Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The only way to join the 30-40% of people who do understand their buyers is to create buyer personas. Today we teach you how to construct an effective B2B buyer persona profile—keep reading. What is a buyer persona? But, when they’re combined, they paint a complete picture of your best buyer.

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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. I have read books, eBooks, articles, postings, whitepapers, and the likes about the topic of buyer personas.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2015

As mentioned in previous articles, CMOs in particular, will now have to succinctly discern between buyer profiling and buyer personas. (This discernment is needed for it is unfortunate that conventional buyer profiling and win/loss analysis is being repackaged, if you will, as buyer personas by agencies and individual consultants.

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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. by Scott Lewis.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 30, 2024

Develop your ideal customer profile or B2B buyer persona to help you develop the right message. By focusing first on understanding your target buyer, and where they look for information, you can avoid wasted time and effort during the critical business launch phase. What do they care about?

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Digital B2B Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Buyer personas are a hot topic of discussion in the B2B marketing world, but how do you create the personas that you need and ensure you are getting the value you need out of them? Do you even need to create B2B buyer personas at all? Some marketers do not see value in personas beyond the audience research.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 2, 2016

To create content that boosts lead and demand generation, you need to construct B2B buyer personas that give you a clear picture of your customer, mapping their journey from when they decide to solve a problem to their purchase decision. Many companies create personas, and not one itsy-bitsy thing changes. It’s smooth.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 15, 2023

Buyer Personas. A buyer persona is a semi-fictional representation of an ideal customer, based on data and research. Buyer personas help B2B businesses further understand the needs, pain points, and motivations of their target audience. Is it a company CEO, CFO, or head of department?

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Content Standard

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Marketers develop buyer personas to better understand the brand’s audience intimately, and then build a content strategy around the information needs of those personas. Developing Buyer Personas Based on Audience Insights. What’s the first thing we all say about the best content strategies?

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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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Launch Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

While buyer personas have been the key component of many marketing strategies, what if the key to unlocking more effective and resonant content lies not in demographic details but in the intricacies of an individual’s personality ? Request a free marketing consultation or contact us today!

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 20, 2021

Value metrics, pricing models, and buyer personas set the framework for choosing a pricing strategy. If you’re selling a consulting service, your value metric would likely be per hour. Utilize Buyer Personas. Buyer personas can be used to determine the price buyers would be willing to pay for your product.

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The Forward Observer

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Best-selling leadership author and business growth consultant Scott K. Edinger is a consultant, author, advisor, and speaker who is recognized as an expert in the intersection of leadership, strategy, and sales. But they can only do all this if you lead them. Are you ready to be a Growth Leader? About the Author Scott K.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 11, 2019

Your marketing strategy should of course include buyer personas , which can really help pinpoint your target audience, but StormID delved deeper to include the most likely Big Five traits for their buyer personas. The more specific you can be with your personas, the more empathetic your proposed solutions can be.

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Tony Zambito

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Over the past few years, I have struggled with the use of the word “profile” or “profiling” when it came to describing buyer personas.   My discomfort is arisen out of experience, what the terms fails to communicate about buyer personas, and how it is problematic in gaining adoption by senior leaders.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 24, 2010

Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr. I have been evolving the buyer persona development process as well as have been writing about buyer personas for the last eight years now.    To say buyers have changed during that time would be an understatement.  

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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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Launch Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

An overlooked part of a strategic messaging framework is that to develop effective persona messages, you must first have well-developed buyer personas. Your buyer personas should cover a variety of information, including demographic , firmographic, behavioral and psychographic information.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 12, 2021

Persona-Based Personalization. In this type of personalization, you are using your buyer personas as the standard. Buyer personas include demographics but, more importantly, preferences, motivations, and behaviors. Check out the video below for a primer on buyer personas. They aren’t ready.

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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 24, 2014

Compelling content begins with gaining a deep understanding of your prospective customers and creating buyer personas. Adele Revella of the Buyer Persona Institute says feedback she hears about buyer personas often sounds like this: “ It’s almost like cheating, like getting the exam paper weeks before the final.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 25, 2020

Use Buyer Personas to Drive Strategy. One of the best ways to do that is with buyer personas. That email, in turn, would end with a call to action that encourages receivers to request a consult with the sales team. Personalize Web Content Through Buyer Personas and Other Data.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 11, 2019

Your marketing strategy should of course include buyer personas , which can really help pinpoint your target audience, but StormID delved deeper to include the most likely Big Five traits for their buyer personas. The more specific you can be with your personas, the more empathetic your proposed solutions can be.

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The Forward Observer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

About the Author Georgiana Laudi and Claire Suellentrop co-founded Forget the Funnel , a consultancy that helps SaaS teams reach and retain high lifetime value customers. Forget the Funnel is your guide for thinking more strategically about marketing your product and making a meaningful impact on revenue growth.

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NuSpark Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

How to match content to buyer personas. B2B marketers, how do you make content truly useful to customers? Let me answer that with a question: do you know your customers’ needs, desires and behaviors extremely well? So well, that you know what compels them? Don’t be quick to answer “yes”.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2021

Create buyer personas and research content that meets their needs. Create Buyer Personas. Create well-researched buyer personas for each segment to help your teams focus on their needs. Set up a quick consultation, and I’ll send you a free PDF version of my books. Conduct a Market Analysis.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 19, 2021

A buyer’s journey encompasses everything from their first interaction with your company (e.g., Use Your Data to Create Buyer Personas. Creating buyer personas can help you bring what you do down to earth. Buyer personas condense all those characteristics into a memorable chunk of information.

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Integrated B2B

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

But always up for a challenge, my colleagues and I planned a high-intensity session with the outcome of clearly defined buyer personas representing the most important revenue streams. Why buyer personas? The post Rapid buyer persona development appeared first on IntegratedB2B. Investing the time.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Detailed and heavily researched buyer personas. you’ll use and how they align with your buyer persona preferences. Set up a quick consultation , and I’ll send you a free PDF version of my books. You must really know your audience to develop content that will resonate with them. And we can help!

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 31, 2021

Build Local Buyer Personas. Use the data you’ve gathered, along with the information your community outreach has gleaned, to create local buyer personas. The more details, the more your buyer persona will “come alive” to your content team. They’ll fit in naturally with your post. Image via Saaslist.

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Launch Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Create buyer personas to better understand how to craft the messaging for your product. To craft cohesive buyer personas and identify your target market , consider these questions. Keep in mind your buyer personas and company mission when developing the positioning for your product launch.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Below are the few insights gathered from diverse surveys and research on B2B buyer behavior: Gartner, Inc. reveals that B2B buyers value third-party interactions, like customer references and expert consultations, 1.4x As per Deloitte , B2B buyers exhibit diverse digital behaviors. 75% now use more sources for research.

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Content Standard

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A B2B marketing strategist and consultant, she helps clients create personas, persona-driven digital content marketing strategies, ABM/X programs, and Buyer-Driven Experiences (BDX) with compelling content platforms that contribute to downstream revenue. What can we do to change that? Ardath Albee has the answers.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 1, 2023

Content foundations are must-have artifacts like buyer profiles, industry and competitor data, search keyword analysis, content performance data, and key marketing messages. But facts alone do not persuade companies to pay big money for software, consulting services, or other high-value items.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2020

To reset their buyer strategy for post-pandemic revival, leaders can take four actionable steps: Do buyer research to learn how buyer goals have changed. Refresh buyer personas and buyer journey mappings. Design and redesign buyer interactions (marketing and selling processes) mapped to buyer goals.

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Launch Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Highlights include: Understanding who your audiences (buyer personas) are and what goals, tactics and results are associated with them. Examples of content to include at each stage of the buyer’s journey and tips for what to include in each, such as Awareness: Blogs and Articles Decision: Case Studies Advocacy: Surveys.

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Tiecas

APRIL 23, 2024

This strategic roadmap will help you in many ways, as follows: Identify and refine buyer personas: Craft content tailored to specific pain points, ultimately establishing your company as a thought leader. Focus on creating targeted, high-quality content that resonates with your buyer personas.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 31, 2023

Lucidspark Lucidspark is a customer journey mapping tool that allows users to create multiple journey maps depending on goals and buyer personas , and identify communication gaps, pain points, and friction in the customer experience. It also provides a flexible digital canvas for brainstorming and real-time collaboration.

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