Changing how customers see your product or service and getting more merchants and installers on board is a challenge. But not an impossible one. The key is clearly communicating the benefits and solutions your products offer and addressing any common misconceptions. Learning effective strategies like these will help promote your products and expand your market presence.
Identifying pain points and highlighting benefits
In the highly competitive construction industry, the difference between customers choosing you or your competitor often comes down to a clear customer understanding of product performance. To really understand whether you’re reaching the end user, ask yourself this question: Do you know exactly what your customers love about your products?
Identifying the key benefits of your product and the pain points it solves is a central component to effective marketing and sales. You must understand customer needs and address them directly to give yourself the greatest platform for effective and targeted marketing. This understanding can come from various channels: market research, gathering feedback from current customers and analysing competitor offerings to gain a more comprehensive view of how your product shines in the market.
Communicating these points effectively across your marketing will save your company time and resources. Knowing what customers need and like and understanding exactly how your product fits into this will inform key messaging and branding, allowing you to deliver marketing that is tailored to your customers’ needs and boosts sales as a result.
Addressing misconceptions
Misconceptions regarding products can damage every part of the business, which in a highly competitive market can have serious long-term repercussions. Sometimes it seems easier to hide away from criticism or misunderstandings – after all, you don’t want to emphasise these issues. But misconceptions can create barriers to product adoption: regardless of product benefit, lingering queries can stick in the minds of customers leading to delays in purchasing or the favouring of a competitor. Leaving misconceptions unaddressed can also damage brand image and reputation.
Customer misconceptions need to be identified and addressed head on in your messaging using clear, concise language explaining the benefits and features of your product. Pinpointing specific misconceptions may involve gathering feedback from customers, sales teams and industry experts regarding your product's features, performance or applications. Once this is achieved, evidence and examples invalidating the misconception must be effectively embedded in key messaging.
Successful communication will reassure customers and may make them less susceptible to misconceptions regarding your company's products going forward, but once a precedent of clear and concise communication is established between you and your customers, these are much less likely to stick.
Changing minds is not an easy task in such a crowded and competitive market. However, straightforward and concise messaging highlighting the key benefits and features of your product puts you and the customer on the same page, alleviates any concerns or doubts and allows you to foster trusting relationships within an industry that is so reliant on them.
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