Square 2 Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In B2B, understanding the customer is not just a casual prerequisite; it’s a strategic imperative that can spell the difference between deals won and lost. Enter the B2B buyer persona – a semi-mythical representation of your ideal customer.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 7, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Increase Their Value Through In-House Buyer Insights and Buyer Persona Development Capabilities. Since the origins of the buyer persona concept in 2001, buyers and their buying behaviors have always been in a constant state of change. 2 – Foster Marketing and Sales Alignment.

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Contently

APRIL 6, 2023

Love them or hate them, buyer personas are key to creating successful marketing strategies and effective content. By understanding the needs, wants, and behaviors of your ideal customers, you can tailor your messaging and campaigns to better resonate with them. What Is a Buyer Persona?

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 13, 2022

The 20th Anniversary of Buyer Personas Survey To Help Determine Usefulness. The year 2021 marked the 20 th Anniversary of the concept of Buyer Persona being founded. The world is a completely different one than existed in 2001 when buyer personas were first introduced. It is hard to believe.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 12, 2021

2 – Refresh and Update Your Buyer Personas – Or – Just Throw The Bad Ones Away. Buyer personas , when researched qualitatively, can help you to make personalization matter. If your buyer personas can be characterized as simply profile briefs, it is time to literally throw them away and begin anew. .

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 15, 2022

This includes their interactions with buyers and customers. One is a lack of understanding about buyers and customers. The second is a lack of an articulate brand vision that both internal teams, as well as customers, can grasp. Two voids that require buyer insights and growth-focused buyer personas.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 2, 2021

Sales Leaders Will Need To Implement A Buyer Persona Driven Sales System To Adapt To New Buyer Behaviors And Preferences. You have to wonder; has the enormous growth of marketing and sales tech stacks caused B2B to be so busy managing their marketing or sales operations that they forgot about the buyer?

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Anyword

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Building buyer personas used to be a maze of interviews, research, drafting, testing, and seemingly endless refinements. Delving into the Depths of Buyer Personas Before we get into the specifics, let’s take a look at what makes a buyer persona tick. But fear not, as the era of tedium is over !

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 5, 2023

The term “buyer persona” has become more and more popular in the last few years. Many businesses have worked with their internal marketing team or with the help of an agency to develop their buyer personas. Why Are Buyer Personas? Why Are Buyer Personas? Why Are Buyer Personas So Important?

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 6, 2023

If you're a marketing professional, you've probably heard the term "buyer persona" more times than you can count. Buyer personas are an essential part of a successful marketing strategy because not only do they define precisely whom you’re trying to reach, but they also inform so many aspects of your business.

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Launch Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Developing B2B buyer personas is important for many reasons, including crafting targeted messages and personalizing marketing activities. But, before focusing on messaging and personalizing marketing efforts it is key to understand all the components that make up buyer personas, especially demographics.

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 1985, a software designer named Alan Cooper invented a user persona named Kathy to add human context to the development process. Over the years, marketers built on that idea to develop buyer personas – profiles of fictional people that embody several ideal client characteristics. How do they make purchasing decisions?

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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. Customer Segmentation. Confusion by Adam Gale. Professions. Firmographics. Demographics.

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 27, 2021

I’m really tired of seeing people dismiss B2B buyer personas as worthless. Although, I have to admit that many of the personas I review from prospective clients are little more than recipe cards for disconnected experiences. And shame on those who are building and promoting what I’ll just call fake personas.

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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. Would you agree?

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Launch Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2022

You’ve heard many times before, buyer personas are a crucial component of successful marketing. They clearly outline the target audience and ideal buyers for the product. The characteristics of the personas give insight into what will make the most impact when marketing to them. Importance of Buyer Personas.

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Ledger Bennett

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Every year Ledger Bennett work with numerous clients to help them develop Buyer Personas with a clear focus: Build Buyer Personas that make a commercial impact on their business. But now there’s an added complexity and a potential increase in the personas we need to consider. These are the User Personas.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

The great content marketer Ann Handley advocates for making your customer, rather than your company, the hero of your brand story. It can be difficult to create a compelling heroic arc, though, if you don’t understand who your customers are. What is a buyer persona? Why are buyer personas important?

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Cintell

DECEMBER 20, 2019

And this is why buyer personas are so important. They provide a clear picture of who your ideal customers are, what challenges and pain points they experience along the buyer’s journey, and exactly what they need to be able to take the next step towards your solution. Personas and States of Being.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

More customers are turning to the internet to research, test, and purchase products and services. In today’s blog post we explain why buyer personas are a critical—but often missing—element of your SEO strategy. What is a buyer persona? Why must SEOs pay attention to buyer personas? Let’s get into it!

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 13, 2018

We talk about buyer personas a lot on the ZoomInfo blog— for good reason! Marketers use buyer personas to inform every piece of their marketing strategy and ultimately generate more revenue for their respective companies. But buyer personas only work if they’re accurate and include the right kinds of information.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

A recent survey by B2B Marketing, in conjunction with the UK-based agency Tomorrow People, indicated only 38% of marketers considered their content to be “very customer-centric.” Strengthening The Common View Of Customers. Thus, making it even more difficult to foster customer-centric marketing.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 30, 2019

While your team may have all types of strategies in place to carry out marketing messages, without B2B buyer personas, you could be missing the mark when it comes to getting your efforts consumed by target audiences. In this post, we will cover the following key steps: Identify the Need for B2B Buyer Personas.

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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

While we all have goals and objectives for lead generation, brand development, and customer experience as examples, the overarching challenge is making the right decisions to achieve them. What Are B2B Buyer Personas? For online marketers, buyer personas can provide direction in the channel-specific campaign development.

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B2B Digital Marketer

OCTOBER 21, 2021

You need to get deep inside the mind of your ideal buyer in order to produce successful marketing strategies. Every company has its own buyer persona system. But what does it take to be the world’s best buyer persona system? Your buyers’ voice matters, there’s no doubt about that. Podcast Timestamps/Outline.

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MarketJoy

APRIL 7, 2022

Why You Need Effective Buyer Personas for B2B Lead Generation. A buyer persona is a hypothetical customer that serves as a model of the buyer you want to target. Personas are based on an ideal customer profile (ICP), which is a set of metrics that guide your overall sales strategy.

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Benchmark Email

AUGUST 2, 2023

Email continues to reign as a highly effective channel for engaging with customers. This… The post Ideal Customer Profiles: What Are They and How They’re Different Than Buyer Personas appeared first on Benchmark Email.

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Cintell

MAY 18, 2021

We have frequent conversations with our clients about how to create buyer personas , and what a powerful tool they can be when they are really being utilized. Few B2B marketers dispute the value of personas for strategy, messaging and execution across sales and marketing.

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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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Cintell

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If you find yourself needing to talk to a lot of people, you probably have a few different buyer personas that you’re targeting through your content. What are buyer personas? Buyer personas are fictional representations of your ideal customers. Click to Read More.

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Content Standard

MAY 10, 2019

With the drive toward omnichannel marketing picking up speed, brands run the risk of adopting a one-size-fits-all mentality to customer journey mapping. The problem here is that even the best brand can’t meet one customer’s every need. Additionally, no two customers will have the same start and end goal.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Buyers are 48% more likely to consider vendors that personalize marketing to address their specific needs. If you don’t have a detailed B2B buyer persona you’re leaving money on the table. Without a detailed persona your sales and marketing team’s time is being wasted on chasing leads that are a bad fit and likely to churn.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Buyers are 48% more likely to consider vendors that personalize marketing to address their specific needs. If you don’t have a detailed B2B buyer persona you’re leaving money on the table. Without a detailed persona your sales and marketing team’s time is being wasted on chasing leads that are a bad fit and likely to churn.

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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. I’m also talking about generational growth, pandemics, and changing customer preferences. Your buyers and customers are not. A Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise.

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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. Everything!

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 25, 2023

Buyer personas—fictional representations of the ideal customers and target audience you’re trying to reach with your content—play an essential role in content strategy. Whether you’re writing a blog post, web copy, lead nurture emails, or an e-book, tailoring your content for each buyer persona is a must.

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