Proto Personas

TL;DR

One of the problems in the Marketing Team which I helped to solve was a lack of clear strategic direction. To remedy that, my team leader commissioned me to create a set of marketing personas which we could use to inform our decisions. The road was bumpy, but in the end four personas emerged.

The problem

My pivot into a more research focused role at Elastic Email coincided with a growing awareness of the limitations facing the marketing team, namely the unexplained inefficacy of Google Ads campaigns and our own landing pages. It seemed like we were chasing our own tail and missing direction. Therefore my first task at the new position became conducting the creation of a set of personas to inform future marketing activities.

Lack of direction

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Ads ineffectiveness

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Slow growth

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Challenges

My pivot into a more research focused role at Elastic Email coincided with a growing awareness of the limitations facing the marketing team, namely the unexplained inefficacy of Google Ads campaigns and our own landing pages. It seemed like we were chasing our own tail and missing direction. Therefore my first task at the new position became conducting the creation of a set of personas to inform future marketing activities.

No qualitative research

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No clear direction

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Approach

My pivot into a more research focused role at Elastic Email coincided with a growing awareness of the limitations facing the marketing team, namely the unexplained inefficacy of Google Ads campaigns and our own landing pages. It seemed like we were chasing our own tail and missing direction. Therefore my first task at the new position became conducting the creation of a set of personas to inform future marketing activities.

Desk research

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Deep dive into data

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Workshops with a cross-department team

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Outcome

My pivot into a more research focused role at Elastic Email coincided with a growing awareness of the limitations facing the marketing team, namely the unexplained inefficacy of Google Ads campaigns and our own landing pages. It seemed like we were chasing our own tail and missing direction. Therefore my first task at the new position became conducting the creation of a set of personas to inform future marketing activities.

Desk research

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Deep dive into data

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Workshops with a cross-department team

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Proto Personas

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