Climbing the Ladder to Your Ideal Audience - Why Customer Values Matter
- 2. Climbing the Ladder to Your Ideal Audience » Why Customer Values Matter
- 3. Laddering » Why Customer Values Matter • Exercise • Introduction • Uncovering Your Target Market’s Lifestyle & Motives – Phase one: DO NOT WANT – Phase two: DO WANT • Examples & Closing
- 4. Exercise » Think of a medium or large purchase you recently made
- 5. Introduction to Laddering » Why should we do it? • To understand – What attributes are important – What the customer loves about your product – The underlying reasons why they would purchase your product over another
- 6. Introduction to Laddering » Which of following women can you more effectively cater to? A married woman somewhere between the age of 30 to 45 with a college degree, a $50,000 yearly income, 2.6 kids, living in the Midwest or Southeast and who is a heavy user of your product. A mother of two who is nervous about turning 40 soon, spends 50+ hours a week at the office, is a neat freak who considers cleaning a hobby and spends much of her discretionary income on items for her home
- 7. Introduction to Laddering » What is it? • Laddering: a technique by which the core attributes and values that drive product users are identified through a form of in-depth interviews • Prototyping: molding the insights from laddering interviews into distinct and workable descriptions of vivid consumer segments.
- 8. Laddering » How Do We Do It? • There are two things about your audience you need to know: – Why they do not buy your product – Why they really do buy your product
- 9. Phase one: DO NOT WANT • How do you collect this information? • What kind of things will be discussed? • How many people do I need to talk to? Laddering » How Do We Do It?
- 10. • How do you collect this information? • What kind of things will be discussed? • How many people do I need to talk to? Phase two: DO WANT Laddering » How Do We Do It?
- 11. • Channel your inner three-year-old and ask “why” over and over, but do it with genuine curiosity and frame it properly. Oh, you like wide-mouthed trashcans? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? Phase two: DO WANT Laddering » How Do We Do It?
- 12. • Be aware of the flow of conversation. Steer it, but don’t take total control of it. • The basic “do’s and don’ts” of conducting any kind of qualitative research are a given before designing a laddering strategy Phase two: DO WANT Laddering » How Do We Do It?
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