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How to Do an Efficiency Audit on Your B2B Company

Webbiquity

According to Statista, the global gross merchandise volume equaled $12.2 Part of your audit should include creating buyer personas. Even if you’ve created personas in the past, your customer base may have changed somewhat over time. How large is the B2B market? You can’t just look at data in a bubble.

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The Beginner's Guide to Customer Targeting

Hubspot

Refine your buyer persona(s). When you defined your target audience, did you flesh out a buyer persona ? Recall that a buyer persona is a profile of an ideal customer that you make to align with your business goals. When you begin to segment your audience, consider making separate buyer personas.

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The 5 Key Components of a Killer Customer Marketing Strategy

Hubspot

Leverage buyer personas to segment and understand your customers. That's why it's in your best interest to use detailed buyer personas to guide your customer marketing efforts. As per HubSpot's own definition , a buyer persona is " a semi-fictional representation of your ideal customers based on data and research. "

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Everything You Need to Know About Digital Engagement

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Typically, marketers create a customer journey map for each of their buyer personas. Millennial personas, for example, tend to find products through social media, research about them on company websites, then make a purchase on a laptop.

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Verizon’s Colleen Brooks on Creating an Organization-Wide Content Strategy

Content Standard

Speaking to that new buyer persona requires new value propositions, new styles of communication and different styles of content. Historically, we’ve sold to IT stakeholders. But given how technology is radically transforming business, we now have to speak directly to business stakeholders as well.

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The Ultimate Guide to Local Marketing

Hubspot

The key to successful local marketing is accurately defining your buyer personas. Create official, customizable buyer persona profiles with HubSpot’s free, intuitive buyer persona generator. Create official, customizable buyer persona profiles with HubSpot’s free, intuitive buyer persona generator.

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Client Versus Customer: How the Customer Relationship Is Defined by What You Call Your Audience

Content Standard

Your company has a target audience, and you might have a sharp understanding of that customer relationship through buyer personas and audience research. Or, if you’re an app-based service, maybe users. You can see where this is headed.