Up-selling and cross-selling are important aspects of building customer relationships and increasing customer lifetime value. Primarily they are both sales functions, but can occur with direct and digital marketing techniques as well. What is up-selling? Up-selling is changing the consumer’s decision from a lower priced product to a higher priced product. In other words, the …
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About the Customer Journey Map Template This free customer journey map template is designed to quickly and easily build relatively detailed maps for multiple brand personas. Customer journey maps are an effective way of identifying how potential customers make their way to your brand and ultimately become loyal advocates. Download the free template here… customer-journey-map-Excel-template …
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Advertising awareness metrics In addition to measuring brand awareness, firms will often look to measure advertising awareness through a similar/same survey of the target market. This would be an extension of the questionnaire discussed in the article on brand awareness metrics. There are four main advertising awareness metrics that can be measured through a questionnaire, …
Brand awareness: often the first marketing communications goal Brand awareness is fundamental to success in the marketplace; if consumers are unaware of the brand they are unlikely to become customers. This is why the first goal in a marketing communications plan for a new brand is to build awareness of the brand. What is brand …
Brand personas are commonly used in customer journey mapping, but are generally helpful in most aspects of marketing strategy development. This is because a brand persona – which is a representation of the typical customer in a target market – helps the firm more clearly understand the consumer. Generally firms will develop multiple brand personas …
Using Brand Personas in Customer Journey Mapping A fundamental principle of modern day marketing is to segment the market and select appropriate target markets. For more information on the market segmentation process, please refer to the market segmentation study guide. Target markets are smaller parts of the overall market, where consumers are grouped into sets …
What is a customer journey? Let’s start our understanding of customer journey mapping by first understanding what is meant by the “customer’s journey”. As suggested by the name, a customer journey is the progression of a consumer (initially a non-customer of a brand) in their journey to becoming a customer of the brand. Understanding the …
Three main phases of a customer journey Customer journeys, particularly for high involvement purchases, may take years to lead to a purchase decision. For example, a young consumer buying their first brand new car would have years of experience of seeing cars, seeing promotional campaigns and product placement, being involved in discussions regarding motor vehicles, …
In the United States, over $3B worth of coupons and rebates are redeemed each year – indicating that it is an effective form of sales promotion. According to various academic studies, around 20% to 30% of consumers will be actively involved in the collection and redemption of coupons. These consumers tend to be more …
