KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. B2B buyer personas become critical in connecting the dots of this process. What Are Buyer Personas? As outlined a few years back for Search Engine Land, a “buyer persona” is a representative profile of a particular target audience segment.

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Stevens & Tate

JULY 10, 2020

Creating a buyer persona is essential to effective attraction marketing. In order to perfect your approach in buyer persona launch , these are some common mistakes to avoid: Don’t Forget to Focus on the Buyer Decision. What is different about buyers who are satisfied with the status quo?

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Business Brainz

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today, buyer personas are an essential component of any successful marketing strategy. Businesses that are adopting buyer persona strategies have significantly better results in terms of ROI, and of course, developing a better understanding of their customers. Why create a buyer persona? Click here.

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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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Business Brainz

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today, buyer personas are an essential component of any successful marketing strategy, and understanding buyer persona statistics is equally important. Down below we will be discussing some of the most interesting Buyer Persona Statistics that were actually generated by Bigger Brands. Click here.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

But, as the buyer’s journey becomes increasingly multifaceted, it’s now clear that lead generation is just one piece of the marketing puzzle. In order to convert leads into paying customers, you must have a comprehensive lead management process in place. As we’ve established, lead management is a complex, multi-step 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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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

So something that worked a year ago (*cough* your current sales process *cough*), probably isn’t as effective presently. Sales process optimization isn’t a one and done activity. Even the most evergreen processes need some upkeep once in a while. And today, we’re telling you to give your sales process a little TLC.

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B2B Digital Marketer

OCTOBER 21, 2021

You need to get deep inside the mind of your ideal buyer in order to produce successful marketing strategies. Every company has its own buyer persona system. But what does it take to be the world’s best buyer persona system? Your buyers’ voice matters, there’s no doubt about that.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2015

A case in point is the term “buyer’s journey.” This is still a narrow buying process perspective designed to view the buy/sales cycle to a “win” as opposed to a “loss”. Buyer Research Intent Requires Change. From a research point of view, not much has changed or moved beyond buyer profiling in the last couple of decades.

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Sales Engine

JULY 29, 2016

"The real challenge is to develop a deeper understanding of how buyers think, what they need, and what we need to say to get them to choose us. What roles do they play in the buying process? Understanding what truly motivates the buyer is by far the most important component in creating a content marketing strategy.”

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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. The written characterizations that a B2B marketer creates about the buyers who make vital decisions regarding the product, service or solution that is being offered is known as a buyer persona.

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Stevens & Tate

JULY 27, 2021

Your home building services are going to appeal to certain types of buyers, which means you’re going to need to pinpoint who those buyers are in order to market your brand effectively. To do this, you’ll want to develop a customer persona (also known as a buyer persona ). Click here!

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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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Sales Engine

JANUARY 5, 2016

"The real challenge is to develop a deeper understanding of how buyers think, what they need, and what we need to say to get them to choose us. What roles do they play in the buying process? Understanding what truly motivates the buyer is by far the most important component in creating a content marketing strategy.”

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 3, 2016

In 2016, we will mark the fifteenth year since buyer personas were first introduced. The journey, however, continues towards professionals and organizations gaining a true understanding of what buyer persona development entails. by Scott Lewis.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

So something that worked a year ago (*cough* your current sales process *cough*), probably isn’t as effective presently. Sales process optimization isn’t a one and done activity. Even the most evergreen processes need some upkeep once in a while. And today, we’re telling you to give your sales process a little TLC.

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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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Content Standard

MAY 10, 2019

A customer journey map is a visual representation of this process and helps CX leaders understand the role their brand plays in facilitating this buying journey. The Customer as Protagonist: Designing Robust Buyer Personas for CX Marketing Strategy. Consider their needs and goals, motivations, behaviors. Recommended for you.

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Tony Zambito

AUGUST 22, 2011

During a series of articles entitled The Future of Buyer Personas is Social , I referenced several times that the social age will cause a rethinking of buyer persona research and development.     The constant evolution of buyer behavior is the primary driver behind this principle. 

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

But, as the buyer’s journey becomes increasingly multifaceted, it’s now clear that lead generation is just one piece of the marketing puzzle. In order to convert leads into paying customers, you must have a comprehensive lead management process in place. Create buyer personas. Fortunately, we’re here to help.

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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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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 24, 2014

You might think this article is about how to write in an engaging, persuasive way that brings prospects flocking to your website, downloading e-books, white papers and case studies, and picking up the phone to place their orders. . What are the steps through the buying process? B2B Lead to Sale Process Marketing Strategy'

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Tony Zambito

JULY 6, 2011

About a dozen years ago, I became involved with personas through fate by meeting Alan Cooper , at the time he just finished his landmark book The Inmates Are Running The Asylum , and becoming enamored with personas as a process to build more user friendly products. 

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 20, 2011

  In this case, should CMO’s be looking at content marketing or content strategy as the first order of business on the agenda?    The deeper the understanding, the more targeted and relevant content can be for buyers.    Buyer persona development is a methodology for informing strategy. 

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Tony Zambito

MAY 11, 2011

  This may have been just fine – that is – until buyers have become fairly self-directed in the buying process as well as enabled by the Internet and social technologies.    The target buyer title identified and department most likely shifting in a timeframe of six months or less in some cases. 

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Tony Zambito

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

.   These relationships all meant to help advance an organization towards profitability and in today’s buyer centric world – sustainability.   Buyer Persona 2.0 , as a discipline, must factor in these complex relationships if it hopes to present an accurate portrayal of buying decisions that take place in a B2B context.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Your Top Ten Questions About B2B Buyer Personas. Recently, we partnered with Demand Gen Report to present a webinar about the power of personas. What role should Sales play in the development process? I would recommend first trying to answer these key questions: Do your personas really represent your buyers’ perspectives?

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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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Tony Zambito

JULY 10, 2011

In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on how it is important to leave some of the major misconceptions about buyer personas behind in order to peer into the future.    Without a doubt, we are seeing the most dramatic change in buyer behaviors since post World War II. 

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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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Tony Zambito

APRIL 24, 2010

I have been evolving the buyer persona development process as well as have been writing about buyer personas for the last eight years now.    To say buyers have changed during that time would be an understatement.   Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr.

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B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

I would suggest that Jason's article is particularly on point when it comes to the issue of buyer personas. But does this mean that ABM diminishes the importance and value of buyer personas? But first, a little historical perspective is in order. buyers) in each target account. Webster, Jr.

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Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Here are the key strategic goals to focus on at every step of the process. The Walk Phase: Lean Into Automation The walk phase of your ABM strategy is all about process and automation. Expand on the sales and marketing alignment that you created in phase one to create a coordinated outreach process.

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ClickDimensions

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In order to better serve your customers, segmentation requires that you constantly learn more about them. Related Blog: ‘Using Segmentation for Survey Success’ Segmentation may sound familiar to another process commonly known as creating buyer personas.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 31, 2010

  It looks like Apple will be tapping into a distinctive buyer persona, the business professional, which may be the real winner in the introduction of the iPad. in New York, finds that companies are placing orders for the iPad for business-related communications, such as email. Charlie Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Co.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 20, 2021

The complexity of the process gets in the way. Value metrics, pricing models, and buyer personas set the framework for choosing a pricing strategy. Surprise fees, low-price tunnel vision, lack of customer segmentation, and ignoring competitors are common mistakes made in the B2B pricing process. Utilize Buyer Personas.

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