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Why Personas Fail

Marketing Insider Group

This information can be found in your CRM, happening in real-time in your marketing automation system, understood anecdotally in your sales pit, or revealed in primary persona interviews. . I recently heard personas were “emotionally adopted” by marketers. When they’re created in a bubble. When there’s no buy-in.

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How to Do Market Research: A Guide and Template

Hubspot Marketing

Market Segmentation Research Market segmentation research allows you to categorize your target audience into different groups (or segments) based on specific and defining characteristics — this way, you can determine effective ways to meet their needs, understand their pain points and expectations, learn about their goals, and more.

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2 Zero Risk Predictions for 2017

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

First, a brief reflection back on 2016, as it was a dynamic year for the technology market and a year of change for me personally as well. For everything else that happened in 2016, I think it’s best summarized as the “year where our collective analytics and predictive prowess failed us,” at least in the U.S.