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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Martech

JANUARY 26, 2024

This is where an ideal customer profile (ICP) comes in. ICP vs. buyer persona: Which is the way to go? ICP is more of a big-picture strategic direction or target market and high-potential accounts, while buyer persona is more of the people behind it and closing deals with specific individuals.

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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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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. . 2 – Develop Goal-Directed Buyer Personas.

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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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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2020

Building out ideal client profiles is the same idea — creating something in the short term that will help you market and sell to your audience in the long term. Ideal client profiles are crucial for any account based marketing (ABM) strategy, and are important for understanding your customers better.

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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. This is where buyer profiling can be helpful. Buyer Profiling.

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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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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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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Blog Learn More Know your persona First things first: make sure your sales, marketing, and other relevant teams (like product) are in agreement on what your ideal customer looks like. This means having well-documented and up-to-date ideal customer profiles (ICP) and buyer personas, which will be essential in step five.

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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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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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Tony Zambito

MAY 11, 2011

.  What is becoming more and more evident is that buying behaviors are getting harder and harder to discern because B2B marketers are not exactly privy to the changing behaviors.    Here is where buyer persona development can be of help.    Let me end with an illustration. 

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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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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2020

Building out and writing ideal client profiles is the same idea — creating something in the short term that will help you market and sell to your audience in the long term. Ideal client profiles are crucial for any account based marketing (ABM ) strategy, and are important for understanding your customers better.

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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

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

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 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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Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2016

For example, some content marketing pundits believe you should separate out audience personas. Because these are different, in theory, from your buyer personas. I believe this approach may only exacerbate the compartmentalization based on the faulty premise of making personas about the “who”. Focus on Customer Scenarios.

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SalesGrape

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

To maximize your lead generation efforts and improve conversion rates, it is essential to create ideal customer profiles (ICPs). The Importance of Ideal Customer Profiles An ideal customer profile is a detailed description of your perfect customer based on various demographic, firmographic, psychographic, and behavioral attributes.

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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. Follow along with this guide and download these persona templates to simplify this process.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Sales managers can take advantage of trigger events if they fully understand the characteristics of their ideal client profile (ICP). Sales leaders should comprehensively comprehend the characteristics of an ideal buyer, which range from basic facts such as company size, sector, and location to technology adoption, revenue, and growth rates.

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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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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. How to Build a Better Buyer Persona Many sales trainers talk about pain points and the concept applies perfectly to content development.

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Tony Zambito

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Over the past few years, I have struggled with the use of the word “profile” or “profiling” when it came to describing buyer personas.   My discomfort is arisen out of experience, what the terms fails to communicate about buyer personas, and how it is problematic in gaining adoption by senior leaders.

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ClickDimensions

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These groups could be based on criteria including age, gender, location, income, interests, behaviors, to name a few. Segmenting the market can be done in a number of ways, with some of the most common being demographic segmentation, psychographic segmentation, behavioral segmentation, and geographic segmentation.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 18, 2015

It is where we first saw the distinctions given to the economic buyer, the technical buyer, and the user buyer. These combined perspective resulted in an emphasis on profiling the individual buyer. Along with sales, they began to cut and dice segmentation efforts and perform profiling of buyers.

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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. How to Build a Better Buyer Persona Many sales trainers talk about pain points and the concept applies perfectly to content development.

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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. May I get your help?

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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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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

A GTM strategy outlines these key areas ensuring that you have: Comprehensible Segmentation: Segmentation involves finding specific behaviors within buyers most likely respond to your brand’s messaging. By using quality contact data, assigning scores to segmented buyers based on certain criteria defines how they apply to the market.

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Tony Zambito

AUGUST 22, 2011

During a series of articles entitled The Future of Buyer Personas is Social , I referenced several times that the social age will cause a rethinking of buyer persona research and development.     The constant evolution of buyer behavior is the primary driver behind this principle. 

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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. 75% now use more sources for research.

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