Is content marketing a priority for you this year? Not sure where to really start when it comes to building a content marketing strategy? Join our content strategist who talks through the initial steps you need to take when planning a content marketing strategy and why personas are so important.
We take a look at:
- What personas are and why you should use them
- Finding out who your personas are and how to write them
- How personas benefit the success of your content marketing campaign.
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9. How to build your
business personas
How personas affect
your marketing
Personalising your
content
10. • An personification of your target segment or consumer
based on real data
• A tool for understanding the wants, needs and limitations of
your client base
• A vehicle for communicating client needs to business
stakeholders
11. • Brings the user to life
• Appeals to all stakeholders
• Helps create a focus on specific goals
• Helps teams understand who they are working with
14. How to build your business personas
Get to know your current client base!
What were their pain points?
What products did they buy from you?
What did they like/dislike about your
communications?
15. How to build your business personas
Writing your personas….
Address what they need to know to buy
Discover trends in your target audience
Find out how they like their communications!
Look for the common denominator
16. Some questions to consider
• Who is your ideal customer?
• What are common objections your sales team face?
• What stops the buying process?
• Why do you win/lose to competitors?
• What are the most common problems you solve for customers?
• How do you justify the price of your product/service?
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18. 3 tips when writing your persona’s
• Characteristics
• Needs
• Behaviour
• Communications
1. Imagine your
customers as an actual
person
2. Reach out to current
customers
3. Get help from your
unsubscribed contacts
• Why they chose you
• What they like about your product
• When they reacted to you/your
communications
• Common denominators
• Preference centres
• Why they didn’t like your
communications
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20. Create your own!
1. Create no more than 5 persona groups, based on your killer values
2. Download our example template to help you establish the key details
3. Write a one line value proposition that sums up: what your business does, who it
helps and why you have value over your competitors
21. Send the right people
the right content at
the right time
22. How persona’s affect your marketing
WHO YOU TARGET
AUDIENCE TRULY IS
WHY YOUR TARGET
CUSTOMER WANTS YOUR
PRODUCT
HOW YOUR PRODUCT ADDS
VALUE TO YOUR TARGET
CUSTOMERS SITUATION
23. 1. What questions are they
asking?
2. What will they get from
reading your content?
3. How will reading your
content help them?
4. How can you solve a
problem they face every
day?
Sales
Article
LinkedIn
Can I
achieve…
How do I…?
24. How do you connect with one
person when talking to many?
• Use the word “YOU”
• Use real life analogies
• Make it sound like a 1-2-1
conversation
• Focus on enhancing your
audiences professional
development
25. Aim to make your
audience more
productive and
successful
They all need the same information about your business, but they all need it in a different way
A report with statistics and pie charts
A whitepaper
A video
A graphic design
Who are your personas? Do you have 2/3/4 or more personas?
Do they want blogs? Or how-to guides? Whitepapers or e-books? Interactive content or just a report?
It's no good writing a sales best practice blog and sending it to your sales, marketing and MD audiences when only one will find it relevant.
If you are on your target audiences usual websites, they are more inclined to interact with your material.For example, promoting marketing blogs on marketing institute websites.
There is no better way to personalise your content, then writing about topics that your prospects are actually asking for.
Jot down some ideas on their personas now of what they think their personas would want: answer those four questions