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Example Buyer Persona
Amanda, Digital Marketing Manager
For consideration of an email marketing solution
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Buyer’s JourneyDecision CriteriaPriority Initiative Perceived BarriersSuccess Factors
Buyer Persona
Profile
Persona name Amanda
Roles
Digital Marketing Manager, Marketing
Manager, Agency Owner
Education
Bachelors in Marketing, Advertising,
Communications, or equivalent experience
Industry,
geographic or
other segments B2B
Reports to
VP Marketing or Agency Owner
MY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Effective planning and implementation of
marketing content
• Establishing and adjusting strategies to meet
goals
• Engaging in business partner relationships
with clients and/or cross- functional
resources
• Project management, executing reporting
and presenting results
• Delivering work product and staying current
with industry standards and trends.
HOW I AM EVALUATED
• Knowledge of marketing project workflow
process and digital process lifecycle
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Quality of written, presentation and verbal
communication skills
• Knowledge of digital and social media
analytics
• Budget management, metrics and reporting,
especially demand generation
• Ability to work as a member of a persuasive
and effective member of a team
INFORMATION RESOURCES I TRUST
• Business professionals (peers)
• Consultants
• Internet / websites
• Business social media
• Events / conferences
• Personal social media
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Solutions,
Sales Play or
Campaign
Email Marketing
Buyer’s JourneyDecision CriteriaPriority Initiative Perceived BarriersSuccess Factors
Buyer Persona
Profile
What business conditions trigger this buyer’s decision to look for a new email marketing solution?
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Agency decisions are triggered by the requirements
of new customers or newly targeted segments
We were looking for a solution that would be a better fit for the leads
we were starting to see from small-to-medium-sized businesses.
These smaller companies were going to be good clients for us, but
they weren’t going to have the budget for the setup costs that our
existing solution required. High upfront costs would be such a barrier
that we might not win their business.
###
Our client was doing email through an agency, a copywriter who sent
the emails for them. But my client didn't have any insight into the
data or statistics. I said look, you should really be far more on top of
this and let’s look for an appropriate system for you guys.
Decisions by in-house marketers are triggered when
the company has a new focus on digital marketing
The CEO decided that we needed to get serious in the digital space. He
hired a new VP of digital strategy and innovation, who came up with a
vision for how to make it work for the 7 companies we owned.
###
As a content producer and curator, I thought it would make sense that
once a month, and only a once a month, I would create a newsletter
that would have only "the best of the best" and send it to my
followers, customers, and prospective customers.
###
Our sales were starting to flatten out a little bit so we were talking
about different ways that we could help our sales force do better
follow-ups. And one of the options was e-mail marketing.
Buyer’s JourneyDecision CriteriaPriority Initiative Perceived BarriersSuccess Factors
Buyer Persona
Profile
What results or outcomes does this buyer persona expect from a new email marketing solution?
It will be so simple that
infrequent users won’t need
training (Agency)
We need something that isn’t complicated to
setup and operate so we can have a partnership
with the client. If they want to do a little bit
more themselves, that should be an option. With
our current, more robust solution,
an untrained marketer won’t be able to get in
and operate it.
###
It should be easy to make segmented lists, look
at the statistics, and send out the emails.
Something where you can't really make
mistakes.
###
For many or our clients, this is not a daily thing
to do. They don’t have marketing departments
or someone who has this is as a job. Many have
someone who does a once-a-month or once-a-
quarter mail shot.
I’ll have a single, comprehensive
view of my customers, including
what they’re doing and saying
I want to know if the person received the e-mail
newsletter and acted on it, and ideally, I want to
tie that into a social CRM system.
###
We don't want to look at different systems to
get the perspective of our customer and what
they're doing, and the conversations we're
having.
I’ll have complete control over the
content of automated responses
I‘ve got an offer– say a PDF of a free report.
Just give me your name and email. The
confirmation email should say, “Thank you for
signing up. And here's the thing that you asked
for.” Right there with no additional steps.
###
We want transactional support for emails that
aren't about marketing or promotions. You
place an order and you get a confirmation, or
you contact us and get a reply that says,
"We'll respond to you in 24 hours."
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I’ll have a solution that can grow
with me as my needs change
We want to be able to grow into a solution if we
need to. We obviously have that initial need that
we've got to solve today. But what if there are
other needs next week or next year? We don’t
want to be moving solutions.
Buyer’s JourneyDecision CriteriaPriority Initiative Perceived BarriersSuccess Factors
Buyer Persona
Profile
What attitudes or concerns prevent this buyer from investing in email marketing? Or why wouldn’t they purchase it from you?
We’re not sure that we can trust
you
I was dissatisfied with all of the choices, so I just
didn't do anything. And then your solution came
along, and it could do everything. But it was
brand-spanking new. I don't want be on the
leading edge, so I’m waiting six months to a year
to see if you are still around.
###
I have a problem with my clients, because
they've heard about your competitors. But when
I say, "this solution will do everything that you
need to do,” they haven't heard about you, and
they say, “Gee, I don't know...”
I can't accept your opt-in policies
and email responses
When my customer opts in, I want them to
experience instant gratification, building trust by
attaching the offer to the confirmation email.
Your solution can kind of do that, but not well. I
have to send a second email and attach it there.
###
I should be able to import my list into my new
email solution without forcing everybody to go
through another round of confirmation. I think
it's impolite and rude to ask people who have
already opted in to go through it again.
###
Given that we already have their permission, we
don't want to use a provider that will ask for
their permission again. There is a danger that
they won’t accept it or won’t remember.
I’m concerned about being
blacklisted
The problem is when you start sending out a
bunch of email through your own server, all of
a sudden you find your address being marked
as being a spammer.
To get the result we want, your
templates require users to know
HTML
We would need to help our client build an HTML
template, and the whole idea is to make them
more independent.
I don’t want one more system to
manage
I get worried about how many systems I'm
going to have to manage and look at. I’m
concerned about how many I’m going to have
to keep track of in order to really understand
my customer and prospect. It scares me.
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Buyer’s JourneyDecision CriteriaPriority Initiative Perceived BarriersSuccess Factors
Buyer Persona
Profile
Which features of email marketing does this buyer evaluate as they compare alternative approaches / vendors and make a decision?
I want ease-of-use, which means
that I can figure it out on my own
and it works like other software I
regularly use
Of course it's easy to use. Everyone's saying
theirs is easy to use. So It is a major criteria for
me to see which one allows me to get to my goal
before I have to consult help or call anybody. If
it's easy to use, then I should be able to figure it
out.
###
When I want to add a new piece of content, add
an image or a video, I want to simply drag-and-
drop.
###
I expect very little complication in terms of the
backend work that I have to do to configure it.
And another thing, I expect APIs and hooks into
other systems such as social CRM systems for
seamless integration.
I expect a lot of easy-to-customize
templates, updated frequently
The first thing I look for is templates. I want a
solution that has a lot of templates and is always
adding more. I want to see at least five
newsletter templates that are easy to use.
###
I expect templates that are integrated into the
plugins, so that someone could just create the
newsletter within the plugin, format it quite
easily, and add a photograph. That is quite
important, because it means that at some point
my customer won’t need to rely on me to do it
for them.
###
I don't want to spend money for someone to
build our templates. I want to be able to
repurpose something, take something that's
there that I really like and be able to customize
it.
I won’t trade off ease-of-use to
get automated response
capabilities
There are email marking platforms that don’t
have the logic built in to do email marketing
automation, so although they might be easy to
use and low cost, they don’t have the complexity
of being able to setup behavioral rules to
automate your marketing. So those are out.
Agency: It needs to integrate with
a wide range of web and CRM
platforms
I need one that has at least a handful of
integrations for the big guys that are used across
industries.
###
There is one that is an awesome tool, but you
have to use it with WordPress. So it’s limited, it
wouldn’t apply to all of our clients. Or, it
wouldn’t have the integrations with some of the
CRMs our clients need.
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Buyer’s JourneyDecision CriteriaPriority Initiative Perceived BarriersSuccess Factors
Buyer Persona
Profile
What is this buyer’s role in the decision and who else will impact the decision? What resources will they trust to guide the decision?
I’m familiar with many solutions
and prioritize those where I have
experience
I know a lot of options because we have worked with
lots of systems for many clients. So I simply ask
myself, “What are my two favorite options to propose
to them?”
###
The new VP has some experience, so he knows what
he wants to do and which vendors will get us there.
###
I ask people in the company what solutions they know
about. Then I use Google to find more. But those that
are mentioned are the most interesting.
I expect web access to basic price
info
I appreciate being able to go to a site and look at
features and pricing. Pricing isn't the only factor, but I
dislike having to hunt for it or pick up the phone. I’m
not even sure I want to talk to someone yet. I have
grown up in the [fast] model of software services and
I just want to know: Is this a thousand or a hundred
thousand dollars?
I need to see it and use it before I
decide
I'd say the websites are all about the same. What
really helps is using it.
###
We want to see the product in a online demo and
walk through it. We want to see it from the back end
or the administrator's side so that we know what it
will take for us to run it. We want to see a lot of
features and capabilities, plus some cool use cases.
I’m calling to get answers, sure,
but mostly to test your
responsiveness
I called and asked them a few questions and that was
another criteria. Are they easy to talk to and do they
make sense?
###
I did call each of them, as well. Because one thing's
that's really important to me is when I need support, I
don't want to be doing e-mail and I don't want to be
doing chat; I want to call somebody.
Agency: Clients defer decisions to
us
I tell the office manager “These are the three, let’s
look at the differences." She had Googled some
others. I said, “Look, I know these systems and I’m
gonna help you in the future. It might be easier to
choose the system that I know very well.” She went
with what I advised.
In-house: We have a team that’s
working on the assessment, but I
decide
We worked as a team with a couple of people from
marketing, product management, development and
the ecommerce marketer to decide on the features
and functionality. We took a couple of days to do that
together and came up with a bunch of requirements.
We put it into a tool that will allow us to track the
vendor responses and where we are in the decision.
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Example buyer persona marketer

  • 1. 685 SPRING STREET, NO. 200 | FRIDAY HARBOR, WA 98250 | WWW.BUYERPERSONA.COM Example Buyer Persona Amanda, Digital Marketing Manager For consideration of an email marketing solution
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  • 3. ©2013 BUYER PERSONA INSTITUTE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Buyer’s JourneyDecision CriteriaPriority Initiative Perceived BarriersSuccess Factors Buyer Persona Profile Persona name Amanda Roles Digital Marketing Manager, Marketing Manager, Agency Owner Education Bachelors in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, or equivalent experience Industry, geographic or other segments B2B Reports to VP Marketing or Agency Owner MY RESPONSIBILITIES • Effective planning and implementation of marketing content • Establishing and adjusting strategies to meet goals • Engaging in business partner relationships with clients and/or cross- functional resources • Project management, executing reporting and presenting results • Delivering work product and staying current with industry standards and trends. HOW I AM EVALUATED • Knowledge of marketing project workflow process and digital process lifecycle • Attention to detail and accuracy • Quality of written, presentation and verbal communication skills • Knowledge of digital and social media analytics • Budget management, metrics and reporting, especially demand generation • Ability to work as a member of a persuasive and effective member of a team INFORMATION RESOURCES I TRUST • Business professionals (peers) • Consultants • Internet / websites • Business social media • Events / conferences • Personal social media ©2013 BUYER PERSONA INSTITUTE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Solutions, Sales Play or Campaign Email Marketing
  • 4. Buyer’s JourneyDecision CriteriaPriority Initiative Perceived BarriersSuccess Factors Buyer Persona Profile What business conditions trigger this buyer’s decision to look for a new email marketing solution? ©2013 BUYER PERSONA INSTITUTE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Agency decisions are triggered by the requirements of new customers or newly targeted segments We were looking for a solution that would be a better fit for the leads we were starting to see from small-to-medium-sized businesses. These smaller companies were going to be good clients for us, but they weren’t going to have the budget for the setup costs that our existing solution required. High upfront costs would be such a barrier that we might not win their business. ### Our client was doing email through an agency, a copywriter who sent the emails for them. But my client didn't have any insight into the data or statistics. I said look, you should really be far more on top of this and let’s look for an appropriate system for you guys. Decisions by in-house marketers are triggered when the company has a new focus on digital marketing The CEO decided that we needed to get serious in the digital space. He hired a new VP of digital strategy and innovation, who came up with a vision for how to make it work for the 7 companies we owned. ### As a content producer and curator, I thought it would make sense that once a month, and only a once a month, I would create a newsletter that would have only "the best of the best" and send it to my followers, customers, and prospective customers. ### Our sales were starting to flatten out a little bit so we were talking about different ways that we could help our sales force do better follow-ups. And one of the options was e-mail marketing.
  • 5. Buyer’s JourneyDecision CriteriaPriority Initiative Perceived BarriersSuccess Factors Buyer Persona Profile What results or outcomes does this buyer persona expect from a new email marketing solution? It will be so simple that infrequent users won’t need training (Agency) We need something that isn’t complicated to setup and operate so we can have a partnership with the client. If they want to do a little bit more themselves, that should be an option. With our current, more robust solution, an untrained marketer won’t be able to get in and operate it. ### It should be easy to make segmented lists, look at the statistics, and send out the emails. Something where you can't really make mistakes. ### For many or our clients, this is not a daily thing to do. They don’t have marketing departments or someone who has this is as a job. Many have someone who does a once-a-month or once-a- quarter mail shot. I’ll have a single, comprehensive view of my customers, including what they’re doing and saying I want to know if the person received the e-mail newsletter and acted on it, and ideally, I want to tie that into a social CRM system. ### We don't want to look at different systems to get the perspective of our customer and what they're doing, and the conversations we're having. I’ll have complete control over the content of automated responses I‘ve got an offer– say a PDF of a free report. Just give me your name and email. The confirmation email should say, “Thank you for signing up. And here's the thing that you asked for.” Right there with no additional steps. ### We want transactional support for emails that aren't about marketing or promotions. You place an order and you get a confirmation, or you contact us and get a reply that says, "We'll respond to you in 24 hours." ©2013 BUYER PERSONA INSTITUTE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. I’ll have a solution that can grow with me as my needs change We want to be able to grow into a solution if we need to. We obviously have that initial need that we've got to solve today. But what if there are other needs next week or next year? We don’t want to be moving solutions.
  • 6. Buyer’s JourneyDecision CriteriaPriority Initiative Perceived BarriersSuccess Factors Buyer Persona Profile What attitudes or concerns prevent this buyer from investing in email marketing? Or why wouldn’t they purchase it from you? We’re not sure that we can trust you I was dissatisfied with all of the choices, so I just didn't do anything. And then your solution came along, and it could do everything. But it was brand-spanking new. I don't want be on the leading edge, so I’m waiting six months to a year to see if you are still around. ### I have a problem with my clients, because they've heard about your competitors. But when I say, "this solution will do everything that you need to do,” they haven't heard about you, and they say, “Gee, I don't know...” I can't accept your opt-in policies and email responses When my customer opts in, I want them to experience instant gratification, building trust by attaching the offer to the confirmation email. Your solution can kind of do that, but not well. I have to send a second email and attach it there. ### I should be able to import my list into my new email solution without forcing everybody to go through another round of confirmation. I think it's impolite and rude to ask people who have already opted in to go through it again. ### Given that we already have their permission, we don't want to use a provider that will ask for their permission again. There is a danger that they won’t accept it or won’t remember. I’m concerned about being blacklisted The problem is when you start sending out a bunch of email through your own server, all of a sudden you find your address being marked as being a spammer. To get the result we want, your templates require users to know HTML We would need to help our client build an HTML template, and the whole idea is to make them more independent. I don’t want one more system to manage I get worried about how many systems I'm going to have to manage and look at. I’m concerned about how many I’m going to have to keep track of in order to really understand my customer and prospect. It scares me. ©2013 BUYER PERSONA INSTITUTE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • 7. Buyer’s JourneyDecision CriteriaPriority Initiative Perceived BarriersSuccess Factors Buyer Persona Profile Which features of email marketing does this buyer evaluate as they compare alternative approaches / vendors and make a decision? I want ease-of-use, which means that I can figure it out on my own and it works like other software I regularly use Of course it's easy to use. Everyone's saying theirs is easy to use. So It is a major criteria for me to see which one allows me to get to my goal before I have to consult help or call anybody. If it's easy to use, then I should be able to figure it out. ### When I want to add a new piece of content, add an image or a video, I want to simply drag-and- drop. ### I expect very little complication in terms of the backend work that I have to do to configure it. And another thing, I expect APIs and hooks into other systems such as social CRM systems for seamless integration. I expect a lot of easy-to-customize templates, updated frequently The first thing I look for is templates. I want a solution that has a lot of templates and is always adding more. I want to see at least five newsletter templates that are easy to use. ### I expect templates that are integrated into the plugins, so that someone could just create the newsletter within the plugin, format it quite easily, and add a photograph. That is quite important, because it means that at some point my customer won’t need to rely on me to do it for them. ### I don't want to spend money for someone to build our templates. I want to be able to repurpose something, take something that's there that I really like and be able to customize it. I won’t trade off ease-of-use to get automated response capabilities There are email marking platforms that don’t have the logic built in to do email marketing automation, so although they might be easy to use and low cost, they don’t have the complexity of being able to setup behavioral rules to automate your marketing. So those are out. Agency: It needs to integrate with a wide range of web and CRM platforms I need one that has at least a handful of integrations for the big guys that are used across industries. ### There is one that is an awesome tool, but you have to use it with WordPress. So it’s limited, it wouldn’t apply to all of our clients. Or, it wouldn’t have the integrations with some of the CRMs our clients need. ©2013 BUYER PERSONA INSTITUTE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • 8. Buyer’s JourneyDecision CriteriaPriority Initiative Perceived BarriersSuccess Factors Buyer Persona Profile What is this buyer’s role in the decision and who else will impact the decision? What resources will they trust to guide the decision? I’m familiar with many solutions and prioritize those where I have experience I know a lot of options because we have worked with lots of systems for many clients. So I simply ask myself, “What are my two favorite options to propose to them?” ### The new VP has some experience, so he knows what he wants to do and which vendors will get us there. ### I ask people in the company what solutions they know about. Then I use Google to find more. But those that are mentioned are the most interesting. I expect web access to basic price info I appreciate being able to go to a site and look at features and pricing. Pricing isn't the only factor, but I dislike having to hunt for it or pick up the phone. I’m not even sure I want to talk to someone yet. I have grown up in the [fast] model of software services and I just want to know: Is this a thousand or a hundred thousand dollars? I need to see it and use it before I decide I'd say the websites are all about the same. What really helps is using it. ### We want to see the product in a online demo and walk through it. We want to see it from the back end or the administrator's side so that we know what it will take for us to run it. We want to see a lot of features and capabilities, plus some cool use cases. I’m calling to get answers, sure, but mostly to test your responsiveness I called and asked them a few questions and that was another criteria. Are they easy to talk to and do they make sense? ### I did call each of them, as well. Because one thing's that's really important to me is when I need support, I don't want to be doing e-mail and I don't want to be doing chat; I want to call somebody. Agency: Clients defer decisions to us I tell the office manager “These are the three, let’s look at the differences." She had Googled some others. I said, “Look, I know these systems and I’m gonna help you in the future. It might be easier to choose the system that I know very well.” She went with what I advised. In-house: We have a team that’s working on the assessment, but I decide We worked as a team with a couple of people from marketing, product management, development and the ecommerce marketer to decide on the features and functionality. We took a couple of days to do that together and came up with a bunch of requirements. We put it into a tool that will allow us to track the vendor responses and where we are in the decision. ©2013 BUYER PERSONA INSTITUTE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.