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It may be hard to find the time to create and maintain buyer personas, but some powerful new research from Cintell suggests it’s more than worth your while. Articulate the value of personas to all team members. You can do your research, develop insights, and even pen the perfect name for your personas, but won’t matter if your team or your cross-functional partners don’t buy in. Use many data points develop accurate personas and validate them. MORE
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. These misrepresentations have also led to a tendency to throw everything, including the kitchen sink, into crafting buyer personas. This same urge is being applied to buyer personas. MORE
If you find yourself needing to talk to a lot of people, you probably have a few different buyer personas that you’re targeting through your content. What are buyer personas? Buyer personas are fictional representations of your ideal customers. When you have multiple buyer personas, tailoring your writing is the best way to get your message to resonate appropriately with your diverse audiences. MORE
If you work in marketing, you probably hear a lot about optimizing the customer experience, tracking buyer journeys and identifying decision-making factors and/or paths to purchase. But what about developing buyer personas? Buyer Persona Statistics. MORE
This year, in July, will mark the 20th Anniversary of the origins of the Buyer Persona concept. Hard to believe the concept has evolved into one of the fundamental means for understanding the modern buyer of today. MORE
Fraught with confusion surrounding questions such as: exactly what constitutes an audience and is there really a difference between buyers and audiences? For example, some content marketing pundits believe you should separate out audience personas. Because these are different, in theory, from your buyer personas. I believe this approach may only exacerbate the compartmentalization based on the faulty premise of making personas about the “who”. by Gregor Črešnar. MORE
Long gone are the days where generic, stock-photo buyer personas like ‘Mary from marketing’ and ‘Francine from finance’ determined the direction of our marketing campaigns. Demographic data and superficial buyer profiles will not be what gets us there. Buyer insights. MORE
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. What is clear is buyer personas are now entering the mainstream of dialogue when it comes to overall customer understanding. . 27% of the respondents relied on in-depth qualitative buyer interviews – a jump from 15% previously. MORE
Without question, while B2B Marketing is focused on developing its new prominence in the early stages of the buying cycle via content strategy and content marketing, B2B Sales is caught flat-footed on how to adapt to changing buyer behaviors. What is true is that B2B Sales must go through a period of reinvention and cannot stand idly by as the world of B2B buyers continues to transform with each passing day. Image via Wikipedia. MORE
We had an excellent conversation about the need for buyer personas, and the role they play as a foundational component of a B2B marketing strategy. In many cases, the need for buyer personas manifests itself in the form of common marketing challenges. These roadblocks can be alleviated by focusing efforts on better buyer understanding. Your “Mix and match” messaging tries to do too much — and ends up confusing or overwhelming your buyers. MORE
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. B2B buyer personas are fictional representations of your target audience members, which help to better align campaigns all along the buying journey. In this post, we will cover the following key steps: Identify the Need for B2B Buyer Personas. MORE
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. MORE
by contributor | Tweet this Editor’s Note: Today’s blog post comes courtesy of Tony Zambito , the creator and today’s leading authority on buyer personas. In 2002, Tony established the first-ever buyer persona development methodology designed specifically for B2B Marketing and Sales. Over the past dozen years, Tony has conducted hundreds of buyer interviews and has helped some of today’s leading Fortune 100 companies acquire deep buyer insights. MORE
Sales Leaders Will Need To Implement A Buyer Persona Driven Sales System To Adapt To New Buyer Behaviors And Preferences. An era that will redefine the seller-buyer relationship in ways we only have a hint of today. Aligning With A New Era Of Buyer Interactions. MORE
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. MORE
Every organization should have a B2B buyer persona to understand their leads and audience better and ultimately strive to stand out from their competitors. But what are buyer personas? This is your ultimate guide on B2B buyer personas. MORE
Creating buyer personas is a powerful way to build the audience understanding every B2B marketing department needs for success, and an essential part of your campaign research. b2b promotional campaigns buyer personas MORE
This June marks ten years since the first buyer persona development methodology was pioneered and launched by the firm Goal Centric now called Buyerology. The adoption of research-based modeling of buyers that leads to buyer personas has been mixed. The organizations who have embraced the goal-based methodology for research-based buyer personas have seen tremendous success in uncovering new opportunities for revenue growth. Buyer Persona Lifespan. MORE
One means for the last sixteen years to understand customers and buyers have been the use of buyer persona development. It is time to rethink buyer persona development in this new era of digital disruption. When the concept of buyer personas was first launched in 2001, the world was a very different place. It also calls for new thinking when it comes to buyer persona development and gathering insights. Rethinking Buyer Personas. MORE
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. MORE
We are seeing continued growth in the adoption of buyer personas as a means for understanding buyers and customers. At the same time, the growth is fraught with the perils of buyer personas being misunderstood, mislabeled, and serving as a cover for basic buyer profiling. Each year, since originating the concept of buyer personas in 2001-2002, I have reflected and offered a perspective on the state of buyer personas. MORE
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. Compounding the issue today is the prevalent use of the term buyer persona to describe customer segmentation and buyer profiling efforts. This is where buyer profiling can be helpful. Buyer Profiling. Buyer Personas. MORE
Better, deeper, insightful, and well-rounded understanding of customers and buyers is on the top of the list for many CEOs and CMOs today. Redefining The Meaning Of Buyer Understanding. These three pressing concerns are causing CEOs and CMOs to reevaluate how to understand their buyers and their abilities to help buyers achieve their goals. In today’s robust evolution of digital technologies, CEOs and CMOs seek buyer understanding to address these three concerns. MORE
Buyer Personalization Will Matter As The Balance Of Power Shifts To Buyers In A “New World Order” Of Buying. New technologies accelerating a change in how sellers interact with buyers. Buyers shifting to digital self-serve preferences will grow. MORE
During a series of articles entitled The Future of Buyer Personas is Social , I referenced several times that the social age will cause a rethinking of buyer persona research and development. One new important principle is the need to change from a static perspective of buyer personas to an ongoing refreshment of buyer personas. I recently wrote an article describing a new Social Buyer Ecosystem. MORE
Similarly, buyers can also undergo changes making them almost unrecognizable. The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the face of buyers profoundly. Calling into question for many B2B sales and marketing leaders how well they know their buyers. Redefine Buyer Personas. MORE
It is clear that one of the top challenges facing marketing, especially B2B marketing, is the ability to connect with potential buyers on a personal level. The majority of content today is not hitting the mark with buyers and customers. Bringing organizations, no closer to customers or buyers than when they first began technology implementation. Understanding that helps inform how they can create content that is personalized to the goals and situations of their buyers. MORE
The global pandemic is profoundly changing the face of the B2B buyer. B2B revenue leaders and marketers are spending a lot of their time focusing on understanding buyer personas. A study by Gartner revealed 80% of the average B2B buyer journey took place online in 2020. MORE
And this is why buyer personas are so important. They provide a clear picture of who your ideal customers are, what challenges and pain points they experience along the buyer’s journey, and exactly what they need to be able to take the next step towards your solution. MORE
Marketing and Sales Leaders Must Build Capabilities To Understand New Target Buyer Personas. One core competency that has become a must-have for marketers and sellers is having the capabilities to truly understand buyers. 2 – Buyer Insights Management. MORE
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. MORE
Bad buyer personas. Think about it, your buyer personas are the building blocks of your marketing campaigns. That’s why I’m sharing five easy ways to improve your buyer personas. What is a buyer persona? In the most basic sense of the phrase, a buyer persona is a profile of your ideal customer. Large companies often have multiple buyer personas that span multiple industries, demographics, and product offerings. MORE
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. Their personas are not developed to be actionable. MORE
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. As far as I can see, there is a whole lotta bad buyer personas being created. MORE
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. Understanding How Customers Desire and Perceive Experience Through Buyer Persona Research. Buyer persona research can play a role. by Creative Stall. MORE
Marketing and Sales Leaders Must Build Core Competency of Understanding Buyer Persona Goals. When it comes to buyer goals, organizations today will need to get more specific about encoding understanding of buyer persona goals into their marketing and sales capabilities. . MORE
Marketing Leaders Can Use 4 Approaches Involving Buyer Personas To Create A Brand Story Buyers Will Want To Read. The results can often be brand storytelling and content that fails to connect and is meaningless to an audience of buyers. MORE
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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.
Tony Zambito
MAY 5, 2021
Marketing Leaders Can Use 4 Approaches Involving Buyer Personas To Create A Brand Story Buyers Will Want To Read. The results can often be brand storytelling and content that fails to connect and is meaningless to an audience of buyers.
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Tony Zambito
MAY 12, 2021
Buyer Personalization Will Matter As The Balance Of Power Shifts To Buyers In A “New World Order” Of Buying. New technologies accelerating a change in how sellers interact with buyers. Buyers shifting to digital self-serve preferences will grow.
Tony Zambito
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Similarly, buyers can also undergo changes making them almost unrecognizable. The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the face of buyers profoundly. Calling into question for many B2B sales and marketing leaders how well they know their buyers. Redefine Buyer Personas.
Speaker: Jen Spencer, VP Sales and Marketing, SmartBug Media
Jen will dive in deep how she did this at a fast-growing SaaS company that shows, among many other things, how you can use buyer personas and establish a cadence to ensure that your content is seen at the right stage of the buyer's journey.
Tony Zambito
APRIL 30, 2021
Marketing and Sales Leaders Must Build Core Competency of Understanding Buyer Persona Goals. When it comes to buyer goals, organizations today will need to get more specific about encoding understanding of buyer persona goals into their marketing and sales capabilities. .
Tony Zambito
MAY 4, 2021
Marketing and Sales Leaders Must Build Capabilities To Understand New Target Buyer Personas. One core competency that has become a must-have for marketers and sellers is having the capabilities to truly understand buyers. 2 – Buyer Insights Management.
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. An era that will redefine the seller-buyer relationship in ways we only have a hint of today. Aligning With A New Era Of Buyer Interactions.
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.
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. As far as I can see, there is a whole lotta bad buyer personas being created.
Buyer Persona
APRIL 20, 2021
This year, in July, will mark the 20th Anniversary of the origins of the Buyer Persona concept. Hard to believe the concept has evolved into one of the fundamental means for understanding the modern buyer of today.
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Business Brainz
JULY 19, 2021
The global pandemic is profoundly changing the face of the B2B buyer. B2B revenue leaders and marketers are spending a lot of their time focusing on understanding buyer personas. A study by Gartner revealed 80% of the average B2B buyer journey took place online in 2020.
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. Their personas are not developed to be actionable.
Sharpspring
JANUARY 23, 2020
If you work in marketing, you probably hear a lot about optimizing the customer experience, tracking buyer journeys and identifying decision-making factors and/or paths to purchase. But what about developing buyer personas? Buyer Persona Statistics.
Tony Zambito
JANUARY 22, 2017
One means for the last sixteen years to understand customers and buyers have been the use of buyer persona development. It is time to rethink buyer persona development in this new era of digital disruption. When the concept of buyer personas was first launched in 2001, the world was a very different place. It also calls for new thinking when it comes to buyer persona development and gathering insights. Rethinking Buyer Personas.
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. These misrepresentations have also led to a tendency to throw everything, including the kitchen sink, into crafting buyer personas. This same urge is being applied to buyer personas.
Tomorrow People
FEBRUARY 3, 2017
Creating buyer personas is a powerful way to build the audience understanding every B2B marketing department needs for success, and an essential part of your campaign research. b2b promotional campaigns buyer personas
B2B Lead Generation
JANUARY 23, 2018
Bad buyer personas. Think about it, your buyer personas are the building blocks of your marketing campaigns. That’s why I’m sharing five easy ways to improve your buyer personas. What is a buyer persona? In the most basic sense of the phrase, a buyer persona is a profile of your ideal customer. Large companies often have multiple buyer personas that span multiple industries, demographics, and product offerings.
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. Compounding the issue today is the prevalent use of the term buyer persona to describe customer segmentation and buyer profiling efforts. This is where buyer profiling can be helpful. Buyer Profiling. Buyer Personas.
Tony Zambito
DECEMBER 8, 2015
We are seeing continued growth in the adoption of buyer personas as a means for understanding buyers and customers. At the same time, the growth is fraught with the perils of buyer personas being misunderstood, mislabeled, and serving as a cover for basic buyer profiling. Each year, since originating the concept of buyer personas in 2001-2002, I have reflected and offered a perspective on the state of buyer personas.
Tony Zambito
APRIL 17, 2016
It is clear that one of the top challenges facing marketing, especially B2B marketing, is the ability to connect with potential buyers on a personal level. The majority of content today is not hitting the mark with buyers and customers. Bringing organizations, no closer to customers or buyers than when they first began technology implementation. Understanding that helps inform how they can create content that is personalized to the goals and situations of their buyers.
RockContent
JANUARY 6, 2016
It may be hard to find the time to create and maintain buyer personas, but some powerful new research from Cintell suggests it’s more than worth your while. Articulate the value of personas to all team members. You can do your research, develop insights, and even pen the perfect name for your personas, but won’t matter if your team or your cross-functional partners don’t buy in. Use many data points develop accurate personas and validate them.
Tony Zambito
MAY 20, 2012
This June marks ten years since the first buyer persona development methodology was pioneered and launched by the firm Goal Centric now called Buyerology. The adoption of research-based modeling of buyers that leads to buyer personas has been mixed. The organizations who have embraced the goal-based methodology for research-based buyer personas have seen tremendous success in uncovering new opportunities for revenue growth. Buyer Persona Lifespan.
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. B2B buyer personas are fictional representations of your target audience members, which help to better align campaigns all along the buying journey. In this post, we will cover the following key steps: Identify the Need for B2B Buyer Personas.
Cintell
DECEMBER 20, 2019
And this is why buyer personas are so important. They provide a clear picture of who your ideal customers are, what challenges and pain points they experience along the buyer’s journey, and exactly what they need to be able to take the next step towards your solution.
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.
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. Redefining The Meaning Of Buyer Understanding. These three pressing concerns are causing CEOs and CMOs to reevaluate how to understand their buyers and their abilities to help buyers achieve their goals. In today’s robust evolution of digital technologies, CEOs and CMOs seek buyer understanding to address these three concerns.
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. Understanding How Customers Desire and Perceive Experience Through Buyer Persona Research. Buyer persona research can play a role. by Creative Stall.
Tony Zambito
JUNE 26, 2016
Fraught with confusion surrounding questions such as: exactly what constitutes an audience and is there really a difference between buyers and audiences? For example, some content marketing pundits believe you should separate out audience personas. Because these are different, in theory, from your buyer personas. I believe this approach may only exacerbate the compartmentalization based on the faulty premise of making personas about the “who”. by Gregor Črešnar.
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. What is clear is buyer personas are now entering the mainstream of dialogue when it comes to overall customer understanding. . 27% of the respondents relied on in-depth qualitative buyer interviews – a jump from 15% previously.
Marketing Insider Group
JULY 20, 2015
We had an excellent conversation about the need for buyer personas, and the role they play as a foundational component of a B2B marketing strategy. In many cases, the need for buyer personas manifests itself in the form of common marketing challenges. These roadblocks can be alleviated by focusing efforts on better buyer understanding. Your “Mix and match” messaging tries to do too much — and ends up confusing or overwhelming your buyers.
SalesIntel
APRIL 14, 2021
Every organization should have a B2B buyer persona to understand their leads and audience better and ultimately strive to stand out from their competitors. But what are buyer personas? This is your ultimate guide on B2B buyer personas.
Tony Zambito
MAY 12, 2011
Without question, while B2B Marketing is focused on developing its new prominence in the early stages of the buying cycle via content strategy and content marketing, B2B Sales is caught flat-footed on how to adapt to changing buyer behaviors. What is true is that B2B Sales must go through a period of reinvention and cannot stand idly by as the world of B2B buyers continues to transform with each passing day. Image via Wikipedia.
Tony Zambito
AUGUST 22, 2011
During a series of articles entitled The Future of Buyer Personas is Social , I referenced several times that the social age will cause a rethinking of buyer persona research and development. One new important principle is the need to change from a static perspective of buyer personas to an ongoing refreshment of buyer personas. I recently wrote an article describing a new Social Buyer Ecosystem.
Cintell
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
If you find yourself needing to talk to a lot of people, you probably have a few different buyer personas that you’re targeting through your content. What are buyer personas? Buyer personas are fictional representations of your ideal customers. When you have multiple buyer personas, tailoring your writing is the best way to get your message to resonate appropriately with your diverse audiences.
Televerde
JANUARY 3, 2020
Long gone are the days where generic, stock-photo buyer personas like ‘Mary from marketing’ and ‘Francine from finance’ determined the direction of our marketing campaigns. Demographic data and superficial buyer profiles will not be what gets us there. Buyer insights.
Oracle
JULY 23, 2013
by contributor | Tweet this Editor’s Note: Today’s blog post comes courtesy of Tony Zambito , the creator and today’s leading authority on buyer personas. In 2002, Tony established the first-ever buyer persona development methodology designed specifically for B2B Marketing and Sales. Over the past dozen years, Tony has conducted hundreds of buyer interviews and has helped some of today’s leading Fortune 100 companies acquire deep buyer insights.
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