Customer Insight Marketing

What is Customer Insight Marketing?

Customer insight refers to having a deep understanding of your customers, their behaviors, their preferences and even their needs. By analyzing the wealth of data you have about your customers – including browsing history, purchase patterns, returns, campaign response patterns, demographics and predictive modeling – you can communicate with them in a highly personalized way and consistently provide them with added value that leads to strong loyalty and long-term relationships.

Customer Insight Marketing Analysis, Strategy and Tools

Using customer insight to build strong customer relationships begins by collecting and cleansing all the available data you have about your customers. The rest is about using that data to understand your customers so well that every interaction with them demonstrates relevancy and emotional intelligence.

You need to have the right customer insight tools at your disposal. Analyzing your customer data to find patterns requires leveraging advanced technologies (such as customer modeling, predictive analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence) to anticipate their next steps, their wants and their needs. Then, you need to craft messaging and offers that perfectly match each customer’s unique affinities, timing and channel preferences.

At a higher level, you need to leverage customer insight in order to build customer marketing strategies that will make your customers think twice about buying elsewhere, even in the face of aggressive advertising or lower prices from your competitors. Detecting behavior patterns, trends and opportunities – combined with marketer creativity – can lead to an endless set of customer campaigns that maximize customer loyalty and spend.

Customer Insight Marketing Examples

To get your creative juices flowing, here are some examples of how real businesses have used customer insight to improve their customer relationships:

• A healthcare and wellbeing products retailer uses next-expected-purchase algorithms to automatically send replenishment reminder emails at exactly the right time – to tens of thousands of customers – something that has dramatically increased the re-order rate of these price-sensitive products.
• An online cosmetics retailer identified ~5% as the brand’s optimal discount level to maximize spend and customer future value, while minimizing revenue cannibalization due to excessive discounting. The marketers discovered that customers who receive the smallest discounts (up to 5%) exhibit higher future value than both those receiving no discounts at all and even those receiving high discount levels (10%+).
• A social gaming operator uses a sophisticated customer model to segment its players into dozens of individual data-driven segments (or player “personas”). These personas are based on lifecycle stages, player activity (e.g., specific game features used), predictive analytics (e.g., likelihood of churn), response history to earlier communications and many other factors. The marketers then created specific campaigns for each persona, which are sent automatically when specific combinations of factors occur. More than 90% of the company’s players receive these personalized, activity-triggered campaigns, resulting in 24% higher revenues.
• An online gaming operator leverages risk-of-churn predictive analytics to identify individual customers who appear to be lapsing. Fully automated and customized re-engagement campaigns, containing personalized incentives most relevant to each individual customer, have decreased the annual churn rate by over 10%.
• A subscription meal delivery company surfaced the customer insight that customers who rate their meals (regardless of rating level) exhibit dramatically higher future value. The brand has since implemented automated strategies to increase the number of customers who rate their meals, leading to double-digit percentage increases in average order value and customer lifetime value.
• A fashion retailer used customer modeling to reveal that customers using the retailer’s iOS app spent 76% more during their first year, as compared with all other customers. The brand is now automating a differentiated strategy based on platform preference.

Watch the short video below for a quick micro-workshop that demonstrates a customer insight made on new customers at an online betting operator. Or you can skip the video and read the textual explanation here.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/pqKYDDBYouk

Improve Customer Insight and Increase Customer Loyalty with Optimove

Optimove is a Relationship Marketing Hub that combines an advanced customer insight platform with an automated marketing orchestration system. In a nutshell, Optimove helps marketers implement a systematic approach to understanding their customers and predicting their behavior, and then to plan, execute, measure and optimize a complete, highly personalized customer marketing plan.

Visit the Optimove Product page or request a Web demo to learn how you can use Optimove’s customer insight software to achieve cutting-edge customer insight and to automate a complete system of highly effective customer marketing activities.