What is the pain that shoves your buyers off the fence, and gets them looking for a solution like yours? If you can’t name it, you are in good company….
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The Buyer Persona Institute Blog
The Problem With Buyer Persona Survey Questions
I’m always reading what other people have to say about buyer personas, looking for new ideas and successful outcomes, but I keep coming across marketers making the same tremendous mistakes…
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How Many Buyer Personas Does Your B2B Company Really Need?
Marketing strategies constantly evolve around fresh ideas and new tactics. Done correctly, buyer personas serve as guardrails to keep you from veering off track. But many marketing teams believe they…
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Market Research Mistakes Your Company Should Watch Out For
Do the best marketing strategies come from market research or buyer persona research? It’s not a trick question—these are completely different approaches, although many marketers get them confused. When looking…
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Marketing Plans Should Start with the Buyer’s Needs – Not Yours
I can’t blame marketers for avoiding the development of marketing plans, launch plans or any other version of a strategic plan. This apparently reasonable request usually requires countless hours of…
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Gartner says: Sales and marketing influences just 32% of B2B buyer’s journey
I am fascinated by a recent Gartner study about the journey of 700 enterprise buyers across the U.S., EMEA, Brazil, India and China. According to a recent interview with Hank…
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How Radio Shack lost their buyer focus and their business
I was saddened by Radio Shack’s recent bankruptcy filing. Its convenient stores and helpful staff are easy to find in any city I’m visiting. There is even a store in…
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Practitioner Perspective: The 6 Most Important (Surprising) Things I’ve Learned From Doing B2B Buyer Personas
This post is contributed by Gordana Stok, a Certified Practitioner of the Buyer Persona Institute methodology. Last year I decided to learn how to develop buyer personas so that I…
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The 5 Marketing Lessons I Learned From My 5 Years in Sales
One of the life experiences I credit most for teaching me about marketing was the five years I spent in sales. I came to that job in a roundabout way…
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Deloitte Case Study is a Powerful Endorsement for Buyer Personas
One of the hardest parts of bringing our Buyer Persona model into practice actually comes after the project is completed. We’ve accomplished so much with the client, working with them…
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