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 do these new buying cycles look like? 

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Your Top Ten Questions About B2B Buyer Personas. Recently, we partnered with Demand Gen Report to present a webinar about the power of personas. You will also want Sales’ agreement in defining what makes up the profile of the people and the organizations within those segments. Web Design and Development. Contact Us.

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Tony Zambito

JULY 18, 2011

This is the third part of a series of reflective articles on the future of buyer personas.    In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on some of the misconceptions about buyer personas and in part 2 , I offered perspectives on why changes were needed to be relevant to the social age. 

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 5, 2011

.  This lead-to-revenue management (L2RM as coined by Forrester) model in many ways heightens the importance of buyer personas in developing end-to-end revenue management strategies and processes.    A cornerstone principle for buyer personas is that they are created from qualitative interviewing of buyers. 

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 16, 2010

Announced today was Goal Centric’s official introduction of the Buyer Persona Strategy Playbooks series. Below it is printed for your convenience: Buyer Persona Strategy Playbooks Introduced by Goal Centric.   I have made reference to these playbooks in recent posts as well as our work with Hewlett-Packard.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 18, 2011

As many of you know from reading my articles before, I am a big advocate of buyer personas and exactly for the purpose Adam has stated.    Too often B2B demand generation plans are not built around the modern B2B buyer and his/her information consumption needs."   No, really, how can you really do this?!?!?

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DealSignal

APRIL 27, 2023

ABM intent data is about ABM marrying Ideal Customer Profiles, Buyer Personas, high-quality contact information, and intent data into a strategic go-to-market strategy for B2B firms. Use Ideal Customer Profiles to define your best-fit buyers An Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) simply defines who is your best-fit customers (i.e.,

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SnapApp

APRIL 6, 2017

The idea of creating and using buyer personas is not new – it’s become part of B2B marketing 101. Without personas, you’re really just guessing at what your audience cares about, and end up in situations where you’re an example of a bad #marketingfail. Seeing Beyond the Persona. Personas are not actual buyers.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 10, 2018

Are those stereotypes or personas? presidential election, and NASCAR dads, which became a target audience in the 2004 elections, are closer to personas, though too thinly described. The key to powerful buyer persona development comes down to three important factors: grounded in fact, functional, and more than demographic data.”.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2020

Thought leadership makes a lot of sense in most B2B content marketing scenarios, typically because the buying cycle is longer and may require multiple approvals. The report also reveals that thought leaders don’t have to be high-profile. Keep in mind that buyers will change as internal or external circumstances arise.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

Support: How can you offer greater support during the buying cycle and beyond? Customers that go through the buyer’s journey with little or no support lose confidence in business relationships. Creating buyer personas enables your team to reach out to groups of customers at scale based on shared characteristics.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2018

Once upon a time, salespeople chose neighborhoods based on their target audience profile and common knowledge of the area. Today, technology provides a wide range of demographic, firmographic, and technographic profiling resources to find audience segments. Use the resources available to develop buyer personas.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It happens without taking a look at the buyer personas and the entire buying cycle to help identify qualities and quantifiers of a great customer. What specifically is an Ideal Customer Profile? An Ideal Customer Profile is defined ”as the type of company that would benefit the most from your product or service.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 14, 2024

You Validate Product-Market Fit A GTM plan involves crafting the ideal customer profile and identifying a specific need your product meets. No one has to guess about how to get the product to market—it’s all there in your document. You can estimate the customer acquisition cost and measure that number against what you can invest.

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Exo B2B

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

According to a survey conducted by ITSMA, currently 44% of marketers are using personas in B2B. This trend is quite logical and profitable when personas are developed with method and rigor. The evolution of a profile to a persona is made possible, among other things, by the exploitation of digital data from several sources.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 29, 2017

For many years now, B2B marketers have spent time and effort carefully crafting buyer personas based on demographic profiles, needs analyses and former sales results, among other criteria. Examine historical data to get the value of former “good” deals and the typical length of the buying cycles for each one.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 19, 2013

You don’t know the buyer JACK”! Yes, a lot has been written lately on the use of buyer personas, or how content marketing “starts with the buyer, or the importance of mapping the buyer journey. What does the buyer look like? This question is addressing the idea of personas, or profiles.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 9, 2016

As consumers, if we are not in an active buying cycle, we are in a passive buying cycle. Like it or not, in the course of our daily lives we are exposed to and consume so much information and content that buying something or acquiring something including experiences, goods, food or resources is always on our mind.

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EveryoneSocial

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The sales team and any social selling participants need to be properly armed with content that aligns with buyer personas, answers problems the prospects may face, and industry related content. For example, your Linkedin profile should not read like a resume if participating in social selling. Final Thoughts.

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

.  Without investing in informing buyer insights, executives will be in the dark on how to craft buyer experiences that makes them part of an organization’s buying strategies. Buyer Personas. Buyer Personas, archetypal representations of real buyers, have enjoyed increasing attention over the past few years. 

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

.  Without investing in informing buyer insight, executives will be in the dark on how to craft buyer experiences that makes them part of an organization’s buying strategies. Buyer Personas. Buyer Personas, archetypal representations of real buyers, have enjoyed increasing attention over the past few years. 

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DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

One of the most popular benefits of B2B intent data is generating intent topics (for content marketing plans), account lists, ideal customer profiles (ICPs), and buyer persona criteria. Improved targeting – crafting a more accurate Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) is much easier when using intent data.

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PathFactory

MAY 3, 2022

And, it makes sense, too, because it’s better for both the buyer and the seller. It’s not about revenue intelligence or providing a 360 degree view of your revenue, it’s about using Content Intelligence to surface how to have the most meaningful conversations with your most interested buyers.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 2, 2011

.  Here are four steps B2B organizations can take to initiate a framework for reinventing the buyer experience: Gain external buyer insight through qualitative interviews. Create informing buyer personas that teams can respond to. Map the buyer’s journey and the buying process.  

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Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2022

Profiling prospective customers is vital to ensuring that a marketing campaign is targeting the right people with the right message. Done well, customer profiling can result in more effective campaigns, greater revenue, and most importantly, happier customers. But despite its importance, customer profiling is too often misunderstood.

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Valasys

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The value of each lead is generally characterized by the amount of interest shown by that lead in the company or the stage they are at in the buying cycle. Determine the ideal target – Using relevant information, create your target buyer profile. The most important skill in lead generation is learning how to score leads.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 17, 2015

Most B2B service marketers know the value of tailored landing pages to drive traffic and capture leads for niche B2B buyer personas. It is getting more sophisticated with automated content recommendations based on profile and content consumption – for example Idio can be used by larger businesses for this.

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PureB2B

MARCH 24, 2016

Instead, you should be using data-driven personas to drive the transition of each step. Determining user profiles before a campaign allows for more accurate lead gen targeting as it uses practical, measurable data to determine what your particular market wants. Use the data to stay fresh and present in their buying cycle.”

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PureB2B

MARCH 24, 2016

Instead, you should be using data-driven personas to drive the transition of each step. Determining user profiles before a campaign allows for more accurate lead gen targeting as it uses practical, measurable data to determine what your particular market wants. Use the data to stay fresh and present in their buying cycle.”.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 24, 2012

Yes, content marketing is just another term for marketing because effective marketing should already seek to deliver on the needs of individual buyers at different stages of the buying cycle with helpful information and educational content. Is Content Strategy Just For Large Companies?

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Paul Gillin

JANUARY 26, 2016

A buyer persona is not a zombie—but a profile based on your understanding of a real customer and their real needs.” – Ambal Balakrishnan. “It’s They’re adopting buyer personas, content targeting and matching content to stages of the buying cycle.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

We created separate nurtures tracks based on industry and buyer personas, and we have learned a lot of lessons along the way. To nurture your prospects effectively, you need a detailed understanding of your buyers, their interests and priorities, and where they are in the buying journey. Engagement with competitors.

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DealSignal

MAY 15, 2022

When used correctly, intent data can provide buying signals across tens of thousands of websites that will help your team prioritize qualified accounts that are active in a buying cycle, positioning you to be the first in line to make your pitch.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Define Your Buyer Profiles & Buying Cycle. that has nothing to do with your business, your interests or where you are with regard to potentially buying a product or service. This is done by creating an ideal buyer profile for your company’s product(s) or service(s).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 7, 2017

But you know that your sales team can call someone who fits your buyer persona perfectly and still end up without a sale. Intent data from the social web gets you much greater visibility earlier in the buying cycle. At Socedo, we’ve found that coverage of Twitter profiles in a typical marketing database is around 10-12%.

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Everything Technology Marketing

MAY 24, 2010

Here are the seven steps to B2B marketing success in this new era: 1 - Segmentation & Profiling Sound familiar? Profiling of ideal companies and everything else follows from here. Profiling of ideal companies and everything else follows from here. How do they impact the buying process?

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Tony Zambito

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Over the past few years, our firm Goal Centric has engaged with high profile organizations that place a high value on performing market segmentation.   Where buyer personas fit in the scheme of segmentation has been a source of confusion since the early days of design personas.   Bring to Life. . Humanistic.

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