Monthly Archives: January 2015

7 Big Questions For B2B Marketing Leaders in 2015

Another year and more questions facing B2B Marketing Leaders. We are faced with a rapidly changing digital economy and evolving buyer behaviors. Challenging the best plans and intentions drawn up for 2015. Each year begets a new set of questions, which confront B2B organizations and B2B Marketing Leaders. Let us take a look at 7 very pressing questions: Do we really know our buyers and customers? A few decades ago, the famed management guru Peter Drucker stated one of the most important question a business has to answer is: Who is our customer? For CMO’s and marketing leaders, this remains…

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State Of Buyer Personas 2015 (Survey Results)

It is now nearly fourteen years since the first-ever buyer persona development methodology was first created specifically for sales and marketing. For trivia and history buffs, Harcourt Education in 2002, a division of Reed Elsevier at the time, was the first organization to ever use research-based buyer personas for marketing and sales. How far we have come and how far we have still to go. Incorporating Survey Data For the first time in this annual reflection of the State of Buyer Personas, this commentary will incorporate responses from a survey conducted this past October through December. The survey consisted of…

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What More Than 100 Buyer Interviews Say About B2B Buyer Behavior In 2015

As we hit the middle of this decade, B2B buying behavior is about to undergo more significant changes. It will change not only in whom we identify as buyers, but also in how B2B buyers interact to make purchases. Last year, in well over one hundred buyer interviews conducted on behalf of several B2B organizations involved in buyer persona research, noticeable changes began to emerge. As opposed to a quantitative survey, this represents a qualitative narrative on what as well as how buyer behavior in 2015 may be different. And, what B2B marketers and sellers can prepare for. Here are qualitative observations, which…

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