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Persona Presentation

Published on Mar 31, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Agenda

  • What is a buyer persona?
  • How do I create one?
  • What do I do with it?

INTRODUCTIONS

  • Who are you?
  • Where do you work?
  • What are you hoping to get from this presentation?
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What is a buyer persona?

Buyer personas are semi-fictional representations of your ideal customer based on real data
along with some select educated speculation about customer demographics, behavior patterns,
motivations, and goals. - HubSpot

Textbook definition from HubSpot Academy - https://academy.hubspot.com/buyer-personas-videos-training
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Why we need personas

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Source: Content Marketing Institute

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How to create a buyer persona

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Goals Not Roles

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Motivations ("why") not actions ("what")

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QUALITATIVE RESEACH

  • 15-30 interviews
  • Make sure they represent your buyers (no friends/family)
  • Open-ended questions
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QUALITATIVE INTERVIEW TOOLS

  • Skype Call Recorder
  • Rev.com
  • Evernote
  • Calendly
  • HubSpot
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QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

  • >385 respondents
  • 95% certainty, 5% margin, 0.5 standard deviation
  • Make sure you have a way to segment
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QUANTITATIVE TOOLS

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Bucket by similarities and trends

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Most companies have 3-6 personas.

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How to Use Personas

THERE'S A LONG LIST

  • Channel targeting
  • Campaign/content planning
  • Lead nurturing and email
  • Segmentation
  • Ad targeting
  • Keyword analysis
  • Metrics and goal tracking
  • Dynamic/"smart" content
  • Branding and style guides
  • Sales enablement
  • Product development

PERSONAS TELL US WHERE OUR CUSTOMERS ARE

SO WE CAN BE THERE TOO

Segment your list

Target your content

1 per persona per stage

Guide product and service development

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KEY POINTS

  • Factual basis for marketing
  • Goals not roles
  • Tool that can humanize and personalize our marketing
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