Happy customers bring revenue and reputation to the brand. Thus, it is important to keep an understanding of existing customers to foster their needs and build customer loyalty. Providing the right customer experience brings recurring purchases and improves sales and generates higher revenue for a business. Customer loyalty and satisfaction are very important to retain your old customer. Therefore, you need to meet and sell to the needs of your customer.
A large customer base helps achieve business goals easily, as it costs a greater amount to attract and acquire new customers than retaining the existing ones. The relationship between a brand and its customers is the cornerstone of building a customer base, both new and existing ones.
Marketers need to know their customers’ tastes, social media behavior, browsing behavior, search preferences, hobbies and the content they watch, read, and listen to, along with their first and last name, income, location, and age. In addition to these customer insights, it is also important to understand customers’ purchase behavior. Businesses need to analyze the type of people that will be interested in or need their product offerings, or people who are facing the problems that the product or service will be able to solve.
Well, that might sound like a lot, but big data – a technological blessing, offers updated and all-encompassing marketing insights and better results. Its accuracy and relevancy of customer insights help marketers understand customers better.
Big data refers to the complex database, which can be challenging to process using common data processing applications and enriches your campaigns with greater valuable analytics and accurate insights. It enables marketers to predict future buys, evaluate customers’ behavior, and comprehend their requirements for your products and purchase patterns.
Organizations targeting customers with traits that represent diverse segments of the customer base need to analyze customer segmentation to create targeted marketing messages and campaigns. These customer segments include detailed information. At the same time, it is important to identify the customers who can be the most valuable buyers to focus on their campaign efforts.
Big data helps monitor different factors to extract more information on customers. It analyzes the long-term value to determine the amount of money that the buyers are willing to spend on your products over the long term. This metric will help you identify the prospect of the relationship your brand is going to build with your customers. It also identifies the average purchase size that will predict the amount of money that customers are willing to spend on common purchases.
Big data narrows down each buyer persona, helping marketers understand which customer personas they will be able to sell more to by leveraging special offers, awareness-generation campaigns, and promotional campaigns.
It also analyzes the number of resources they need to spend on marketing campaigns and sales efforts for a specific type of persona, and helps marketers figure out if their buyers are happy with their services or products. Analyzing this metric will uncover campaign and product flaws, highlighting necessary improvements to be made in their campaigns and products in order to meet customer expectations.
A successful customer lifecycle engagement program involves high monitoring over the technology, and makes sure that it aligns with your business objective. Big data covers every area related to building a better customer relationship from the first day of interacting with a potential lead to post-selling customer support service. If implemented correctly throughout the customer lifecycle, big data can bring huge benefits to your business.