Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 20, 2015

A recent survey conducted by Cintell*, entitled 2016 Benchmark Study On Understanding B2B Buyers , indicates that high performing organizations utilized qualitative research for their buyer personas. The study focused entirely on the use of buyer personas for understanding B2B buyers.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

The most significant challenge B2B marketers face is in effectively communicating with target audiences and prospective buyers. While we all have goals and objectives for lead generation, brand development, and customer experience as examples, the overarching challenge is making the right decisions to achieve them.

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Rev

JANUARY 18, 2023

Whether you’re working at a startup or a large enterprise, demand generation marketing is too good for business to ignore. If you apply what you’re about to learn in this guide, you can start to harness the power of demand generation (demand gen) to increase your sales pipeline with quality leads.

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Inbox Insight

MAY 7, 2019

A step-by-step guide to turning knowledge about your target DMU into actionable buyer personas. This article is part of our marketing mini-series on B2B Marketing Segmentation , designed to help marketing professionals advance their targeting techniques to drive performance. DMU Buyer Persona Template.

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NetLine

MARCH 6, 2024

In this post, we are going to explore how you can take advantage of this data to identify target accounts and gain a deeper understanding of your buyers’ needs. Image caption: Finding the best target accounts shouldn’t be like searching for a lost opportunity in the dark. But how do you do this?

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 18, 2011

Recently, Adam Needles, Left Brain Marketing’s VP of Demand Generation Strategy, posted a thought provoking article entitled Why Do (Well-intentioned) B2B Demand Generation Efforts Fail?   Adam gives us a good sense of the numbers and dollars being invested in demand generation and marketing automation. 

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ClearVoice

APRIL 19, 2021

What is demand generation? Demand generation encompasses a wide range of sales and marketing initiatives designed to develop interest in a company’s products or services and convert leads into customers. Our guide introduces you to demand generation, a dynamic and evolving marketing tactic.

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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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Televerde

JULY 11, 2022

However, you don’t need to feature your product in a Hollywood hit to increase the demand for your product. Instead, you can use demand generation campaigns to introduce your product to your ideal customer and increase sales. Learn some demand generation campaign ideas and how to create a successful strategy.

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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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Inbox Insight

OCTOBER 6, 2020

But when it comes to looking at data, it’s vital to learn more than just who your buyers are and where they are from. But intent data is not one singular ‘insight’ – intent data is an umbrella term to describe a whole range of signals that can be gathered from different behavioral actions from an individual.

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Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Account-based marketing (ABM) is the most effective way to boost marketing efforts though a hyper-targeted and personalized approach to reaching and engaging in-market accounts. The result is better engagement, faster sales cycles, and stronger relationships with accounts that will deliver more long-term value.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

More Research. What we are seeing is buyer goals, challenges, psychology, behaviors, and situations are undergoing rapid shifts. Despite this accepted notion that shifts are happening, there is the usual impulse by businesses to cut back on any planned research. This is exactly the time to conduct buyer research.

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Pam Didner

OCTOBER 22, 2022

To articulate how well you know your customer requires the development of buyer personas, which take a deep dive into the interests and traits of your target audience. Buyer personas are the foundation of all things marketing. Buyer personas guide marketing campaigns, messaging development, and content creation.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 4, 2011

Buyer Persona Development and the qualitative research methodology applied to creating buyer personas have proven to be an effective means for B2B organizations to reach a deeper understanding of their buyers.    Buyer persona development methodology is at its core a research methodology. 

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

How to Target the Right Buyer in Your Demand Generation Campaign. Different businesses define and approach demand generation in different ways because, at its core, demand gen marketing should adapt to the needs of your specific buyers. Strategic Demand Generation. Paid media.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

How to Target the Right Buyer in Your Demand Generation Campaign. Different businesses define and approach demand generation in different ways because, at its core, demand gen marketing should adapt to the needs of your specific buyers. Strategic Demand Generation. Paid media.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 23, 2014

There are a few B2B surveys and benchmarking studies that I refer to again and again … DemandGen Report’s Buyer Behavior Survey and Content Preferences Survey and the Content Marketing Institute’s Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends to name a few. Author: Jason Stewart @jstewart_1 VP Demand Generation, ANNUITAS.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 20, 2012

This June marks ten years since the first buyer persona development methodology was pioneered and launched by the firm Goal Centric now called Buyerology. The adoption of research-based modeling of buyers that leads to buyer personas has been mixed. The State of Buyer Personas 2012.

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Hinge Marketing

MARCH 21, 2019

Yet, working for the research-based branding and marketing firm for professional services, I can tell you that we and our clients are seeing a decline in referral usage. Our research validates the trend. The research also shows that while clients are more willing to be referral sources, they are making fewer referrals.

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Televerde

AUGUST 1, 2019

This is often the case for many marketers when it comes to demand generation. However, before you freak out and start questioning everything you thought you knew about demand generation, take a deep breath! Like many concepts in modern B2B marketing, every company has their definition of demand generation.

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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.    My thought here is very different than the conventional purchasing department. 

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Certain prospects may demonstrate buying behavior but NEVER be a good fit; whereas, other prospects could be ideal buyers that simply are not engaging with your marketing campaigns.

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Tony Zambito

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Recently, I published two articles related to 5 ways buyer behaviors are affecting B2B sales , and 5 ways they are affecting B2B marketing. Without question, changing buyer behaviors are also impacting how we think about Demand Generation or as it has been conventionally called – lead generation.

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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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Inbox Insight

MAY 31, 2019

Whether you’re in the early stages of deploying an account based marketing strategy, planning a scaled down account based marketing pilot or are in the midst of a fully-fledged ABM program, we have a water-tight methodology that you can pit your planning against. Target Account List (TAL) creation.

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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. . 

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Cintell

APRIL 30, 2019

Data processing centers can be established to identify and segment distinctive buyer personas, provide intelligence on their behaviors, pinpoint relevant content and target optimal channels for optimal customer engagement. In a recent interview, Todd Berkowitz – Research VP at Gartner, recently told CMSWire.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

You can read part one here: New research: Boost organic growth from current customers. Brent: The idea that empathy is the core principle of the entire book The Challenger Customer , I admit, is more of a personal opinion based on all of our research. We do this in all our research here. And then you can map it.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 20, 2011

Without context in strategy planning for the new social buyer persona, we are left with a factual approach to identifying target social buyers.    We will attain indications on what social buyers are doing.    Evidence of this is the number of buyer persona “templates” that are offered. 

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Certain prospects may demonstrate buying behavior but NEVER be a good fit; whereas, other prospects could be ideal buyers that simply are not engaging with your marketing campaigns.

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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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Tony Zambito

AUGUST 3, 2011

This is the fifth and final part of a series of reflective articles on the future of buyer personas in the social age.    In this final reflection, I offer 6 essentials to embedding buyer personas into your organization.     Then a third-party option should be explored. 

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

We’ll start by discussing the importance of understanding your buyer personas and defining your ideal customer profile. Next, you’ll learn how to develop a target account list that aligns with your objectives. Table of Contents: Understand Your Buyer Personas A. Conclusion 1.

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Your targeted decision maker wants to be treated like an individual, not a number in the system. . Even if a prospect isn’t a customer yet, you, as a B2B service provider, are still expected to put in maximum effort and research their needs to meet their expectations. So what does this information tell us? Are they a decision maker?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 5, 2016

Historically in B2B demand generation, more has been better too. This is a very important concept to understand in marketing, especially for demand generation. More is not more, and here are three reasons why you should be wary of focusing solely on volume in demand generation: 1. More leads?

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