Do you have practice
working with buyer personas?
Do you have additional tips for developing and
working with buyer personas?
Not exact matches
I like to be very scheduled (so this might not
work for everyone), so I typically create a calendar reminder every few months to «check in»
with a representative of each of my
buyer personas — whether it be via a quick chat or email, or by browsing through community comments and sentiment.
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.»
The combination of both sets of data starts to form your
buyer persona — a detailed picture of the people you
work with now, and would like to
work with in the future.
My
work in originating
buyer persona development led me to collaborate with three Fortune 100 companies on developing a Buyer Persona Ecosystem ™ view of bu
buyer persona development led me to collaborate with three Fortune 100 companies on developing a Buyer Persona Ecosystem ™ view of
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with three Fortune 100 companies on developing a
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Persona Ecosystem ™ view of
buyers.
Tony and his partner, Angela Quail, originated the development of
buyer personas in 2002 based on their
work with Alan Cooper, who is largely credited
with the origins of user
personas for the design of digital products.
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).
However, having
worked with several organizations recently, I noticed a trend about market segmentation and
buyer personas in B2B environments.
Working with buyer profiles, miscast as
buyer personas, that are merely a redundant facsimile of information or intelligence sales and product marketing has been gathering for years is wasteful.
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.
In light of these evolving and emerging trends, I along
with Angela Quail and those associated
with Goal Centric will be examining the Digital
Buyer Persona in our
work going forward.
Using this information, we'll
work collaboratively
with your major stakeholders to define a value proposition and
buyer personas that will keep all else aligned for years to come.
My partner Angela Quail and I
worked with courageous companies who were early adopters of
buyer personas after Goal Centric launched the
buyer persona methodology in 2002.
I have start use the
buyer personas with my team and I find it
works a lot.
Several senior leaders we
worked with embraced
buyer persona development as a transformative process versus viewing the effort as a tactical profiling means.
These organizations helping to make Goal Centric the leading pioneer in
buyer persona development
with a body of
work that dates back to over a decade.