The Leadspace Personas are used both for segmenting your inbound and existing leads and contacts and also for finding net new people from within the Leadspace ecosystem.
Personas for Segmentation
If you have custom personas in your contract, a great place to start determining which personas to build is with your segmentation rules as they stand today.
Questions to Consider
Some of the questions you'll want to consider in determining the right personas to build for segmentation use cases:
- What are the personas that my content streams are targeting today?
- What segmentation rules today in my marketing automation or CRM that 'bucket' my inbound leads & database into personas?
- Are we planning on starting any new initiatives around segmentation/personalized marketing?
- What complementary or competitive technologies would you like to 'flag' for these personas?
If your organization is not yet ready to determine which content streams are going to be created and does not have segmentation rules today, an option could be to either create your personas at a later date, or select some of the Leadspace Library Personas as a starting point.
From there, you always have the opportunity to 'tweak' these or completely replace them once you are ready.
Personas for Net New Discovery
If you have custom personas in your contract, then in thinking about how to start the creation of these for finding net new leads, a good place to start is with your defined buyer types as they are today. Oftentimes sales will have a set of buyer types that they go after, as will the marketing team.
Questions to Consider
Some of the questions you'll want to consider here in preparing to build your custom personas for net new use cases:
- What are the buyer types that we go after today?
- What are the new buyers that we are considering for this upcoming year?
- What are the titles that go into these buyer types?
- What are the levels that are most relevant for these buyer types?
- What departments do we most often see the above titles fall into?
- What might complementary or competitive technologies be relevant to these buyer types?
How to Get Started with Custom Personas
When you develop a persona model with Leadspace, you will take a data-driven approach to identify the best personas to support your business, leveraging analytics to identify and define your ideal personas. Once defined, the Leadspace persona model will measure the resemblance/fit to a defined persona we’ve built (for example, demand gen marketer).
Building Custom Personas
Ready to get started? Have your segmentation ready or your closed opportunity data? Head over to our Custom Persona Methodologies article!
Standard Persona Library
https://support.leadspace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020684559-Persona-Standard-Library