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Create a Customer Persona

Build a rich, research-backed customer persona to guide every business decision.
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The Prompt

Build a detailed customer persona for the following business:

Business: [name and what it does]
Product or service: [specific offering]
What you know about your best customers so far: [describe — demographics, behaviours, what they say]
Who you think you are NOT for: [who is explicitly not your target]
Biggest assumption you have about your customer that you want challenged: [describe]

Build a complete persona covering:

DEMOGRAPHICS:
- Age range, gender distribution, location
- Job title and industry
- Income range
- Education
- Family situation

PSYCHOGRAPHICS:
- Core values and what they believe
- Identity — how they see themselves vs how they want to be seen
- Lifestyle and daily routine
- Media consumption (where they spend time online)
- Brands they love and why

GOALS AND MOTIVATIONS:
- Professional goals
- Personal goals
- What success looks like to them
- What keeps them up at night

PAIN POINTS:
- Functional frustrations (practical problems)
- Emotional frustrations (how those problems make them feel)
- Social frustrations (how those problems affect how others see them)

BUYING BEHAVIOUR:
- How they discover solutions
- What triggers the decision to buy
- Objections they have before purchasing
- Who else influences their decision
- What makes them loyal long-term

VOICE OF CUSTOMER:
- 5 things they would say about their problem in their own words
- The exact phrase they Google when looking for a solution

WHY THIS PERSONA BUYS FROM YOU SPECIFICALLY:
- The real reason (not the marketing reason)

Give the persona a name and a one-paragraph narrative day-in-the-life description.

📝 Fill in the blanks

Replace these placeholders with your own content:

[name and what it does]
[specific offering]
[describe — demographics, behaviours, what they say]
[who is explicitly not your target]
[describe]

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