Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

Recent surveys of marketing professionals by Rapt Media , Forrester , Seismic, SAP , IBM , and others all indicate that content personalization remains the biggest challenge for marketers this year and for the foreseeable future. Buyer Persona Research. This premise still remains foundational to buyer personas.

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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. In this post, we will cover the following key steps: Identify the Need for B2B Buyer Personas.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 5, 2016

Customer experience has been and will continue to be one of the major influences on how buyers make choices. Recent research by SiriusDecisions found that for 80% of B2B buyers surveyed, customer experience counted as the top significant reason why they chose to work with a specific provider over another.

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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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The Lead Agency

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This means going further than demographics to get a real sense of who your buyer is and what drives them. This can be done by building buyer personas. A buyer persona is a research-based profile that depicts a target customer. Steps to Creating a Buyer Persona in B2B. How big is their company?

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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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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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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. As a result, you'll be able to attract high-value visitors, leads, and customers to your business who you'll be more likely to retain over time.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Buyers are 48% more likely to consider vendors that personalize marketing to address their specific needs. If you don’t have a detailed B2B buyer persona you’re leaving money on the table. Without a detailed persona your sales and marketing team’s time is being wasted on chasing leads that are a bad fit and likely to churn.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Buyers are 48% more likely to consider vendors that personalize marketing to address their specific needs. If you don’t have a detailed B2B buyer persona you’re leaving money on the table. Without a detailed persona your sales and marketing team’s time is being wasted on chasing leads that are a bad fit and likely to churn.

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Vision Edge Marketing

JUNE 4, 2024

A successful story demands more than creative flair—it requires rigorous research , customer-centricity, and validation. Business too can harness the power of validation research, a form of feedback and testing, to ensure key messages resonate with the intended customers and prospects. Assumptions can lead to costly missteps.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2020

We decided to compile some of the most important thought leadership best practices from recent research and surveys. To reap these rewards, you’ll want to follow thought leadership best practices based on data, surveys, and research. surveys, polls, and other data gathering that you do). Quick Takeaways.

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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. One of the best ways to dive deep into your prospective customers is by building a buyer persona insight.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2021

When you leverage content marketing to expand your business into new territory, you’ll be a step ahead of your competitors. Create buyer personas and research content that meets their needs. As Neil Patel points out, expanding your business “almost always requires a larger team.” Create Buyer Personas.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

For example, recent research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. DemandGen’s “ 2017 Content Preferences Survey Report ” discovered that 46 percent of B2B buyers have moved towards shorter formats of content in the past year. What Are Buyer Personas?

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Hubspot

MAY 26, 2021

Buyer personas typically include descriptions like Elizabeth's, along with other demographics and personality information. But with growing markets and increased consumer awareness, companies need to go beyond standard buyer personas to reach their audiences. Standard Buyer Personas Aren't Enough.

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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. Incorporating Survey Data.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Better, deeper, insightful, and well-rounded understanding of customers and buyers is on the top of the list for many CEOs and CMOs today. In recent studies by IBM and other research studies on CEO sentiments, customer insight and understanding are identified as a top focus for CEOs. Redefining The Meaning Of Buyer Understanding.

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Optinmonster

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Do you want to learn about the types of qualitative research and some examples of methodologies? Qualitative studies are vital to the market research process. If you’re new to this kind of market research, you’re in the right place. In this guide, you’ll learn the basics of qualitative market research.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

A recent survey by B2B Marketing, in conjunction with the UK-based agency Tomorrow People, indicated only 38% of marketers considered their content to be “very customer-centric.” 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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Stevens & Tate

JULY 10, 2020

Creating a buyer persona is essential to effective attraction marketing. In order to perfect your approach in buyer persona launch , these are some common mistakes to avoid: Don’t Forget to Focus on the Buyer Decision. What do your buyers expect for each? Keep Your Research Questions Simple and Sweet.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Read any inbound marketing blog or article and it’ll tell you to start any new initiative with, first, your goal(s) and then, second, your buyer personas. Because personas are at the heart of content. Buyer personas allow you to target and attract the right people to your website like sweet-smelling pheromones.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 20, 2022

The lack of buyer insights is consistently identified as a top challenge in any of the numerous C-Suite surveying as well. . When you are faced with a major decision, be it personal or business in nature, you want all the information you can get. The third leg is that of the buyer persona itself. A case in point.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 18, 2022

The past year has bedeviled both suppliers and buyers in the world of commerce. Uncertainty has always been an element of business commerce. With this backdrop, business organizations will need to recognize that customer and buyer goals are changing. What can business leaders do? Rapidly and frequently.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 8, 2020

A quarterly monitoring study of buyer attitudes about buying decisions during and after the COVID-19 Crisis, the COVID-19 Buyer Outlook Insights study will bring timely and essential buyer persona-based decision-making about when and how to resume marketing and sales. What steps should we take to assure buyers feel safe?

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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. Hero’s Journey: How Customer Movements Drive Business Priorities. The Customer as Protagonist: Designing Robust Buyer Personas for CX Marketing Strategy. Image attribution: N.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Putting pressure on B2B Executives to transform their businesses. Consider this, in an Accenture survey three years ago, only 12% of B2B buyers even wanted to meet with a sales representative. Furthermore, nearly 70% of B2B buyers are conducting transactions and purchases strictly online.

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Cintell

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

If you haven’t read the Understanding B2B Buyers 2016 Benchmark Study, you may not know that companies who exceed revenue and lead goals are more effective at creating, using, and consistently maintaining personas than those who miss their targets. (Or But getting to a state of persona nirvana is easier said than done.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 31, 2010

While much attention has been paid to the consumer use of the Apple iPad , lost in the noise has been the business user and buyer.   I noted with much interest an article distributed by Bloomberg News and authored by Olga Kharif entitled IPad Wins Following Among Business Users for Work Outside Office.

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B2B Marketing Traction

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Recent surveys show that as much as 57% of the buying decision is done before buyers contact sales ( CEB Study of 1400 Customers ). In an article in Sales and Marketing Magazine , Tim Reisterer warns that if marketers merely focus on the buyer persona, they miss the information they need to assist in prospect conversion.

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

One of the key foundational elements to a content marketing strategy is a buyer persona. Yet merely 57% of B2B marketers say they have a deep understanding of the buyer personas included in their strategy. A B2B Buyer Persona is a Functional Tool—Not a Poster with a Few Platitudes. Everyone is busy.

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Tony Zambito

JULY 6, 2011

As an individual with a background in marketing and sales, I began to think of how this could be a process to help make informed decisions not just about users but also buyers.    I wound up on a path afterward searching for a way to make buyer personas a reality. 

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 2, 2021

Finding holes in your strategy and filling them with quality content will strengthen your SEO, build your website authority, and attract new leads and customers to your business. What path will they take from the moment they become aware of your brand to the moment they decide to support your business? Do Market Research.

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Content Standard

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Marketers develop buyer personas to better understand the brand’s audience intimately, and then build a content strategy around the information needs of those personas. Developing Buyer Personas Based on Audience Insights. Create surveys for current and prospective customers.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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Webbiquity

MAY 11, 2021

Every business-to-business (B2B) organization needs to make the most of limited time and resources. Efficiency is vital to conserving cash , the lifeblood of all businesses (startups particularly) that enables them to profitably grow revenue. Have they changed since you started your business? Survey Your Finances.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2022

Let’s dive deeper into what qualifies as bad data, what it actually costs businesses, and why you should switch from poor-quality to high-quality data. What does bad data actually cost businesses? According to a Gartner survey, companies estimate that bad data costs them nearly $13 million per year. What is poor data quality?

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