Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Calling into question for many B2B sales and marketing leaders how well they know their buyers. Chief officers in sales and marketing are left with the tasks of knowing to what degree and how so have they changed. Redefine Buyer Personas. If so, you may be dealing with buyer profiles masquerading as buyer personas.

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sagefrog

APRIL 16, 2024

The B2B buyer’s journey and buyer personas are critical aspects of this carefully constructed process. While almost any B2B marketer worth their salt will swear by the buyer’s journey, some marketers think that B2B buyer personas are a mixed bag. Why Are B2B Buyer Personas Important?

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Buyer personas are archetypal representations of actual buyers that articulate insights into their goals. They help us to gain insights into how buyers pursue goals and the motivations behind these pursuits. Your buyer personas are a picture in time of your buyers. The Reasons Why To Update.

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Contently

APRIL 6, 2023

Love them or hate them, buyer personas are key to creating successful marketing strategies and effective content. But here’s the catch: Developing buyer personas requires research, analysis, and attention to detail. What Is a Buyer Persona?

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 30, 2024

Sometimes a target market will be very clearly defined, yet a company still fails to attract the right kind of buyers. One reason for this may be that no buyer personas have been created, or if they have, something’s wrong with them. However, problems can arise when teams develop these personas but never look at them again.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Studies prove that B2B prospects now prefer a digital buying journey over sales calls. Understanding your target audience is more important than ever for lead generation and improving the ROI of marketing and sales. What are B2B Buyer Personas? Are Buyer Personas Still Important?

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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. How can we as marketers appeal to the entire persona? Where to Start Buyer Persona Personalization.

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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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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Over the years, marketers built on that idea to develop buyer personas – profiles of fictional people that embody several ideal client characteristics. Creating buyer personas is a subjective and analytical process based on data and actual customers or prospects. Buying Behavior: Is this a B2B or B2C customer?

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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. What do they want?

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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. The coronavirus pandemic has become the fuel of the forthcoming future of the B2B buyer-seller dynamic. Today, a third to 40% of buyers want a seller-free buying experience. An unsettling time.

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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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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. Sometimes it is used to describe the meaning of buyer enablement. A purchase.

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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.

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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. This is a significant buying behavior shift. To name a few.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

To create an effective marketing, sales or social media strategy, you must first have a clear idea of who is consuming your content and why. In this guide, we’ll show you how to better understand your target audience by creating buyer personas built on social media data. What is a buyer persona?

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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. .

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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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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? For online marketers, buyer personas can provide direction in the channel-specific campaign development.

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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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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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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?

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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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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

And if you jump into it without a solid strategy in place, you aren’t going to see game-changing results (or a happy sales team). In addition to marketing and sales, Suzy Balk, our Sr. 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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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. More buyers are now Millennials or Gen X more so than Boomers. 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.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 15, 2022

With 8 to 15 buyers involved in a complex B2B purchase, ensuring a no-regret deal can be as difficult as herding cats. 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. Don’t get me wrong.

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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. As such, in many cases, B2B businesses will have more than one buyer persona to target.

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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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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.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 10, 2021

For instance, you most likely have heard or read something about the buyer-aligned sales process within the past few years. The term buyer-aligned will take on a significant new meaning as you enter a new era of B2B and buying. And, instead of calling it the funnel, we call it the buyer’s journey.

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Hubspot

MAY 26, 2021

All of this information helps you place her in a category in your mind — but none of that information tells you why she buys your product. Buyer personas typically include descriptions like Elizabeth's, along with other demographics and personality information. Standard Buyer Personas Aren't Enough.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Today’s B2B buyers are time-strapped and overwhelmed with information, making sales harder than ever. Being able to communicate with the correct context and timing is essential as a sales representative. Triggers provide an excellent view into how a company is changing, allowing your sales team to see future possibilities.

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

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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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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But do they really want to buy, or are they just window shopping? Here’s the hard truth: “You don’t know if they’re ready to buy until they tell you they’re ready to buy, and you can’t believe it until you get a signed contract,” said Richard Harris , sales coach and founder of The Harris Consulting Group.

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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. Confusion by Adam Gale.

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