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Personas

Visualize your customers with personas in journey maps

What is a persona and how is it used in customer journey mapping?

A persona is a fictional representation of your ideal customer or user. It goes beyond generalized demographics by incorporating detailed attributes, motivations, and behaviors. When used in customer journey mapping, personas provide valuable insights into the Customer Experience, so that you can understand characteristics and needs of your customers and users to optimize your products or services.

Personas are essential in improving Customer Experience because they humanize data. Instead of dealing with abstract or transactional segments you can connect and empathize with relatable characters. Using personas in customer journey mapping software helps align different teams. It creates a clear visual representation that everyone can understand.

Fictional customer personas inform product features (focusing on user personas and the user experience), messaging, plus service and marketing strategies and provide context to decision-making.

With the Cemantica platform, you can easily create your own personas for your target groups with a simple drag and drop editor to include images, quotes, text fields and profile information in your own layouts. Use the persona tool to customize and reuse templates, start from scratch or use AI to help you complete and adapt the blocks.

Creating a Persona

Cemantica makes it easy for you to understand, empathize and act on your customers' perspectives and expectations, putting them at the center of your product and service design.
In Cemantica, you can use Persona Templates (both for B2B and B2C) or the AI Assistant, Alex, just like you do with a Journey Map Template, to start from a structure and get inspired. Connect your Personas with real customer segments and contacts in your CRM for a two-way data exchange for customer feedback and analysis.

Alex our AI assistant will help you build your personas from scratch with a simple query or enrich your existing ones. In seconds, Alex can create a Persona profile and its categories based on your prompt. If you need to enrich existing profiles (adding new categories or rewriting text, go ahead and ask AI to do that too. Contact us to try it out.

A typical Persona structure contains the following elements:

Demographic information: Start with basic details such as age, gender, occupation, and location. These help contextualize the Persona.
Psychological profile: Dive deeper into their mindset. Understand their goals, fears, motivations and decision-making processes.
Challenges and pain points: Identify the obstacles they face. What frustrates them? What problems do they need solutions for?
Family life and lifestyle: Consider their family dynamics, hobbies, and lifestyle choices. These factors impact their behavior.
Technological literacy: Assess their comfort level with technology. Are they tech-savvy or prefer simplicity?
Goals and aspirations: What are their short-term and long-term objectives? How does your product or service fit into their journey?

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Quantity and quality: getting the most out of Personas

Remember that you should only create profiles that will bring benefit to your business. You will create several key customer or user Personas. These will show your target audience groups and help test new ideas.

Like any exercise, avoid getting too caught up in the details or the number of Personas you create. Focus only on the fictional profiles you will actually use.

In Cemantica, our users can create Persona Hierarchies. This helps them visualize, prioritize, and organize different personas. Users can connect and group them into Master and Sub Personas.