Customer Insights

1: What does she see?

Describe what the customer sees in her environment

  • What does it look like?
  • Who surrounds her?
  • Who are her friends?
  • What types of offers is she exposed to daily (as opposed to all market offers)?
  • What problems does she encounter?

2: What does she hear?

Describe how the environment influences the customer

  • What do her friends say? Her spouse?
  • Who really influences her, and how?
  • Which media Channels are influential?

3: What does she really think and feel?

Try to sketch out what goes on in your customer’s mind

  • What is really important to her (which she might not say publicly)?
  • Imagine her emotions. What moves her?
  • What might keep her up at night?
  • Try describing her dreams and aspirations.

4: What does she say and do?

Imagine what the customer might say, or how she might behave in public

  • What is her attitude?
  • What could she be telling others?
  • Pay particular attention to potential conflicts between what a customer might say and what she may truly think or feel.

5: What is the customer’s pain?

  • What are her biggest frustrations?
  • What obstacles stand between her and what she wants or needs to achieve?
  • Which risks might she fear taking?

6: What does the customer gain?

  • What does she truly want or need to achieve?
  • How does she measure success?
  • Think of some strategies she might use to achieve her goals.