Tony Zambito

JANUARY 15, 2022

Lack of buyer insights and brand vision can doom growth strategies. The second is a lack of an articulate brand vision that both internal teams, as well as customers, can grasp. Two voids that require buyer insights and growth-focused buyer personas. A brand vision that is buyer-focused.

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Contently

JULY 21, 2021

If you work in marketing long enough, you’re bound to encounter a buyer persona. Buyer personas are like scouting reports on a representative of your target audience. The problem with personas. Most brand personas fall short because they don’t help you develop empathy for the audience.

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 18, 2024

They can drive more website traffic, increase email activity, help lead generation , and ultimately produce more revenue; almost 80% of the B2B organizations who exceeded their revenue targets last year have buyer personas in action! A buyer persona is essentially your ideal buyer. How Do You Create a Buyer Persona?

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 18, 2024

They can drive more website traffic, increase email activity, help lead generation , and ultimately produce more revenue; almost 80% of the B2B organizations who exceeded their revenue targets last year have buyer personas in action! A buyer persona is essentially your ideal buyer. How Do You Create a Buyer Persona?

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Anyword

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Building buyer personas used to be a maze of interviews, research, drafting, testing, and seemingly endless refinements. Armed with data from millions of top-performing marketing campaigns – not to mention your own data from your best-performing campaigns – Anyword can instantly analyze any content to generate the ideal buyer persona for you.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 28, 2022

On a recent episode of the SmartBug® on Tap podcast, we dove into buyer personas—but not in the traditional sense. We’re talking about who your buyer personas are outside of their nine-to-five day job. We’re answering questions like: Why should marketing professionals be interested in your buyer personas in their five-to-nine lives?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Today, we have solutions like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. What Are Buyer Personas? Basically, personas ensure that everything you do in terms of lead generation and customer acquisition is tailored to your targeted buyers’ needs. This is where personas come in. And who wouldn’t? Check it out!

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2021

When you humanize your brand with authentic content, you can build the kind of trust that makes your company the go-to authority in its field. Gone are the days when a catchy commercial was all a brand needed to win a consumer’s business. Your brand doesn’t need a David Ogilvy or Phyllis Robinson to give it a human touch.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Whatever you learned about the definition of “branding” in your marketing courses is wrong. 25 years years ago (when the oldest Millennials were in junior high, and the youngest still in diapers), branding was quite simple. The F our Pillars of Branding in the Digital A ge. These are: Brand. Visual branding.

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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? Why Are Buyer Personas So Important? Focus your time.

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Exo B2B

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Did you know that 72% of marketing professionals use B2B personas to guide their marketing content? In this world where every purchasing decision can involve multiple stakeholders and take months of deliberation, understanding the nuances of B2B personas and the complex journey of the B2B buyer is not only useful, it’s essential.

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

Buyer personas drive many aspects of your organization but especially marketing. But, it is first important to establish your B2B buyer personas before looking ahead to marketing activities. Here’s how to integrate buyer personas into your messaging, content and sales efforts for better results. Why is this important?

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Tomorrow People

JULY 26, 2022

What you need to know about brand research, and how it can help you stand out from the competition. In crowded markets, gaining a competitive advantage is key as it’s the only way you can sustainably attract new customers and maintain brand loyalty. Yet, many B2B companies struggle to truly differentiate their brand.

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Cintell

DECEMBER 20, 2019

And this is why buyer personas are so important. Sure, you’ve heard of buyer personas before, but this blog post isn’t about a step-by-step process to build yours. Personas and States of Being. So, you’ve developed buyer personas. Truth is, personas are not meant to include remedies for buyer problems.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

The great content marketer Ann Handley advocates for making your customer, rather than your company, the hero of your brand story. Getting that part right is as critical to a good brand story as it is to your favorite novel or TV show. What is a buyer persona? Why are buyer personas important?

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Tomorrow People

JANUARY 8, 2021

Customers: Who are your target personas? In such sectors tech personas (CTO, CIO, Head of engineering etc) will play more important roles in choosing technology solutions and partners. How this is done: persona research. At Tomorrow People, we conduct extensive persona research to compile a detailed persona matrix.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

What are brand guidelines? Brand guidelines are the visual and verbal elements that shape and define your brand. When crafted well, they are the components that come together to distinguish your brand from the competition… even if your audience can’t quite put their finger on what they are. What is your company’s purpose?

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Tomorrow People

JULY 26, 2022

What you need to know about brand research, and how it can help you stand out from the competition. In crowded markets, gaining a competitive advantage is key as it’s the only way you can sustainably attract new customers and maintain brand loyalty. Yet, many B2B companies struggle to truly differentiate their brand.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This one- or two-sentence statement that concisely describes what you do, who you do it for, and why you are special, is in many cases the vital first impression about your brand or product. The basic steps in crafting your UVP are: Define your ideal client profile (ICP) or buyer persona. Image credit: Noah Näf on Unsplash.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 25, 2020

You know your brand. But, conveying your brand’s personality to your audience on social media isn’t always easy. Of course, when it comes to branding, your logo, color palette, fonts, and tagline are important, but the voice of your brand is what will truly influence your audience and readers.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Creating marketing personas is an important part of marketing strategy in any industry. Personas help you craft spot-on messages that resonate with your audience and elicit an action or response. In this blog post, we’ll discuss what marketing personas are, why they’re important, and how you can create them.

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Anyword

JULY 26, 2022

It gets messy and confusing, and the same can be for brands and businesses when they don’t know exactly who they need to target. This is where customer personas come into play. What will you be able to accomplish with thought-out customer personas? Customer Personas vs. Target Market. What are their interests?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

In today’s blog post we explain why buyer personas are a critical—but often missing—element of your SEO strategy. What is a buyer persona? On a basic level, a buyer persona is essentially a fictional representation of the person who is most likely to buy from your company—your ideal customer. Let’s get into it!

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Atomic Reach

AUGUST 28, 2023

A level of unbiased decisions around AI-informed customer personas that include interest, topic and category insights. Brace yourself, because the persona-first approach doesn’t just fix your why, but it also fixes your who. With persona-first insights, you're not just identifying; you're sculpting.

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BOP Design

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The answer starts with your buyer personas. What Is a Buyer Persona? Not sure what a buyer persona is? Hubspot has an excellent in-depth overview , but in a nutshell, it’s this: A buyer persona is a profile of your typical prospective customer. If you’re a B2B marketer, you likely have more than one buyer persona.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2022

B2B marketers targeting tech personas know well at this point that they make attribution frustratingly tricky. To me, these two channels hold the potential for approaching complex tech personas, building trust, and potentially having them self-identify. By Win Salyards , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Professional slant.

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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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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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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 30, 2019

While your team may have all types of strategies in place to carry out marketing messages, without B2B buyer personas, you could be missing the mark when it comes to getting your efforts consumed by target audiences. While all of the above may sound great in theory, the truth is, there is an art to creating effective B2B buyer personas.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2021

With brand storytelling, you can create an emotional connection with your audience. So, how do you effectively implement and scale brand storytelling into your content strategy ? Brand storytelling uses narrative formats to create emotional connections with audiences. What Is Brand Storytelling? Quick Takeaways.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Microsoft Advertising has detailed four new consumer personas that represent changes in how marketers reach and relate to their audiences across verticals. The personas (luxury shopper, digital nomads, empowered activists and self-care enthusiasts) were identified via Microsoft’s first-party data and analytics over the last 18 months.

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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. Marketing Margie.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 25, 2024

The short-form video format has quickly become a favorite of both brands and consumers. We’ll also talk about the value of using Reel hashtags for Instagram and share tips for finding the best hashtags for your brand. This not only gets you more exposure, but also positions your brand as relevant and up-to-date. Let’s dig in.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The first elements come at the very beginning, before the first sale is made or the product even exists: getting branding, customer, and messaging right. There are books written about branding, college courses devoted to it, and agencies that specialize in it. For B2B startups, that means building a customer persona.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 15, 2022

By gathering and applying in-depth buyer intelligence with buyer personas, you can mitigate non-consensus due to differing objectives that stall deals and escalate regret. Gartner’s approach to the issue of conflicting objectives is to recommend forgetting personas and focusing on what they call Enterprise Technology Adoption (ETA) profiles.

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Stevens & Tate

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Storytelling is an ancient art form, which has scientifically been proven to aid memory, making it the ideal vehicle for promoting products and creating successful branding. Learning how to tell your brand story begins with understanding the role of characters. They need to be able to create an emotional connection with your persona.

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Martech

APRIL 22, 2022

Working from home has blurred the line between work and personal time, creating a new buyer persona, according to a new Microsoft report. Because marketing depends on demographics, past behavior and purchasing histories, it is a challenge to respond to a new buyer persona. 63% spend more time on their work PC than pre-pandemic.

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