Your brand identity is how you present your company. It includes various forms of communication and visuals, from language to logos, colours and fonts. Although all these elements are important, it’s also important to realise that people do business with people. So success comes from creating both a voice and visuals that work together. Relatable marketing efforts can go a long way to boost engagement and brands that make an emotional connection with their customers are twice as likely to retain them.
Here are some simple tips for bringing out your brand’s human side:
https://www.lancashirebusinessview.co.uk/humanising-your-brand-108371/
Consumer tastes can change on a dime.
The attitudinal undercurrents can be mystifying, difficult to detect, alien to interpret, dangerous to place a sizable bet on, and visible only in retrospect.
Can research help marketers anticipate these shifts and get ahead of the curve to identify trends?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultalbot/2018/06/20/keeping-up-with-change-how-marketers-give-customers-what-they-want/
Sean Ellis always provides actionable tips which really require extra efforts to put into the practice. In this article, we are going to uncover some of the tips from the best-known growth hacking experts including Sean Ellis, Nir Eyal etc.
https://inc42.com/resources/must-do-tips-from-growth-hacking-experts/
Most marketers believe their brands need a customer-centric business model in order to succeed, and that optimising the customer experience is the biggest priority for the profession.
Yet according to new Marketing Week research, structuring a marketing department around the customer journey is currently the least common model of all, with the majority of departments either being product-centric or structured around marketing disciplines.
https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/08/31/future-marketing-organisation-structure/
Businesses around the world are having to constantly shift and adapt to the changing tides of consumerism. This is no different for the retail industry, considering it could cease to exist without customer demand. As 2019 inches closer, the time to re-evaluate your various marketing and advertising strategies and campaigns in a way that will stand out in the over-saturated world of a Google search is now.
Enter customer-driven marketing; a strategy that can transcend any campaign for any industry if done correctly. To instill a customer-driven marketing approach to your store, you’ll need to first ensure there is consistency for your customers in the form of processes, that you’re curating content specifically for your target market and customer-base, and that you’re gathering data through customer feedback.
Together, you’ll be able to implement these tactics your various approaches on gaining new customers, maintaining the level of satisfaction for current customers, and winning over those who are still a bit unsure of the experience your store offers.
https://www.retailcustomerexperience.com/blogs/the-necessity-of-customer-driven-marketing-for-retail/
Responsible for the why, what, when, and where of a product, the product manager leads cross-functional teams responsible for a product from conception to launch. Post-launch, the product manager also has to participate in marketing and gathering customer feedback.
That is why as a product manager, you’ll need a toolbox with tools and resources to help you keep tabs on everything happening from ideation to release.
Here are the top 8 tools to help you do exactly that...
https://www.bmmagazine.co.uk/in-business/the-top-5-tools-resources-every-product-manager-needs-in-their-toolbox/
Love is patient, love is kind, but brand love is monetizable, and the first step to building brand love is engendering customer loyalty.
In an option-heavy world, differentiating between loyalty and heavy-category spending can be tricky. Cardlytics CMO Dani Cushion led a panel at Advertising Week New York to outline the steps brands can take to not only accurately measure loyalty, but to also curate experiences and insights that can further drive positive relationships with consumers.
https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/10/23/when-building-brand-loyalty-just-listen/
Honesty, openness, and transparency are three words that are shaping customer behavior in the 21st century. With the appearance and widespread use of the internet, there seem to be no secrets anymore. Online customer product reviews and social media posts have made it so that customers can air everything from accolades to complaints to everything in between.
Companies that do a good job of responding to online customer feedback reap certain rewards. However, companies that don’t respond to online customer feedback or who do so poorly are at risk for perpetuating a negative perception of their business. People who feel that their opinions do not matter or have no idea if their feedback is received will be discouraged from sharing feedback again in the future. Worse, they may walk away from your business altogether.
Managing customer feedback openly is not just good customer service, it is good marketing as well. Here’s why:
http://www.touchwork.com/why-transparency-with-customer-feedback-is-good-marketing/
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