intro to inbound: creating buyer personas
Post on 04-Jul-2015
229 Views
Preview:
DESCRIPTION
TRANSCRIPT
Intro to InboundCreating Buyer Personas
Katherine Yasi
@kathyasi
1 Inbound Marketing and Buyer Personas
2 Why you need Buyer Personas
3 How to create Buyer Personas
4 Using Buyer Personas in the wild!
1Inbound Marketing and
Buyer Personas
Inbound Methodology
What is a buyer persona?
Semi-fictional representations of
your ideal customer based on real
data and some select educated
speculation about customer
demographics, behavior patterns,
motivations, and goals.
2 Why you need Buyer Personas
3 How to Create Buyer Personas
How we create Personas
1 Identify questions to ask to develop your persona
2 Determine how you’ll research your personas
3 Compile research & answers to your questions
4 Tell your persona’s story
Research Techniques
Interview customers
Research/survey your customers
Use data from form fields
Talk to sales/customer support/services
Search for your keywords on various social networks
Check out the comments section on key industry blogs - what
are people talking about?
Search for people commenting on industry blogs on LinkedIn -
what information can you glean from their profiles?
Format of a persona story
• Part 1: Information about the persona’s job and/or demographic
information
• Part 2: Portray what a day in their life looks like, focusing on relevant facts
and not just “they wake up, eat breakfast, go to work”
• Part 3: What are the greatest challenges this persona faces when it comes
to achieving their goal? What are the biggest pain points they face in their
role?
• Part 4: Depicts where this person goes for role-related information, as well
as where they spend time online and in general. (Blogs, social media, co-
workers, etc)
• Part 5: What are the common objections/misconceptions this persona has
when it comes to purchasing or using a product/service like yours?
4 Using Buyer Personas in the wild!
QUESTIONS?
THANK YOU
top related