I have been evolving the buyer persona development process as well as have been writing
about buyer personas for the last eight years now.
Not exact matches
Thanks
for talking
about assumptions, Anna, as many marketers are building
buyer personas around these obvious characteristics of their
buyers... attributes that anyone could guess and therefore have little value.
Among the clutter of poorly written or hyped
for publicity posts on
buyer personas, it is nice to see a genuinely thought out post on a topic I care deeply
about.
A while back, Barbra Gago wrote a post
for CMI — 4 Questions Answered
about Buyer Personas — in which she shared an excellent tip for adding a human touch to your p
Personas — in which she shared an excellent tip
for adding a human touch to your
personaspersonas:
Thanks
for sharing great information
about the importance of
buyer personas Barbara.
For example, how often do you find yourself referring to the marketing
personas you built several years ago —
buyer personas that were based on assumptions you once made
about your audience and its buying habits?
For example, instead of sending the same lead nurturing emails to everyone in your database, you can segment by
buyer persona and tailor your messaging according to what you know
about those different
personas.
Surveys are a good method
for finding out the psychographics of your
buyer persona — but only if you have an idea of what you want to know
about them.
Psychographics is
about using the demographic information you have
for your
buyer persona to figure out more
about their lifestyle, their behaviors and their habits.
While we have been conditioned over decades to focus on a single target
buyer, or as I have written
about often, a target
buyer persona, we are beginning to see that this will no longer be adequate
for B2B Marketers.
I want to thank you
for your interest in interviewing me and learning more
about the roots of as well as the nature of the
buyer persona development process.
If you are looking
for more specifics on
buyer personas, there have already been a couple of posts on the Content Marketing Institute that dug into the specifics: Keith Wiegold had a post
about thinking
about more than demographics and yesterday Chris Moritz provides some good links to get more info.
In addition to the information on the Goal Centric site, what resources exist
for companies wanting to learn more
about buyer personas?
I am wondering what you think
about adding a complement to the way
Buyer Personas are used to drive outbound marketing: Intelligent Alerting where you simply «ask»
buyers to set their criteria and permission
for receiving marketing communications.
If you have no idea
about consumers or
buyers in a new market and how they may respond to your products or services — then
buyer persona research is right
for you.
Adele Revella, who has introduced the need
for buyer personas to hundreds of people that came through her Effective Product Marketing course and advocates for buyer personas in her blog Buyer Persona Blog, myself, and Angela Quail had talks about this topic rece
buyer personas to hundreds of people that came through her Effective Product Marketing course and advocates
for buyer personas in her blog Buyer Persona Blog, myself, and Angela Quail had talks about this topic rece
buyer personas in her blog
Buyer Persona Blog, myself, and Angela Quail had talks about this topic rece
Buyer Persona Blog, myself, and Angela Quail had talks
about this topic recently.
Consider what you know
about your
buyer personas and their interests while you're coming up with a topic
for your blog post.
We had an excellent conversation
about the need
for buyer personas, and the role they play as a foundational component of a B2B marketing strategy.
With all that talk
about targeting and segmenting the right offers to the right
buyer persona (at the right time), you can probably guess that what all that translates to is a need
for a variety of offers.
Learning
about keyword analytics and coming up with
buyer personas can help you get an idea which words your website is already ranking
for and which ones searchers are using to find your website.
Buyer personas, derived from a rich and robust process of getting to know customers and
buyers experientially, can serve as the media
for executives to tell the story
about their
buyers and how their company will help to continue the story.
He has a thesis in his new book
about how kind of
buyers or clients are taking control of the dynamics of the industry and as part of that, I think he and you advocate
for lawyers and small law firms, thinking more like businesses and thinking
about clients as
buyers and things like that, that we'll get into in the episode, but one of the topics that I think is interesting to talk
about then is something we've brought up a few times in the past
about kind of identifying your ideal client or crafting
personas of your ideal clients that you can have a story of who you're looking
for and how to find them.
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About Blog Tony Zambito is the founder and leading authority in
buyer personas for B2B Marketing.