Tony Zambito

MAY 7, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Increase Their Value Through In-House Buyer Insights and Buyer Persona Development Capabilities. Since the origins of the buyer persona concept in 2001, buyers and their buying behaviors have always been in a constant state of change. 2 – Foster Marketing and Sales Alignment.

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sagefrog

APRIL 16, 2024

To the uninitiated, B2B marketing may appear to be a smattering of strategies and tactics coming together in an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink-style soup. The B2B buyer’s journey and buyer personas are critical aspects of this carefully constructed process. Why Are B2B Buyer Personas Important?

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Tony Zambito

MAY 2, 2021

Sales Leaders Will Need To Implement A Buyer Persona Driven Sales System To Adapt To New Buyer Behaviors And Preferences. You have to wonder; has the enormous growth of marketing and sales tech stacks caused B2B to be so busy managing their marketing or sales operations that they forgot about the buyer?

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Buyer personas are archetypal representations of actual buyers that articulate insights into their goals. They help us to gain insights into how buyers pursue goals and the motivations behind these pursuits. Your buyer personas are a picture in time of your buyers. The Reasons Why To Update.

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Square 2 Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Enter the B2B buyer persona – a semi-mythical representation of your ideal customer. But why exactly are personas so important and, perhaps even more importantly, how do you bring them to life?

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 13, 2022

The 20th Anniversary of Buyer Personas Survey To Help Determine Usefulness. The year 2021 marked the 20 th Anniversary of the concept of Buyer Persona being founded. The world is a completely different one than existed in 2001 when buyer personas were first introduced. It is hard to believe.

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Contently

APRIL 6, 2023

Love them or hate them, buyer personas are key to creating successful marketing strategies and effective content. But here’s the catch: Developing buyer personas requires research, analysis, and attention to detail. What Is a Buyer Persona? This will help you create more specific buyer personas.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 30, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Must Build Core Competency of Understanding Buyer Persona Goals. When it comes to buyer goals, organizations today will need to get more specific about encoding understanding of buyer persona goals into their marketing and sales capabilities. . 2 – Develop Goal-Directed Buyer Personas.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 5, 2021

Marketing Leaders Can Use 4 Approaches Involving Buyer Personas To Create A Brand Story Buyers Will Want To Read. Particularly if no research or insights is gathered about the central buyer or buyers as well as the challenges they seek to overcome. Your buyer personas should be representative of this pursuit.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

In today’s blog post we explain why buyer personas are a critical—but often missing—element of your SEO strategy. What is a buyer persona? On a basic level, a buyer persona is essentially a fictional representation of the person who is most likely to buy from your company—your ideal customer.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 28, 2022

On a recent episode of the SmartBug® on Tap podcast, we dove into buyer personas—but not in the traditional sense. We’re talking about who your buyer personas are outside of their nine-to-five day job. How can we as marketers appeal to the entire persona? How can we as marketers appeal to the entire persona?

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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.

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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.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 6, 2023

If you're a marketing professional, you've probably heard the term "buyer persona" more times than you can count. Buyer personas are an essential part of a successful marketing strategy because not only do they define precisely whom you’re trying to reach, but they also inform so many aspects of your business.

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

Buyer personas drive many aspects of your organization but especially marketing. But, it is first important to establish your B2B buyer personas before looking ahead to marketing activities. Here’s how to integrate buyer personas into your messaging, content and sales efforts for better results.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 5, 2023

The term “buyer persona” has become more and more popular in the last few years. Many businesses have worked with their internal marketing team or with the help of an agency to develop their buyer personas. Why Are Buyer Personas? Why Are Buyer Personas? Why Are Buyer Personas So Important?

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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. Yes, I agree.

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Over the years, marketers built on that idea to develop buyer personas – profiles of fictional people that embody several ideal client characteristics. Creating buyer personas is a subjective and analytical process based on data and actual customers or prospects.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 13, 2018

We talk about buyer personas a lot on the ZoomInfo blog— for good reason! Marketers use buyer personas to inform every piece of their marketing strategy and ultimately generate more revenue for their respective companies. 56% of companies have created higher quality leads using buyer personas.

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Cintell

DECEMBER 20, 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. Sure, you’ve heard of buyer personas before, but this blog post isn’t about a step-by-step process to build yours.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

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. In this guide, we’ll show you how to better understand your target audience by creating buyer personas built on social media data. What is a buyer persona? Glad you asked.

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BOP Design

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The answer starts with your buyer personas. What Is a Buyer Persona? Not sure what a buyer persona is? Hubspot has an excellent in-depth overview , but in a nutshell, it’s this: A buyer persona is a profile of your typical prospective customer. Address Buyer Personas by Industry.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 30, 2019

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. In this post, we will cover the following key steps: Identify the Need for B2B Buyer Personas.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 26, 2020

So you have an understanding of your buying committee and how to market to them , now it’s time to build out your buyer personas. By asking the right questions you get a framework for researching and building a buyer dossier that fits within the larger story of your ICP and buyer’s journey. What is in my way?

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

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. What Are B2B Buyer Personas? For online marketers, buyer personas can provide direction in the channel-specific campaign development.

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Cintell

MAY 18, 2021

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.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Bad buyer […]. The post 5 Reasons Why Your Buyer Personas Aren’t Good Enough appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. You swear you did everything right, but when it comes time for the results to pour in, they never show. The likely culprit?

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The Lead Agency

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This means going further than demographics to get a real sense of who your buyer is and what drives them. This can be done by building buyer personas. A buyer persona is a research-based profile that depicts a target customer. As such, in many cases, B2B businesses will have more than one buyer persona to target.

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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. The Role of Social in Your Go-to-Market Strategy.

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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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Circle Studio

MARCH 12, 2020

Creating buyer personas helps you visually picture your buyers and understand them on a deeper level. Buyer personas defined. While the term “buyer personas” is fairly common vernacular in modern marketing, the definition is sometimes misunderstood. Personas put a human face to your buyers.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 25, 2023

Buyer personas—fictional representations of the ideal customers and target audience you’re trying to reach with your content—play an essential role in content strategy. Whether you’re writing a blog post, web copy, lead nurture emails, or an e-book, tailoring your content for each buyer persona is a must.

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Marketing Interactions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As the market shifts, much of what you thought was true about your buyer personas and ICPs may be different. A Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise. Timing of touches and developing targeted content for each buyer stage/interest are the top two issues at 49% and 48% respectively.

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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. Without a detailed persona your sales and marketing team’s time is being wasted on chasing leads that are a bad fit and likely to churn.

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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. Without a detailed persona your sales and marketing team’s time is being wasted on chasing leads that are a bad fit and likely to churn.

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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. No regrets.

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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. Revisit and update Creating customer personas isn’t a one-and-done task. Data-driven insights In the B2B world, data is king.

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