Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Buyer personas are archetypal representations of actual buyers that articulate insights into their goals. Your buyer personas are a picture in time of your buyers. There is an important caveat to updating buyer insights and buyer personas. That is, to question whether you have buyer personas or buyer profiles.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. From the audience’s point of view: they won’t get bombarded with irrelevant content and messages, but will receive content that’s actually of interest to them. It’s a win-win. An age-old question.

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2020

At their best, personas can help us better understand users and meet their needs. personas based on poorly sourced data, or worse, no data at all), they can be highly misleading and result in failed product launches, subpar marketing campaigns, and lost sales. In order for personas to serve your goals, they need to be data-driven.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 15, 2022

Two voids that require buyer insights and growth-focused buyer personas. When buyer personas were first originated in 2001, they were designed to be strategic in discovering as well as validating business growth strategies. Investing in buyer insights research and buyer persona development to execute on new growth opportunities.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

When confronted with the details – database management, customer account segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY customer data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way to get started.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

In this post, we cover the basics and then move on to the advanced insight strategies for B2B buyer personas that are now possible with AI. What are B2B Buyer Personas? Are Buyer Personas Still Important? Creating buyer personas can feel like a big challenge. By understanding your buyer personas, you can: 1.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Today, we have solutions like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. What Are Buyer Personas? Basically, personas ensure that everything you do in terms of lead generation and customer acquisition is tailored to your targeted buyers’ needs. This is where personas come in. And who wouldn’t? Check it out!

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Binary Demand

APRIL 8, 2024

Empowering precision : Market segmentation emerges as your ace in the hole. You gain precision in identifying, targeting, and engaging with your customers by dissecting your market into distinct segments. The term “market segmentation” traces back to 1956 when Wendell R. So, let’s get the ball rolling! Smith first introduced it.

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Brandwatch Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Segment these groups You cannot undertake an accurate customer analysis without segmenting your audience into groups whose members are homogenous while being distinct from other groups. It helps to have personas so you can visualize a human rather than aiming for an abstract idea.

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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. We’re answering questions like: Why should marketing professionals be interested in your buyer personas in their five-to-nine lives?

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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. How Do You Create a Buyer Persona?

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Brandwatch Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Segment these groups You cannot undertake an accurate customer analysis without segmenting your audience into groups whose members are homogenous while being distinct from other groups. It helps to have personas so you can visualize a human rather than aiming for an abstract idea.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Enter email list segmentation—the key to successful email marketing. Today’s blog post answers your most pressing questions about list segmentation and explains why you should segment your lists today. The Beginner’s Guide to Email List Segmentation. What is list segmentation? How do I segment my email lists?

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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. I believe, in part, the issue is fertilized by efforts to capitalize on the emerging popularity of the term buyer persona.

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

From the time of Don Draper in the hit show Mad Men to mega Super Bowl ad spends in the 1980s, marketers traditionally relied on demographics and social trends to target and segment broad audiences. In the 2000s, digital marketing revolutionized marketers’ ability to reach more specific segments.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2021

When you humanize your brand with authentic content, you can build the kind of trust that makes your company the go-to authority in its field. In fact, even in the glory days of Madison Avenue, the most successful agencies published authentic content that informed and humanized even as it entertained. Use Humor to Build Connections.

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Golden Spiral

MARCH 14, 2018

That’s where buyer personas come in. In our experience, buyer personas really become valuable when you start segmenting content to each of them. In this post, we’ll start by establishing a strategic framework for segmentation and then identify the specific tactics you need to put it into action.

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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? Focus your time.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Creating marketing personas is an important part of marketing strategy in any industry. Personas help you craft spot-on messages that resonate with your audience and elicit an action or response. In this blog post, we’ll discuss what marketing personas are, why they’re important, and how you can create them.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2021

Segmentation is a great tool to help laser your focus on that magic 20%. Segmentation helps efficiently use your marketing strategy by hitting those customers who will mostly likely engage with your product or service. Benefits to Segmentation. Popular Types of Segmentation. Create persona profiles. Boosts revenue.

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Circle Studio

MARCH 12, 2020

The better you understand your target audience, the more relevant and valuable your content and messaging will be. Creating buyer personas helps you visually picture your buyers and understand them on a deeper level. Buyer personas defined. Personas put a human face to your buyers.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you show leads content that gets them excited about buying from you. What Is Customer Segmentation? Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. Get a Demo What Are Key Segments in Marketing? Australasia or the European Union).

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Biznology

AUGUST 25, 2016

That way, when you learn which content is moving prospects in the Buyer Journey, you can suggest the same content for sales people to share with their clients for offline sales. All marketers worth their salt have created a set of personas. Personas give your writers a specific person to write for. How would that work?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2020

I’m a big believer in making the content you publish the hub around which your content marketing strategy revolves. However, to rock content marketing in today’s omni-channel world, social media plays a key supporting role. Quick Takeaways: Your content marketing strategy needs more than a perfectly optimized website.

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Leadspace

AUGUST 16, 2023

A persona refers to a representation of a user or buyer segment that is created to better understand and design for the needs, behaviors, and preferences of that group. Persona creation is common in fields like marketing, user experience (UX) design, and customer service. Often job titles are incorrect and not up to date.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2021

When you leverage content marketing to expand your business into new territory, you’ll be a step ahead of your competitors. Quick Takeaways: Conduct a market analysis to identify target segments. Expand your team to handle the larger content workload. Create buyer personas and research content that meets their needs.

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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. But buyer personas only work if they’re accurate and include the right kinds of information.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The way we connect with potential customers is by crafting personas and developing stories that help them envision a better future. What’s a persona? Personas are realistic characters who represent key audience segments. Personas are realistic characters who represent key audience segments. Sign up now.

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Unbounce

MAY 1, 2021

A stock image of a woman holding her Yorkie grins at you from above this user persona description. Don’t get me wrong—personas can be great for understanding your audience at a surface level. Let’s start with demographic segmentation. This practice will define your audience in more detail than a high-level persona.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Successful marketing in the B2B space relies on segmenting and defining your business’s total addressable market. 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.

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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. If you’re a B2B marketer, you likely have more than one buyer persona.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

That’s why email list segmentation is the key to successful email marketing. Today’s blog post answers your most pressing questions about email list segmentation and explains why you should segment your lists today. What is Email List Segmentation? How is List Segmentation Effective? Unfamiliar with the term?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

B2B content marketing is an indispensable strategy for businesses looking to establish their brand, engage their target audience, and drive conversions. What is B2B content marketing? B2B content marketing is the creation and distribution of content, in all its forms, related to your business and relevant to customers.

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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.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Market segmentation helps you find and accurately target your customers. Audience segmentation is to B2B businesses what dessert is like to your favorite meal. Every marketer and sales manager wants market segmentation to paint a more realistic image of their customer base, but they’re not quite sure where to begin.

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Optinmonster

MARCH 16, 2020

Email segmentation can drastically improve the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns. In this guide, we’ll share 50 email segmentation ideas that the pros use to create targeted email lists. Because smart marketers know the value of email list segmentation. For this, email segmentation is an absolute must.

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DivvyHQ

JUNE 12, 2023

Discover how constructing audience personas can boost your content strategy and improve your search engine rankings. Learn why understanding your audience's characteristics and needs is essential in delivering high-quality content. Are you giving your target audience the experience they crave?

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