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Buyer personas are fictional representations of customers which help businesses to better understand their customers and what they want. They allow businesses to create targeted messaging and marketing, and to develop a strategy which meets their customers' needs. Personas also help to make everything more efficient, and help businesses to grow organically and attract clients.
Personas should be based on research and interviews with the target audience, and should be flexible to changing customer needs over time. Developing buyer personas starts with research, and looking externally to get as much data as possible. This helps businesses to answer questions about to whom they should be selling, what will delight customers, and what the product value is.
Personas are important for business strategy, and help to ensure that the company is staying on target with customer needs. They should be based on research and interviews, and should be updated regularly to reflect changing customer needs. Personas are the ultimate outcome of lots of research and discovery, and help businesses to better understand their customers.
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