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Customer cluster: how to use this strategy to sell more in e-commerce?

By Tiago Moraes 3 minutes reading
Customer cluster: how to use this strategy to sell more in e-commerce?
Customer cluster: groups of consumers with common characteristics. Image: @vectorjuice
Customer cluster: groups of consumers with common characteristics. Image: @vectorjuice

In Marketing, a customer cluster is a term that defines a group of potential buyers with common characteristics. In e-commerce, it is especially useful for you storekeepers to identify the profile of their consumers more precisely. Thus, it is possible to approach them more assertively and generate more sales.

In other words, a cluster of customers is ideal for segmenting consumers more accurately. That is, it allows you to transform vague information into more accurate data, making it possible to approach several consumers with very similar characteristics at once.

Let's say, for example, that your company's target audience is single men in their 20s and 30s. In this case, you can create multiple customer clusters to segment this audience more accurately. You can create one cluster for single men who like to travel, another for men who prefer to stay at home, another for single men with children, etc.

Each cluster will have its own pains and desires, which you can assuage in a more engaging way through your Marketing strategies. In this way, clusters allow you to increase the accuracy of your communication, taking the right message to the right consumers at the most appropriate times.

Video: How to use customer clusters in e-commerce?

ADVANTAGES OF CUSTOMER CLUSTER ON E-COMMERCE

By creating customer clusters you can get several advantages for your e-commerce. With this strategy it is possible, for example:

  • Segment and deepen the data of your target audience, thus allowing greater efficiency in communication with each consumer group;
  • Offer more accurate data so that your service, marketing and sales teams can approach consumers in a much more personalized way;
  • Publicize your products, services and solutions in a more segmented way and, in this way, improve the performance of your e-commerce.

As you can see, working with a cluster of customers is much better than just using a generic target audience. But, anyway, how to apply this strategy in your e-commerce? That's what you'll find out next. Follow up!

HOW TO IMPLANT?

To work with customer clusters, it's necessary to invest in certain technologies, such as a good e-commerce platform. The VTEX platform , for example, integrated with a CRM , allows you to easily create customer clusters.

Video: discover the VTEX platform

Another technology that makes it possible to create customer clusters is the RD Station CRM and Marketing Automation platform. With RD Station, you can create lists of leads based on each lead's interests and keep all this information in one place. It's worth trying!

As soon as you can, click on " Customer Behavior " and learn how to identify and use this to your advantage in e-commerce!

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