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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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

While we all have goals and objectives for lead generation, brand development, and customer experience as examples, the overarching challenge is making the right decisions to achieve them. What Are B2B Buyer Personas? For online marketers, buyer personas can provide direction in the channel-specific campaign development.

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PureB2B

JUNE 23, 2022

While online B2B buying habits have changed dramatically in the past decade, today's B2B buyer journey looks a lot different than it did just a couple of years ago. To be successful in this new normal, B2B vendors must cater to the modern needs of their buyers to facilitate a journey that’s as smooth as possible.

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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. Customer Segmentation. Confusion by Adam Gale. Professions. Firmographics. Demographics.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 2, 2020

Assuming that your customers will find you at the exact moment when they’re about to purchase is not only unrealistic, but it also hurts your ability to grow leads and customers. All customers take a journey when making a purchase. Today, this journey often involves the use of search engines.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 25, 2023

Buyer personas—fictional representations of the ideal customers and target audience you’re trying to reach with your content—play an essential role in content strategy. Whether you’re writing a blog post, web copy, lead nurture emails, or an e-book, tailoring your content for each buyer persona is a must.

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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. Would you agree?

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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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Ledger Bennett

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Every year Ledger Bennett work with numerous clients to help them develop Buyer Personas with a clear focus: Build Buyer Personas that make a commercial impact on their business. But now there’s an added complexity and a potential increase in the personas we need to consider. These are the User 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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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

And, speaking of babies, even though no one likes to hear that theirs is ugly, unlike babies, those buyer personas aren’t going to get any cuter with age. It’s hard to argue with the concept of trying to understand your customers and prospects to produce demand generation that drives revenue. Personas create focus.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

And, speaking of babies, even though no one likes to hear that theirs is ugly, unlike babies, those buyer personas aren’t going to get any cuter with age. It’s hard to argue with the concept of trying to understand your customers and prospects to produce demand generation that drives revenue. Personas create focus.

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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.” Strengthening The Common View Of Customers. Thus, making it even more difficult to foster customer-centric marketing.

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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. May I get your help?

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Understanding the nature of the buyer's journey is central to conducting sound marketing and sales efforts. What the Buyer's Journey Looks Like for Consumers in 2022. What the Buyer's Journey Looks Like for Consumers in 2022. How the Buyer's Journey Could Change. Let's dive in. Consideration.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 21, 2015

A recent article on MediaPost raised the question “Are Buyer Personas a Waste of Time?” Based on this and the belief from 48Bricks that you simply cannot understand your customers, the assertion is that putting effort into the development of Buyer Personas is a waste of time. But don’t go crazy.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Maybe it’s increasing revenue by a certain percentage or improving customer satisfaction. Sales enablement best practices: Know thy audience … define buyer personas When improving sales enablement, always start with your audience by building personas. Create persona profiles. Iterate and refine. Consideration.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

The majority of content today is not hitting the mark with buyers and customers. In many cases, by teams heavily skilled in engineering but perhaps lacking the wherewithal knowledge of understanding marketing and customers in general. Customer Understanding As The Foundation. Buyer Persona Research.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

It is assumptions about the buying journey, I believe, that lead to a number of issues causing angst to sales and marketing leaders. Lack of opportunities, lost customers, losing deals, inability to generate leads or inability to capture the attention of buyers. 2 – Step back and drop the buying journey label for a moment.

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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.

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The Brit Agency

OCTOBER 22, 2020

That means creating a content strategy that answers the exact questions your customers have at the exact time they have them. A successful Inbound Marketing program starts with high-quality content.

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PathFactory

JULY 6, 2022

When we provide content the buyer needs at the right time, they can make faster and more informed purchasing decisions. Who: Decide who your best-fit customers are, who makes up the current and emerging competitors in your space, and what the status quo is. After you develop a basic understanding of your buyers (e.g.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 21, 2020

Accurately understanding who your buyers are (start by developing buyer personas ) will ensure that you’re targeting the most valuable potential customers. Establishing your organization as a subject matter expert in your field will increase credibility and appeal to your more educated or knowledgeable personas.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

There is no room for guesswork on understanding buyers. Instead, leaders can use the tools of buyer insight such as buyer research, buyer personas, and buyer journey mapping as a compass for the future. This is not the time to walk blindly into a new future.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In addition, the latest demand generation in the B2B approach centers on leveraging data and technology to gain insights into potential customers, ascertain their needs and preferences, and establish meaningful engagement strategies. Below are the few insights gathered from diverse surveys and research on B2B buyer behavior: Gartner, Inc.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 29, 2021

What B2B organizations will still struggle with, even more so post-pandemic is how to better understand shifts in buyer behaviors. Buyer insights and buyer personas can go a long way towards helping leaders and teams to resonate with buyers. In other words, critical buyer insights remain missing in action.

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Cintell

APRIL 30, 2019

The key to commercial success, whether digitally or traditionally, is to find the right customer at the right time in the right place and present them the right content. This has become a whole lot easier in the digital age with access to big data to inform us and provide guiding insights across a customer’s journey.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 20, 2011

.  The deeper the understanding, the more targeted and relevant content can be for buyers.    Buyer persona development is a methodology for informing strategy.    Knowing what buyers are researching for determines what should be produced.     Related articles. . 

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SalesGrape

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Another challenge lies in understanding complex buyer journeys within healthcare organizations. Identifying Target Audiences and Building Effective Buyer Personas for Pharmaceutical Companies To overcome these challenges, pharmaceutical companies need a deep understanding of their target audiences.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

When you think of “B2B” marketing, you think of “Business to Business,” not “Business to Customer.” But this failure to focus on the customer experience or customer marketing is a crucial mistake that many B2B companies make. One of the main objectives of customer marketing is to build and solidify trust.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2011

These strategy areas include content strategy, social marketing, marketing automation, social selling, demand generation, and buyer experience marketing.    Obtaining contextual understanding of the new social buyer persona will be a key element of formulating strategies that are successful and embraced by buyers.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 10, 2011

  Here is a key issue facing organizations today: each time a new social technology is introduced, it ultimately alters the buying behaviors of the new social buyer persona.  This issue and the surrounding complexities call into question, for organizations today, their readiness for adapting to the new social buyer persona. 

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Tony Zambito

JULY 10, 2011

In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on how it is important to leave some of the major misconceptions about buyer personas behind in order to peer into the future.    Without a doubt, we are seeing the most dramatic change in buyer behaviors since post World War II. 

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 25, 2020

With the aid of today’s sales automation software, you can learn which salesperson is the best fit for each customer and assign them automatically. Quick Takeaways: Today’s sales automation technology allows you to custom-tailor content to each customer segment. Use Account-Based Marketing to Target High-Value Customers.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 26, 2010

.  It can take weeks and some say even months if you take such a spiritual journey.  In our 21st century, the buyer journey is undergoing a transformation and renewal with the advent of digital marketing.  James, buyer’s have an end goal.  As with the Way of St.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Before the turn of the new millennium in 2000, it was downright unthinkable in B2B that the model of sales representative and buyer interaction would ever change. The most controversial item on executive meeting agendas before the new millennium was if ”small inside sales team to handle small customers” should be created.

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