Buyer personas. You’ve heard about them over and over again. You know you need personas in order for your marketing to be successful, but you still haven’t created them. What’s holding you up? Is it ...

So, we built our buyer personas around those assumptions and started creating content to appeal to that audience. But then a funny thing happened. When we were talking to customers, we found a ...

Trying to sell to your target e-commerce audience without a buyer persona is like seeing in the dark without a flashlight. You have to resort to potentially wrong perceptions based on inaccurate ...

When we think about the buyer’s journey or building customer experiences that delight our prospects, the foundation for marketing needs to be around the “who.” In telling our stories, we still rely on ...

Too often, companies create buyer personas, but are not sure how to write blog content that caters to them. While there are several aspects to consider when writing to your buyer personas, there are ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. There’s no arguing with the fact that the Internet has made it possible to reach a wider audience than ever before. But just because you ...

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Identifying the ideal customer or target buyer is a key component of marketing. And there's been a lot of buzz around developing "buyer personas" or "customer avatars" in that effort. However, buyer ...

At what point does a buyer persona mutate from a useful marketing tool into a meaningless collection of bullet points, stock headshots, and random guesses? Are your buyer personas drowning in details?