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In today’s landscape, consumers want to interact with content dramatically differently than they ever did before. Their attention spans are actually dramatically getting lower, and also, the need for personalization is always increasing. In fact, as Seth Godin says, “It’s not about e-mail. It’s about me-mail.”
Some major trends are taking place in this area:
One of the great ways to really understand your customers in a very unbiased and robust way is that through social listening. In essence, it’s a relatively new way of thinking about your customers and getting core insights in an unobtrusive way, and can lead to real, unbiased results.
Social listening is the process of identifying and assessing what is being said about a company, individual, product, or brand on the internet.
First, you can listen in to consumers in a non-obtrusive way. So hearing consumers talk and chatter online enables you to gain insights about how they’re feeling, thinking, and behaving about your product.
Second, if you can hear your consumers talk about your product, you can do exactly the same with competitors – both getting a sense of how consumers perceive your competitors, but as well as how competitors are engaging with consumers in his way. It enables you to gain greater insights into what they may be doing and their future strategies.
Third, it enables you to gain new insights and ideas about new products and services as a consequence to what your consumers may be talking about. So, for instance, your consumer might make great suggestions about exactly what they want to see more of in your product, and you can then adapt that by gaining those insights. You can also understand new, upcoming needs which would help greatly as part of the new product development process.
Fourth, you need to constantly iterate your product, adapting it to make sure that it’s always meeting your changing consumer requirements, so you can tailor your product to do just that.
Ritchie Mehta has had an eight-year corporate career with a number of leading organizations such as HSBC, RBS, and Direct Line Group. He then went on setting up a number of businesses.
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ABOUT THIS DIGITAL MARKETING MODULE
This module begins by covering the benefits and challenges associated with digital communications and the importance of researching and selecting the most appropriate digital channels to reach and engage with your target audience. It covers the tools and digital PR activities you can use to extend your reach on social media, content management, the factors to consider when creating a budget for a digital campaign, resourcing a digital team, and the importance of aligning digital metrics with customer service metrics to review the performance of a digital campaign.