Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

The great content marketer Ann Handley advocates for making your customer, rather than your company, the hero of your brand story. 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. What is a buyer persona?

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Buyer Personas Social Media Media Ideal Customer Profiles 141

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. These events in your target markets can quickly make your messaging irrelevant, rendering your marketing programs and sales plays ineffective. A Few Reasons an Update to Buyer Personas is Wise.

Ideal Customer Profiles 80

Ideal Customer Profiles Buyer Personas Marketing Analytics Tools B2B 80

Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

Business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing are two distinct types of marketing strategies with different focuses. For any marketing professionals to maximize the impact of their efforts, they must understand the differences between these two marketing strategies, and when to apply practices from each.

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Work Management Marketing Management B2B Marketing B2B 217

Content4Demand

MAY 26, 2021

Personas can be incredibly useful in B2B marketing—provided you’re including the right details. Those details might vary depending on your industry or your solution, there are at least four common persona mistakes everyone should avoid. When Content4Demand researches personas, job title is a no-brainer. Using Dated Data.

Buying Cycle 85

Buying Cycle Work Management Marketing Management Acquisitions 85

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. Everything!

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Buyer Personas Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Marketing Budget 131

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

There are a lot of misguided, well-meaning marketers working on beautifully crafted, useless personas. Now, I’m not joining the persona naysayers (you know who you are). It’s true that there are a lot of less-than-actionable personas being built, but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. via ANNUITAS.com.

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Buyer Personas Demand Generation Work Management Marketing Management 100

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

There are a lot of misguided, well-meaning marketers working on beautifully crafted, useless personas. Now, I’m not joining the persona naysayers (you know who you are). It’s true that there are a lot of less-than-actionable personas being built, but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. via ANNUITAS.com.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Demand Generation Work Management Marketing Management 100

Tomorrow People

MARCH 8, 2018

If you wanna be the best marketer with the greatest content marketing strategy in town, you should get a load of this. What’s this content marketing strategy thing all about? The missing element is a clear content marketing strategy. But what exactly is content marketing? Making the leap.

Marketing Budget 267

Marketing Budget Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 267

DealSignal

APRIL 27, 2023

With Account Based Marketing (ABM), firms no longer need to guess at marketing spend. ABM intent data is about ABM marrying Ideal Customer Profiles, Buyer Personas, high-quality contact information, and intent data into a strategic go-to-market strategy for B2B firms. high yield, low churn) by key attributes.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Account Based Marketing ABM Intent 52

The Point

APRIL 22, 2020

However, as much as it has a reputation as a way to generate “guaranteed” leads, content syndication is not a cure-all, and indeed, more than most demand generation channels, is likely to generate sales leads that gravitate towards the early stages of the buying cycle. A Nurture Strategy for Content Syndication Leads Click To Tweet.

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking CPL Cost per Lead 162

SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Here are some statistics related to edtech marketing: According to GlobalData estimates , the EdTech industry will grow from US$183.4 Online education is the fastest-growing segment of the edtech market, with revenues expected to reach $350 billion by 2025 (Source: ResearchAndMarkets ). 4 Marketing Learnings From a Study.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Budget Paid Content Paid Search Agency 98

Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

A recent survey by B2B Marketing, in conjunction with the UK-based agency Tomorrow People, indicated only 38% of marketers considered their content to be “very customer-centric.” 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.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency 100

EMagine B2B Blog

JANUARY 6, 2019

Content marketing personas are not new, however, tightly integrating these personas with SEO strategy and tactics is relatively new to most companies and organizations. What is a Content Marketing Persona? What is a Content Marketing Persona? The Importance of Personas.

Enterprise Management 90

Enterprise Management Content Marketing Work Management Planning 90

KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

As marketing technology and information access continues to evolve, B2B buying behavior changes as well. For example, recent research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. B2B buyer personas become critical in connecting the dots of this process.

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Buyer Personas Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership B2B 121

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.

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Buyer Personas Budget Programs Buying Cycle Deliverability 86

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Right now there are a lot of misguided, well-meaning marketers working on beautifully crafted, useless personas. Now, I’m not joining the persona naysayers (you know who you are). It’s true that there are a lot of less-than-actionable personas being built, but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Demand Generation Buyer's Journey Buying Cycle 100

ANNUITAS

MARCH 8, 2016

Right now there are a lot of misguided, well-meaning marketers working on beautifully crafted, useless personas. Now, I’m not joining the persona naysayers (you know who you are). It’s true that there are a lot of less-than-actionable personas being built, but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Demand Generation Buying Cycle Work Management 100

The Point

JUNE 30, 2021

When it comes to what is, and isn’t, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) , there are as many opinions out there as there are ABM experts. Well, it matters only because many B2B marketers who haven’t yet stepped foot in the ABM waters are under pressure, from management or sales or both, to do so. Is One-to-One Marketing the Only True ABM?

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Account Based Marketing ABM Planning Demand Generation Agencies 162

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This is where an advanced lead generation strategy comes in. Successful businesses are improving their lead generation strategy by creating better digital experiences that help to build an ongoing relationship with customers. Second, create customer personas based on those characteristics. And they have options.

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Lead Generation Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Scoring 174

Tony Zambito

MARCH 24, 2010

.   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 Personas Inform Strategy and Innovation.

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Buyer Personas Marketing & Strategy Buying Cycle Forecasting 100

NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 2, 2016

To create content that boosts lead and demand generation, you need to construct B2B buyer personas that give you a clear picture of your customer, mapping their journey from when they decide to solve a problem to their purchase decision. Many companies create personas, and not one itsy-bitsy thing changes. But here’s what happens.

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Buyer Personas Conversion Buying Cycle B2B 100

ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) and strategic content creation and distribution mesh perfectly. In this guide, we share practical content-related advice and examples that you can use to resolve specific ABM challenges, ultimately increasing the efficiency of your marketing campaigns.

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Tactics Top of Funnel 95

Tony Zambito

MARCH 16, 2010

Announced today was Goal Centric’s official introduction of the Buyer Persona Strategy Playbooks series. Below it is printed for your convenience: Buyer Persona Strategy Playbooks Introduced by Goal Centric.   I have made reference to these playbooks in recent posts as well as our work with Hewlett-Packard.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Marketing & Strategy Enterprise Management Buying Cycle 100

Brandpoint

JULY 1, 2021

For sales and marketing, it will be known as the year that everyone got serious about digital. However, before the pandemic, there were still many businesses that approached their marketing and sales like it was 1995. This is especially true when it comes to marketing and sales. What Does This Mean For Marketing?

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Digital Transformation Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Search Agency Planning 169

Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 10, 2018

Are those stereotypes or personas? presidential election, and NASCAR dads, which became a target audience in the 2004 elections, are closer to personas, though too thinly described. The key to powerful buyer persona development comes down to three important factors: grounded in fact, functional, and more than demographic data.”.

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Buyer Personas Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management Marketing Management 110

Tony Zambito

MAY 12, 2011

Without question, while B2B Marketing is focused on developing its new prominence in the early stages of the buying cycle via content strategy and content marketing, B2B Sales is caught flat-footed on how to adapt to changing buyer behaviors.    What do these new buying cycles look like? 

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas B2B Sales B2B Buying Cycle 100

Content4Demand

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Strategic growth and revenue leader Christine Elliott joined Content4Demand in a recent webinar to discuss the value of content audits to her marketing programs. This is where the real value of a content audit begins to take shape and become a blueprint for content strategy. Also things like stages of the buy cycle.

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Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Content Buying Cycle 74

The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Marketing Expertise. B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Brand Strategy. Buyer Strategy. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. Content Marketing. Your Top Ten Questions About B2B Buyer Personas.

Buyer Personas 84

Buyer Personas Account Based Marketing Demand Generation Agencies Work Management 84

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Drift considers itself a pioneer in “Conversational Marketing,” but it recently has begun to pivot its positioning, now referring to itself as a “Buyer Engagement Platform”. ANNUITAS can cite very few organizations at this level of go-to-market maturity.) This is a smart move for Drift.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Positioning Marketing Analytics Tools Lead Ranking 130

Madison Logic

AUGUST 9, 2023

As Senior Marketing Media Manager, Janice Barbosa manages paid media, account-based marketing (ABM), and demand generation for T-Mobile for Business’s enterprise and public sector groups. It’s difficult to have an ABM strategy without integrating data in every component.”

Account Based Marketing 52

Account Based Marketing ABM Top of Funnel Enterprise Management 52

SmartBug Media

MARCH 14, 2024

Go-to-market (GTM) strategies are a blend of aspiration and reality. With a well-defined GTM strategy that accounts for all stakeholders and builds a scalable plan, your revenue targets can be more accurate and realistic. What Is a Go-to-Market Strategy? A Product Marketing Alliance report found that 61.9

Marketing Analytics Tools 59

Marketing Analytics Tools Enterprise Management Planning Ideal Customer Profiles 59

SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Marketers are all about efficiency, whether it's setting up a repeatable blogging strategy, automating social promotions, or letting websites do a lot of the legwork. Email marketing is no different — and the ability to automate follow-up and nurturing is a crucial part of that success and taking stress off day-to-day.

Marketing Automation Services 71

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Email Marketing Automation 71

Vidyard

MAY 5, 2017

You’ve done it, you savvy good-looking marketer. You got the necessary approvals, budget, and executive buy-in to start with video marketing for your brand. Your sales team will share your marketing videos to close more deals faster (alignment for the win, baby!), What about your video marketing strategy?

Planning 160

Planning Video Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 160

Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

“ If you're serious about your content marketing strategy, you have to realize you're writing for an ever-changing audience , says Jaime Bailey, Vice President of Marketing at VHT. Keep evaluating your content marketing. Going to (small) events is one of the most beneficial marketing routes you can take.

Trends 166

Trends Content Marketing Advertising Agencies Software 166

Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Traditionally seen as a trick deployed only in consumer marketing, savvy B2B marketers are learning how to track, measure and market to the customers’ emotions. Antonia Wade, head of content and campaign marketing at Thomson Reuters tells us how she rebuilt the marketing function, putting customer emotions at the center.

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Planning B2B Thought Leadership Campaigns Thought Leadership 136

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0 60

Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2011

One of the major outcomes of the recent advances in the social age is the resurgence of contextually-based persona development and its’ role in helping to inform as well as shape strategy.  The first definition points to reaching an understanding of the behavioral framework that surrounds the new social buyer persona. 

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Buyer Personas Buying Cycle Buyer's Journey Demand Generation Agencies 100