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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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Blog Learn More Know your persona First things first: make sure your sales, marketing, and other relevant teams (like product) are in agreement on what your ideal customer looks like. This means having well-documented and up-to-date ideal customer profiles (ICP) and buyer personas, which will be essential in step five.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Creating customer profiles for these prospects is crucial for your marketing campaigns—and in the end, your sales. Focusing on segmented groups of potential customers not only saves time and resources but the marketing campaign as a whole. What is a Customer Profile? How do they compare to buyer personas?

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

What is a buyer persona? A buyer persona is a fictional member of your target audience that your sales and marketing teams create – through research – to build their campaigns around. Why are buyer personas important? In that case, you understand the importance of buyer personas.

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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. In fact, it can be quite a complex effort for organizations to undertake.

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 30, 2024

Established companies falter when they ignore the changing behavior of customers. When did you last take a walk in your clients’ shoes ? Sometimes a target market will be very clearly defined, yet a company still fails to attract the right kind of buyers. That’s a mistake, as buyer personas can change.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Understanding their journey is where B2B customer insights come in. By leveraging data and customer interactions, you gain invaluable knowledge about your ideal buyers, allowing you to create targeted digital marketing campaigns, fix your inbound funnel , improve customer retention, and more.

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SalesIntel

MARCH 14, 2022

However, in the late 1990s, software designer Alan Cooper introduced the concept of “personas” to the design community, recommending that professionals utilize them as a tool for thinking about portions of their audience as real, breathing individuals with objectives, interests, and ambitions. What is an Ideal Client Profile?

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SalesIntel

MARCH 14, 2022

However, in the late 1990s, software designer Alan Cooper introduced the concept of “personas” to the design community, recommending that professionals utilize them as a tool for thinking about portions of their audience as real, breathing individuals with objectives, interests, and ambitions. What is an Ideal Client Profile?

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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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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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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. While there is no precise recipe to segment audiences, we’re here to help you nail down the fundamentals. Like other things in marketing, the answer can be found by focusing on your customer.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

You’ve got butterflies, your team is excited and you know your customers are going to be impressed. It also puts focus on customer issues and how your solution applies to them, with easy access to continuous feedback. After all, your solution or service’s purpose (new or old) is to improve the customer experience.

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Rollworks

MARCH 20, 2019

If you want to build an account-based strategy that helps you win big, developing a strong ideal customer profile (ICP) is critical. Ultimately, if you don’t invest enough in your ICP, you could end up with a false list of target accounts—leading to wasted sales and marketing dollars.

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ClickDimensions

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Market segmentation is a powerful tool to help businesses target specific groups. By dividing customers into smaller groups, businesses can create more personalized marketing campaigns. This leads to higher conversion rates and customer loyalty. The benefits of market segmentation are numerous.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Successful marketing in the B2B space relies on segmenting and defining your business’s total addressable market. As decision making has evolved over time, it’s become more imperative that you not only target different companies based on varying criteria, but that you break down your audience into buyer personas based on their unique needs.

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

From the time of Don Draper in the hit show Mad Men to mega Super Bowl ad spends in the 1980s, marketers traditionally relied on demographics and social trends to target and segment broad audiences. In the 2000s, digital marketing revolutionized marketers’ ability to reach more specific segments.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Amid an overly-optimistic marketplace outlook for AI, growth leaders — across marketing, sales and customer success — are increasingly turning to AI and/or AI-enhanced technology tools. Are you ready to just let AI loose on your customer targeting and dialogue without significant human intervention?

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NetLine

MARCH 6, 2024

Pinpointing perfect target accounts with the help of intent data When navigating through the multitude of potential customers, intent data can help you narrow down your target accounts—those accounts that are going to benefit from what you have to offer and bring the most value for your efforts. But how do you do this?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Today, we have solutions like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. What Are Buyer Personas? Basically, personas ensure that everything you do in terms of lead generation and customer acquisition is tailored to your targeted buyers’ needs. This is where personas come in.

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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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Brandwatch Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The purpose of undertaking customer analysis as part of a business plan is to examine the consumers most likely to purchase your product or service in-depth. Brands can establish different groups of customers and the needs of those customers. Customer analysis should move through three different stages.

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Inbox Insight

APRIL 14, 2023

However, our data shows that a combined ABM approach (also used by 35% of marketers) is just as popular, likely due to the ability to target a wider array of potential customers. This in turn represents the type of customer you want to focus on, giving you direction when building your TAL.

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Brandwatch Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The purpose of undertaking customer analysis as part of a business plan is to examine the consumers most likely to purchase your product or service in-depth. Brands can establish different groups of customers and the needs of those customers. Customer analysis should move through three different stages.

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DealSignal

APRIL 27, 2023

ABM intent data is about ABM marrying Ideal Customer Profiles, Buyer Personas, high-quality contact information, and intent data into a strategic go-to-market strategy for B2B firms. While both look to define your buyers, ICPs are account-based while Buyer Personas are lead-based.

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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.

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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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Belkins

DECEMBER 20, 2020

However, they might face difficulties with acquiring new customers. Here are some tips for you to win more clients: - Ask your existing customers for referrals. In other words, you should have a clearly defined ideal customer profile ( ICP ) to attract the right kind of audience to your products or services.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, we have things like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. And in order to achieve that, you need buyer personas. What Are Buyer Personas? By now, you probably know what a buyer persona is. This is where personas come in. How To Create Buyer Personas.

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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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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You’ve got butterflies, your team is excited and you know your customers are going to be impressed. It also puts focus on customer issues and how your solution applies to them, with easy access to continuous feedback. After all, your solution or service’s purpose (new or old) is to improve the customer experience.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

We’ll start by discussing the importance of understanding your buyer personas and defining your ideal customer profile. Table of Contents: Understand Your Buyer Personas A. Developing Buyer Personas C. Research Existing Customers & Prospects C. Conclusion 1.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 22, 2021

As much as we like to think that all of our content is amazing, relevant, and engaging, if it’s not reaching potential customers, it’s falling on deaf ears. Yet if you tried to market your product or service to that entire group of people, your success rate would be … less than ideal, to put it nicely. Research Your Competition.

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Oktopost

MARCH 4, 2024

In this highly competitive and saturated market, SaaS companies must continuously meet their KPIs, drive customers down the B2B funnel, and ensure they stand out from their competition. This complexity makes marketing efforts even more crucial, as you must engage with your prospects throughout their customer journey.

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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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Circle Studio

MARCH 12, 2020

Creating buyer personas helps you visually picture your buyers and understand them on a deeper level. Buyer personas defined. While the term “buyer personas” is fairly common vernacular in modern marketing, the definition is sometimes misunderstood. Personas put a human face to your buyers.

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Marketing Interactions

JANUARY 19, 2020

One of the first things potential clients say to me is something along the lines of how many buyer personas they think they need to create. The average is three to five B2B buyer personas. Which B2B buyer personas, when engaged, will help marketers drive contribution to revenues?

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