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What is a persona in marketing? Buyer & user personas explained

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  1. Persona B's goals are to ensure the quality of case study transcriptions. When you’re marketing to persona A, your message might be more along the lines of: “Spend less time decoding meeting notes and more time acting on the outcomes,” and persona B’s angle might be more like: “Take your case studies from audio to written with accuracy ensured throughout.” By tailoring your approach to meet each persona’s goals, you’re getting on their level and resonating with what they want and need, not what someone else wants and needs - and that understanding can work wonders for your revenue.

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  2. Personas are fictional characters you create based on research, and they represent segments of your market. personas cannot be built on internal assumptions. When a company devotes consummate time and effort to fine-tuning its personas, it can bring a whole host of benefits to the table.

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  3. Personas are fictional characters you create based on research, and they represent segments of your market. they must then be validated by real customers and always updated as you learn and evolve. When a company devotes consummate time and effort to fine-tuning its personas, it can bring a whole host of benefits to the table.

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  4. Tradeshows and user forums are great places not only to network but also to gain deeper insights into your existing customers and potential buyers. Remember your existing customer was a buyer before! Before you demo your product or dive deep into your coolest product features, take a step back to know more about your buyer. With the obvious questions outlined above, also ask them about their business problem and why they are on this shopping spree. Talk to them and understand their aspirations, motivations and where they want to be in their career, and what they think would make them successful.

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  5. Step 4: Interviews it’s time to go out and start speaking to people, and that includes both prospects and customers. In terms of the medium, it’s always best to speak to interviewees either over the phone or in person. This will enable you to gather more robust data and pick your customers’ brains outside of your ‘script’ and ask those ‘why’ questions. Face-to-face can be tricky if you’re a global organization, but something as simple as a Zoom call can get you face-to-face from opposite sides of the world.

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