Reaching the customers where they are located

by JeanPaul 30. March 2010 14:42
It’s all about the placement.

The customer has become the main focus for brands. Like the term “Customer-centric” says, it’s the customers, and more importantly their wants and needs, which initiates product development. In short, the customer is KING.

The success of any business during this troublesome economy requires a lot of originality and creativity. Being able to establish a relationship of trust, and especially on a long-term basis, is the challenge of lasting success. For this, we have to know the customer and really take into account his/her environment. Brands today don’t hesitate to go to where the customer is located: social networks, blogs, forums, etc. to find out what they are saying and what they are thinking.

“Reaching the customers where they are located”; this is a popular strategy. To know and be there where the customer is found will help well-known brands, as well as small companies, get closer to their customers and to listen to them. To not take such an approach could be fatal, especially in a system where everything is rapid. Furthermore to be capable of listening to the market via widely used social media platforms leads to knowing what is said or could be said about a brand or a product. To reach the customers where they are, also means to be able to step in for its cause and acquire supporters.

Nevertheless, all businesses in their strategies of conquest don’t necessarily adapt this vision and yet they succeed well or sometimes even better than those who have in mind “customer centric”. They are uniting large communities around their products and services that are more than just faithful. This provides us with a tricky question and leads us to address the customer in a more specific way.

So isn’t the key to this question being inventive, proactive and to know how to match the product offer with the customer demands?

To be present on different social network questions is not a luxury, but more like a necessity. This is also a reason for which ZackBrandit establishes a strong long-term relationship with its clients (Brands, Brandits and Netizens) via social media like Facebook, and LinkedIn (social networks), Twitter (microblogs), Flckr, Youtube and SlideShare (Content Sharing websites).

Did you know of cases where businesses knew that they should focus on the customer as the center of their activity?

How would you explain the success of these business that function by their own way and don’t completely accept the idea of centering their businesses activities on the customer?

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