The challenge when dated, irrelevant customer insights drive decision-making
For many consumers choosing a gas bar retailer is more about convenience than loyalty, something Gas Bar Loyalty Programs are put in place to change.
Loyalty programs are built on data from customer interactions, preferences and behaviours and often Personas are developed and used internally as a tool to guide decision making.
Five years ago the gas bar retailer had invested significant time and resources into developing Personas to be used by Loyalty, Marketing and Product teams but these Personas were not updated with internal data and no longer reflected the current customer.
Update personas with the click of a button
Not interested in a costly, manual, resource intensive segmentation project, the Loyalty Manager approached CiG on using intelligentVIEW to update and refine existing Personas.
Using intelligentVIEW, the Loyalty Manager uploaded proprietary, available Loyalty Program data into intelligentVIEW to create the initial visualized reports detailing the good, better and best customers.
intelligentVIEW attributes used to build The Gas Bars’ personas included:
- Demographic information: age, income, presence of children, ethnicity
- Shopping habits: preferred gas stations and convenience stores
- Automotive: types of cars most likely found in their garage
- Media habits: radio and TV habits, magazine and newspaper readership
Image source: intelligentVIEW reporting
Attributes from proprietary data included:
- Where and when the customer shops for gas.
- Spend on gas and convenience items.
- Other services purchased.
- Interaction with digital and other promotional content.
Working with internal analysts and CiG’s team, the Loyalty Manager was able to expand and enhance the personas to 8 unique personas, 2 of which were never on the internal radar for either Marketing or Sales.
As a result, three significant events followed:
- A test advertising campaign targeting the 2 new customer personas using new media channels – radio spots and digital. No more guessing.
- intelligentVIEW AdSpot was used to evaluate competitor activity and offers against the new personas to inform offer development and test specific loyalty messaging. Competitive insight.
- Customer personas were shared with The Gas Bar’s agency to inform creative execution at point of sale in store and at the pump. Targeted creative.
Verify campaign execution as it happens
The Gas Bar launched the campaign and did not cross fingers and hope for the best.
Share of voice and competitor offerings were monitored in real time through intelligentVIEW AdSpot, empowering The Gas Bar Marketers to be responsive and agile during the campaign.
Long term win for the loyalty manager
The new Personas have now been shared throughout the organization and formed the foundation of a planned update to the Gas Retailers Loyalty Program and test customizations of the buyer experience.
