Does it make sense to keep doing surveys to evaluate, for example, the ranking of a brand, when all the real, honest, and unbiased information can be inferred from people's behavior on the Internet?
"... Traditionally, when teachers or business people needed data, they commissioned surveys. They obtained data in an orderly fashion, either in figures or in boxes marked on questionnaires.
How many people live around a shopping center, how old they are, what is their consumption level and what products or services they are looking for, are some of the questions that can be answered with the new geomarketing tools.
Measuring the potential demand of micro markets, based on the evaluation of the environment of a shopping center and its comparison with other similar sales points, has become essential to design adequate commercial strategies.
A 15-minute walk from the Malecon in Managua, Nicaragua, there is a captive market of 26,000 people who together spend $17 million, and of these, 31% show an interest in alcoholic beverages.
In CentralAmericaData we developed a geomarketing tool based on interactive maps, through which you can identify where people are and what characteristics they have as consumers. The map incorporates, for any country in Central America, the variables population, income, average monthly expenditure and consumer interests. With this information, it is possible to identify potential clients and define promotional strategies accordingly, or also explore home delivery times from any sales point.
Conveying solid arguments to highlight the importance of the product or service, offering goods with long-term guarantees and being considered essential, are part of the strategies that could increase companies' sales in the new commercial reality.
The changes in people's habits that emerged in the context of the mobility restrictions imposed by the pandemic accelerated the transformation of Central American markets and completely changed the way consumers behave.
In order to reach customers who, have great uncertainty at the time of purchase and to improve the unit margin of the products sold, flexibility must be offered in the cancellation conditions to increase the probability of successful sales, even at higher prices.
In difficult times, such as the current scenario generated by covid-19, the companies that win will be those that provide greater peace of mind to their customers, even if they sell their products at higher prices.
With the reduction of advertising budgets, companies must invest in advertising on social networks, which must be complemented by organic traffic derived from content created on digital platforms.
The outbreak of covid-19 transformed the ways in which Central American consumers behave, as quarantines and measures of restriction and social isolation decreed by governments, generated abrupt changes in purchasing habits and product search.
Knowing the interests of potential customers and their location, their spending capacity and their ages, is fundamental to making decisions such as where to open a new sales point, or to define how to reach certain types of customers.
In CentralAmericaData we developed a geomarketing tool based on interactive isochronous maps, through which you can identify where people are and what characteristics they have as consumers. The map incorporates, for any Central American country, the variables population, income, average monthly expenditure and consumer interests. With this information, it is possible to identify potential clients and define promotional strategies accordingly, or also explore home delivery times from any sales point.
In Central America, imported diapers of the Huggies, Pampers, Pom Pom and Jueguitos brands account for approximately 65% of the total number of units consumed.
From the study "Diapers in Central America", prepared by the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData:
Locating customers and estimating their potential consumption, choosing strategic locations for distribution points and calculating product delivery times are some of the tasks that occupy companies in this context of changing consumption patterns.
Many of the changes in purchasing patterns resulting from the crisis generated by the Covid-19 virus in the region will not be temporary; several of them are here to stay.
The private sector believes that Ortega's creation of new state-owned companies to exploit oil and import and market gas and fuel will generate dumping in the country.
Through the creation of four new state-owned companies, President Ortega seeks to control the exploration and exploitation of oil in Nicaragua, as well as the import, storage, distribution and marketing of gas and fuels.
With the approval of the law initiatives, the government seeks to transfer the control that Alba de Nicaragua S.A. used to have in this market. (Albanisa), which was sanctioned by the U.S. because of its links with Petróleos de Venezuela, and Distribuidora Nicaragüense de Petróleo (DNP), which was also sanctioned by the same country, in this case for benefiting the Ortega family with non-competitive contracts.
In the retail business, the closeness and proximity of sales channels is becoming increasingly important for consumers, and may even be more decisive than product prices.
Consumer behavior has been changing in recent years, with increasing access to the Internet and the growth of tools and applications that allow not only searching for information, but also making online purchases. Over time, buyers have confirmed their preference for looking for sales points that offer promotions and good prices, but also close to their homes or workplaces.
To have clear the purpose of the organization and to improve the "human" experience of the relationship client - brand, are the two trends that the experts visualize in the strategies of the companies in the next years.
According to the "2020 Global Marketing Trends Report", prepared by Deloitte, there are five other trends that derive from human purpose and experience: fusion, trust, participation, talent and agility.
In a context where consumers demand that products be manufactured in an environmentally and socially responsible manner, purpose-built brands will be the most likely to increase sales.
The tendency to consume products that belong to a brand with purpose is becoming increasingly important in markets, as consumers look to companies to manufacture goods in a responsible and sustainable way.
In the retail business, large distributors boost the sales of their own brand products through strategies aimed at consumers who prioritize the price factor over other elements when buying.
Globally, the tendency to buy private label products is becoming more and more evident in markets, as companies engaged in the retail trade of other products, such as supermarket chains, are capitalizing on their experience by placing their own products and competing with their suppliers.
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