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ICP vs. Buyer Persona: What's the Difference?
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A clean, direct side by side of the two terms our question is about, written for people who actually have to use both in a go-to-market plan. It is a fast reference when you just need the distinction restated cleanly, without wading through a book. Use it to sanity check your own ICP and persona docs before you finalize them.
- An ICP describes the company, a persona describes the person inside it.
- You typically need one ICP and several personas per ICP, not the other way round.
- Marketing and sales usually fail when they only have one of the two defined.
