{"id":13483,"date":"2020-06-04T12:34:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T12:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/?p=13483"},"modified":"2024-04-30T21:06:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:06:53","slug":"stop-listening-to-the-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/stop-listening-to-the-customer\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Listening To The Customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stop listening to the customer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know it sounds odd coming from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/cro\/\">Conversion Optimization<\/a> company, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But before you judge us \u2013 what if we probably have a good reason?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In today\u2019s data-driven world we are at risk of following everything that is said by the customer and taking our attention off our companies most valuable asset &#8211; our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/staying-on-brand-with-discounts-and-promotions\/\">brand<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The point here is, the more you listen to the customer, the more you listen to the category needs, not your particular brand needs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most companies end up drowning in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/staying-on-brand-with-discounts-and-promotions\/\">sea of sameness<\/a>, just by listening to their customers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, knowing and understanding your customers\u2019 needs <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is at the center of every successful business, whether <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it sells directly to individuals or other businesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, in today&#8217;s &#8216;customer-obsessed&#8217; world the more you listen to the customer the more you&#8217;re at risk of creating boring brands that are copy cats of each other.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this entertaining and informative webinar, <a href=\"https:\/\/invesp.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=1b3cdbfb9475f7867454d8024&amp;id=9c5ee6af4c&amp;e=0d9e738cef\">Khalid Saleh<\/a> will give you tactical advice on how to conduct customer research that can be used to benefit your brand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_99965\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/B3CsL5BXiYE?autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&modestbranding=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You should not waste your time on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/writing-open-ended-and-closed-ended-questions-for-user-research\/\">user research<\/a> that generates generic advice you already know or theoretical none-sense that you cannot apply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What we covered in this webinar:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to conduct customer research.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What questions to ask for deep insights.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analyzing customer answers for actionable marketing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This webinar also includes a live <a href=\"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/jobs-to-be-done-framework-in-conversion-optimization-projects\/\">#JTBD interview<\/a> with one of our attendees. Take a listen:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/834077371&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Invesp CRO\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/invesp-cro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Invesp CRO<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"JTBD Interview\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/invesp-cro\/jtbd-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JTBD Interview<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Stop listening to the customer.\u00a0 I know it sounds odd coming from a Conversion Optimization company, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 But before you judge us \u2013 what if we probably have a good reason?\u00a0 In today\u2019s data-driven world we are at risk of following everything that is said by the customer and taking our attention off our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98213,"href":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483\/revisions\/98213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}