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Buyer persona builder
A buyer persona describes one person in a purchase: what they want, what stands in their way, and what convinces them. Fill in the guided form and download a one-page card as an image, a PDF, or Markdown.
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How it works
Fill in who they are, what they want, how they buy, and where they listen.
Check the one-page card as you type, and pick an accent color.
Download a PNG or PDF to share, or Markdown for a doc or wiki.
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How to build a buyer persona your team will use
Contents
What a buyer persona is for
A buyer persona describes a kind of person who takes part in a purchase: what they're responsible for, what must be true before they'll say yes, what worries them, and which evidence they trust. It's different from an ideal customer profile, which describes the kind of company where your product fits.
A useful persona changes decisions. It tells writers which objections to answer, tells sales which proof to bring, and tells everyone which channels are worth the time. Details that don't change a decision, such as hobbies or a made-up backstory, can stay out.
Base it on real buyers
The strongest personas come from conversations about real, recent purchases. Talk to a few customers who bought in the last year, and to a few people who chose something else. Ask what started the search, who else was involved, what almost stopped them, and what made them decide.
Mark which points you've heard from buyers and which you're assuming, and test the assumptions first.
- Interviews with customers about a specific, recent purchase
- Notes from sales and support calls, especially objections
- Reviews of your product and of the alternatives, in buyers' own words
- Win and loss notes from your sales team
What to put in each part
Three specific points per list beat ten vague ones. Write each point the way the buyer would say it, not the way your product page would.
- Goals: what they're measured on this year, or trying to get done.
- Challenges: what gets in the way today, described as their problem rather than your feature.
- Buying triggers: the events that turn a someday problem into a project now.
- Decision criteria: what a solution has to do or prove before they'll pick it.
- Objections: the doubts your content and sales calls need to answer.
- Where they get information: the publications, communities, events, and people they trust.
- Quote: one line in their own words, from a call or a review, so the team can hear the person.
Put the persona to work
Share the one-page card where your team writes briefs, and paste the Markdown into the doc or wiki you already use. Before each campaign, check the brief against the persona: does the message answer their objections, and does the channel match where they get information?
Revisit the persona when your product, your buyers, or the objections you hear change. A persona that matches last year's buyers will steer this year's content the wrong way.
Frequently asked
Questions, answered.
What people ask before they use the Buyer persona builder.
A buyer persona is a short, research-based description of a kind of person who takes part in buying your product: their role, goals, and challenges, what makes them start looking, what they need to see before they decide, and where they look for information.
An ideal customer profile describes the kind of company where your product fits. A buyer persona describes a person inside that company who takes part in the decision. B2B teams use both: the profile to choose which accounts to pursue, and personas to decide what each person needs to hear.
Start with the one or two people who most often decide or block a purchase, such as the person who will use the product and the person who approves the budget. Add another persona only when someone needs a different message.
Yes, in this browser. Your persona is saved on this device as you type, so you can close the page and come back to it. It isn't saved anywhere else, so download a copy to share it or to use it on another device. Clear persona removes the saved copy.
Use the PNG to drop the card into a slide or a chat, the PDF to print it or attach it, and the Markdown file to paste every field into a doc, wiki, or brief. The card fits one page, so very long lists are cut short on it. The Markdown file always has everything.
No. The builder runs in your browser. What you type and any photo you add stay on your device, and the downloads are created there too. Nothing is sent to a server or an AI model.
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From Ampere
Your persona can brief Ampere, too.
Ampere is an AI marketing agent that saves what it learns about your brand as Brand memory and uses it in the content it drafts for your review. When it sets up your Brand memory, you can add up to five documents, such as this persona, alongside your website or a short brief.
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