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

Video marketing is officially the top content format B2B marketers used in 2019. While video has become a quintessential component of today’s content marketing strategy , it’s like any other medium. And this is why buyer personas are so important. They take the guesswork out of marketing.

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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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Lead Forensics

APRIL 18, 2024

They can drive more website traffic, increase email activity, help lead generation , and ultimately produce more revenue; almost 80% of the B2B organizations who exceeded their revenue targets last year have buyer personas in action! A buyer persona is essentially your ideal buyer. What’s their timescale?

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 18, 2024

They can drive more website traffic, increase email activity, help lead generation , and ultimately produce more revenue; almost 80% of the B2B organizations who exceeded their revenue targets last year have buyer personas in action! A buyer persona is essentially your ideal buyer. What’s their timescale?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

The digital nature of our current business landscape has caused a dramatic shift in the way companies market their products. More customers are turning to the internet to research, test, and purchase products and services. As a result, SEO has become an essential skill for all modern marketers. What is a buyer persona?

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

The great content marketer Ann Handley advocates for making your customer, rather than your company, the hero of your brand story. To create an effective marketing, sales or social media strategy, you must first have a clear idea of who is consuming your content and why. What is a buyer persona?

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

The most significant challenge B2B marketers face is in effectively communicating with target audiences and prospective buyers. 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.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 30, 2019

As a B2B marketer, there’s a good chance you are a part of a large team, which is one piece of a much larger organization. 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.

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Circle Studio

MARCH 12, 2020

Effective B2B marketing requires an audience-centric approach from all angles. Creating buyer personas helps you visually picture your buyers and understand them on a deeper level. Buyer personas defined. Personas put a human face to your buyers.

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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.

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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. Why do they buy?

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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. What is a B2B Buyer Persona? A buyer persona is a semi-fictitious representation of your ideal customer.

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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. What is a B2B Buyer Persona? A buyer persona is a semi-fictitious representation of your ideal customer.

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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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Business Brainz

JULY 19, 2021

The global pandemic is profoundly changing the face of the B2B buyer. 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. Hubspot Academy.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

“Defining your target market is one of a marketer’s most important tasks.” ” One tool that has become essential to defining a target market is the buyer persona, especially with the rise of social media and video. This information is invaluable to any marketer.

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Vision Edge Marketing

JUNE 4, 2024

A successful story demands more than creative flair—it requires rigorous research , customer-centricity, and validation. Business too can harness the power of validation research, a form of feedback and testing, to ensure key messages resonate with the intended customers and prospects. In this episode of What’s Your Edge?

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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. This can be done via desk research or through Social Listening Tools like, Melt water and Hootsuite. Be present where they are.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

As marketing technology and information access continues to evolve, B2B buying behavior changes as well. For example, recent research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. What Are Buyer Personas?

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Stevens & Tate

JANUARY 11, 2021

Creating buyer personas is an essential part of an inbound marketing strategy because they help define your target audience and help you tailor your advertising towards that audience. Buyer personas are an important part to attraction marketing. Buyer personas are an important part to attraction marketing.

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Hubspot

JUNE 2, 2020

Marketing Margie. 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. It's all about how you obtain your market research and customer data, and then present that information within your business.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

There are a lot of misguided, well-meaning marketers working on beautifully crafted, useless personas. Now, I’m not joining the persona naysayers (you know who you are). It’s true that there are a lot of less-than-actionable personas being built, but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. via ANNUITAS.com.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

There are a lot of misguided, well-meaning marketers working on beautifully crafted, useless personas. Now, I’m not joining the persona naysayers (you know who you are). It’s true that there are a lot of less-than-actionable personas being built, but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. via ANNUITAS.com.

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ActiveDEMAND

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Buyer Personas are a powerful tool used in marketing and sales. They help define the parameters of an ideal customer which then outlines the content to write that speaks to them, where marketing should get in front of potential customers, and buyer personas can also help qualify or disqualify prospects faster.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 15, 2023

If you’re a business owner, marketing professional, or digital enthusiast, you already know how important it is to perfect your B2B digital marketing strategy. But why is digital marketing so important? If you’re ready to perfect your B2B digital marketing strategy, you’re in the right place!

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Did you know 60-70% of marketers say they don’t truly understand their buyers ( source )? The only way to join the 30-40% of people who do understand their buyers is to create buyer personas. Today we teach you how to construct an effective B2B buyer persona profile—keep reading. Let that sink in.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

In addition to marketing and sales, Suzy Balk, our Sr. Marketing Campaigns Manager, advises that product teams should be included in lead scoring. “If Marketing Automation Migration: Switching Platforms Made Easy Migrating your marketing automation platform doesn’t have to be difficult.

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Sales Engine

JULY 29, 2016

You’ve seen the Internet decimate industries such as record labels, newspapers, and cable TV—and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s crushing the B2B sales rep’s ability to get in front of qualified prospects. (If Sales reps need leads, and it’s marketing’s job to get at least some of them—a majority would be nice.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In a perfect world, sales and marketing would be tightly aligned , working toward the same goals and achieving the best possible results. But marketers and sales teams know this isn’t always easy. Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas. Create persona profiles.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 5, 2016

You’ve seen the Internet decimate industries such as record labels, newspapers, and cable TV—and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s crushing the B2B sales rep’s ability to get in front of qualified prospects. (If Sales reps need leads, and it’s marketing’s job to get at least some of them—a majority would be nice.

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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.

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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. This persona development is extremely useful when developing and evaluating messaging, content and offers that will differentiate your brand from your competitors. Education level.

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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.” Build buyer personas with collective knowledge.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 26, 2013

A few weeks back I wrote a column for Search Engine Land on B2B buyer personas. In exploring the persona concept, it further supported my opinion that for SEO to truly be effective for the B2B organization, SEO needs to run hand-in-hand with traditional B2B marketing initiatives. Eight SEO-Related Buyer Persona Questions.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2021

You’ve decided to open up new markets for your products, but you have a major challenge: how to build brand awareness among your new target customers. When you leverage content marketing to expand your business into new territory, you’ll be a step ahead of your competitors. Create content targeted to your new market segments.

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