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Is your content marketing using your personas and buyer’s journeys?

I don’t generally see content being designed for personas and buyer’s journeys. I am not sure why, but I have suggested one change for clients that has helped.

Create a grid of personas and buying steps and target content to each cell of the grid:

Learn Compare Try Buy
Mom
Dad
Grandma
Grandpa

The steps of the buyer’s journey are across the top and the personas are down the side. At the intersection of the steps and personas in each cell, you should be able to describe a marketing message. What are you trying to say to that person at that moment? Better yet, how is that particular marketing message differentiated from your competitors?

Answering both of those questions allows you to target your market, sharpen your messaging, and persuade more people than ever before.

Mike Moran

Mike Moran is a Converseon, an AI powered consumer intelligence technology and consulting firm. He is also a senior strategist for SoloSegment, a marketing automation software solutions and services firm. Mike also served as a member of the Board of Directors of SEMPO. Mike spent 30 years at IBM, rising to Distinguished Engineer, an executive-level technical position. Mike held various roles in his IBM career, including eight years at IBM’s customer-facing website, ibm.com, most recently as the Manager of ibm.com Web Experience, where he led 65 information architects, web designers, webmasters, programmers, and technical architects around the world. Mike's newest book is Outside-In Marketing with world-renowned author James Mathewson. He is co-author of the best-selling Search Engine Marketing, Inc. (with fellow search marketing expert Bill Hunt), now in its Third Edition. Mike is also the author of the acclaimed internet marketing book, Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules, named one of best business books of 2007 by the Miami Herald. Mike founded and writes for Biznology® and writes regularly for other blogs. In addition to Mike’s broad technical background, he holds an Advanced Certificate in Market Management Practice from the Royal UK Charter Institute of Marketing and is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He also teaches at Rutgers Business School. He was a Senior Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research and is now a Senior Fellow of The Conference Board. A Certified Speaking Professional, Mike regularly makes speaking appearances. Mike’s previous appearances include keynote speaking appearances worldwide

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