Lake One

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Do you fully understand your B2B buyer personas? After all, 71% of companies who exceed revenue and lead goals have documented personas. Understanding your B2B buyer personas is a vital part of any effective marketing plan. Researching Your B2B Buyer Persona. Don’t have them?

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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. Before you know it, you'll have complete, well-planned buyer personas to show off to your entire company!

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

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 5, 2016

However, what should be noted by B2B CMO’s and leaders today is this interesting notion: much of today’s planning, strategizing, activity, and etc. Applying models, diagrams, processes, mapping, journeys, and the like to, as one Vice President of Marketing put it to me, “make customer experience happen” in their organization.

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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. Personas are marketing code for “knowing your audience.” Personas are marketing code for “knowing your audience.”

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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 ). What they do for a living.

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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.

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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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The Mx Group

AUGUST 8, 2018

Here at The Mx Group, we have frequent conversations with our clients about how to create buyer personas , and what a powerful tool they can be when they are really being utilized. Few B2B marketers dispute the value of personas for strategy, messaging and execution across sales and marketing. Number of personas: 5 or more.

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Lake One

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Do you fully understand your B2B buyer personas? After all, 71% of companies who exceed revenue and lead goals have documented personas. Understanding your B2B buyer personas is a vital part of any effective marketing plan. Researching Your B2B Buyer Persona. Don’t have them?

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Cintell

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

If you haven’t read the Understanding B2B Buyers 2016 Benchmark Study, you may not know that companies who exceed revenue and lead goals are more effective at creating, using, and consistently maintaining personas than those who miss their targets. (Or But getting to a state of persona nirvana is easier said than done.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 27, 2020

When I first founded the concept of buyer personas back in 2001-2002, the intent was to help organizations to achieve a deeper understanding of their buyers and customers. There are 3 actions organizations can begin to do now. Commit To Buyer Insights. Engage in Buyer Insights Research.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 8, 2020

A quarterly monitoring study of buyer attitudes about buying decisions during and after the COVID-19 Crisis, the COVID-19 Buyer Outlook Insights study will bring timely and essential buyer persona-based decision-making about when and how to resume marketing and sales. What steps should we take to assure buyers feel safe?

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If B2B companies are not thinking about this, planning for this, and doing something about this – they will bound to be in big trouble. Before the turn of the new millennium in 2000, it was downright unthinkable in B2B that the model of sales representative and buyer interaction would ever change.

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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

APRIL 27, 2011

  What is new is that story telling is beginning to gain acceptance as a planning tool for strategies focused on buyer experience interactions and understanding the social buyer persona.  Story telling has obviously been around for a long, long, long time.    Related articles. . 

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Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

This new reality will put added pressure on CMOs and CSOs to coordinate strategies impacting the development of digital buying experiences. It is the type of development B2B organizations will have to attain deep buyer insights about if they hope to accelerate their revenue growth. If not, are you planning to get ready?

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

Successful content marketing requires more than just a commitment to creating content—it requires a developed, planned strategy. One of the key foundational elements to a content marketing strategy is a buyer persona. A B2B Buyer Persona is a Functional Tool—Not a Poster with a Few Platitudes. Everyone is busy.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 18, 2011

In the article, Adam lays out three reasons why failure exists: Your plan is not built around your target buyer. You don’t frame your demand generation plans in terms of the “reverse funnel math”. What resonates throughout these three reasons is the need to build demand generation strategy around the B2B buyer. 

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 28, 2021

The sell-side of the seller-buyer equation has been flipped upside down. Plans for complete digital sales transformation are accelerated. All of these efforts designed to reach and gain the attention of buyers. And be careful about digitizing outdated means of connecting with buyers. If only you were “motivated” more.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

And for that launch’s success, it’s crucial to set goals, plan future steps, and obtain a competitive advantage. Traditionally, marketing plans lay out these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. Plans for RTM and Distribution: You can’t sell a product if it doesn’t get to your customers. Find Your Buyer Personas.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. 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.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Just like any coach, you’re in charge of preparing for the game and carrying out those plans. Let’s look at how both of these functions are critical to your game plan and how to find the right balance. Let’s look at how both of these functions are critical to your game plan and how to find the right balance. Quick Takeaways.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 11, 2011

  Here is where buyer persona development can be of help.    In a previous article, Buyer Personas Require Qualitative Research and Contextual Inquiry , I mentioned that buyer persona development is at its’ core a research methodology grounded in the practices of qualitative research and contextual inquiry. 

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Tony Zambito

MAY 4, 2011

Buyer Persona Development and the qualitative research methodology applied to creating buyer personas have proven to be an effective means for B2B organizations to reach a deeper understanding of their buyers.    Buyer persona development methodology is at its core a research methodology. 

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 20, 2011

With the new hype of content creation now making the rounds of webinars, books, and whitepapers another term has regained the spotlight: the buyer persona. Process Planning. Who’s Involved in Creating Personas. Buyer Personas for the B2B Marketer. Infrastructure. Program Execution. Measurement.

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Launch Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Developing a go-to-market strategy is critical to the success of your organization. It provides a strategic action plan that clarifies how to reach your target customers and better compete in your industry. Organizations must learn how to build a B2B go-to-market strategy to successfully launch new products.

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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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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This implies that trigger events are not created equal; therefore, an in-depth knowledge of your ideal customer profile, buyer personas, and purchasing behaviors is required for creating a successful B2B trigger event selling approach. Buyer Persona Role Changes. Website Updates. Customer Role Changes.

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Tony Zambito

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Over the past few years, I have struggled with the use of the word “profile” or “profiling” when it came to describing buyer personas.   My discomfort is arisen out of experience, what the terms fails to communicate about buyer personas, and how it is problematic in gaining adoption by senior leaders.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 18, 2021

Form a comprehensive plan, pledging to follow the tactics you outline and use benchmarks to adjust for success. When starting on social media—or revitalizing your current online presence with a new and improved plan—you must understand who you want to reach. Define Buyer Personas. Determine a Target Audience.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 11, 2019

It’s easy to ignore the current state of the market and keep forging ahead following the same game plan. But you want to grow sales; you want to really reach your buyers and thrive in the new sales arena. To do that, you need to understand the psychology of your buyers. Enneagram: All About Relationships. Two Bonus Studies.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 10, 2011

  Here is a key issue facing organizations today: each time a new social technology is introduced, it ultimately alters the buying behaviors of the new social buyer persona.    Have organizations today kept pace with the changes in buying behaviors and patterns? 

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

In a previous post, I shared a four-step process for creating in-depth B2B buyer personas. In this post, I’ll discuss how the details of a buyer persona inform a content marketing strategy. 9 Components of a B2B Buyer Persona. A Day in the Life. It’s written in the first person as if they are talking to you.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 5, 2010

As we begin a new decade, it is amazing to think how the term buyer persona has become part of the lexicon of business language.   I am often asked by clients, colleagues, friends, and family – where did the idea or the term buyer persona come from?   It resides with one man and one man only – Alan Cooper.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

A content marketing strategy is your action plan to attract prospects to your brand and convert them into customers using marketing content. Create Your Buyer Personas. That’s where your buyer personas come in. That’s why it’s essential to understand the reasoning behind all that content.

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