Author: Adele Revella

Adele Revella is the founder and president of The Buyer Persona Institute, a firm that helps marketers interview buyers for the insights that are the foundation of strategic marketing and sales enablement. She will deliver a pre-conference workshop “Building Your Buyer Personas” on Sept. 4, 2012, at Content Marketing World. Download her free eBook The Buyer Persona Manifesto. Follow Adele on Twitter @buyerpersona or on the Institute’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/buyerpersona.

By adele-revella published August 23, 2012

Developing A Buyer Persona? Avoid These 4 Common Mistakes

Revella-cover-image-F-239x230Don’t get me wrong: I’m glad to see that marketers are starting to use buyer personas for content marketing. It’s a positive trend that, when done correctly, helps content marketers become a strategic asset and deliver a real competitive advantage to their organizations.

However, there’s a lot of confusion about what buyer personas are and aren’t and how to develop them. I worry that buyer persona could become just another meaningless buzzword. That would be a shame, because personas are such a useful tool.Continue Reading