
Develop a business-to-business content marketing plan by mapping customer discovery journeys, personas, and keyword organization, using the Omas decision journey model, lead generation techniques, and messaging and positioning plan.
Discover how the decision journey model blends Aida, challenger selling, solution selling, and McKinsey insights to map b2b buyer behavior from problem awareness through vendor review to a purchase decision.
Problem awareness starts the decision learning model. Publish accessible content, like 10 signs your content marketing strategy might be busted, to establish authority.
Recognize how buyers form the initial consideration by seeking experts and vendors who can solve the problem, and become the brand they think of through content marketing.
Learn how discovery journey criteria shape decisions, how startups leverage unique features to differentiate and influence buying criteria, and how content can discount competitor features while highlighting your own.
Explore how vendors win trust in the vendor review stage by creating content that eliminates risk, builds business value, and sparks a love connection during the discovery journey.
Guide the purchase moment by providing internal decision-making information and guides for advocates. Position yourself as the easiest to do business with and empower internal advocacy.
Reduce friction at every stage of the decision journey by identifying obstacles that keep customers in status quo and shaping content to ease changes and close the sale.
Identify the purchasing department, the beneficiary, their manager, and other executives; map four to five personas from an org chart to guide next steps.
Explore the persona building model to map decision-makers by three types of variables: business environment characteristics, personal characteristics, and power characteristics, including budget context and change drivers.
Use a VP of marketing persona to show evaluating budget, consensus, and decision power in B2B software buying, and tailoring content to this individual.
Identify each persona's stage-specific problems and craft keyword-driven messages across the funnel, from problem awareness to purchase, using a dashboard-focused approach.
Manage content with a Trello-based production process that queues ideas, prioritizes actions, and publishes a primary piece plus secondary promotional content aligned to the buyer's journey, targeting 15–20 pieces weekly.
Organize keywords for tractability by tagging them with systems like queery Square and categorizing into brand, product, people, and competitor terms. Link keywords to personas and intents (navigational, informational, transactional).
Learn to track the buyer journey via keyword tagging, filter insights by mentions, and use structured data to identify influencers, topics, sentiment, and channels.
Develop and iterate rich personas with a foundational profile, then listen and engage to refine market targeting through the discovery and decision journey; adapt the journey structure as needed.
Are you ready to become a marketing rockstar?
Take leads from prospects to closed sales by learning all about how they think, act, and move. By identifying buyer personas and buyer journeys, you'll learn how to attract your target audience and move them through the sales funnel.
This course will give you a better understanding of marketing, sales, and growth, all while teaching you the ins and outs of getting key messages to the people that really matter--your customers.