Consumer Profile: Defining The Ideal Customer

Marketing has changed a lot ever since the development of the conventional methodologies. Nowadays, conventional marketing is a mere choice for companies compared the older companies who categorized conventional marketing as a necessity. But that was marketing, companies these days do have generated a lot of effective ways to keep in touch with their existing as well as the potential customer. Developing newer strategies are the most effective way of tracking the status of all the consumers. Such categorization is made in accordance with the consumer's qualities and mindset.

Consumer profile is an important aspect of such categorization. It is designed in such a way that the selected consumer can be grouped correctly matching his/her interests and qualities. Roughly, a Consumer profile is a way of describing and categorizing a customer or consumer so that they could reach back to them for marketing and advertising purposes. Such profiles are a necessity for market segments so that a company could always rely on a consumer if they are about to launch a marketing or advertising strategy. That is how the consumer profile works.

However, creating an ideal consumer profile is not an easy job to do. Why is that? Well, let me give you a quick contrast. Search for some songs. While you are at it, give me a list of categories on the songs after you classify them based on genre, band, artist or album. An important condition is that you should not use any filters or sorting tool. Now that sounds hard right? Take this concept and apply it to the consumer categorization Done? Here is what you will get. Basics of creating an ideal consumer profile. What will you do before drinking water from a bottle? No, you will open the cap first. You can not just drink it without opening the cap.

Consumer profile is akin to a small cap on top of the water bottle. The "water bottle" being a product, it is important to draft an ideal consumer profile before marketing a product. For identifying an ideal customer, it is important to draft the said consumer profile first. Here are some key points or classes that will come in handy to categorize the consumers.

1. Preference
2. Lifestyle
3. Stage of life
4. Attribute
5. Trait

From these categories, you can ideally envision profile. Now think and vision the customer based on the categorical stages or tiers. Let us just restrict such tiers to two(as playing with higher numbers is not at all good, you might as well get confused). The first or basic tier of the customer categorization consolidates on the basic and common attributes. Henceforth such basic attributes or the attributes on the first tier include product usage, socioeconomic status, and importantly the demographics. Let us just break the said attributes down like tearing down a car. Demographics is a group of all the attributes like age, gender, residency, race, ethnicity and basically everything you will find it, basically every form to ever exist. Socioeconomic include the per capita income or household income, social status like educational qualifications, neighborhood etc. Product usage Product usage is the highlight among the said categories as it is an essential requirement for a company. Product usage is an attribute that coincides with the product engagement amongst the people. More of such basic and important tiers and attributes include Geographics, Geodemographics, benefits sought, psychographics and generation. Before we head to the next section here is a little fact to clear some of the misconceptions. There are three integral types of target. And they are:-

1. 1. Selling target
   2. Marketing target
   3. Program target

Selling target is a target that is achieved when you successfully sell an abundant number of resources or products to anyone who shows their interest. Achieving the target, selling target is a huge accomplishment for the company or brand. Marketing target is different from the selling target and is a lot more complicated and different. Marketing is a huge target is a lot tougher to achieve compared to the aforementioned selling target. Once you achieve a marketing target then you have outdone yourself in terms of success rate and advertising. The best marketer will easily identify a potential customer and will use the consumer profile more efficiently and effectively. And alas, we have the program target which is consequently achieved by successfully completing the marketing target. Wrapping up the article, now that we have through the essentials of consumer profile and how to define an ideal consumer or customer using the formulated profile, it is now time to go through the importance of consumer profile. No companies would make a consumer profile if it is not important. So here are some important points that will justify the authenticity of consumer profile and how will it shape the marketing and advertising strategy in the future. So, moving on to the points.

1. 1. An ideal consumer profile will help in better communication with your customer or consumer. How?! Well if you want a clear picture on how, then you should skip back to the basics, as said before a consumer profile retrieve information from the customer. So this will help them in identifying a method for starting a talk. In other words, a consumer profile will help a marketer to "find" a way to break the ice. Thereby promoting good customer relations.
   2. A consumer profile will offer all the customers a better experience. By conducting frequent surveys and feedback sessions, you can improve your overall product efficiency and consequently providing greater opportunities for both new and existing customers.
   3. Last but not the least, A good consumer profile will get your company or brand profit to take a huge leap. The said profit is generated by reducing the expenses in automation software which are made to develop consumer relations. What happens if the expense is less and sales are higher?!, yes, your company will have better profit.