Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

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? Most brands develop many personas to stand in for the various people who participate in the buying cycle for their particular product or service.

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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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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. The topics it covered.

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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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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. Monitor search trends: Use tools like Google Trends to identify trending topics and queries related to your industry.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Check out the tech and tactics fueling the above mentioned shift: Intent data Account-based marketing (ABM) Personalization Marketing automation Predictive analytics Adapting to the merging of modern B2B buyers and the trends driving B2B demand generation strategies is crucial for thriving in today’s evolving B2B landscape.

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Tony Zambito

AUGUST 14, 2016

As the concept of buyer personas has crept into the conscious of both B2C and B2B Marketing, so has misguided representations of buyer personas become prevalent. With many touted frameworks and processes being representative of buyer personas in name only. This same urge is being applied to buyer personas.

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Stevens & Tate

JANUARY 11, 2021

Creating buyer personas is an essential part of an inbound marketing strategy because they help define your target audience and help you tailor your advertising towards that audience. Buyer personas are an important part to attraction marketing. What is a buyer persona? How do I create a Buyer Persona?

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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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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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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. How to Create Your B2B Buyer Personas.

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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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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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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Once you have defined buyer personas, digital personalization gives you the ability to connect with customers, anticipate their needs, and build long-lasting business relationships. Tactical Considerations for Trends Worth Adopting. 1 Do these stats place your brand behind the eight ball or ahead of the game? Sources: [link].

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The only way to join the 30-40% of people who do understand their buyers is to create buyer personas. Today we teach you how to construct an effective B2B buyer persona profile—keep reading. What is a buyer persona? But, when they’re combined, they paint a complete picture of your best buyer.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

Interestingly enough, as well, is after a few years of CMO tenure trending upwards, the average tenure is trending downward. Buyer Persona Research. This premise still remains foundational to buyer personas. Many mislabeled buyer persona approaches are not grounded in this essential concept.

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Marketing Interactions

JANUARY 27, 2020

In a lot of the conversations I have with B2B marketers, many are overwhelmed when confronted with how to build truly actionable buyer personas. Building actionable personas takes a fair bit of time and effort. And along with that, so is your persona project. 3 B2B Buyer Persona Types. Primary Buyer Persona.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Blog Learn More Know your persona First things first: make sure your sales, marketing, and other relevant teams (like product) are in agreement on what your ideal customer looks like. This means having well-documented and up-to-date ideal customer profiles (ICP) and buyer personas, which will be essential in step five.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As new trends emerge and fade, marketing teams must be agile enough to adapt to different formats, user behaviors, and algorithms. Keeping up with the latest trends enables you not only to maintain a fresh online presence but also to be able to capitalize on emerging opportunities. 7 Top B2B Social Media Trends 1.

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 20, 2015

A recent survey conducted by Cintell*, entitled 2016 Benchmark Study On Understanding B2B Buyers , indicates that high performing organizations utilized qualitative research for their buyer personas. The study focused entirely on the use of buyer personas for understanding B2B buyers.

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Circle Studio

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As we approach the end of 2021, it’s time to look at key 2022 B2B marketing trends that will emerge in the year ahead. As we have seen in previous years, 2022 will reflect the ongoing evolution of many B2B marketing trends. So what macro trends will likely have the biggest impact on firms in the coming year?

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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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Trade Press Services

MARCH 4, 2024

Current and Trending Content Evergreen content is a powerful long-term asset. Content addressing industry topics and trends is best accomplished through bylined articles , interviews, podcasts, webinars, and blogs. To capitalize on trending topics, leverage social listening tools to identify relevant and current topics.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Check out the tech and tactics fueling the above mentioned shift: Intent data Account-based marketing (ABM) Personalization Marketing automation Predictive analytics Adapting to the merging of modern B2B buyers and the trends driving B2B demand generation strategies is crucial for thriving in today’s evolving B2B landscape.

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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. How to Create Your B2B Buyer Personas.

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

One effective method for achieving personalization is through the utilization of buyer personas —imaginative representations of your ideal customers. By comprehending the characteristics, needs and pain points of these personas, you can craft targeted content that deeply resonates with them.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 26, 2013

A few weeks back I wrote a column for Search Engine Land on B2B buyer personas. In exploring the persona concept, it further supported my opinion that for SEO to truly be effective for the B2B organization, SEO needs to run hand-in-hand with traditional B2B marketing initiatives. Eight SEO-Related Buyer Persona Questions.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. In this article, we look at some B2B content marketing data to point to the biggest trends. Develop focused buyer personas. Go in-depth with your personas. Data matters!

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 12, 2022

In conducting buyer insights research and buyer persona development around global trade, the variety of buyer mindsets towards trade regulations varied significantly within a region. Buyers in France, Denmark, Greece, and Poland had very parochial and protectionist attitudes towards trade regulations.

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

One of the key foundational elements to a content marketing strategy is a buyer persona. Yet merely 57% of B2B marketers say they have a deep understanding of the buyer personas included in their strategy. A B2B Buyer Persona is a Functional Tool—Not a Poster with a Few Platitudes. Everyone is busy.

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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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Launch Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

These marketing efforts should keep customers top of mind at an individual buyer persona level while considering the broader needs of the organizations that these personas represent. The post B2B Marketing Trends: Customer Marketing and Content Personalization Tactics appeared first on Launch Marketing.

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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 27, 2020

We are beginning to see trends we anticipated growth in five years begin to accelerate as a result of the pandemic. Some trends, like these mentioned, will be obvious. Make Sure Your Buyer Personas Are Based On Goals. We have seen many articles and books mention buyer personas incorrectly over the past 20 years.

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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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B2B Marketing Exchange

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

We’re always keeping tabs on the latest trends shaping the future of B2B marketing, and the top 4 on our radar are crystal clear. But we wanted to hear it from you, so we took to our social channels and hosted a poll to determine which of our top 4 trends will be most prevalent in 2024. Curious about the results?

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