Importance of a brand’s digital behaviour

As the digital landscape and mediums expands, the ways people experience and expectation of a brand’s digital behaviour have significant grown higher and become more complex.

Brand is the holistic sum of customers’ experiences, composed of visual, tonal and behavioral brand components, many of which are shaped through interactive mediums. The complexity of the digital landscape introduces the challenges of overcoming digital distrust and must be preserve by fostering digital engagement, showing empathy, and working with transparency and authenticity.

The emotional impact of a brand is the strongest and most reliable assets. A brand must radiate their core emotions on every digital platform at any touchpoint

Constant brand value reassessments by staying relevant requires keeping your digital behaviour up to date. Understand through assessing customer behavior and moving fast and being smart about every decision regardless minor or big.

Digital behaviours differs between generations (Millenials, Gen Xers and Boomers) and a brand needs to clearly understand its customers ( or intended customers) and its value proposition. For example millenials have the highest social networking penetration of any generation and they account for most in consuming digital content through various mediums ( eg digital video)

Change is the new constant is also relevant in the digital behaviours of customers. The dynamic rate of change will significantly increase and the need to monitor and understand the different becomes very important in a time dependent manner.

This introduces the shift from persona profiling to behavioural segmentation. Persona behavioural segmentation focuses lesss on who the individual is and more of his/her distinct actions in regards to the product or service. The need to correlate the emotional aspects become signifcantly important. Knowing whether a particular product or service becomes more relevant due a strong emotional impact. Or are consumers posting emotional responses that shows the receptiveness to a certain brand offering? Does it relate to certain moment(s)?

Persona profiling base on simplistic and static demographic data points are no longer sufficient and are poor predictors of actual persona behavior. The goal should be to get rid of generalised segmentation and replace it with data enabling hyper-personalised products and services offerings in order to maintain the relevance of a brand’s digital behaviour.