Customer Needs Research
Customer Needs - Driving Interest and Usage
The Biggest and Fastest Growing Brands meet Customer Needs… Does Your?
Before customers make a purchase or a choice, they often consider a variety of options – both consciously and subconsciously. Historically, it was almost impossible to understand this process, or how well brands add value and meet their customers’ needs. But not anymore. Our ability to explore and understand human behaviour and needs has really evolved – revealing fresh and exciting new levels of insight.
Many businesses know the product or service that they want to deliver, but they often struggle to convey it to their consumers – or successfully align it to what people need or want.
Some businesses turn to Maslow’s ‘Hierarchy of Needs’ – a simple and popular tool that helps brands to better understand customer needs. But it’s not enough. It just doesn’t go deep enough to explain why people make certain choices. Maslow’s model fails to recognise that our decisions are often instantaneous and subconscious – incorporating a complex mix of multiple factors and fuzzy logic.
Overcoming the Challenge
Not only do brand owners struggle to define their brands, but we, as humans, also find it difficult to explain why we choose one product over another accurately.
Why is it so complex? It’s partly because phenomena like Behavioural Economics and System 1 Thinking are at play. These unseen forces mean our relationships with brands are often subconscious, making it harder for us to articulate what we look for in a brand – or why we are prepared to pay a premium.
The 26 Customer Needs Explained
Vision One’s proprietary Customer Needs Research System is used to help generate an in-depth understanding of customers and what is important within a market or product category and often sits alongside BrandVision’s 8 core metrics. The 26 Needs illustrated above are divided into four areas below.
Our Primary needs include seven key needs: Simplifies, Saves time, Reduces Effort, Safety, Wellness, Saves Money and Therapeutic.
Quality needs tend to be more prevalent in prestigious and upmarket categories, where reliability and consistency are important.
This consists of 7 needs: Fun, Optimism, Fulfilment, Motivation, Belonging, Nostalgia and Reward.
The group’s six needs are Social Appeal, Badge Value, Connectedness and the more intrinsic needs of Variety, Integration and Aesthetics (beauty).
BrandVision explores all 26 customer needs to identify what your target group and customers are really looking for from your brand. But it also explores how well your brand (and competitors) meets these same customer needs. Customer needs research is a powerful BrandVision metric that helps to identify any strategic weakness in your brand offering.
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Metrics to Turbo Charge Your Strategy
BrandVision is our flexible brand evaluation system that can be fully customised to your requirements. From self-serve to fully managed BrandVision offers a deeper insight into your market and customers.
Brand Love
The Power of Love
The concept of Love in brand relationships has been receiving immense and escalating attention. It is considered by many experts as the essential ingredient for capitalising in today’s new order.
Brand Love underpins the customer-brand relationship. It’s not an emotional or fluffy metric but rather the holy trinity of brand metrics, combining three powerful metrics: Relevance, Need and Trust.
Evaluation of brand tracking data has taught us, time and time again, that Relevance is arguably the most important metric of all – and is highly correlated with customer behaviour.
Brand Momentum
Discover the power of Brand Momentum.
Momentum refers to the growth potential for your brand and its likely future trajectory. Momentum measures the extent to which your brand is seen to be growing or declining.
Momentum is a complex KPI and is driven by your marketing activity and spend, product availability, brand image and your brand proposition and positioning.
Brand Momentum is a better indicator of growth than virtually any other consumer metric. Its role is vital in any brand tracker as it is a better predictor of customer behaviour than any other brand metric.
Brand Health
8 Secrets to a Healthy Brand
The 8 Essential brand image metrics are:
- Brand Identity -Does your Brand identity have Clarity?
- Brand Noise – is your brand Grabbing people’s Attention?
- Newsworthy – Is your brand worth talking about?
- Outstanding – Do you offer exceptional Quality or Value?
- Variety – Is your brand flexible and have multiple uses or benefits?
- Accessible – Is your brand Readily Available and Convenient?
- On Trend – Is your brand Topical & Current?
- Ethical – Are you seen to be doing the right things?
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