This paragraph is an example:
If you agree with me about the importance of buyer personas in Web marketing, then the most important next step is you need to know what you want each of your buyer personas to believe about your organization.Absolutely right. Here he is talking about the nexus of relationships called a person going about the days toils, or a blogger, or author or wiki manager or Digg presence (etc).
Well... no he isn't.
He is talking about what buyers should believe. Who is dictating to whom? The buyer, as if an when s/he get to that point in the conversation, will have a unique set of beliefs. They will be gained from a wide range of sources, views, friends, web sites, the guy at the end of the bar.... Oh... yes and perhaps a little bit from 'your organisation'.
It can't stop there. The buyer, is now potential gold in the The Long Tail and also an un exploded bomb - forever.
Can we use the word buyer anymore?
Only in marketing meetings.
Hey David,
ReplyDeleteI actually do agree with you on this one. As you may know from reading my work, I'm in the middle of writing a book and this post was one snippet of the draft. What I've found is that so many organizations just go after a "press hit" (any press hit) and forget that in everything they do they have an opportunity to infliuence people. But if they don'w know what they want people to believe, then it is just a mis-mash of unrelated junk. For a blogger like you who gets social media tags and the power of word of mouse, this may seem obvious. But for 99% of the companies I work with and the groups that I speak to this is not understood. People just want press clips. Ugh.
THanks for reading my stuff!
Cheers, David