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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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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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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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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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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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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Hubspot

MAY 26, 2021

Buyer personas typically include descriptions like Elizabeth's, along with other demographics and personality information. In the early days of customer segmentation, this would have been more than enough to inform marketing campaigns and product development. Standard Buyer Personas Aren't Enough. That's good!

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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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Business Brainz

JULY 19, 2021

B2B revenue leaders and marketers are spending a lot of their time focusing on understanding buyer personas. Since B2B buyers have become more cautious, it becomes monolithic to understand them and their changing behavior. One of the best ways to dive deep into your prospective customers is by building a buyer persona insight.

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Hubspot

JUNE 2, 2020

Do you know who your business's buyer personas are? Buyer personas are semi-fictional representations of your ideal customers based on data and research. As a result, you'll be able to attract high-value visitors, leads, and customers to your business who you'll be more likely to retain over time.

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Stevens & Tate

JULY 10, 2020

Before a company can establish a solid marketing plan , it must be aware of the specific target markets or customer profiles it has the best chance to attract to its product or service. Creating a buyer persona is essential to effective attraction marketing. Assuming About the Buyer Persona Leads Campaigns Astray.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

Recent surveys of marketing professionals by Rapt Media , Forrester , Seismic, SAP , IBM , and others all indicate that content personalization remains the biggest challenge for marketers this year and for the foreseeable future. The majority of content today is not hitting the mark with buyers and customers.

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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.

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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. Incorporating Survey Data.

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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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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Better, deeper, insightful, and well-rounded understanding of customers and buyers is on the top of the list for many CEOs and CMOs today. In recent studies by IBM and other research studies on CEO sentiments, customer insight and understanding are identified as a top focus for CEOs.

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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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Televerde

JANUARY 3, 2020

Long gone are the days where generic, stock-photo buyer personas like ‘Mary from marketing’ and ‘Francine from finance’ determined the direction of our marketing campaigns. Today’s buyers are diverse and dynamic, and this means we need to cater our content to a much more targeted audience. Buyer insights.

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Stevens & Tate

JULY 27, 2021

To do this, you’ll want to develop a customer persona (also known as a buyer persona ). A customer persona is a representation of everything that makes up your ideal customer. This persona does include some of the information that businesses typically use, such as basic demographics.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Read any inbound marketing blog or article and it’ll tell you to start any new initiative with, first, your goal(s) and then, second, your buyer personas. Because personas are at the heart of content. Buyer personas allow you to target and attract the right people to your website like sweet-smelling pheromones.

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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.” Personas are marketing code for “knowing your audience.”

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 18, 2022

With this backdrop, business organizations will need to recognize that customer and buyer goals are changing. Each new world or commercial event brings new implications for businesses and buyers alike. Resulting in buyers changing, modifying, eliminating, and adding to goals they aspire to reach. Growth in customer bases.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Maybe it’s increasing revenue by a certain percentage or improving customer satisfaction. Sales enablement best practices: Know thy audience … define buyer personas When improving sales enablement, always start with your audience by building personas. Create persona profiles. Iterate and refine. Consideration.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 8, 2018

Here at The Mx Group, 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. Number of personas: 5 or more.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, we have things like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. People want personalization — in fact, in a recent survey, 97% of professionals said it was important to them that vendor websites have relevant content that spoke directly to their company. What Are Buyer Personas?

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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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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 20, 2022

Specifically, a lack of insights into their buyers and customers. The lack of buyer insights is consistently identified as a top challenge in any of the numerous C-Suite surveying as well. . In a recent coaching conversation, I talked with an executive who invested a substantial amount in buyer personas.

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Cintell

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

(Or maybe you knew that already, because organizations from SiriusDecisions to Aberdeen Group to Forrester have all studied, at length, the impact and importance of buyer personas to fostering and achieving customer-centricity in marketing organizations.). But getting to a state of persona nirvana is easier said than done.

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B2B Marketing Traction

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Marketing must not only attract new prospects but also provide information and content for sales to convert them to customers. Recent surveys show that as much as 57% of the buying decision is done before buyers contact sales ( CEB Study of 1400 Customers ).

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

One of the key foundational elements to a content marketing strategy is a buyer persona. Yet merely 57% of B2B marketers say they have a deep understanding of the buyer personas included in their strategy. A B2B Buyer Persona is a Functional Tool—Not a Poster with a Few Platitudes. Everyone is busy.

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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

JUNE 8, 2020

A quarterly monitoring study of buyer attitudes about buying decisions during and after the COVID-19 Crisis, the COVID-19 Buyer Outlook Insights study will bring timely and essential buyer persona-based decision-making about when and how to resume marketing and sales.

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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. Additionally, more than half of unhappy customers start to engage with other companies. Developing Buyer Personas Based on Audience Insights.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The most controversial item on executive meeting agendas before the new millennium was if ”small inside sales team to handle small customers” should be created. Consider this, in an Accenture survey three years ago, only 12% of B2B buyers even wanted to meet with a sales representative. Fast forward to where we are today.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 11, 2019

Understanding the psychology of your buyers allows you to customize your strategy, hitting the points that are important to each decision maker, avoiding turn offs, and closing the sales cycle efficiently. Crystal Knows: Custom Communication. We’ve given you the big five psychology studies to help you understand buyers.

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