FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

In this post, we cover the basics and then move on to the advanced insight strategies for B2B buyer personas that are now possible with AI. What are B2B Buyer Personas? Are Buyer Personas Still Important? Creating buyer personas can feel like a big challenge.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 28, 2022

On a recent episode of the SmartBug® on Tap podcast, we dove into buyer personas—but not in the traditional sense. We’re talking about who your buyer personas are outside of their nine-to-five day job. How can we as marketers appeal to the entire persona? How can we as marketers appeal to the entire persona?

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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? Focus your time.

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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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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.

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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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Cintell

DECEMBER 20, 2019

To produce your most engaging content, you must develop an intimate understanding of your audience. And this is why buyer personas are so important. Sure, you’ve heard of buyer personas before, but this blog post isn’t about a step-by-step process to build yours. Personas and States of Being.

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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? The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. SEO and PPC Keyword Research.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

In this guide, we’ll show you how to better understand your target audience by creating buyer personas built on social media data. What is a buyer persona? Most brands develop many personas to stand in for the various people who participate in the buying cycle for their particular product or service.

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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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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. Map the buyer’s journey.

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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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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. A Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise. Timing of touches and developing targeted content for each buyer stage/interest are the top two issues at 49% and 48% respectively.

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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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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

This insight supports the notion that B2B marketers need to continually re-evaluate the B2B buyer journey, in an effort to understand the impact digital marketing tactics have in sales and business development. The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. What Are Buyer Personas?

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 22, 2017

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. And, conversely, many users are buyers. 2 – Market-based vs. Account-based.

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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. This same urge is being applied to buyer personas.

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Pam Didner

OCTOBER 22, 2022

To articulate how well you know your customer requires the development of buyer personas, which take a deep dive into the interests and traits of your target audience. I’ll cover the ins and outs of what they are, as well as some tips and tricks for developing them in a DIY format. Many teams utilize buyer 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.

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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

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. This is where I need your help.

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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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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

In this same survey mentioned above, it was found 50% or more of marketers surveyed have not engaged in researching and creating buyer personas for their marketing efforts. One of the key premises of user personas and buyer personas, since their origins, are they can foster a common view of customers within organizations.

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Business Brainz

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today, buyer personas are an essential component of any successful marketing strategy. Businesses that are adopting buyer persona strategies have significantly better results in terms of ROI, and of course, developing a better understanding of their customers. Why create a buyer persona? Click here.

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Business Brainz

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today, buyer personas are an essential component of any successful marketing strategy, and understanding buyer persona statistics is equally important. Down below we will be discussing some of the most interesting Buyer Persona Statistics that were actually generated by Bigger Brands. Click here.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 7, 2022

To experience their world from another’s point of view. Rather than as a foundational skill to be developed. As a critical business investment to gain the required deeper understanding needed from buyers and customers to be empathetic. Empathy is at its most basic level the ability for one to walk in another’s shoes.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Buyer personas are the second most popular criteria for content segmentation according to B2B marketers yet only 44% actually utilize them. The written characterizations that a B2B marketer creates about the buyers who make vital decisions regarding the product, service or solution that is being offered is known as a buyer persona.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

Projects often afflicted in an analogous way like troublesome commercial real estate development. To get at the core of overcoming the content personalization challenge today, organizations will need to develop a deeper understanding of buyers and customers. Buyer Persona Research.

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Content Standard

MAY 10, 2019

Without a customer experience (CX) strategy based on deep customer insights, brands send this message: they don’t know their customers, they don’t know the key moments that drive them to make decisions, and they definitely don’t know the wider implications of those decisions. Image attribution: N.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 15, 2023

B2B marketing may help businesses promote their products or services, but it’s more than that – it focuses on building customer relationships, establishing trust, and driving revenue through an optimized digital experience. Here are some key aspects you need to identify to develop an effect B2B digital marketing strategy : Demographics.

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SmartBug Media

JUNE 6, 2019

This is where buyer personas come into play. Why Buyer Personas Are Crucial in B2B. At SmartBug™, before we develop any content for clients, the first thing we do after our discovery calls is start talking to customers and prospects in order to develop buyer personas.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2016

The term, audience development , has become more ubiquitous in the world of marketing. For B2C CMOs, the concept of developing audiences and communities has been an essential core principle for some time. For B2B CMOs, the idea of audience development and engagement can be perplexing.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sales enablement best practices: Know thy audience … define buyer personas When improving sales enablement, always start with your audience by building personas. Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas. As you build your program, consider these five key areas.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 23, 2020

creating buyer personas is one of the most fun parts of brand strategy. Buyer personas are fictional representations of target customers, that are created by your marketing team to personify a customer segment. Deeper exploratory questions are often kept within one section of a buyer persona interview.

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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.   What do these new buying cycles look like? 

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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 19, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Leverage Buyer Insights To Create Rewarding Digital Buying Experiences For Buyers. One significant outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the increasing desire on the part of buyers for digital buying experiences. What is clear is that buyers are not going to go back to the way it was.

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