Every CEO's Secret Weapon for Growth: Know Your Consumer
November 2013
You've heard the mandate "Know Your Consumer" but do you understand its true value to your company? Leaders who regularly tap consumer insight know that this is the key lever for sustained business growth. In this white paper, we examine methods of closing the company-consumer gap, and dig into examples of well-known companies that have done so successfully.
The old brand model, which advocated the creation of an external brand image to influence consumers, is a thing of the past. We think it’s time to do things differently. So, we wrote this whitepaper drawing upon the anthropological concept of culture to introduce a new model for brands. We argue that its time for true values to replace the external brand image. In other words, looking good is no longer enough. To compete in today’s fast paced landscape, brands must be better from the inside out. We call this new model Brand Culture—and we think it has the potential to transform companies into truly amazing brands.
How to make your customers fall in love with you.Liquid Agency
Success at retail is about creating great experiences. Just like dating.
Technology, mobility and access, among other things, have dramatically changed the retail landscape. The future of retail is bigger than flashy technology and the hyper-connected Internet of Things. In this new world, the consumer is in charge. Retailers and brands must build meaningful relationships if they want to see continued sales growth. And the way to do this is by getting to know your customers well, cater to their needs, create moments of delight, stay connected, be nice to their friends and invite them to share their thoughts and experiences. In other words, retail is a lot like dating.
Lean, agile, consumer centered: how to develop brands in the age of connected...Valentina Giannella
Key ideas, suggestions and a step-by-step model to develop brands that people will love. The approach is based on three principles: 1 - define the brand around your consumers, and not around your product 2 - Get rid of irrelevant deliverables and focus more on rapidly prototype the brand, with tests and iteration (the so-called Lean Brand) 3 - Measure love, not awareness. This is not a handbook, but more of a sticky wall with a checklist of what you need to do, and to care about when developing, redesigning, refining a brand experience. More on www.lagiannella.com
This presentation is about radical differentiation for businesses. There are winners and losers in business. The winners learn how to RADICALLY differentiate their business from ALL competition.
The old brand model, which advocated the creation of an external brand image to influence consumers, is a thing of the past. We think it’s time to do things differently. So, we wrote this whitepaper drawing upon the anthropological concept of culture to introduce a new model for brands. We argue that its time for true values to replace the external brand image. In other words, looking good is no longer enough. To compete in today’s fast paced landscape, brands must be better from the inside out. We call this new model Brand Culture—and we think it has the potential to transform companies into truly amazing brands.
How to make your customers fall in love with you.Liquid Agency
Success at retail is about creating great experiences. Just like dating.
Technology, mobility and access, among other things, have dramatically changed the retail landscape. The future of retail is bigger than flashy technology and the hyper-connected Internet of Things. In this new world, the consumer is in charge. Retailers and brands must build meaningful relationships if they want to see continued sales growth. And the way to do this is by getting to know your customers well, cater to their needs, create moments of delight, stay connected, be nice to their friends and invite them to share their thoughts and experiences. In other words, retail is a lot like dating.
Lean, agile, consumer centered: how to develop brands in the age of connected...Valentina Giannella
Key ideas, suggestions and a step-by-step model to develop brands that people will love. The approach is based on three principles: 1 - define the brand around your consumers, and not around your product 2 - Get rid of irrelevant deliverables and focus more on rapidly prototype the brand, with tests and iteration (the so-called Lean Brand) 3 - Measure love, not awareness. This is not a handbook, but more of a sticky wall with a checklist of what you need to do, and to care about when developing, redesigning, refining a brand experience. More on www.lagiannella.com
This presentation is about radical differentiation for businesses. There are winners and losers in business. The winners learn how to RADICALLY differentiate their business from ALL competition.
Successful brands and retailers create engaging consumer experiences which result in long term relationships and an improved bottom line. This presentation offers tips on how to build enduring relationships at retail.
Cialdini's powers of influence are more critical than ever as we more from the information age to the influence age. Unless you understand how to get your messages, be they face2face or social media, to cut-through and persuade then you're nowhere. This presentation offers the short-cuts to success with some visual examples to keep these proven classics topical and interesting.
It should come as no surprise that humans are emotional creatures. Marketers have long recognized the fact that emotions play a key role when consumers are talking about or purchasing products in categories as disparate as those represented by brands. Over the past decade, emotional branding has emerged as a highly influential brand management paradigm. Among marketing practitioners, this relational, communal, participatory, sensory, and emotive view of consumer– brand relationships is increasingly heralded as a central pillar of market differentiation and sustainable competitive advantage. Emotional connections are universally important, and managing those emotional bonds pays off handsomely. Some companies are very good at creating emotional connections with their customers. Most, however, are not. Companies that is successful at creating emotional connections benefit from stronger results, not only in cash flow and profit, but in market share. Emotional connections aren’t static. They ebb and flow and the results can affect a company’s long-term business success.
Attraction is a Beautiful Thing
Whether it’s a business or a non-profit, your goal as a leader is to build, transform, and elevate your brand—so that you can attract attention, create buzz, nurture a preference, generate leads, and engender loyalty.
To do that, you need to understand the essential truths about your organization, interlace them with your audiences’ perspectives, and use that knowledge to create a smart and fearless presence that changes minds and inspires action.
To many people, a brand is simply a name and logo. In part that’s true, but really, it’s so
much more. Your brand is your company’s face to the world. It’s your reputation, your
personality, your promise. It’s communication of the characteristics, values and attributes
that define what your business is and is not.
This eBook will cover important brand topics such as:
- Defining a Brand
- Benefits of a Strong Brand
- Defining Your Positioning
- Developing Your Visual Identity
- Giving Your Brand Character
- Tips to Help Live Your Brand
Branding isn’t just for the big guys anymore. Small businesses can benefit, too —
maybe even more so than bigger businesses. The fact is, when people are looking for a
small business, whether it’s an auto body shop or a new restaurant, they want to be able to find your website and see a professional-looking brand before they give you their business.
Please use "Building Your Brand" as your guide to building your own business story. Learn more at www.deluxe.com
This is a presentation of how I approach the marketing for a small business. The goal is to create a marketing and sales plan that is effective in attracting your ideal customers in an ongoing consistent way.
Philadelphia Fashion Incubator Presentation May 2018David Hitt
A fun collaborative discussion about what branding looks like in 2018. We take a look at yesterday and today and compare the methods, messaging and strategies pertaining to the world of fashion.
While the Golden Rule cautions us to treat others as we'd have them treat us, successful marketing requires a slightly different tack: we must put ourselves in the shoes of our target customers and treat them according to their wishes, not ours. In this white paper, we explore successes and failures in empathy, including the all-too-common blind spot of next-bench syndrome.
Successful brands and retailers create engaging consumer experiences which result in long term relationships and an improved bottom line. This presentation offers tips on how to build enduring relationships at retail.
Cialdini's powers of influence are more critical than ever as we more from the information age to the influence age. Unless you understand how to get your messages, be they face2face or social media, to cut-through and persuade then you're nowhere. This presentation offers the short-cuts to success with some visual examples to keep these proven classics topical and interesting.
It should come as no surprise that humans are emotional creatures. Marketers have long recognized the fact that emotions play a key role when consumers are talking about or purchasing products in categories as disparate as those represented by brands. Over the past decade, emotional branding has emerged as a highly influential brand management paradigm. Among marketing practitioners, this relational, communal, participatory, sensory, and emotive view of consumer– brand relationships is increasingly heralded as a central pillar of market differentiation and sustainable competitive advantage. Emotional connections are universally important, and managing those emotional bonds pays off handsomely. Some companies are very good at creating emotional connections with their customers. Most, however, are not. Companies that is successful at creating emotional connections benefit from stronger results, not only in cash flow and profit, but in market share. Emotional connections aren’t static. They ebb and flow and the results can affect a company’s long-term business success.
Attraction is a Beautiful Thing
Whether it’s a business or a non-profit, your goal as a leader is to build, transform, and elevate your brand—so that you can attract attention, create buzz, nurture a preference, generate leads, and engender loyalty.
To do that, you need to understand the essential truths about your organization, interlace them with your audiences’ perspectives, and use that knowledge to create a smart and fearless presence that changes minds and inspires action.
To many people, a brand is simply a name and logo. In part that’s true, but really, it’s so
much more. Your brand is your company’s face to the world. It’s your reputation, your
personality, your promise. It’s communication of the characteristics, values and attributes
that define what your business is and is not.
This eBook will cover important brand topics such as:
- Defining a Brand
- Benefits of a Strong Brand
- Defining Your Positioning
- Developing Your Visual Identity
- Giving Your Brand Character
- Tips to Help Live Your Brand
Branding isn’t just for the big guys anymore. Small businesses can benefit, too —
maybe even more so than bigger businesses. The fact is, when people are looking for a
small business, whether it’s an auto body shop or a new restaurant, they want to be able to find your website and see a professional-looking brand before they give you their business.
Please use "Building Your Brand" as your guide to building your own business story. Learn more at www.deluxe.com
This is a presentation of how I approach the marketing for a small business. The goal is to create a marketing and sales plan that is effective in attracting your ideal customers in an ongoing consistent way.
Philadelphia Fashion Incubator Presentation May 2018David Hitt
A fun collaborative discussion about what branding looks like in 2018. We take a look at yesterday and today and compare the methods, messaging and strategies pertaining to the world of fashion.
While the Golden Rule cautions us to treat others as we'd have them treat us, successful marketing requires a slightly different tack: we must put ourselves in the shoes of our target customers and treat them according to their wishes, not ours. In this white paper, we explore successes and failures in empathy, including the all-too-common blind spot of next-bench syndrome.
In the wake of Steve Jobs\' death, many leaders look to his legacy for inspiration. In particular, he was known for eschewing market research. While it may be appealing to use this uniquely talented individual as justification to skip this step, bear in mind that consumer insight is vital to successful marketing and product development, regardless of how it is gathered. In this white paper, we discuss common misperceptions about market research, how it can be used successfully, and a variety of methods for gathering insights from customers.
The marketplace has switched from providing dumb products to smart ones, which have a built-in intelligence allowing them to respond and change according to the customer\'s usage. In this white paper, we analyze this new paradigm and provide examples and key steps to providing smarter products.
Consumer behavior has been dramatically impacted by the recent financial crisis. In this white paper, we share insights into changes in consumption and how to position your product to earn the right to win in the post-recession marketplace.
Increasingly, a variety of consumers – not just techies and young people – find social media compelling. In this white paper, we discuss the underlying reasons for this attraction and plot out best practices for engaging with consumers in this new marketing landscape.
A survey of professional truck drivers determines the key factors driving loyalty to carriers. Drivers were asked to rate the importance of specific employee benefits in their decision to stay with or leave a trucking company. This paper outlines the results of the survey and provides suggestions on how to sustain a culture of driver appreciation throughout fleet operations.
The New Year In Commercial Cleaning Business TechnologyAndrea Vermurlen
Technology continues to evolve at a breakneck pace. Software and systems developers and partners are doing more to specifically address the commercial cleaning, janitorial services, and building service contractor (BSC) industry.
With over 100,000 companies delivering cleaning and janitorial services across the US, these executives are asking….What’s new? What’s coming? Are there advancements that could significantly impact my business? For 2017, we have gathered predictions from 5 experts in business technology – representing accounting/business systems, workorder solutions, time tracking, payroll and consulting.
What kind of impact will technology have on your company this year? See what our experts have to say about the 2017 editions of software solutions that help commercial cleaning companies grow their business.
Are you struggling to create content that engages your audience? Content marketing success relies on your ability to understand and target the customer context. This guide helps you do just that.
This is an outline of my branding studies, I will be summarizing all the information I learn throughout my studies and researches into small presentations hoping it will make good and easy references for people who are looking to understand and learn more about branding.
In this presentation I will talk about the Brand basics and I will cover the following:
- What is brand?
Stay tuned and engage with me on twitter on: @YazanTamimi
Conversant what the bleep does personalized marketing really meanConversant, Inc.
Outlines the essential components of a personalized marketing strategy and solution. Simplifies the process of identifying the right approach to personalization for any brand.
Meet the engaged buyer.
Buying isn’t what it used to be. It could be a camera, phone or car – or it could be a million-dollar business software solution. Whatever the purchase, the way customers consider buying it has changed forever. Read Buying Isn’t What It Used To Be to find out why people buy the way they do now – and how your marketing can work harder to meet their expectations.
10 Actions To Help Ensure Your Business Succeeds | BBH StockholmAlexander Niléhn
A BBH briefing on how to ensure your business succeeds in the time of COVID-19: How brands stay relevant, stay useful and emerge strong.
Please steal and share.
RiseFuel's Beginners Guide to Inbound MarketingTony Shannon
By now, we've all heard how valuable—even essential—inbound marketing can be for growing sales and finding new customers. Whether your current sentiment leans more toward enthusiasm or trepidation, there's no way around the fact that inbound marketing is far more complex field than it first seems.
Diving in without a sense for what it's like can be overwhelming, and building a marketing strategy that provides real value takes both savvy and hard work, but fear not—we're here to help!
Using Growth Hacking & Inbound Marketing To Grow On A BudgetKennedy Andersson AB
Low cost & high impact inbound marketing can ignite growth on a limited budget, if you a start-up or feel like giving-up there are opportunities with a comprehensive inbound marketing program to grow your leads and business.
Branding, Positioning & Understanding Current Marketing Issues, presented at CSUSB on 11/20/14. Understanding how to build a positioning statement is the most important part of creating your base to your strategic marketing plan. This presentation goes through how RedFusion builds relationship based, executable marketing cycles for small businesses.
51 Types of Marketing Strategies in Use TodayPeter vinosh
An organization's strategy combines all of its marketing goals into one comprehensive plan. A good marketing strategy should be drawn from market research and focus on the product mix in order to achieve the maximum profit and sustain the business. The marketing strategy is the foundation of a marketing plan.
UNSTUCK: Use the Brand-As-Business Management Approach to Troubleshoot Your Business is a short guide that introduces six prevalent business issues and the solutions offered by the brand-as-business approach.
The session includes a brief history of the evolution of search before diving into the roles technology, content, and links play in developing a powerful SEO strategy in a world of Generative AI and social search. Discover how to optimize for TikTok searches, Google's Gemini, and Search Generative Experience while developing a powerful arsenal of tools and templates to help maximize the effectiveness of your SEO initiatives.
Key Takeaways:
Understand how search engines work
Be able to find out where your users search
Know what is required for each discipline of SEO
Feel confident creating an SEO Plan
Confidently measure SEO performance
SMM Cheap - No. 1 SMM panel in the worldsmmpanel567
Boost your social media marketing with our SMM Panel services offering SMM Cheap services! Get cost-effective services for your business and increase followers, likes, and engagement across all social media platforms. Get affordable services perfect for businesses and influencers looking to increase their social proof. See how cheap SMM strategies can help improve your social media presence and be a pro at the social media game.
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
Digital Commerce Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at UCLA...Valters Lauzums
E-commerce in 2024 is characterized by a dynamic blend of opportunities and significant challenges. Supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages are critical issues, leading to increased shipping delays and rising costs, which impact timely delivery and squeeze profit margins. Efficient logistics management is essential, yet it is often hampered by these external factors. Payment processing, while needing to ensure security and user convenience, grapples with preventing fraud and integrating diverse payment methods, adding another layer of complexity. Furthermore, fulfillment operations require a streamlined approach to handle volume spikes and maintain accuracy in order picking, packing, and shipping, all while meeting customers' heightened expectations for faster delivery times.
Amid these operational challenges, customer data has emerged as an important strategy. By focusing on personalization and enhancing customer experience from historical behavior, businesses can deliver improved website and brand experienced, better product recommendations, optimal promotions, and content to meet individual preferences. Better data analytics can also help in effectively creating marketing campaigns, improving customer retention, and driving product development and inventory management.
Innovative formats such as social commerce and live shopping are beginning to impact the digital commerce landscape, offering new ways to engage with customers and drive sales, and may provide opportunity for brands that have been priced out or seen a downturn with post-pandemic shopping behavior. Social commerce integrates shopping experiences directly into social media platforms, tapping into the massive user bases of these networks to increase reach and engagement. Live shopping, on the other hand, combines entertainment and real-time interaction, providing a dynamic platform for showcasing products and encouraging immediate purchases. These innovations not only enhance customer engagement but also provide valuable data for businesses to refine their strategies and deliver superior shopping experiences.
The e-commerce sector is evolving rapidly, and businesses that effectively manage operational challenges and implement innovative strategies are best positioned for long-term success.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
The Secret to Engaging Modern Consumers: Journey Mapping and Personalization
In today's digital landscape, understanding the customer's journey and delivering personalized experiences are paramount. This masterclass delves into the art of consumer journey mapping, a powerful technique that visualizes the entire customer experience across touchpoints. Attendees will learn how to create detailed journey maps, identify pain points, and uncover opportunities for optimization. The presentation also explores personalization strategies that leverage data and technology to tailor content, products, and experiences to individual customers. From real-time personalization to predictive analytics, attendees will gain insights into cutting-edge approaches that drive engagement and loyalty.
Key Takeaways:
Current consumer landscape; Steps to mapping an effective consumer journey; Understanding the value of personalization; Integrating mapping and personalization for success; Brands that are getting It right!; Best Practices; Future Trends
SEO as the Backbone of Digital MarketingFelipe Bazon
In this talk Felipe Bazon will share how him and his team at Hedgehog Digital share our journey of making C-Levels alike, specially CMOS realize that SEO is the backbone of digital marketing by showing how SEO can contribute to brand awareness, reputation and authority and above all how to use SEO to create more robust global marketing strategies.
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
AI-Powered Personalization: Principles, Use Cases, and Its Impact on CROVWO
In today’s era of AI, personalization is more than just a trend—it’s a fundamental strategy that unlocks numerous opportunities.
When done effectively, personalization builds trust, loyalty, and satisfaction among your users—key factors for business success. However, relying solely on AI capabilities isn’t enough. You need to anchor your approach in solid principles, understand your users’ context, and master the art of persuasion.
Join us as Sarjak Patel and Naitry Saggu from 3rd Eye Consulting unveil a transformative framework. This approach seamlessly integrates your unique context, consumer insights, and conversion goals, paving the way for unparalleled success in personalization.
Digital marketing is the art and science of promoting products or services using digital channels to reach and engage with potential customers. It encompasses a wide range of online tactics and strategies aimed at increasing brand visibility, driving website traffic, generating leads, and ultimately, converting those leads into customers.
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Core Web Vitals SEO Workshop - improve your performance [pdf]Peter Mead
Core Web Vitals to improve your website performance for better SEO results with CWV.
CWV Topics include:
- Understanding the latest Core Web Vitals including the significance of LCP, INP and CLS + their impact on SEO
- Optimisation techniques from our experts on how to improve your CWV on platforms like WordPress and WP Engine
- The impact of user experience and SEO
For too many years marketing and sales have operated in silos...while in some forward thinking companies, the two organizations work together to drive new opportunity development and revenue. This session will explore the lessons learned in that beautiful dance that can occur when marketing and sales work together...to drive new opportunity development, account expansion and customer satisfaction.
No, this is not a conversation about MQLs and SQLs. Instead we will focus on a framework that allows the two organizations to drive company success together.
Financial curveballs sent many American families reeling in 2023. Household budgets were squeezed by rising interest rates, surging prices on everyday goods, and a stagnating housing market. Consumers were feeling strapped. That sentiment, however, appears to be waning. The question is, to what extent?
To take the pulse of consumers’ feelings about their financial well-being ahead of a highly anticipated election, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey. The survey highlights consumers’ hopes and anxieties as we move into 2024. Let's unpack the key findings to gain insights about where we stand.
Videos are more engaging, more memorable, and more popular than any other type of content out there. That’s why it’s estimated that 82% of consumer traffic will come from videos by 2025.
And with videos evolving from landscape to portrait and experts promoting shorter clips, one thing remains constant – our brains LOVE videos.
So is there science behind what makes people absolutely irresistible on camera?
The answer: definitely yes.
In this jam-packed session with Stephanie Garcia, you’ll get your hands on a steal-worthy guide that uncovers the art and science to being irresistible on camera. From body language to words that convert, she’ll show you how to captivate on command so that viewers are excited and ready to take action.
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms