Emotion Intelligence

How to Use Customer Segmentation to Answer the Difficult Questions Driving Consumer Behavior

Segmentation & Persona Development, Voice of Customer

Customer segmentation is much more than merely “categorizing” customers along traditional baseline filters: demographics, geographics, psychographics, and prior purchase history. While those data points are useful as far as they go, they simply don’t go deep enough.

Show Me, Don’t Tell Me.

Voice of Customer

One of our recent innovations in our ongoing pursuit to optimize and perfect Emotion Intelligence research is the use of images in a “qual-then-quant” process to gain deeper and more authentic insights into how emotions and sentiment are driving purchase decisions (or not).

eBook: Measuring and Optimizing the Customer Experience

Customer Experience & Journey Mapping, Consumer & B2B2C

It is critical, when analyzing and working to optimize customer experiences, that three primary tenets of sound CX design be woven deeply into the fabric of the analysis, even when using artificial intelligence or other technology to do some of the information gathering and processing.

Measure What the Customer Treasures

Customer Experience & Journey Mapping, Voice of Customer

Let’s look at some of the common metrics used to understand customer perceptions as well as to measure whether the actions a brand takes is having a positive impact on those perceptions. It is important to note that, while all of these measurement approaches are important on their own, none by itself represents the complete and exhaustive measurement of customer opinion. Rather, it is the application of many (or all) of the appropriate tools that will provide the most accurate and holistic measurement of customer perception — including one critical metric that is unique to The Martec Group and the brands we work with.

The Art and Science Behind Injecting Emotion into Business-to-Business Marketing

One area of the marketing research discipline that cannot be emphasized enough is a certain power perhaps upstream of provocation, and that’s the power of emotions. We have studied the role emotions play in purchases of all kinds of purchases and strategic decisions — B2B and B2C alike — and the research shows that emotions are powerful drivers of action.

Customer Experience: Humans Experiencing Human Emotions & Making Moments to Remember

Customer Experience & Journey Mapping, Voice of Customer

Why a customer chooses to buy, and when, and whether that customer can be retained, whether he or she will become a vocal brand advocate, and why that customer chose our product or service over a competitor’s represent the secret sauce to replicating that behavior in others—creating customer experiences that drive future sales. But without understanding the why, you are more or less guessing at the what you are trying to replicate.

How to Understand Your Brand’s “Emotional Value”

The difficulty lies in transcending the understanding of whether a brand’s emotional value is “good enough,” as it’s much more complex than that. The question of, “Does the data suggest our brand’s emotional value is good?” simplifies the equation. What’s considered good for one brand, category, or product might be detrimental to another. What’s required to truly understand the emotional nuances that drive purchase decisions, brand affinity, customer loyalty, and even market share acquisition is deep analysis of not only which emotions a brand does evoke for a given market, but also which emotions that brand should evoke.

How Emotion Intelligence Can Enhance the Customer Journey and Drive Business

Voice of Customer

AI-empowered methodology known as Emotion Intelligence (EI) has been helping brands better understand their customers’ and prospective customers’ buying inclinations, so that they can engineer optimal experiences that will appeal to humans’ emotional tendencies (and even their apprehensions) to facilitate exceptional customer experiences and increase sales.

Emotions Are Complex, Analyzing Them Doesn’t Have to Be

Customers have distinct feelings about products, services, and brands. How can their emotions be captured and analyzed easily? The process of analyzing emotions can be tricky, but it doesn’t need to be…let’s dive in. Research shows that being competitive on rational factors, while essential, will only achieve parity. Most leading products or services end up in this parity position because short-term advantages, based solely on rational factors, quickly are matched by competitors. To combat this issue, marketers need to connect with customers on an emotional level for lasting advantage. This is why, in most highly competitive categories, advertising often has very little to do with conscious, rational benefits, features, or performance.

Understanding True Voice of Customer Research

To find the true voice of the customer, VoC research should encourage people to share their thoughts and answer “why.” Examining a customer’s full response (in any open-ended context) is critical to understanding the decision-making process. Finding the true voice of the customer requires researchers and executives to be objective, open, and active listeners.

The Future of UX Research: Uncovering Users’ True Emotions with Mixed Methodologies

Customer Experience & Journey Mapping, Voice of Customer, Healthcare & Human Factors

Dissecting the Science Behind Gut Feelings

The Consumer Car-Buying Journey Is Emotional

Customer Experience & Journey Mapping, Automotive & Mobility, Consumer & B2B2C

How Knowing Your Customers’ Emotional Drivers Can Increase Sales

The Martec Emotion Score: Quantifying Your Customers’ Emotions

Brand Research, Voice of Customer