Why Most Marketing Personas Suck (and How to Make It Better) with Adrienne Barnes (GMT133)

Personas. Maybe you love them. Maybe you hate them. Either way, you’ve probably concluded at some point in your career that your current personas are failing you. It’s because most buyer personas are built on anecdotes and made-up stories.

In this episode, Adrienne Barnes, founder of Best Buyer Persona, shares how she uses the JTBD framework to create a data-backed, insightful, and useful persona that will help the marketing, sales, and product team.

In episode 133, you’ll learn:

  1. The problem with the “one-and-done” buyer personas
  2. The three-step process to creating a JTBD buyer persona
  3. The best way to get actionable insights from user interviews
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About Adrienne Barnes

Adrienne Barnes is the founder of Best Buyer Persona. As a B2B SaaS content strategist with a strong focus on customer-centricity, Adrienne combines audience and customer research with SEO best practices to produce content strategies, buyer personas, UX design insights, and content pieces for her clients

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