Friday, 10 July 2020

Embracing empathy marketing in B2B


The B2C space has excelled in the area of evoking empathy in their target audience, the B2B market has been lagging behind. Considered to be a logical and a more professional process, empathy has little space in the B2B buyer journey. However, studies have shown that it plays an important role in influencing the buyers' purchase decision.



Customers are constantly bombarded by marketing content, so much so that it can become difficult to even distinguish content from each brand. In such a scenario, they will search for a brand that they can personally connect to. By adopting an empathetic approach, you are essentially putting yourself in the shoes of your customers and understanding business problems from their point of view. Doing so will enable you design a strategy that appeals to their emotions and lets them see a personal value in your solution.

For truly effective empathy marketing, engage in open-ended conversations with your target personas and provide content based on their problems, rather than pushing them towards content which you think they should read.

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