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JorieMunroe
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

Buyer personas can be created through research, surveys, and interviews — all with a mix of customers, prospects, and those outside your contacts database who might align with your target audience.

 

But like all data, even information you gather on your audience (your personas) can go out of date. After all, business models change, companies merge or shift direction, and your audience can (and likely will) evolve. In your professional opinion, how often should you audit and even update your buyer personas?

 

*To learn more about this, check out the Using Buyer Personas in HubSpot lesson via HubSpot Academy. 

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LoBalll
Contributeur

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

Our business has close ties to a considerably older age group, and I believe these customers are rather loyal to our business. Consequently, we cater to them by continuing traditions that they are used to. 

 

Saying this, I believe we've gathered a rather wider audience that we may not be listening to as thoroughly. We need to audit our customer base and update the user personas now to continue delivering the products and services that are most relevant to our customers. Going forward, perhaps a buyer persona audit every 2 years for our company. 

LPavelescu
Membre

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

in our business i thing every 3-4 years is enought

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Tina2
Participant

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

Hi I'm Tina and I'm new here...

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DRomito
Participant

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

Aren't you technically updating buyer personas from campaign to campaign in order to better customize your marketing message? I'm a marketing rookie, but it seems like make a "blanket persona" might do a disservice to each campaign your marketing team is doing.

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CAxisTech
Membre

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

varies. at least once a year. 

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bthapa
Membre

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

For a small business where the number of customers is low, annually updating is ok but for the medium or large business, quarterly is better. 

SWilson4
Participant | Partenaire solutions Diamond
Participant | Partenaire solutions Diamond

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

I agree that quarterly should be sufficient, at a minimum.

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LRector
Membre

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

Every new campaign that is being launched 

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KMcleod8
Membre

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

I believe that we should update buyer personas continually as we learn more about our buyers either through direct interaction or research. 

abumere
Membre

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

I believe as the audience preferences change daily as well as the goals and objectives of the company, the need to update the buyer persona would depend on the perception of such changes to the team and should be done based on this. Hence for some it may be done monthly if your audience are people who are into fads and loose interest in things easily and for some it may be quarterly or even bi annually.

NStewart3
Membre

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

My opinion.  Annual is sufficient; unless a significant change of business climate occurs (ex. pandemic).

CDeano
Membre

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

I'd agree that reviewing personas on a quarterly basis (at a minimum), but the frequency is also dependent on any new insights found in the data collected OR if there has been any change in strategic objectives or goals.

 

From a non-profit trade association perspective, I'd be curious as to others thoughts here!

 

We're currently creating new membership-level personas. However, we have several services and products that are sold to generate non-membership dues revenue. Would you find it important/necessary to also create buyer personas by product and service, too?

Membership-Level Personas
Service-Level Personas
Product-based Personas

KWilliams-
Participant

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

Quarterly!

kmagnusson
Membre

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

Quarterly

jennafuhlman
Membre

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

Buyer personas need to be aligned with company goals and target audience. Assuming company goals change you will need to change your buyer persona regularly. My company is in the financial servicies industry, which is rapidly changing. Having the data to make sure our company's target audience is accurate is critical to have.

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RByas
Participant

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

Buyer personas need to be aligned with your business's target audience. Understanding your audience's expectations is the key to successfully implementing accurate buying persona data.

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saumshetty
Participant

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

Buyer personas are what busineses are built on and are the crux on which a campaign is built on. I would say again depending on the size of the organization this needs to be updated regularly.

CKean
Participant

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

I think it depends on the industry you are in and whether consumer patterns change rapidly in your industry.

In my industry, once or twice per year should be sufficient.

 

KMShin
Membre | Partenaire solutions Platinum
Membre | Partenaire solutions Platinum

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

Ideally quarterly, but at least twice per year I think is sufficient.

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MNicholas
Membre | Partenaire solutions Platinum
Membre | Partenaire solutions Platinum

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

The goal should be quarterly but should definitely be reviewed when there's any form of change in leadership.

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jkraftlv
Membre

How often should you audit and update your buyer personas?

My opinion.  Annual is sufficient; unless a significant change of business climate occurs (ex. pandemic).