronavirus pandemic shocks business commerce.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2011

These strategy areas include content strategy, social marketing, marketing automation, social selling, demand generation, and buyer experience marketing.    Obtaining contextual understanding of the new social buyer persona will be a key element of formulating strategies that are successful and embraced by buyers.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 10, 2011

  The new social buyer is an outcome of this evolution and it has forever changed the dynamics of the seller and buyer relationship. Buyer behavior most certainly will continue to undergo major transformations each time a new technology is introduced that alters the seller and buyer relationship. 

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 20, 2011

.  The deeper the understanding, the more targeted and relevant content can be for buyers.    Buyer persona development is a methodology for informing strategy.    Knowing what buyers are researching for determines what should be produced.     Related articles. . 

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 5, 2011

.  If we break down this model into the stages of lead generation, nurturing, qualification, and sales engagement, then the need to understand buyer behavior, needs, and goals in each stage becomes readily apparent.    There seems to be an interesting relationship developing between advances in digital technologies. 

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One question that will override many others is that of how to reset your overall buyer strategy. A pressing question to adapt to rapidly changing buyer behaviors. Buyer Strategy. A place to start is to first consider what is meant by buyer strategy. Refresh buyer personas and buyer journey mappings.

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Tony Zambito

JULY 10, 2011

In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on how it is important to leave some of the major misconceptions about buyer personas behind in order to peer into the future.    Without a doubt, we are seeing the most dramatic change in buyer behaviors since post World War II. 

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B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

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.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 11, 2020

While there's no sure fire way to tell, there's an optimization strategy you may be missing: behavioral targeting. Behavioral targeting uses web behavior as the determining factor, instead of demographics. Behavioral targeting is used to improve campaign effectiveness. Enter: predictive behavioral targeting.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 26, 2010

.  It can take weeks and some say even months if you take such a spiritual journey.  In our 21st century, the buyer journey is undergoing a transformation and renewal with the advent of digital marketing.  James, buyer’s have an end goal.  As with the Way of St.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 10, 2021

Applying the same goal-directed thinking that is essential to understanding buyer personas. In a 5 vertical markets buyer persona engagement for HP, we found that 3 of 5 buying processes were completely different. While 2 were closely the same. Uncovered were specific interaction design opportunities.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 26, 2021

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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Tony Zambito

APRIL 28, 2021

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.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

At the heart of it, two substantial forces come into play: The changing B2B buyer behavior An essential element of the contemporary buyer’s journey involves the increasing prevalence of buying groups and committees, encompassing multiple members from various departments within a business.

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Content Standard

JANUARY 4, 2024

Episode Highlights: The Non-Linear Buyers Journey: Axel acknowledges that measuring success across a linear buyer journey doesn’t work anymore. Buyers can enter and exit the funnel at any point, so content strategies must adjust accordingly.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 21, 2021

Create and Understand Your Buyer Personas. By now, you’ve likely heard this advice before, but creating buyer personas should be one of your first priorities when beginning any marketing project for your brand. Figuring out how to create buyer personas can bring on a whole new set of challenges.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 12, 2017

It is safe to say that no industry or B2B markets will go without some form of disruption affecting buyers and buying behaviors. Just as well, the realization also has materialized that what has worked in the past, is not working today when it comes to understanding buyers.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 10, 2023

The information is critical to building buyer personas that don’t suck. Buyer Intent Data Buyer intent data is an exploding field that uncovers online behaviors from your target audience. As the name suggests, you find out where prospects are in their buyer journeys and forecast who to target.

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Seismic

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In this new normal, buyer engagement consists of social selling, Zoom calls, and remote presentations. A buyer in 2021 starts their day at a desk, most likely in their home office. A buyer journey that previously started at an industry conference now begins on LinkedIn and consists of review site searches and case studies.

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