Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Tune Your Database to Create Niche Markets (Part3)



#2 Tidbit:

It’s AT LEAST five times easier to sell an existing customer than to find a new one. .

Why do this?

Here’s the equation:
Product/Service + Niche Marketing = Higher Level of Sales Conversions.

Segmenting niches allows you to extract contacts and group by similar necessities.
The more focused you are, the more likely it is for you to discover the trends that will help you develop products and services to better meet the specific needs and interests of your existing potential clients.

Segmenting can help you keep your mailing list fresh and engaged. For example, target subscribers who haven’t opened or clicked your e-mails for a while and try to re-engage them.

You now know you can segment your database to get better results. Now let us see how to tap your data for melody.

Despite online technology zooming high, the one best thing that customers expect from marketers is – Value. If you get this right, you have your lyric. Follow these 5P notes to work it out…

Personalized
Conferring to the analytics, with segmentation you can have practically one-to-one communications with customers, on a mass, automated scale. Customize your direct marketing based on your customers’ past purchases.

Pertinent
Customer interaction strength depends on recency and frequency. To build this up, you need real powerful stuff to work. You can produce highly relevant content based on what the customers are interested. You can assign this to online retailers who do it extremely well. Their website generates automatic recommendations based on what the customer has been searching for recently. All this makes up for a pleasurable user experience and often the recommendations are useful. Instead of bombarded with generic offers, the user is presented with products that are much more relevant. Remember too that a lack of interactive data can be just as telling – if nobody’s clicking on the links in your e-mails, your content isn’t relevant to them, it is time to review.

Practical
Marketing across a variety of platforms, including e-mail, website, mobile, and SMS means your customers receive your message on the device(s) they prefer. Enable social media sharing for maximum viral marketing. You can collate data across all of these platforms, helping you assess the effectiveness of each and build very detailed profiles. Set up a preference centre on your website so that customers can choose how often they want to hear from you, on what topics, and via which media (SMS, email, etc.). That way they’ll look forward to your company’s messages and are more likely to act on them.

Powerful
The effectiveness of your e-marketing is so easy to measure and act on immediately, with powerful, detailed, real-time analytics and engagement just a click away. In the past it was all about reporting; now it’s about acting on real-time data, right away. Assess in real time how your latest campaign is being received.

Prompt
Respond to and interact with customers immediately – capitalizing on their interest and increasing conversions. For example, when an online shopper abandons her basket, strike while the iron is hot with a follow-up email to encourage her to return and complete the purchase. Alternatively, when new customers sign up for a service online, as well as receiving a welcome email, the system is triggered to send a series of informative email messages at prescribed intervals.

Your Takeaway
By knowing your customers - their interest, purchase behavior, content reading pattern -you can send them messages that are relevant and targeted. With focused messages, you’re a step closer to that 300+% response rate increase. 

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