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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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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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Developing buyer personas can help determine and articulate who the audience for your product is and whether they even exist. These personas can be leveraged for a successful product launch, inform your marketing strategy moving forward and ultimately can shape your long-term product roadmap.

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Tony Zambito

AUGUST 3, 2011

This is the fifth and final part of a series of reflective articles on the future of buyer personas in the social age.    In this final reflection, I offer 6 essentials to embedding buyer personas into your organization.     Then a third-party option should be explored. 

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 11, 2024

These specific members of your target audience are called “ buyer personas ,” they help you understand where exactly you can reach your customers and what messages will resonate most clearly. Here are some best practices for researching and crafting your audience personas: Start with what’s readily available.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 12, 2022

From personalization to buyer personas to hyper-targeting, understanding these psychological strategies is more prevalent than ever in crafting your next B2B marketing campaign. Buyer Personas / Ideal Customer Profiles. Crafting a buyer persona and/or ideal customer profile is no easy task.

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Optinmonster

JANUARY 25, 2023

Do you want to learn how to create a buyer persona? Creating a buyer persona is important for any business that wants to understand its target audience and tailor its marketing strategies accordingly. What is a Buyer Persona? Why Is Buyer Persona Important? What Is a Buyer Persona?

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ClearVoice

MAY 29, 2023

What is a marketing persona? Marketing personas are sometimes also called buyer personas. Buyer personas can inform a wide range of marketing activities. As well as the development of data-driven personas. Some strategies you can use: Conducting surveys, interviews, and focus groups.

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Hubspot

JUNE 2, 2015

Building buyer personas can be tricky -- you need a delicate balance between quantitative and qualitative data to get something that's accurate and useful. How can you be sure that you’re focusing on the right data to build out your buyer personas? 2) Demographic Data. 4) Site Behavior. Limitations of Data.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 16, 2020

Initially, you'll want to refer to your existing buyer persona (s). However, it's important to note that your existing buyer personas aren't always the same as the audience you're trying to target for a specific campaign or product. For instance, think about the possible buyer persona of one of your favorite companies.

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Hubspot

MARCH 24, 2015

At first, creating buyer personas seems simple. One of the biggest challenges you are likely to encounter revolves around actually gathering the information you need to construct your personas. This will ensure that you avoid any glitches or unexpected question interpretations when you send your survey to the larger group.

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Circle Studio

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In other words, you must focus on an individual’s needs, not take a one-size fits all approach. Moving beyond buyer personas. Buyer personas are helpful for understanding general categories or buckets of buyers. And they are useful in helping marketers to tailor the client experience.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 29, 2017

In my article Rethinking Buyer Personas In An Era Of Digital Transformation , I presented four trends impacting the state of buyer persona development. Whereby, rethinking buyer persona development and insight gathering in a digital-centric world becomes a necessity. And, why it necessitates a rethinking.

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Hubspot

APRIL 7, 2023

You can gather information through surveys, focus groups, and interviews. Identify Your Target Audience and Buyer Personas It is integral to figure out who you’re marketing your digital products to. Create a buyer persona using HubSpot’s free tool.

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BenchmarkONE

APRIL 18, 2019

Define your buyer persona. This is where creating a buyer persona comes into play. A buyer persona is a fictional representation of your ideal customer. Some of the key characteristics to identify in this persona include: Age Gender Geographic Location Job Title Income Major Challenges.

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Valasys

JULY 15, 2021

In today’s modern marketing world, marketers rely less on traditional market research methods such as focus groups or surveys and use modern platforms and tools that reveal a lot about their customers’ demographics, online behaviors, and conversations. Define your buyer personas.

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Hubspot

JULY 13, 2018

Interviews are the personal, one-on-one conversations you can have with the buyers in your industry. Your interviewees can answer questions about themselves to help you design your buyer personas. Focus Groups. The interviews, focus groups, and surveys are all sources of primary data. Secondary Data.

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Optinmonster

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Focus Groups Like IDIs, focus groups can be face-to-face or online. These groups usually involve sample sizes of 6-10 people. The advantage of in-person focus groups is that you observe the consumer’s verbal and non-verbal reaction to your product or advertising. Then, observe the dialogue.

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Televerde

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Understand the differences between your buyer personas and attract a new customer base. Build Buyer Personas and Highlight Goals. Focus groups. Based on the research you receive, you can develop robust buyer personas based on your ideal customer’s psychographics and demographics. Interviews.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 10, 2018

“A poorly constructed persona can seem a lot like a stereotype, such as all millennials want information delivered via mobile devices,” says Kevin Smith of Kevin W. The key to powerful buyer persona development comes down to three important factors: grounded in fact, functional, and more than demographic data.”. Don’t be lazy.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 20, 2015

Test the market by doing research, including interviews, surveys and maybe even focus groups. the buyer persona for each type of buyer. Next, create a marketing persona for each type of person who will buy your product. Now choose marketing tactics that will reach your buyer personas.

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Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 6, 2019

It's usually done via product testing, focus groups, and surveys. Define your buyer persona. Identify a portion of that persona to engage. Defining buyer persona" is just knowing their age, gender, location, income, etc. How Does Market Research Work? Engage your market research participants.

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Launch Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2020

To develop effective persona messages, you must first have well-developed buyer personas. Your buyer personas should be up to date and cover the individual’s different job responsibilities and pain points so you can speak to each persona accurately.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 11, 2010

Distinguishing a set of motivations, needs, and wants from a buyer’s goal orientation can make a significant difference in not only innovation but in aligning customer strategy with buyer goals.    All can offer helpful information and insight into how to better meet the needs of customers. . 

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Tony Zambito

MAY 22, 2011

What we do know today is that traditional methods of structured customer, buyer, and market research that are quantitative based cannot address the social and cultural changes taking place in our business society.    This includes the severely hindering structured methods typically associated with focus groups and surveys. 

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SmartBug Media

AUGUST 1, 2019

Oftentimes, these are questions about who your target market or ideal buyer persona is (for example: “What does our ideal customer look like?”). This might take the form of a focus group or one-on-one interviews. Consider as many variables and potential causes as possible.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 19, 2013

You don’t know the buyer JACK”! Yes, a lot has been written lately on the use of buyer personas, or how content marketing “starts with the buyer, or the importance of mapping the buyer journey. What steps does the buyer take when purchasing my product or service? Make the appropriate adjustments.

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ConvertKit

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Instead, let’s take a moment to answer some of these questions as it relates to your buyer persona. You can also create more than one buyer persona depending on how many subsets you have inside your target audience. We usually recommend doing two to three buyer personas max so you aren’t tempted to attract everyone.

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Televerde

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Don’t they have ‘focus groups’ for this sort of thing? The purpose of developing buyer personas and mapping their journeys is about relevancy—delivering the right message, to the right person, at the right time. Even if you didn’t find it personally offensive, you can see why other people do.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Well, by understanding Robert’s buying pattern, Starbucks could better understand the buyer persona he represents, predict in-store traffic, and analyze how they could better market their products to similar customers. Here are some questions to ask in a customer survey or focus group: Why did you first purchase [product or service]?

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ConvertKit

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Instead, let’s take a moment to answer some of these questions as it relates to your buyer persona. You can also create more than one buyer persona depending on how many subsets you have inside your target audience. We usually recommend doing two to three buyer personas max so you aren’t tempted to attract everyone.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Take a look at your database to inform your insights as to where your prospects live, their age group, and their stage of life. Once clear patterns emerge, hold a focus group to gain a clear understanding of customer pain points. Don’t be fooled into thinking you need a production studio to create content that has high reach.

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LeadSquared

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The next crucial thing to do is to develop the buyer persona. A simple way to understand the potential reception of your campaigns is to run smaller focus group campaigns before the big launch. A great way to filter out the potential target audience is by creating a buyer persona from the collected data.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 19, 2021

Online and mobile surveys as well as virtual or in-person focus groups give you a good indication of customer loyalty and uncover problems that you can address more quickly to retain customers and further new lead opportunities. Best practices for demand generation success.

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Convert

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Your interviewees’ answers can help you get optimization ideas for customer journey maps, buyer personas, product benefits messaging, and even overall satisfaction with your product. Online surveys are a fantastic tool to reach a wider segment of your audience than you might be able to with interviews or focus groups.

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EveryoneSocial

APRIL 1, 2021

Whether you call them buyer personas, customer avatars, or target audiences – the more detail that you have about the people that want your product, the better your messaging and positioning of your products and services will be. And the foundation for any successful marketing or sales team is to know your customer.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 25, 2011

Thus, gaining insight must come from distilling volumes of reports, quantitative data, surveys, focus groups, and every imaginable new way to look at a customer that has been created in the past 20 years. The second challenge can be termed "proliferation" in the sense that market research has become big business.

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