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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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. This is where buyer profiling can be helpful. Buyer Profiling. Psychographic data.

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Martech

JANUARY 26, 2024

ICP vs. buyer persona: Which is the way to go? ICP is more of a big-picture strategic direction or target market and high-potential accounts, while buyer persona is more of the people behind it and closing deals with specific individuals. The table below outlines the key differences between an ICP and a buyer persona.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Exploring buyer personas in the digital age As outlined by Forbes , a common misstep in crafting brand-specific buyer personas is an overemphasis on demographics, often neglecting crucial situational elements like psychographics, the buyer journey, emotional mapping, and triggering events.

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Content Standard

MAY 10, 2019

The Customer as Protagonist: Designing Robust Buyer Personas for CX Marketing Strategy. Mapping helps you to expertly navigate that road and understand which moment is right to begin a conversation with a brand persona in mind. Working with software that guides you through developing buyer personas can make the process easier.

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Launch Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Read reviews about competitor products to assess what is working well and what is not. Are there any threats that can work against your success in the market? Create buyer personas to better understand how to craft the messaging for your product. Where are there untapped areas in the market that can be capitalized upon?

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Integrated B2B

AUGUST 14, 2017

Buyer personas have been used for years to help marketers hone in on what causes purchasers to make positive buying decisions. B2C buyer personas are relatively straightforward. Where do they work? B2B buyer personas are a tad more difficult. What does your target prospect do for a living?

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Integrated B2B

AUGUST 14, 2017

Buyer personas have been used for years to help marketers hone in on what causes purchasers to make positive buying decisions. B2C buyer personas are relatively straightforward. Where do they work? B2B buyer personas are a tad more difficult. What does your target prospect do for a living?

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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.  What Buyer Personas Never Were and Should Not Be In The Future.

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B2B Marketing Traction

APRIL 20, 2010

When I created B2B marketing buyer personas (“personae” for those of you who studied Latin) for one of my clients last year, it became crystal clear why they beat working from demographic and even psychographic profiles hands-down. Now we have marketing buyer personas. Even better!

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Brandwatch Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

You then need to work out what bridges these two, identifying how the company’s products meet the needs of each customer group. Details like age, gender, location, demographics and psychographics are all important, but so are their interests, other brands they like, publications they read and so on.

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Brandwatch Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

You then need to work out what bridges these two, identifying how the company’s products meet the needs of each customer group. Details like age, gender, location, demographics and psychographics are all important, but so are their interests, other brands they like, publications they read and so on.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

As decision making has evolved over time, it’s become more imperative that you not only target different companies based on varying criteria, but that you break down your audience into buyer personas based on their unique needs. It’s no longer reliable to market to B2B buyers using only surface-level buyer data.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 15, 2010

.  They have served their purpose in looking at demographics, psychographics, customer purchasing data, geographic concentrations, and other characteristics.     Hence the next rule ( see the first rule ): Rule 2: Don’t Confuse a Buyer Persona with a Customer Profile.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 21, 2023

1 – Confusing ICP and Buyer Personas When it comes to defining your target audience, identifying your ICP and buyer personas serve two different purposes. Unlike your personas, your ideal customer profile is not an individual but a description of the type of company that is best-fit for your solution.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Exploring buyer personas in the digital age As outlined by Forbes , a common misstep in crafting brand-specific buyer personas is an overemphasis on demographics, often neglecting crucial situational elements like psychographics, the buyer journey, emotional mapping, and triggering events.

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ClearVoice

MAY 29, 2023

They’re called marketing personas. In this post, we’ll talk about marketing personas, why they’re important, and the best practices for creating one in 2023. What is a marketing persona? Marketing personas are sometimes also called buyer personas. How have marketing personas changed in the past years?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

One critical element to video marketing success is to start with an in-depth understanding of who you are creating the video for, by building personas. These detailed target B2B buyer descriptions include several elements: Firmographics: What size of company does your buyer likely work for? healthcare providers)?

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SalesIntel

JUNE 28, 2022

Once you are confident in your buyer persona, your SDRs can work alongside account-based marketers to leverage firmographic data, enabling them to identify top-value accounts and reach their decision-makers with a tailored approach. Psychographic data. Select the Best B2B Data Partner.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 22, 2021

There are lots of different ways to create B2B buyer personas. But not all buyer persona templates and guides are equally effective. The key is to create a persona that is actionable. The Six Dimensions of a B2B Buyer Persona. Psychographics.

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BenchmarkONE

DECEMBER 28, 2021

What’s the Difference Between Target Audience and Audience Personas? An audience persona or buyer persona is a fictional character representing an individual customer interested in your product or service. Some brands take it a step further and assign alliterative names to audience personas to make them memorable.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 16, 2020

Other considerations that can be helpful are psychographics — values and motivations that impact a consumer's buyer's journey. Initially, you'll want to refer to your existing buyer persona (s). For instance, think about the possible buyer persona of one of your favorite companies.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 23, 2020

Weaving the human element into your writing means speaking to a person in a warm, relatable manner, beyond the parameters dictated by your buyer personas , target audience or ideal consumers. Buyer’s guides. Buyer personas. How can writing about people enhance your content? People you interview and quote.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Not only does this definition (or lack thereof) create way more work for you; it also does a disservice to your actual target market — by over-widening your scope, you fail to inform and educate your audience about how your product or service can improve their lives. Psychographics , which answer the question of why your buyer buys (e.g.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Creating buyer personas is an essential part of building a successful inbound marketing strategy. Buyer personas help you better understand your current and potential customers, what their pain points are, what information they need, and how you can position your offering to meet their needs. 1) Too many personas.

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Marketri

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Brainstorming ideas in a vacuum simply won’t work. For your value proposition to be compelling and credible, it needs to speak to the specific buyer you’re targeting, in the market segments you’ve chosen to focus on. Knowing your target buyer’s age range, gender, and geographic area is helpful, but that’s just scratching the surface.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The B2B buyers often are bump into the question How to find the target audience? According to HubSpot, “A buyer persona is a semi-fictional representation of your ideal customer based on market research and real data about your existing customers.”. Figure out: All about the people who use the projects similar to yours.

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Build buyer personas Conduct competitor research Define marketing goals Determine the budget Select the best marketing tactics Track and analyze results Carry out A/B testing What to include in a SaaS marketing plan template? Build buyer personas Before you go any further, take time to identify and create your buyer personas.

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Build buyer personas Conduct competitor research Define marketing goals Determine the budget Select the best marketing tactics Track and analyze results Carry out A/B testing What to include in a SaaS marketing plan template? Build buyer personas Before you go any further, take time to identify and create your buyer personas.

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Build buyer personas Conduct competitor research Define marketing goals Determine the budget Select the best marketing tactics Track and analyze results Carry out A/B testing What to include in a SaaS marketing plan template? Build buyer personas Before you go any further, take time to identify and create your buyer personas.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

You should set your target audience based on various demographic, geographic, and psychographic factors. It’s also advisable to create buyer personas among your target audience. As a result, you’ll be able to customize your content even further for each persona. Work on Customer Retention. Image Source.

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Valasys

MAY 28, 2019

Marketers now, have more information than ever before when it comes to their buyer-persona. Leveraging social media: Social Listening : This strategy helps the marketers converse with potential buyers in real-time. Furthermore, not all potential buyers on the website are fit for making the purchase.

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Optinmonster

APRIL 10, 2024

Emotional intelligence in marketing helps you understand your target audience’s personas better and build trust with them. The broader the audience, the more generic the message was to make it work for everyone. Put in the work to understand consumer behavior beyond what they want. Find out who they are and what makes them tick.

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Valasys

MAY 27, 2019

Inbound Marketing, on the other hand, also focuses on identifying & targeting a buyer persona through multiple channels which include different websites & social media platforms (Source: SiriusDecisisons) but it has a wider scope than ABM.

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Optinmonster

MARCH 16, 2020

Buyer Persona. Most businesses have more than one buyer persona. These personas usually have different needs and respond to different copy, so why not send targeted campaigns to each? OptinMonster’s page level targeting makes it easy to segment by buyer persona. Psychographics.

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Hubspot

JUNE 13, 2018

Created buyer personas to determine which channels his audience would prefer to consume his content on. Create highly accurate audience personas by interviewing real content strategists. The audience persona section, for example, has case studies of real potential audience personas like "Blogger Brian".

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Ever wonder what it’s like working with SmartBug Media? We love working (and winning) for our clients. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at SmartBug’s™ client onboarding process to illustrate what you can expect within the first 30 days of working with us. For passionate, hard-working marketers like us, what could be more fun?

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