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2. What is a buyer persona?
What is a buyer persona?
A buyer persona is a mold of your ideal customer.
- This is a customer that takes an active interest in
your brand or products and purchases them.
3. Example:
Example:
You have an online store that specializes in sneakers.
Suburban teens interested in sports
Older men with lower incomes in urban areas
25-35 year old females with higher disposable
incomes and interest in travel
The following buyer personas may be most likely to interact with your brand:
4. Why are buyer personas important?
Why are buyer personas important?
Creating these personas lets you “put a face” to
the shoppers you want to attract
By gaining better insight into who your customers
are, you can create marketing material that
resonates with them emotionally and intellectually.
This humanizes the marketing journey.
5. Why are buyer personas important?
Why are buyer personas important?
Besides the ability to create highly relevant
material, working with buyer personas lets you
target your audience with greater precision.
Ad campaigns rely on this data to reach the right crowd.
6. Keep in mind...
Keep in mind...
Being precise with your target markets helps
reduce the size of your audience, in turn
maximizing your overall marketing efforts.
7. Creating your buyer persona...
Creating your buyer persona...
Creating a buyer persona usually starts with gender, age, geographic region and income.
Putting it together, a basic
buyer persona may look
something like this:
Additional aspects you may
want to research, include:
Gender: Female
Age: 25-35
Region: California
Income: $100K-150K
Hobbies and interests
Ideals and values
Lifestyle
8. Understanding your customers’ behaviors
Understanding your customers’ behaviors
Creating basic personas is just the start.
Once you have this covered, dive deeper to
understand your target audience’s needs,
wants and behaviors.
9. Understanding your customers’ behaviors
Understanding your customers’ behaviors
Start by addressing your customer’s pain
points.
Pain points are any needs or problems people may
have, which your products or services can answer.
10. Understanding your customers’ behaviors
Understanding your customers’ behaviors
To rise above the competition, you’ll need
additional tactics. A good way to approach this
is by connecting with your audience.
11. Understanding your customers’ behaviors
Understanding your customers’ behaviors
Hone in on your customers’ shopping behaviors.
This is basically a breakdown of the way they
discover, interact, browse and purchase
products like yours.
12. Learn from Your Competition
Learn from Your Competition
Follow them on social media or do a secret shopper
campaign to learn what works for them.
Just because you compete for customers
doesn’t mean you can’t learn from them.
13. Learn from Your Competition
Learn from Your Competition
By looking at your competitors, you can also look at
the type of customers who are already buying
similar products or services of your own.
First, take a look at your current customers.
Then, take these same factors and compare them
to your competitors’ customers.
14. Understand Your Value Proposition
Understand Your Value Proposition
What is it that makes your product special?
How does what you do make your
customer’s lives better?