As a brand or small business, have you ever sat down to consider why customers buy from you? Why do your customers continue to use your product or services? To create better value for any business, it is important to understand why customers make their purchasing decision.
The millennial customers are more demanding and this is because they are different dynamic online trends that influence their decisions. Needing more value for every purchase, the demand for a better quality of products and services needs to be implemented.
For businesses to succeed and stay afloat in these demanding times, there is a need to churn out offerings that appeal to customers’ needs. This will enable brands and businesses to stay relevant for a long time.
How to Identify your Customers
Understanding your customers starts from correctly identifying them. By identifying and understanding your customers, you can assess their needs and determine whether your product or services will meet their needs (and, if applicable, how your product or service is better than the competition).
You can identify your customers to know their age, gender, occupation, education, income level, location (demographics), and their buying pattern, lifestyle, beliefs, etc (psychographics).
When interpreted correctly, these data will provide analytics that unveils insight into ways that can effectively identify customer needs, allowing you to sell better and increase profitability.
Market Segmentation
Every business knows that its product/service cannot appeal to the general public, therefore, there is a need to focus on different segments of the target market and use appropriate channels that make the most impact. It may be argued that a business cannot know every one of its customers but effective market segmentation enables businesses to increase profitability as they speak directly to the target market in a voice they can easily connect with.
To effectively segment the market, there is a need to create a Buyer Persona(s). A Buyer personas (sometimes referred to as User personas) are fictional, generalized representations of your ideal customers. Personas help us all in marketing, sales, product, and services to internalize the ideal customer we’re trying to attract and relate to our customers as real humans.
Having a deep understanding of your buyer persona(s) is critical to driving content creation, product development, sales follow up, and really anything that relates to customer acquisition and retention. The effective crafting of these personas helps businesses to accurately pass across their messages to their target through campaigns, new products/services amongst others.
Impressive Customer Engagement
Effective online customer engagement can create, stimulate or influence customer behavior. Businesses can create a community of loyal customers and increase advocacy for their brand through user-generated content. Customer engagement also enables organizations to respond to the fundamental changes in customer behavior. Enhancing customers’ affinity through engagement, strengthens their loyalty, and emotionally ties them more closely to the business. By creating useful content, you can also get your customers to engage with your brand/business.
Strengthening your Growth Path
Every result-driven business recognizes the importance of understanding customer behavior as it helps channel a path for sales increase. When correctly identified, it makes it easier for your offerings to be accepted.