Tony Zambito

MAY 5, 2021

Marketing Leaders Can Use 4 Approaches Involving Buyer Personas To Create A Brand Story Buyers Will Want To Read. Particularly if no research or insights is gathered about the central buyer or buyers as well as the challenges they seek to overcome. Your buyer personas should be representative of this pursuit.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 20, 2021

This year, in July, will mark the 20th Anniversary of the origins of the Buyer Persona concept. Hard to believe the concept has evolved into one of the fundamental means for understanding the modern buyer of today. Making the founding goal-directed methods of buyer persona research more critical than ever.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

In this post, we cover the basics and then move on to the advanced insight strategies for B2B buyer personas that are now possible with AI. What are B2B Buyer Personas? Are Buyer Personas Still Important? Creating buyer personas can feel like a big challenge.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 6, 2023

If you're a marketing professional, you've probably heard the term "buyer persona" more times than you can count. Buyer personas are an essential part of a successful marketing strategy because not only do they define precisely whom you’re trying to reach, but they also inform so many aspects of your business.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 5, 2023

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? Focus your time.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 30, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Must Build Core Competency of Understanding Buyer Persona Goals. When it comes to buyer goals, organizations today will need to get more specific about encoding understanding of buyer persona goals into their marketing and sales capabilities. . Three Competencies To Develop.

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 1985, a software designer named Alan Cooper invented a user persona named Kathy to add human context to the development process. Over the years, marketers built on that idea to develop buyer personas – profiles of fictional people that embody several ideal client characteristics.

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Launch Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Developing B2B buyer personas is important for many reasons, including crafting targeted messages and personalizing marketing activities. But, before focusing on messaging and personalizing marketing efforts it is key to understand all the components that make up buyer personas, especially demographics.

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Launch Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2022

You’ve heard many times before, buyer personas are a crucial component of successful marketing. They clearly outline the target audience and ideal buyers for the product. The characteristics of the personas give insight into what will make the most impact when marketing to them. Importance of Buyer Personas.

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Circle Studio

MARCH 12, 2020

Creating buyer personas helps you visually picture your buyers and understand them on a deeper level. Buyer personas defined. While the term “buyer personas” is fairly common vernacular in modern marketing, the definition is sometimes misunderstood. Personas put a human face to your buyers.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

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. What Are B2B Buyer Personas? For online marketers, buyer personas can provide direction in the channel-specific campaign development.

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MarketJoy

APRIL 7, 2022

Why You Need Effective Buyer Personas for B2B Lead Generation. A buyer persona is a hypothetical customer that serves as a model of the buyer you want to target. Personas are based on an ideal customer profile (ICP), which is a set of metrics that guide your overall sales strategy. Why do they buy?

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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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Hubspot

MAY 26, 2021

Buyer personas typically include descriptions like Elizabeth's, along with other demographics and personality information. In the early days of customer segmentation, this would have been more than enough to inform marketing campaigns and product development. Standard Buyer Personas Aren't Enough.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 22, 2017

In this era of disruptive digital transformation, customer behaviors in B2B and B2C markets are radically changing. One means for the last sixteen years to understand customers and buyers have been the use of buyer persona development. Today, many buyers are also users and power users. and early 2000’s.

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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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Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2016

The term, audience development , has become more ubiquitous in the world of marketing. For B2C CMOs, the concept of developing audiences and communities has been an essential core principle for some time. For B2B CMOs, the idea of audience development and engagement can be perplexing.

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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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Hubspot

JUNE 2, 2020

Do you know who your business's buyer personas are? Buyer personas are semi-fictional representations of your ideal customers based on data and research. Okay, so personas are really important to my business. Before you know it, you'll have complete, well-planned buyer personas to show off to your entire company!

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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. I’ll cover the ins and outs of what they are, as well as some tips and tricks for developing them in a DIY format. Many teams utilize buyer personas.

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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. I have read books, eBooks, articles, postings, whitepapers, and the likes about the topic of buyer personas.

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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

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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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

APRIL 17, 2016

Projects often afflicted in an analogous way like troublesome commercial real estate development. To get at the core of overcoming the content personalization challenge today, organizations will need to develop a deeper understanding of buyers and customers. Buyer Persona Research.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 18, 2022

What they need insights into more than anything else are the goals of their buyers. Collectively, goals drive behavior. Without this understanding, it will be hard to truly understand rapidly changing buyer behaviors. Foundational to buyer insights and buyer personas is this critical principle regarding goals.

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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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Sales Engine

JULY 29, 2016

Content Marketing Institute Founder Joe Pulizzi said : "Buyer profiling is certainly not new, but understanding behaviors that make a real difference in results is surprisingly lacking. The real challenge is to develop a deeper understanding of how buyers think, what they need, and what we need to say to get them to choose us.

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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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ClearVoice

APRIL 11, 2019

A B2B buyer persona represents your ideal client decision-maker. When developing your buyer persona, address all the issues and aspects that may have an impact on how, when, and why the person will buy. These factors include demographic information, patterns of behavior, motivation and goals.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 5, 2016

Content Marketing Institute Founder Joe Pulizzi said : "Buyer profiling is certainly not new, but understanding behaviors that make a real difference in results is surprisingly lacking. The real challenge is to develop a deeper understanding of how buyers think, what they need, and what we need to say to get them to choose us.

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Stevens & Tate

JULY 27, 2021

Your home building services are going to appeal to certain types of buyers, which means you’re going to need to pinpoint who those buyers are in order to market your brand effectively. To do this, you’ll want to develop a customer persona (also known as a buyer persona ). Click here!

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Buyer personas are the second most popular criteria for content segmentation according to B2B marketers yet only 44% actually utilize them. The written characterizations that a B2B marketer creates about the buyers who make vital decisions regarding the product, service or solution that is being offered is known as a buyer persona.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

This new reality will put added pressure on CMOs and CSOs to coordinate strategies impacting the development of digital buying experiences. It is the type of development B2B organizations will have to attain deep buyer insights about if they hope to accelerate their revenue growth. And their buying behaviors.

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Content Standard

MAY 10, 2019

Alternatively, those who develop CX plans grounded in survey, demographic, and behavioral data will have much better outcomes with consumers. The Customer as Protagonist: Designing Robust Buyer Personas for CX Marketing Strategy. Consider their needs and goals, motivations, behaviors.

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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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