Something we've found to work particularly well at HubSpot that has formed the basis for our segmentation strategy (and our tools) is
segmenting by both persona and lifecycle stage.
Emails should focus on highlighting premium content directly tied to your targeted personas (and your campaigns should be
segmented by persona) and the likely issues that are at play.
Not exact matches
A good way to
segment clients is
by buyer
personas - group clients have the same product and similar needs all together.
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.
The best way to understand your audience is to build buyer
personas with these 3 steps:
segment by demographics, identify their needs, and develop behavior - based profiles.
By comparing these individuals with your current followers, you will very likely discover a new audience
segment that you can incorporate into your buyer
personas — thus increasing your reach.
B2B marketers, to truly engage with buyers, can do so
by adopting and investing in a qualitative research - based approach to building buyer
personas and
segmenting by buying behaviors as opposed to titles and roles alone.
We
segment these campaigns
by persona first.
Lead nurturing best practice # 1: Understand and
segment lists The two - way dialogues enabled
by an AI
persona with a human touch are great for real - time engagement with new leads, lead nurturing, engaging leads your sales team can't reach
by phone and re-engaging stale or gone - quiet leads in your database.
Don't Fall in the Profiling Trap: a misunderstanding I wrote about in my recent article, Use Buyer
Personas to Segment by Buying Behavior, is thinking that buyer personas are a profiling of specific titles and / or roles in your target organ
Personas to
Segment by Buying Behavior, is thinking that buyer
personas are a profiling of specific titles and / or roles in your target organ
personas are a profiling of specific titles and / or roles in your target organization.
This mistake happens when marketers layer buyer
personas onto their existing market
segments, frequently defined
by demographics such as industry or company size.
While many only discovered the series thanks to the massively popular
Persona 3, the original
Persona had all of its exploration
segments play out via first - person, step -
by - step «dungeons» — much like many of Atlus» Shin Megami Tensei efforts of that era.