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Redefine Your Buyer Personas For A Winning Recovery In 2021

Tony Zambito

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.

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Overcoming The Content Personalization Challenge With Buyer Persona Research

Tony Zambito

For CMO’s, it is especially disconcerting for, after a few years of justifying increases in content marketing budgets, the returns are not matching up. Interestingly enough, as well, is after a few years of CMO tenure trending upwards, the average tenure is trending downward. Buyer Persona Research.

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Rethinking Buyer Personas In An Era Of Digital Transformation

Tony Zambito

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.

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5 Ways B2B CMOs Can improve Audience Development With Buyer Persona Research

Tony Zambito

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”.

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Accelerated Digital Commerce Is Disrupting B2B Sellers And Buyers

Tony Zambito

For buyers, they will have expectations of not being forced to choose a platform or channel because one experience is better than the other. Hear the voice of this interviewee from a recent buyer insight and buyer persona research effort: “ I stopped ordering online and went back to just calling in an order.

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Buyerology Trend: Think Demand Fulfillment vs. Demand Generation

Tony Zambito

.  This article looks at how buyers are seeking fulfillment in their efforts to achieve goals and what this means to the future of demand generation.  Buyer Trend: On A Quest to Be Demand Fulfilled. The conventional as well as social buyers of today can be said to be on a quest to have their demands fulfilled

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Fractional CMO: The Ultimate Guide to Hiring an Outsourced Marketing Executive

Pearl Digital Marketing

These for-hire experts include fractional chief marketing officers (CMOs), chief financial officers (CFOs), vice-presidents for human resources, and chief information officers (CIOs). What is a fractional CMO? A chief marketing officer (CMO) is not only a marketing manager but is also the leader of all marketing-related elements.

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