“Sellers use their sales process to place solutions.” “Buyers use their buying decision process to figure out how to resolve their problem with the least disruption.” This is how Sharon Drew Morgen explains it. She’s been working to expose and … [Read more...]
Use B2B Buyer Persona Types for Ease and Effectiveness
In a lot of the conversations I have with B2B marketers, many are overwhelmed when confronted with how to build truly actionable buyer personas. Building actionable personas takes a fair bit of time and effort. It’s also because buying committees … [Read more...]
SMS Messaging Moves Businesses Beyond Transactions
Text messaging in business is often thought of as purely transactional. It’s commonly used for password verification, appointment reminders, package delivery updates, service appointment arrival times, coupons and promotional offers—all of them … [Read more...]
Addressing Human Influences in Buyer Personas
For some reason, in B2B content marketing, we seem to forget about the "whole" buyer. More and more marketers are embracing buyer personas and the idea of becoming customer centric, but we often only focus on the business side of the buyer, as if … [Read more...]
Design B2B Content to Learn Buyer Preferences
In writing my new book, Digital Relevance, I spent a lot of time thinking about how a digital approach changes a lot of things, including the opportunity we have to become more relevant to our audiences. An obvious line of thought, given the title … [Read more...]
