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Buyer Personas

How to Gain Insight into Your Customer’s Expectations, Align Your Marketing Strategies, and Win More Business

Adele Revella

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Buyer Personas
Value of Customer Knowledge+
Defining Buyer Personas+
Gaining Stakeholder Buy-in+
Sourcing Interview Candidates+
Interview Techniques+
Five Rings of Buying Insight+
Data Organization & Messaging+

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Question 1 of 9
According to the text, why did Apple's 3G iPhone initially fail to capture a large market share in Japan?
  • A. The device was priced too high for the average Japanese consumer.
  • B. It lacked a video camera, which Japanese consumers were accustomed to using on their phones.
  • C. Apple failed to translate their marketing materials properly into Japanese.
  • D. Japanese consumers preferred heavier phones because they associated heft with quality.
Question 2 of 9
What counterintuitive insight did marketer Regis McKenna discover when researching buyers of pocket calculators?
  • A. Customers preferred smaller calculators that were easier to conceal.
  • B. Customers chose heavier calculators because they associated the extra weight with higher quality.
  • C. Customers cared more about the color of the calculator than its mathematical functions.
  • D. Customers preferred calculators with fewer buttons because they appeared easier to use.
Question 3 of 9
How does the author recommend convincing internal stakeholders who are skeptical about investing in buyer personas?
  • A. Present them with a detailed financial forecast showing the exact return on investment.
  • B. Show them case studies of competitors who have successfully used buyer personas.
  • C. Ask them to roleplay as a customer answering evaluation questions to expose their lack of actual customer knowledge.
  • D. Hire an external consulting firm to present the concept so it appears more objective.
Question 4 of 9
When building buyer personas in a B2B environment, whose insights are considered the most important to capture?
  • A. The CEO or executive who officially signs the final contract.
  • B. The frontline workers who will be using the product on a daily basis.
  • C. The external consultants hired to oversee the company's purchasing transition.
  • D. The researcher who does the work to determine the specifics of what their company needs.
Question 5 of 9
What is the recommended approach for preparing the script for a buyer persona interview?
  • A. Prepare a comprehensive list of 20-30 questions to ensure no topic is missed.
  • B. Prepare only the very first question, which should ask about the moment they realized they needed a solution.
  • C. Create a structured multiple-choice survey to standardize all interviewee responses.
  • D. Send all probing questions to the interviewee a week in advance so they can prepare their answers.
Question 6 of 9
Which of the 'Five Rings of Buying Insight' focuses on the results a buyer expects to achieve from purchasing a solution?
  • A. Priority Initiative
  • B. Success Factors
  • C. Perceived Barriers
  • D. Decision Criteria
Question 7 of 9
In the context of the Five Rings of Buying Insight, what does 'Priority Initiative' help a marketer discover?
  • A. Who influences the buyer and how they evaluate options in their selection process.
  • B. The critical aspects and expectations of the buyer's ideal solution.
  • C. Why some buyers decide to look for a solution while others remain satisfied with the status quo.
  • D. The reasons a buyer might regard your specific solution as suboptimal or unreliable.
Question 8 of 9
How should interview data be organized to develop actionable insights for buyer personas?
  • A. Keep each interview completely separate to preserve the unique story of every individual buyer.
  • B. Aggregate the discoveries into a single story, divided by the five Rings of Buying Insight.
  • C. Input all interview transcripts into a data processor to find the most commonly used marketing keywords.
  • D. Discard any quotes that do not align with the product's existing marketing strategy.
Question 9 of 9
How does the author suggest a company should determine the best marketing message for their product?
  • A. By focusing entirely on communicating that they have the lowest price in the market.
  • B. By broadcasting a generic message that appeals to the widest possible audience.
  • C. By finding the intersections between the product's 'Capabilities List' and the 'Buyer's Expectations' list.
  • D. By adopting the exact same messaging as their most successful competitor to capture their audience.

Buyer Personas — Full Chapter Overview

Buyer Personas Summary & Overview

It’s hard to sell to people that you don’t know. Buyer Personas (2015) gives you the tools you need to truly understand your customers – their motivations, their quirks, their reservations – so that you can fine-tune your messaging to become a maximally effective seller.

Who Should Listen to Buyer Personas?

  • Marketing executives
  • Company leaders who are looking for a product market
  • Anyone who wants to be a better communicator

About the Author: Adele Revella

Adele Revella is the CEO and founder of Buyer Persona Institute, and a leading authority on buyer personas. In addition to running the Institute, she is also a marketing and business leadership speaker, consultant, blogger and workshop facilitator.

 

[Adele Revella: Buyer Personas] copyright [2015], John Wiley & Sons [Inc. or Ltd. as applicable] Used by permission of John Wiley & Sons [Inc. or Ltd. as applicable] and shall not be made available to any unauthorized third parties.

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