Buyer Personas and How They Help Target Your Lead Generation

Creating a buyer persona for your leads and prospects lets you more easily visualize the type of customer you are looking for. More importantly, buyer personas are effective at giving you insight into what your customers want and need. The following information will help you understand buyer personas and how you can use them.

Many products and services do indeed have a vast audience, but no company can successfully market everything they offer to everyone at all times. Trying to do so spreads your marketing so thin that it will do little good. To make your marketing work, you need to understand who will need your products and services, who will most likely respond to your marketing messages, and what they need from you to become a customer.

A buyer persona is a profile created to reflect the characteristics of your ideal customer. It will include personal and demographic data, along with information on what that ideal customer will want. Much like a character in a novel, buyer personas should have a personality, and when you look at that persona, you should be able to make assumptions about the person it represents.

For example, if your company specializes in high-end renovation work, your buyer persona might be a professional person with a high income and the willingness to spend it on his home. If you sell paint and decorating supplies, a viable persona might be a young couple who have just bought their first home and are working to give it their unique touch.

When you know what your buyer persona wants and needs, you can narrow your marketing to better target customers. This ensures that your marketing budget is spent effectively on messages directed specifically to leads who are most likely to respond.

Construction Monitor helps construction companies make the best use of their marketing resources, providing industry-specific data and information on best practices that can be put to use immediately. Contact us today for more information on buyer personas and how creating a buyer persona for your target market can improve your lead generation efforts.