Tony Zambito

MAY 12, 2021

Buyer Personalization Will Matter As The Balance Of Power Shifts To Buyers In A “New World Order” Of Buying. The pandemic is creating a “new world order” in how buying processes are governed, how buyers source, how buyer research, and the list can go on and on. In 1990, at the end of the Cold War, both President George H.W.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 2, 2021

Sales Leaders Will Need To Implement A Buyer Persona Driven Sales System To Adapt To New Buyer Behaviors And Preferences. The new shift in buyer goals and interaction preferences will lead to a return of focus on buyer insights and understanding buyer persona goals. Aligning With A New Era Of Buyer Interactions.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 14, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Need To Know The Difference Between Bad Versus Good Buyer Personas To Achieve Growth. Not all buyer personas are created equally. Because if they are not created equally, meaning with proven research rigor and processes, we will wind up with a bunch of really bad buyer personas. This is a problem.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 7, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Increase Their Value Through In-House Buyer Insights and Buyer Persona Development Capabilities. Since the origins of the buyer persona concept in 2001, buyers and their buying behaviors have always been in a constant state of change. And keeping pace with shifts in buyer behavior.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 22, 2021

There are lots of different ways to create B2B buyer personas. But not all buyer persona templates and guides are equally effective. The key is to create a persona that is actionable. The Six Dimensions of a B2B Buyer Persona. This is arguably the single most important dimension in your buyer persona.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Redefine Buyer Personas. Knowing how buyers are being affected means revisiting buyer profiles and buyer personas. When the concept of a buyer persona was originated in 2001, they were derived from the experiences in creating goal-directed user personas for product design. And make your buyers even more unrecognizable.

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ClearVoice

MAY 29, 2023

They’re called marketing personas. In this post, we’ll talk about marketing personas, why they’re important, and the best practices for creating one in 2023. What is a marketing persona? Marketing personas are sometimes also called buyer personas. Buyer personas can inform a wide range of marketing activities.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Buyer personas are archetypal representations of actual buyers that articulate insights into their goals. Your buyer personas are a picture in time of your buyers. There is an important caveat to updating buyer insights and buyer personas. That is, to question whether you have buyer personas or buyer profiles.

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Optinmonster

JANUARY 25, 2023

Do you want to learn how to create a buyer persona? Creating a buyer persona is important for any business that wants to understand its target audience and tailor its marketing strategies accordingly. What is a Buyer Persona? Why Is Buyer Persona Important? What Is a Buyer Persona? Why Is Buyer Persona Important?

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 6, 2022

Perhaps no “Why” question is more important to B2B or B2C leadership than this: Why do our buyers and customers buy? In my 20 years since founding the concept of buyer personas , I have seen leaders struggle to answer what seems to be, on the surface, a simple basic question. Be they B2B or B2C entities. . Simple it is not.

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Tomorrow People

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

How the first step of any successful go-to-market is to understand and map out each persona’s characteristics. Before buying an expensive item you’ll more than like shop around, read some reviews, and do some research. Before you buy a house you’ll get an evaluation of the property; there’ll be land searches and legal checks.

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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. What is a buyer persona?

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Tony Zambito

MAY 6, 2020

One approach is to initiate and understand deeply the emergence of the “Pandemic Persona.” Businesses will need to understand the “Pandemic Persona” in the context of business and commerce. What must business leaders and cultural institutions gain a deeper understanding of in order to understand the Pandemic Persona? .

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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. Pictured: Happiness.

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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?

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 27, 2021

I’m really tired of seeing people dismiss B2B buyer personas as worthless. Although, I have to admit that many of the personas I review from prospective clients are little more than recipe cards for disconnected experiences. And shame on those who are building and promoting what I’ll just call fake personas.

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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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Content4Demand

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That’s what makes personas so incredibly important. You need to do your research to understand who your key personas are. If you don’t already have thoroughly researched personas, their answers are likely to help you sketch out a foundation for each of your key audiences. Who else is on the buying committee?

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

So after many hours and iterations, your team has landed on the perfected set of buyer personas. Detailed with pain points, goals, job responsibilities and attitudes, these personas represent who you want to market to. . After putting in the work, don’t let these buyer personas be lost as just a “marketing exercise”. Now what?

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Leadspace

APRIL 19, 2023

In our last blog , we discussed using Fit (propensity) models to determine the companies within your TAM who need your product, and how to determine which of those companies are actually ready to buy with Intent scores. Does their role at the company line up with the personas of your historical successes?

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InsightSquared

APRIL 23, 2019

Now, we have “Buying Groups.” The philosophy of buying groups is to identify and engage a set of personas involved in making a purchasing decision. What the Heck Are Buying Groups? This new way of thinking about people involved in making a purchasing decision is called buying groups. So, Where Do You Start?

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s no secret that buyers’ personas are a key element to marketing and sales. Personas should be developed and socialized to the organization, with feedback from sales and other departments that interact with prospects and customers. But what I really want to talk about here are the key elements of a great buyer persona.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 26, 2020

So you have an understanding of your buying committee and how to market to them , now it’s time to build out your buyer personas. When I approach building a buyer persona for a client, I like to rely on a modified set of questions actors use to understand the character’s role. Who influences the persona?

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Hootsuite

JULY 15, 2020

Defining a buyer persona (also called a customer persona, audience persona, or marketing persona) helps you create content to better target your ideal customer. Buyer personas remind you to put your audience’s wants and needs ahead of your own. What is a buyer persona?

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Tony Zambito

MAY 26, 2021

Marketing And Sales Teams Should First Align With An Important Buyer Mindset Before Jumping In Helping Buyers To Buy. The phrase – “helping buyers to buy” – has been a new mantra for the past three to five years. Especially as an idea to examine in buyer persona development. The phrase certainly makes sense. A purchase.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

We are in that moment of hesitation when it comes to the future of how B2B buyers will engage in buying. Various studies from McKinsey, Gartner, Forrester, Salesforce, and others show increasingly that B2B buyers want seller-free buying experiences. Today, a third to 40% of buyers want a seller-free buying experience.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Leverage Buyer Insights To Create Rewarding Digital Buying Experiences For Buyers. One significant outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the increasing desire on the part of buyers for digital buying experiences. What has become evident in the past 14-16 months is B2B buying has undergone radical change.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The way we connect with potential customers is by crafting personas and developing stories that help them envision a better future. What’s a persona? Personas are realistic characters who represent key audience segments. Personas are realistic characters who represent key audience segments. How do you research personas?

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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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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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Marketing Interactions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As the market shifts, much of what you thought was true about your buyer personas and ICPs may be different. A new role now has a major influence on buying decisions for what you sell. A Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise. Buying committees are getting bigger. How to Refresh Your Buyer Personas.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 27, 2020

Perhaps none more important than – how will buying change? When I first founded the concept of buyer personas back in 2001-2002, the intent was to help organizations to achieve a deeper understanding of their buyers and customers. Will we know how buying will change? We simply do not know how buying will change.

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Marketing Interactions

JANUARY 19, 2020

One of the first things potential clients say to me is something along the lines of how many buyer personas they think they need to create. The average is three to five B2B buyer personas. Which B2B buyer personas, when engaged, will help marketers drive contribution to revenues? Which B2B Buyer Personas Should You Build?

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Cintell

MAY 18, 2021

We have frequent conversations with our clients about how to create buyer personas , and what a powerful tool they can be when they are really being utilized. Few B2B marketers dispute the value of personas for strategy, messaging and execution across sales and marketing.

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Tomorrow People

JANUARY 8, 2021

Customers: Who are your target personas? Channels: Where do your target customers buy? 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. Where will you promote your products?

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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 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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