Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

I am a marketing manager for a peer-to-peer loan company and I’d like to create a social media lead-generation campaign. For example, I asked to come up with buyer personas for the campaign: Come up with buyer personas we are targeting on Facebook and craft a copy for each one.

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Pam Didner

OCTOBER 22, 2022

To articulate how well you know your customer requires the development of buyer personas, which take a deep dive into the interests and traits of your target audience. Buyer personas are the foundation of all things marketing. Buyer personas guide marketing campaigns, messaging development, and content creation.

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Cintell

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

People, it’s time to get real about buyer persona research. Buyer persona interviews are the most important – and often the most daunting – part of creating actionable, in-depth personas. Industry research shows that conducing primary research in the persona creation process is paramount to their success.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The scope of the CMO’s role across different B2B organizations is highly variable, the skills necessary to be a ‘successful’ CMO are often misunderstood by those hiring for this role and the maturity of the KPIs used to measure a CMO’s success remain at a very nascent stage. Maybe that’s the point. Some of this is on them.

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Scoop.it

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But with so much competition and noise out there, it takes work to stand out. That’s where strategic content marketing comes in. Consistently creating and distributing quality, relevant content allows you to promote your employer brand to prospective and current employees authentically. A killer employee experience is critical.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2023

Coaching salespeople is not a new idea. Good mentoring is one of the quickest ways to ramp up new employees. It’s true that most sales professionals improve with experience, but if you can provide feedback and personalized goals, it’s possible to accelerate the learning process and get your sellers engaging with prospects faster.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As marketers start using ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Meta AI or their own large language models (LLM), they must concern themselves with “hallucinations” and how to prevent them. Generally, if a user makes a request of a generative AI tool, they desire an output that appropriately addresses the prompt (i.e.,

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Onalytica B2B

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The concept of your employees being influencers may sound odd to some. When most hear the term ‘influencer’ they think of the social media influencers on platforms such as Instagram, Twitter and YouTube endorsing consumer products to their audience in return for a pay cheque. Employees don’t quite fit this definition.

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6sense

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Editor’s Note: CMO Coffee Talk is an open space for more than 1,200+ CMOs to come together weekly with their peers and discuss timely, crowd-sourced topics. Deep Personas . Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing co-hosts these dynamic, illuminating conversations with 6sense CMO Latané Conant. Here are a few Aha!

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) has not only altered the trajectory of B2B marketing; it has fundamentally reshaped the way companies go to market. A history of ABM ABM’s roots are traced back to the customer-centric philosophy propounded by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers in their work, “The One to One Future.”

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

B2B marketers have long since understood the benefits of social media—yet many still struggle to leverage its full potential as a demand generation tool. In fact, 49% of B2B marketers rank social media marketing as the most difficult lead generation tactic to execute ( source ). Your best buyers are most active on social platforms. Don’t believe us?

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I would also encourage you to read the study and see how you compare with your peers because engaging your audience most effectively will require technology.) This is more than just getting together internally and generating personas. They provide great insight into the market and help me as I continue to advise my clients.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 7, 2020

According to Forrester SiriusDecisions, companies that align their revenue operations grow 12-15 times faster than their peers and are 34% more profitable. That means ensuring visibility into all interactions across the buyer’s journey to understand how target personas engage. Are you looking to step into the realm of RevOps in 2020?

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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’ve developed personas, but they aren’t getting used. I would recommend first trying to answer these key questions: Do your personas really represent your buyers’ perspectives?

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Digital B2B Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2012

Lead scoring and personas are popular topics in B2B marketing. Until B2B marketers begin talking about personas and lead scoring together they are missing an simple way to identify missed sales opportunities. Let’s look at lead scoring, personas, and the connection that needs to be made.

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markempa

AUGUST 1, 2017

Let me explain. Despite all the time, money, resources spent on improving sales productivity, just 13% of sales people produce 87% of revenue in a typical organization according to the Sales Benchmark Index. So, what do the 13% high achievers have that others don’t? They connect emotionally with their buyers. That’s why interviewed Mike Bosworth.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Within the Predictable Pipeline framework, we think about Messaging and Content in the Buyer’s Journey with respect to w hat Key Target Personas need, w hat they are challenged by, a nd how they make decisions. Where is there key crossover in content between personas? What places are your target personas consuming most of their info?

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Martech Advisor

JANUARY 16, 2020

Creating a user persona begins with understanding and reaching out to your customers and end-users. Here are some best practices for user persona creation that you could put to use this Get to Know Your Customers Day. Overall, this day offers a vast opportunity for businesses to create and update their ideal user persona.

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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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Martech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the past, developing different personas and buyer journeys could be time-consuming and require a lot of guesswork. In the past, developing different personas and buyer journeys could be time-consuming and require a lot of guesswork. Will they be an advocate or influencer? Will they be skeptical or feel threatened?

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Seismic

JANUARY 18, 2024

Shift into the new year Last October, more than one thousand enablement experts and professionals gathered in San Diego for Shift 2023 , Seismic’s annual enablement conference. Attendees participated in various sessions designed to equip them for their enablement journeys’ complexity. Before we dig in, let’s define change management.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of content marketing. 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. And often that means filling significant gaps in the early and middle stages.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 4, 2020

They have built personas and they have detailed product marketing plans. This week, as we dive deeper into the anatomy of a Strategic Demand Marketing Plan , we introduce you to the first step in our process: the insight phase. The Insight Phase. We also need to differentiate these insights. Development.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Exploring buyer personas in the digital age As outlined by Forbes , a common misstep in crafting brand-specific buyer personas is an overemphasis on demographics, often neglecting crucial situational elements like psychographics, the buyer journey, emotional mapping, and triggering events.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You do your research, figure out relevant messaging for each of your buyer personas, and right before you go to execute the game plan, you realize you never checked Salesforce to check on ownership. And, of course, it turns out the account is owned by a peer. Let’s start with a reminder: CRMs have a purpose. Think about it.

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Rev

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Trust is shifting from brands to peers. There’s a loss of trust in companies and marketing in general,” Manuel says, “and buyers are much more shifting to trusting their peers.” The undeniable reality of demand marketing is that buying behaviors have changed, and the old tried-and-true playbook hasn’t aged gracefully.

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Martech

MARCH 14, 2023

Market research ChatGPT is skilled at emulating customer personas in hypothetical interviews. Be directed to ask questions from a persona’s viewpoint. Be directed to ask questions from a persona’s viewpoint. As basic creative tasks become operationalized, marketing teams can shift resources to more strategic work.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Check out these statistics: 78% of salespeople using social media outperform their peers ( source ). B2B marketers have long since understood the benefits of social media—yet many still struggle to leverage its full potential as a demand generation tool. Your best buyers are most active on social platforms. Don’t believe us?

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Content4Demand

OCTOBER 27, 2020

E ven with B2B purchases, we now have one-click access to peer reviews and insights. And we’re hungry for them : W hen asked how their content consumption has changed over the past year, 39% of respondents to Demand Gen Report’s latest Content Preferences Survey said they get more content through social networks and peer recommendations.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Here’s what protecting your mission against assumptions looks like: First, create personas for the people most important to your organization’s success. For more information on the power of personas, check out How to Create a Buyer Persona. For more information on the power of personas, check out How to Create a Buyer Persona.

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Apollo

JUNE 13, 2019

The persona framework is a synthesis of the most motivating challenges and benefits of your persona. For example, if you know that your key persona is young entrepreneurs struggling to find the time to complete their tasks, then the surface level would be knowing that they want to save time. Steps to build a persona.

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Tony Zambito

JULY 6, 2011

About a dozen years ago, I became involved with personas through fate by meeting Alan Cooper , at the time he just finished his landmark book The Inmates Are Running The Asylum , and becoming enamored with personas as a process to build more user friendly products.  Image by eliazar via Flickr.

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markempa

APRIL 28, 2014

Tweet Effective content marketing starts with listening to customers to truly understand them, and then identifying the personas of your audience, according to Ninan Chacko, CEO, PR Newswire. The third step requires marketers to “map the content to the cognitive process of each persona.”. Learn from your peers].

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Valasys

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Peer-to-peer transactions and data sharing are made possible by Web3 technologies’ integration of blockchain. With the rise of Web3 technologies and NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens), the world of digital assets is experiencing a profound transformation. A larger and more varied audience for NFTs is ensured via interoperability.

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Oktopost

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Colin Day, Global B2B marketing powerhouse, joins me on this episode to get radically transparent about effective leadership, the importance of mentorship, social media, building buyer personas using social data and so much more! Which management approach drives exceptional levels of performance? SunGard was acquired by FIS in 2015.

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B2B Marketing Traction

APRIL 20, 2010

When I created B2B marketing buyer personas (“personae” for those of you who studied Latin) for one of my clients last year, it became crystal clear why they beat working from demographic and even psychographic profiles hands-down. Now we have marketing buyer personas. Then, we marketers got a little smarter.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2022

Rather, alignment should be about driving collaboration and adaptation to customer information and support needs, pre- and post-sale, and this requires orientation around customer stages, segmented by core personas. The approach is to operationalize go-to-market around customer lifecycle.

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