I raise this point due to the proliferation of
content on buyer personas over the past few years.
Not exact matches
For more guidance
on keeping your
content strategies such as buyer personas as fresh, accurate and updated as possible, check out «Managing Content Marketing» by Robert Rose and Joe P
content strategies such as
buyer personas as fresh, accurate and updated as possible, check out «Managing
Content Marketing» by Robert Rose and Joe P
Content Marketing» by Robert Rose and Joe Pulizzi.
Even if you already have clearly developed
buyer personas, posing targeted questions
on Quora can help you dive more deeply into your audience members» motivators and interests, and flush out the
content topics they are most likely to engage with.
Jenn Lisak, Director of
Content Strategies at DK New Media, says «Content marketing strategy is as much an art form as it is a process; when working with a client on an infographic or a whitepaper, I have to pay attention to target audience, aligning the messaging with the brand, appealing to different types of learners and personality types, and whether the curated content is going to resonate with our desired buyer persona.
Content Strategies at DK New Media, says «
Content marketing strategy is as much an art form as it is a process; when working with a client on an infographic or a whitepaper, I have to pay attention to target audience, aligning the messaging with the brand, appealing to different types of learners and personality types, and whether the curated content is going to resonate with our desired buyer persona.
Content marketing strategy is as much an art form as it is a process; when working with a client
on an infographic or a whitepaper, I have to pay attention to target audience, aligning the messaging with the brand, appealing to different types of learners and personality types, and whether the curated
content is going to resonate with our desired buyer persona.
content is going to resonate with our desired
buyer persona.»
Based
on your
buyer personas, identify any gaps in the
content you have.
In her
Content Marketing World 2014 presentation
on personas, Adele Revella contends that the only reason to build a new
persona is when it allows marketers to create something more effective, more compelling, or more persuasive for a
buyer.
This very notion embeds push messaging into plans that are created
on the premise of
content mapping to
buyer personas.
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.
It does mean, though, that if you've identified your
buyer personas, and you're writing
content around those, what you share will be meaningful to your audience
on the social channels where they hang out.
The reason I like
buyer personas is because they can work directly with many editorial calendars, so you know exactly which
content you should show which people and / or make sure you have a good mix of
content that's really targeted (more
on this later).
I hop
on the phone with people and tell them about using dynamic
content to create a customized experience sometimes without thinking about the fact that they didn't even know how to create
buyer personas, much less how to customize they buying experience to them.
Do you follow any brands
on social media that make lovable
content that also speaks to your
buyer persona's needs?
Tony's pioneering goal - directed development in
buyer insight and
buyer persona development has helped clients to achieve improved revenue performance by as much as 25 % year over year, increase customer retention rates by as much 10 %, improve ROI
on content marketing, and grow revenues in new markets by as much as 15 %.
We know from various studies done in the social sciences in the past forty years, as well as from fifteen plus years of my being involved with
personas, the trio of users /
buyers / customers makes decisions based
on much more than just
content or information.
(This is part three of a three part series
on the use of
Buyer Persona Stories ™,
Buyer Persona Scenarios ™, and
Buyer Persona Story Mapping ™ to drive effective
content marketing strategy.)
The importance of documenting your
content marketing strategy to make sure you have clear alignments
on buyer personas, lead qualification criteria.
You'll still work
on content audits,
buyer personas, channel optimization, website analytics, social listening, competitive insights, but with a lot less time and effort.
For
content marketing and most other marketing decisions, you will only need a separate
buyer persona when there is a significant difference
on several of those findings.
She will deliver a pre-conference workshop «Building Your
Buyer Personas»
on Sept. 4, 2012, at
Content Marketing World.
Based
on your
buyer persona research you can identify topics and then understand what types of
content to create for each stage of the
buyer's journey.
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