BOP Design

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The answer starts with your buyer personas. What Is a Buyer Persona? Not sure what a buyer persona is? Hubspot has an excellent in-depth overview , but in a nutshell, it’s this: A buyer persona is a profile of your typical prospective customer. Address Buyer Personas by Industry.

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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? Buyer persona review enforced direction and the associated SEO keyword recommendation.

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The Lead Agency

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This means going further than demographics to get a real sense of who your buyer is and what drives them. This can be done by building buyer personas. A buyer persona is a research-based profile that depicts a target customer. Steps to Creating a Buyer Persona in B2B. How big is their company?

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Circle Studio

MARCH 12, 2020

The better you understand your target audience, the more relevant and valuable your content and messaging will be. Creating buyer personas helps you visually picture your buyers and understand them on a deeper level. Buyer personas defined. Personas put a human face to your buyers.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 5, 2021

I speak daily with product, marketing, and sales professionals about the impact that social media can have on developing buyer personas, launching a product, building a brand, or even on individuals standing in their respective marketplace. Developing Your Buyer Personas. That’s Product Marketing 101.

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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. Information Overload by Jenny Chisnell.

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Marketing Interactions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As the market shifts, much of what you thought was true about your buyer personas and ICPs may be different. So, choosing not to shift your view as their perspectives, needs, and preferences change, is choosing to watch the effectiveness of your marketing programs diminish as they become more irrelevant over time.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 15, 2022

With 8 to 15 buyers involved in a complex B2B purchase, ensuring a no-regret deal can be as difficult as herding cats. By gathering and applying in-depth buyer intelligence with buyer personas, you can mitigate non-consensus due to differing objectives that stall deals and escalate regret.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

But does your B2B marketing team know enough about the decision makers themselves to align search, social, and content marketing strategy with these outlines? The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. B2B buyer personas become critical in connecting the dots of this process. What Are Buyer Personas?

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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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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

This coincides with previous studies and surveys showing content marketing effectiveness continues to be an enormous struggle. The majority of content today is not hitting the mark with buyers and customers. Buyer Persona Research. This premise still remains foundational to buyer personas.

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Business Brainz

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For any marketing strategy to come out with flying colors, the key is to be able to focus on the right audience and understand them. Today, buyer personas are an essential component of any successful marketing strategy, and understanding buyer persona statistics is equally important. Click here.

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SalesGrape

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

To maximize your lead generation efforts and improve conversion rates, it is essential to create ideal customer profiles (ICPs). The Importance of Ideal Customer Profiles An ideal customer profile is a detailed description of your perfect customer based on various demographic, firmographic, psychographic, and behavioral attributes.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

This mirrors findings of other surveys related to content marketing and customer-centric marketing, which consistently hovers in the 35- 40% range of “very customer-centric” or “very effective content marketing.”. 10 Essentials Of Becoming Customer-Centric With Buyer Personas.

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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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Business Brainz

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For any marketing strategy to come out with flying colors, the key is to be able to focus on the right audience and understand them. Today, buyer personas are an essential component of any successful marketing strategy. Why create a buyer persona? Buyer personas help you properly understand your audience.

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

While 89% of B2B marketers have embraced content marketing, only 37% have a documented content marketing strategy, and only 22% say they are extremely successful with their overall approach to content marketing. One of the key foundational elements to a content marketing strategy is a buyer persona.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 1, 2023

The AI-fueled transformation of content marketing is both exhilarating and distressing. OpenAI and an avalanche of new content tools and best practices are overwhelming many content marketers. You can’t build an effective content strategy without these facts and data.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2016

The term, audience development , has become more ubiquitous in the world of marketing. A recognition of the growing importance of digital content marketing to overall marketing strategies today. For example, some content marketing pundits believe you should separate out audience personas.

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Sales Engine

JULY 29, 2016

Lead generation through content marketing means attracting people with a problem you can solve (that they can afford to pay for!). Your audience must be built over time by generating superior content and putting it where they might see it—and if you’re out of touch, your content will fall on deaf eyeballs.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2015

From a research point of view, not much has changed or moved beyond buyer profiling in the last couple of decades. Even more so, buyer profiling is still confined within the context of win/loss despite changes in terminology. This is classic win/loss interviewing technique as opposed to qualitative buyer research.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2015

A recent survey conducted by Cintell*, entitled 2016 Benchmark Study On Understanding B2B Buyers , indicates that high performing organizations utilized qualitative research for their buyer personas. The study focused entirely on the use of buyer personas for understanding B2B buyers.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 5, 2016

Lead generation through content marketing means attracting people with a problem you can solve (that they can afford to pay for!). Your audience must be built over time by generating superior content and putting it where they might see it—and if you’re out of touch, your content will fall on deaf eyeballs.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 11, 2019

A B2B buyer persona represents your ideal client decision-maker. When developing your buyer persona, address all the issues and aspects that may have an impact on how, when, and why the person will buy. Personas are marketing code for “knowing your audience.” Build buyer personas with collective knowledge.

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Crimson Marketing

APRIL 23, 2015

Traditionally, B2B marketers have created buyer personas from customer hunches, not factual customer data. “As a result, a vast majority (83%) of B2B marketers say that their buyer personas are only ‘somewhat’ effective, according to a study from the ITSMA. Click To Tweet.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 5, 2017

When you can demonstrate to your target market – beyond understanding buyer personas, pain points, and customer preferences – you see them as human beings, and the customer bonds you can form can last a lifetime. The post 6 Customer Profile Videos that Deserve an Oscar appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

In a previous post, I shared a four-step process for creating in-depth B2B buyer personas. In this post, I’ll discuss how the details of a buyer persona inform a content marketing strategy. 9 Components of a B2B Buyer Persona. If you read their LinkedIn profile, how do they see themselves?

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 18, 2015

It is where we first saw the distinctions given to the economic buyer, the technical buyer, and the user buyer. These combined perspective resulted in an emphasis on profiling the individual buyer. At the same time, we also saw the prominence of product management and product marketing rise in 1980’s and 1990’s.

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ClearVoice

JUNE 19, 2023

Content marketing is still driving success for companies that do it right. Several content marketing areas expect significant growth and change in 2023. These include account-based marketing, artificial intelligence, local SEO, persona marketing, podcast marketing, social media, and video marketing.

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Navigate the Channel

DECEMBER 15, 2023

One powerful strategy that has emerged as a game-changer is content marketing. In this article, we will explore why content marketing is crucial and how you can effectively incorporate it into your overall business strategy. Here’s why setting specific goals is paramount: 1.

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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.  Image via Wikipedia.   This can be done on two levels. 

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Sales and Marketing Alignment. Design and Content. Content Marketing. Interactive Content. Your Top Ten Questions About B2B Buyer Personas. Recently, we partnered with Demand Gen Report to present a webinar about the power of personas. Video Production. Digital Development. Contact Us.

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Tony Zambito

JULY 6, 2011

As an individual with a background in marketing and sales, I began to think of how this could be a process to help make informed decisions not just about users but also buyers.    I wound up on a path afterward searching for a way to make buyer personas a reality. 

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Tony Zambito

MAY 4, 2011

Buyer Persona Development and the qualitative research methodology applied to creating buyer personas have proven to be an effective means for B2B organizations to reach a deeper understanding of their buyers.    Buyer persona development methodology is at its core a research methodology. 

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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

MAY 11, 2011

  Here is where buyer persona development can be of help.    In a previous article, Buyer Personas Require Qualitative Research and Contextual Inquiry , I mentioned that buyer persona development is at its’ core a research methodology grounded in the practices of qualitative research and contextual inquiry. 

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