How to Determine What Type of Information Your Clients Crave

Successfully finding a way to use data can help drive ventures, projects, products and services across industries. For any business to be effective and relevant, an entrepreneur should know what their customers want, and to present it even before they have articulated it in their minds.

Business entities are finding it increasingly difficult to connect with their customers, or to gauge their next moves. This lack of projection and forecasting can impede your ability to make educated decisions and create your future business plans. As customers become more aware and consume data at an exponential rate, it can be challenging for businesses to cut the clutter and get their points across to clients who actually do need the information.

Enterprises have relied on the use of white papers since the 1990s as an effective tool to market, educate and disseminate information about products and services, but it can be challenging to recognize what your clients need, or whether they have the same requirements that existed six months prior. Therefore, it's essential to know what type of information your clients might need.

Check out the following tips to ensure that you know what your clients are seeking:

• Get the Pulse of Your Customers:

  If your product or service is already on the market, then go to sites of your competitors, or wherever information is available. Find out what the chatter is, and try to capture what customers are talking about. Five stars and one star are the only reactions worth noting, as the person who experiences the product or service rates it from the deepest parts of their conscience. Learn their lingo, catch onto their emotions and hear what they have to say. When you release your information, it will have ready listeners and consumers.

• Assume the Identity of Your Customer:

  This is one of the most reliable and tested ways to get into the minds of a customer. Unless you are in their position, you won’t be able to know their ideas, perceptions, problems and difficulties. You might have a great product, but unless you know what part of your product impacts the client’s life, you won’t be able to address the “need,” and they may be disinterested in what you have to say.

• Get Insights from the Public:

  There is no better way to gauge what people want unless you go and talk to them. Random conversations, not to sell but to talk and get great insights, has always been the golden rule when you want to know what the public wants.

• Get Attention from Small Bits of Info Related to Your Product:

  Try to collect the most miniscule of details that can tell you what customers want. For example, if you get people to come and experience unique software, it simplifies a user’s life. However, to beta test it, people have to get themselves registered, and this takes time. Therein lies the challenge for you. How do you get people to come in and register? You can always test your hypothesis on small groups and determine what piques their interest. It may be a hit or miss activity, but gets great results if it falls into place. “Trial and error” can be beneficial if done in small batches so as not to ruin the “big” plan.

The basic idea of how to determine what information your client needs is to always break the information into small bits, which in turn can lead to a plethora of information at your disposal.

Authors

Tasnim Ahmed

Tasnim Ahmed is a content writer at Escalon Business Services who enjoys writing on a multitude of subjects that include finops, peopleops, risk management, entrepreneurship, VC and startup culture. Based in Delhi NCR, she previously contributed to ANI, Qatar Tribune, Marhaba, Havas Worldwide, and curated content for top-notch brands in the PR sphere. On weekends, she loves to explore the city on a motorcycle and binge watch new OTT releases with a plateful of piping hot dumplings!