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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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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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? A buyer persona is a detailed profile of a company’s ideal customer.

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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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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. What To Focus On.

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Martech

JANUARY 22, 2024

We’ve seen chats ranging from simple queries on how to buy marketing technology to folks asking for help evaluating vendors, creating marketing strategies and email copy — and so much more. Custom marketing technology-related personas The No. That’s why I now come pre-loaded with several personas to kickstart your process.

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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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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

By Carly Bauer , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing I was recently asked during a client meeting what the importance was for developing personas. And it’s true, personas and the people we market to are always changing based on their needs, goals, limitations, resources, and many other variables.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s no secret that buyers’ personas are a key element to marketing and sales. If you don’t understand the people you are targeting, how are you going to sell them your product or service? But what I really want to talk about here are the key elements of a great buyer persona. Pain points. This should be a no brainer.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 22, 2023

By Sarah Threet , Marketing Consultant You’re building your buying committee based off your ideal customer profile, but you’re feeling stuck… What if one buying committee doesn’t feel all-encompassing of who has been reported to you by your sales department? What if your product or service addresses multiple verticals?

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Studies prove that B2B prospects now prefer a digital buying journey over sales calls. In this post, we cover the basics and then move on to the advanced insight strategies for B2B buyer personas that are now possible with AI. 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. 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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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. Entertain them?

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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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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 30, 2021

When you hear the phrase “product marketing,” what are some of the first brands that come to mind? Product marketing is all about the consumer. To be a successful product marketer, you must pull the consumer into your narrative. Product marketing is where sales, marketing, and product development overlap.

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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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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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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. They know the hot topics that capture prospects’ attention, and they know which aspects of your products and services help them close deals. What obstacles keep them from making a buying decision?

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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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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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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. Buying Behavior: Is this a B2B or B2C customer?

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Leadspace

AUGUST 16, 2023

A persona refers to a representation of a user or buyer segment that is created to better understand and design for the needs, behaviors, and preferences of that group. Persona creation is common in fields like marketing, user experience (UX) design, and customer service. Often job titles are incorrect and not up to date.

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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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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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Tomorrow People

JANUARY 8, 2021

What we’re talking about are the technical aspects and inner workings of products. The stages of a typical GTM plan may look a little like this: Markets: What industries and sectors are optimal for your product? Customers: Who are your target personas? Channels: Where do your target customers buy? Of course it is.

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Tomorrow People

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The leaders expertly bring together product development, sales, marketing, and customer success. Find out why these product marketing superheroes are soaring. Product marketing for SaaS platforms and B2B technology in general is growing in both importance and impact. Product marketing superpowers. Product positioning.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It forces you and your team to get very, very specific about the people within an account who buy and to define and measure your wins. Allowing every salesperson to define their buying group differently, and record it differently in the CRM, no longer works in ABM. Defining your buying group. Segment by product line.

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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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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

The digital nature of our current business landscape has caused a dramatic shift in the way companies market their products. More customers are turning to the internet to research, test, and purchase products and services. In today’s blog post we explain why buyer personas are a critical—but often missing—element of your SEO strategy.

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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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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

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? A buyer persona (sometimes referred to as a customer persona, target persona, audience persona or marketing persona) is a fictionalized profile of your target customer.

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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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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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Lenny's Newsletter

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. If you’ve come here looking for a step-by-step guide to finding product-market fit, you’re going to be disappointed. From a working product to feeling PMF typically took 9-18 months. Art by Natalie Harney.

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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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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 22, 2021

At ZoomInfo, we’re constantly working behind the scenes to improve our product so that you can continue to grow your business. In this short video, our product content lead, Emily Dumas, covers new features and optimizations for ZoomInfo for Sales, Engage, and Recruiter. Additionally, the email templates are categorized by goal.

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Tomorrow People

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Discover how cognitive biases can influence how users adopt or reject new product features. Your product has improved. Feature adoption requires users to change the way they make sense of your product. This article shares some recommendations to consider when launching a new product feature, according to psychology.

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