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? The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. SEO and PPC Keyword Research.

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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. Therefore, as Forrester states, the role of B2B marketing is “no longer to attract and persuade; it’s really to engage buyers and help them through their journey.”.

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Top of Funnel Buyer's Journey Ideal Customer Profiles B2B 62

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. Most notably in B2C.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 2, 2020

Alignment is the process of making sure the topics or keywords that you're optimizing for are the same topics that your target audience cares about in their particular stage of the Buyer's Journey. You want to make sure you’re driving the right personas. Persona development keyword research is all done in a bubble.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sales enablement best practices: Know thy audience … define buyer personas When improving sales enablement, always start with your audience by building personas. Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas. Create persona profiles. Iterate and refine.

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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. Without a solid pulse on how consumers discover, consider, and ultimately decide to purchase products and services like yours, you're bound to sell both departments short. Let's dive in. Consideration.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

For example, recent research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. DemandGen’s “ 2017 Content Preferences Survey Report ” discovered that 46 percent of B2B buyers have moved towards shorter formats of content in the past year. What Are 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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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. Buying processes and buyer journeys. Confusion by Adam Gale. Customer Segmentation. Geographic data.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Here are 5 important factors: Buyer Insight : Revenue and Sales leaders will need to possess deep insight into how buyers are changing. Conducting buyer research to gain insight into new goals and situational challenges buyers are experiencing. There is no room for guesswork on understanding buyers.

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Buy Buyer Personas B2B Buyer's Journey 309

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. by Scott Lewis.

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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. Redefining The Meaning Of Buyer Understanding.

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Buyer Personas B2B Paid Search Agency Ideal Customer Profiles 100

Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

In this same survey mentioned above, it was found 50% or more of marketers surveyed have not engaged in researching and creating buyer personas for their marketing efforts. One of the key premises of user personas and buyer personas, since their origins, are they can foster a common view of customers within organizations.

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Buyer Personas Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency 100

Sharpspring

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But what lies behind some marketing strategies may be less obvious from their title, for example, what the heck is product marketing? Simply put, product marketing is a process of promoting and selling a product to a customer. What is Product Marketing? Market Research. Product Marketing Best Practices.

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Only B2B

APRIL 30, 2024

Whether you are launching a product or updating an existing go-to-market strategy, your organization needs a solid GTM strategy to reach the right audience, drive revenue, and sustain economic challenges. Buyer Journey Stage: The B2B buyer journey includes multiple stakeholders at each stage (awareness, consideration, decision).

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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. Buyer’s Journey Stage #1: Awareness. Unfortunately, only about 19 percent of buyers want to connect with a salesperson during this stage.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

At the heart of it, two substantial forces come into play: The changing B2B buyer behavior An essential element of the contemporary buyer’s journey involves the increasing prevalence of buying groups and committees, encompassing multiple members from various departments within a business. 75% now use more sources for research.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The three are: Expansion of online research accelerates Speeding up of buying processes More responsive interactions. In our Center For Buyer Insights ongoing Buyer Outlook Insights study, we have been interviewing buyers qualitatively. Expansion To Online Research Accelerates. Speeding Up Of Buying Processes.

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SalesGrape

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Pharmaceutical companies must adhere to stringent guidelines set by regulatory bodies like the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Another challenge lies in understanding complex buyer journeys within healthcare organizations.

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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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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This transformative upending in B2B commerce has led to both buyers and B2B organizations viewing customer experience as a more important factor than product and price. Not seeing customer experience as part of creating an overall Digital Commerce Experien ce for their buyers.

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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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BenchmarkONE

APRIL 18, 2019

But in order to get to that point, you absolutely must perform in-depth market research. This is what will ultimately help you understand exactly where your buyers are and the best way to target them with your product or service. Define your buyer persona. This is where creating a buyer persona comes into play.

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Content Standard

JANUARY 4, 2024

A Content Disrupted podcast with Axel Kirstetter, Vice President of Global Product Marketing for Guidewire. Axel developed a comprehensive understanding of marketing by moving through brand, communications, and product roles early in his career. How often does your marketing team produce content based on internal opinions or requests?

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 12, 2017

Just as well, the realization also has materialized that what has worked in the past, is not working today when it comes to understanding buyers. B2B companies are struggling to make gaining buyer insights more than the gathering of analytics, buyer intelligence, sales intelligence, and buyer personas couched in factual data.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Optimization of search engines is a broad topic and there are several things that you need to optimize and work on like keyword research, website optimization, and content optimization. Tailor your Message to How Your Product Solves a Problem. Email Marketing. Try Our EdTech Data Free.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Employing a goal-oriented approach towards buyers enables B2B companies to achieve their own goals. Buyer Goals Have Changed. Goals related to areas such as new product development, new market entries, growth strategies, and etc. Refresh buyer personas and buyer journey mappings.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Recent digital transformation has shifted the B2B landscape by ushering in the era of buyer empowerment. With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “ buyer’s journey.” Who are they? Why do they buy?

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Stevens & Tate

MAY 10, 2022

Inbound Marketing is about offering the right content to the right audience based on where they are within the Buyer’s Journey and developing buyer personas to help target the correct people in the most effective way possible. The best way to understand which format to use for your content is through your buyer personas.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

At the heart of it, two substantial forces come into play: The changing B2B buyer behavior An essential element of the contemporary buyer’s journey involves the increasing prevalence of buying groups and committees, encompassing multiple members from various departments within a business. 75% now use more sources for research.

Demand Generation Agencies 52

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NetLine

APRIL 23, 2024

Here’s how it is done: Identify actively researching prospects: When prospects are actively researching a product or service, they leave a trail of digital footprints. Buyer-intent data captures these footprints (signals) and provides insight into the research buyers are doing and what their interests are.

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Cintell

APRIL 30, 2019

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. A tremendous amount of data is available to analyze through social networking channels that can continually educate and inform you about your buyers.

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Launch Marketing

JULY 6, 2022

Bringing a new product to market starts with developing a solution that is designed to address a need or pain point that is experienced by a group of people. Identifying this audience comes from in-depth research encompassing the various characteristics of buyer personas such as demographics and firmographics.

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Tactics Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy Webinar Metrics 118

Tony Zambito

JUNE 6, 2017

Vice President, Product Strategy. Thick Data is the collective qualitative research of behavior associated with stories, emotions, mental models, and goals. While such qualitative research has existed for decades, the term is meant to address a shortcoming, as well as, an opportunity. The Future: Thick Buyer Insights.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 14, 2018

Are technology marketers moving away from creating content for the buyer’s journey? The CMI research team found ourselves asking this question as we analyzed the data from our eighth annual content marketing survey. CMIContent #research Click To Tweet. Solid buyer personas certainly play a role.

Research 101

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

I think if I were a direct response marketer, I maybe don’t need content marketing as much as products where customers do a lot of research. That’s why financial service firms were early in content marketing: there’s a huge need for information in the customer journey. Anyone can do this research.

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Content Marketing Work Management Paid Search Agency Marketing Management 215

Tony Zambito

MARCH 6, 2016

There is a big problem when it comes to B2B customer research. According to various studies over the years (by credible institutions such as Harvard) regarding market and customer research, approximately 80% or better of B2B customer research is conducted to reinforce current assumptions about customers.

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