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. Who should they believe?

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Marketing Interactions

JANUARY 19, 2020

One of the first things potential clients say to me is something along the lines of how many buyer personas they think they need to create. The average is three to five B2B buyer personas. Which B2B buyer personas, when engaged, will help marketers drive contribution to revenues?

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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. That’s Product Marketing 101. Wouldn’t you?

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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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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 8, 2015

We are seeing continued growth in the adoption of buyer personas as a means for understanding buyers and customers. At the same time, the growth is fraught with the perils of buyer personas being misunderstood, mislabeled, and serving as a cover for basic buyer profiling. This is where I need your help.

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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. On the surface, customer segmentation can be viewed as a fairly straight forward exercise.

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 5, 2016

The rise of the digital economy has amplified the need for businesses to address the way in which their potential buyers and customers view both their actual and perceived experiences. Understanding How Customers Desire and Perceive Experience Through Buyer Persona Research. Buyer persona research can play a role.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

Buyer Persona Research. When I first began my involvement with personas in the ‘90’s, they were primarily aimed at attaining a deeper understanding of user behaviors to inform overall design strategies. This premise still remains foundational to buyer personas. And repeat the mistakes of the past.

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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

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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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2015

In today’s robust evolution of digital technologies, CEOs and CMOs seek buyer understanding to address these three concerns. Resulting in a 3D view of buyers, which can help inform strategies related to each. Many organizations are still relying on a win/loss perspective when it comes to understanding buyers.

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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. Strengthening The Common View Of Customers. 10 Essentials Of Becoming Customer-Centric With Buyer Personas.

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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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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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Ledger Bennett

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Every year Ledger Bennett work with numerous clients to help them develop Buyer Personas with a clear focus: Build Buyer Personas that make a commercial impact on their business. These are the User Personas. Why Create B2B Buyer Personas? Why can User Personas be so important?

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Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2016

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”. This is as opposed to understanding the behaviors of communities and buyers within communities.

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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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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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Tony Zambito

MAY 10, 2021

What is striking is the funnel view has changed very little during the past twenty years. Oh, I know we have the buyer’s journey, curve shapes, non-linear shapes, flywheels, and etc. But if you and I are being honest, the most significant development is the funnel was flipped from its vertical view to a horizontal view.

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Crimson Marketing

APRIL 23, 2015

Traditionally, B2B marketers have created buyer personas from customer hunches, not factual customer data. “As a result, a vast majority (83%) of B2B marketers say that their buyer personas are only ‘somewhat’ effective, according to a study from the ITSMA. Click To Tweet.

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Digital B2B Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Buyer personas are a hot topic of discussion in the B2B marketing world, but how do you create the personas that you need and ensure you are getting the value you need out of them? Do you even need to create B2B buyer personas at all? Looking for more information on creating and using B2B buyer personas?

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 24, 2010

In conclusion of the Buyer 2.0   Otherwise, we can end up what may be viewed as disparate and disconnected uses for buyer personas.   Thus, diluting the essence of how they can help an organization receive the game-changing affects from investing in Buyer Persona 2.0   Buyer Persona 2.0

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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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Tony Zambito

APRIL 12, 2011

.  A key component for engaging the social buyer persona is that an organization today must offer avenues of engagements that buyers choose.    A company’s engagement strategy should be built on three solid foundations: The first is having an outside-in perspective on engagement with buyers. 

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 1, 2010

In conclusion of the Buyer 2.0   Otherwise, we can end up what may be viewed as disparate and disconnected uses for buyer personas.   Thus, diluting the essence of how they can help an organization receive the game-changing affects from investing in Buyer Persona 2.0   Buyer Persona 2.0

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 7, 2022

To experience their world from another’s point of view. When it comes to buyers and customers, this can be especially challenging. Businesses can earn the right to gain empathy when they demonstratively show their buyers and customers the willingness to invest in doing so.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 12, 2011

.  The good news is that B2B Sales can become a critical resource for buyers in a new found way if reinvention means becoming buyer enablers.    Buyer Persona Development can be a process and means for B2B Sales to reinvent itself.    What do these new buying cycles look like? 

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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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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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Tony Zambito

MAY 21, 2021

Becoming evident is that capturing buyers’ attention is the number one challenge facing B2B marketing and sales at this stage of the pandemic. I viewed and listened to a recent Selling Power online event. Clearly, the common issue was that of reaching and gaining the attention of buyers. In the most human way possible.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 20, 2011

  And view content marketing in what I believe to be more of a tactical perspective.    The deeper the understanding, the more targeted and relevant content can be for buyers.    Buyer persona development is a methodology for informing strategy.      Related articles. . 

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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

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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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. We are in the early stages of persona use and development. When can we expect to begin seeing the results of our persona use? Mobile App Development. Contact Us.

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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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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 24, 2014

Compelling content begins with gaining a deep understanding of your prospective customers and creating buyer personas. Adele Revella of the Buyer Persona Institute says feedback she hears about buyer personas often sounds like this: “ It’s almost like cheating, like getting the exam paper weeks before the final.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 28, 2010

  For quite some time, in fact the last ten years, I have made the point about buyer personas being based on qualitative insights that lead to a deeper understanding of customers and buyers.   Attaining a deeper understanding of customers and buyers does not mean throwing out quantitative analysis.

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