Be in the Know
- Bellwether Coffee, ‘the fastest-growing company in coffee,’ raises a cool $40m.
- Amazon unveils a new Fire TV Cube and over a dozen Fire TV Edition products.
- YouTube to spend $100M on original children’s content.
- Michigan becomes the first state to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
Creating a Customer Avatar
There’s a good chance you know WHAT your business is offering (we hope).
But, how well do you know WHO you’re offering it to?
Before you can sell anything effectively, you need to understand…
- WHO your ideal customer is
- WHERE they’re hanging out online
- WHAT their challenges are
When you’re laser-focused on WHO you’re selling to, the sales funnel becomes a lot more efficient.
So, how do you get laser-focused on the WHO?
Create customer avatars.
Here are the 5 major components of creating a customer avatar:
- Goals and values: Pretty self-explanatory here. List out what a potential client might want to achieve with his/her business. For example: Agency Eric wants to scale his business and increase the capabilities of his team. Agency Eric values professional development and using white hat marketing principles.
- Sources of information: This component will help you determine the best places to advertise to your customer. Think about the following questions: Where to they hang out (online and in-person)? What materials do they read? What gurus do they follow?
- Demographic information: Age, gender, marital status, children, job title, income, education level, etc. will fill this section.
- Challenges and pain points: Your goal here is to get inside the head of your customer. What keeps them up at night? Agency Eric has a hard time finding, training and retaining top talent. Because of that, he fears losing business to his competitors.
- Objections and role in the process purchase: Why would a potential customer choose not to buy your product or service? List out 3-5 reasons why they would object and make sure you indicate their role in the process (ie: are they the decision-maker?)
Once you have your first customer avatar nailed down, move onto creating more based on the different segments of your market. Digital Marketer put together a customer avatar worksheet to simplify the process. Rinse and repeat.
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At Home with Baker Mayfield
Progressive and Baker Mayfield are launching a new ad campaign for the kickoff of the NFL season.
Here’s what Progressive’s CMO, Jeff Charney had to say:
“We tossed out the typical ‘athlete-as-spokesperson’ model and took a more modern, content-rich and episodic approach that’s characteristic of today’s network shows. There’s no glorified pro-athlete persona or hard-sell messaging, just highly relatable, everyday—and quite funny— moments between Baker, Emily and their rather unique 68,000-seat stadium home.”
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