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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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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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. Yes, I agree.

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Over the years, marketers built on that idea to develop buyer personas – profiles of fictional people that embody several ideal client characteristics. Creating buyer personas is a subjective and analytical process based on data and actual customers or prospects. How do they make purchasing decisions?

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 26, 2020

So you have an understanding of your buying committee and how to market to them , now it’s time to build out your buyer personas. By asking the right questions you get a framework for researching and building a buyer dossier that fits within the larger story of your ICP and buyer’s journey. What is in my way?

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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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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

Goals become more complicated to achieve as evolving marketing technology continues to promise an opportunity to target more specifically and create unique customer experiences buyers demand. What Are B2B Buyer Personas? The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. SEO and PPC Keyword Research.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 22, 2020

What we know now is that traditional buyer-seller interaction is undergoing its most significant change yet in the 21 st century. B2B buyers are also embracing the remote model of interaction. Buyer Interactions Need An Overhaul. In essence, they must embrace Buyer Interaction Design?.

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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. As such, in many cases, B2B businesses will have more than one buyer persona to target.

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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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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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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

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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Modern B2B

DECEMBER 5, 2023

What do we mean by buyer personas? Buyer personas, sometimes referred to as customer personas or marketing personas, are detailed profiles of your ideal customers. Knowing these preferences can help you tailor your interactions and know which messaging styles can help you craft resonant content.

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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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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.

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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. Okay, so personas are really important to my business. Follow along with this guide and download these persona templates to simplify this process.

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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. When the concept of buyer personas was first launched in 2001, the world was a very different place.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

And, speaking of babies, even though no one likes to hear that theirs is ugly, unlike babies, those buyer personas aren’t going to get any cuter with age. There are a lot of reasons why personas are valuable: Personas build understanding. There are a few common ways personas often go off the rails.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

And, speaking of babies, even though no one likes to hear that theirs is ugly, unlike babies, those buyer personas aren’t going to get any cuter with age. There are a lot of reasons why personas are valuable: Personas build understanding. There are a few common ways personas often go off the rails.

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Marketing Interactions

JANUARY 27, 2020

In a lot of the conversations I have with B2B marketers, many are overwhelmed when confronted with how to build truly actionable buyer personas. Building actionable personas takes a fair bit of time and effort. And along with that, so is your persona project. 3 B2B Buyer Persona Types. Primary Buyer Persona.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2015

In today’s robust evolution of digital technologies, CEOs and CMOs seek buyer understanding to address these three concerns. Resulting in a 3D view of buyers, which can help inform strategies related to each. Many organizations are still relying on a win/loss perspective when it comes to understanding buyers.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2016

For example, some content marketing pundits believe you should separate out audience personas. Because these are different, in theory, from your buyer personas. I believe this approach may only exacerbate the compartmentalization based on the faulty premise of making personas about the “who”.

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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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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. These factors include demographic information, patterns of behavior, motivation and goals.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

McKinsey recently shared that 70-80% of B2B decision-makers preferred remote human interactions or digital self-service. There has been a subtle shift in buying behavior I’ve detected in recent in-depth buyer interviews. Look, some of the reps I have interacted with before are nice people. 4 – Be practical with digital first.

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Content Standard

MAY 10, 2019

It begins with taking a deeper look at how consumers have interacted with your brand. The visual is especially useful in understanding interactions, those key moments or inciting incidents where a customer is on the precipice and you need to push them in the right direction. But how can marketers really understand that adventure?

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Crimson Marketing

APRIL 23, 2015

Traditionally, B2B marketers have created buyer personas from customer hunches, not factual customer data. “As a result, a vast majority (83%) of B2B marketers say that their buyer personas are only ‘somewhat’ effective, according to a study from the ITSMA. Click To Tweet.

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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. Building Content for Personas.

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Golden Spiral

MARCH 14, 2018

As a B2B tech marketer, one of your biggest challenges is understanding who your buyers are and, based on that information, how best to communicate with them. That’s where buyer personas come in. In our experience, buyer personas really become valuable when you start segmenting content to each of them.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 20, 2022

When you are faced with a major decision, be it personal or business in nature, you want all the information you can get. You are looking to make an informed decision. Oftentimes, I find myself reminding executives that gathering insights is just one leg of a three-legged stool associated with buyer insights.

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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. And a by-product of that alignment is information sharing.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 12, 2011

.  B2B organizations will begin to assign and delegate buying to “professional buyers” skilled in using Internet and social technologies and who are skilled in the process of executing a self-directed buying cycle.    Buyer Persona Development can be a process and means for B2B Sales to reinvent itself. 

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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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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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Golden Spiral

APRIL 11, 2019

The more we understand about buyer behavior, the more likely we can adapt our own behavior in online and in-person interactions. You’ll gain an increased comfort level for the buyer, creating open and effective communication, which can lead to increased sales. Consider them slow-paced and people-oriented. Sensor/Intuitive.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 29, 2021

If B2B leaders, like yourself, are expected to succeed at newly formed or reinvented go-to-market strategies, one element that cannot be missing in action is essential buyer insights. What we do know is that buyers are living and working in a new reality. Resulting in new buying behaviors accompanied by new buyer goals and preferences.

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