{"id":399,"date":"2020-04-23T09:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2020-04-23T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:17:14","slug":"who-should-be-involved-in-creating-your-buyer-personas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/who-should-be-involved-in-creating-your-buyer-personas\/","title":{"rendered":"Who should be involved in creating your buyer personas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note: this post is based on my answer on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Who-should-be-involved-in-creating-your-buyer-personas-1\">Quora<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Short answer: (a) people inside the team\/organization using the personas, and (b) customers\/users the personas are based on.<\/p>\n<p>You want the people who will be using the personas to participate in their creation as much as possible for them to internalize important customer segment information already during the creation process, and to avoid them rejecting the personas because of them being \u201cartificial\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When being part of the process of persona creation, the persona users are more likely to accept and adopt personas in their decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I mentioned customers because even when creating <a href=\"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/persona-topics\/data-driven-personas\/\">data-driven personas<\/a> (i.e., those based on quantitative numbers such as CRM or Web analytics records), you still want in-depth insights on the customers\u2019 pain points, needs, and wants. 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