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Digital Spam: Retailers Must Strike a Balance Btw Staying Visible and Avoiding Marketing Communication Overload

by Techeconomy
July 8, 2023
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Isaac Akanni (Infobip)

Isaac Akanni (Infobip)

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Writer: ISAAC AKANNI, Customer Growth Manager – Africa at Infobip

In the rapidly evolving landscape of retail, where businesses strive to capture the attention of consumers in a fast-paced and interconnected digital world, marketing communication overload is becoming an all-too-common phenomenon that could actually have the opposite effect – turning customers off their brand.

Consumers are overwhelmed on a daily basis by the sheer volume of messages they receive in their inboxes, social media feeds and mobile devices, and this aggressive approach could see businesses lose substantially more than they gain.

To make matters worse, consumers are burdened not only by the sheer magnitude and frequency of adverts across multiple channels, but also by the unfortunate reality that much of this marketing communication fails to resonate with their interests or needs.

In some extreme instances, such messages can even come across as inappropriate or offensive, disregarding their unique preferences and personal boundaries.

Consequently, instead of attracting prospective buyers, an overabundance of marketing communication could essentially leave consumers frustrated.

This frustration, in turn, can foster negative perceptions surrounding the brand and significantly impact long-term customer loyalty. When inundated with excessive marketing messages, individuals may perceive that the business lacks respect for its customers’ boundaries and prioritises profit-seeking over genuine customer relationships.

Such perceptions are not good for business as they are likely to negatively affect the company’s reputation, erode customer trust and impact sales, which in turn will hit the bottom line. Marketing communication overload is thus a sure way to make consumers feel disrespected and damage customer engagement.

Show what is relevant

It is very important that retailers strive to strike a balance between staying visible and avoiding communication overload. It is actually quite simple – show people what is relevant to them.

The easiest way to achieve this is to segment your customer base and refine your messages based on individual preferences and behaviours.

Organisations must adopt a customer-centric approach, leverage data analytics and understand individual preferences. Only then can retailers tailor their marketing efforts to provide meaningful and engaging experiences. This shift towards strategic, targeted communication not only helps mitigate overload, but also builds stronger, long-lasting customer relationships.

At the same time, retailers must also recognise the importance of personalisation to remain relevant and strike the right chords with their customers.

In sales, there is a concept known as, “Show Me You Know Me”, which alludes to leveraging personalisation to let your customers know that you’ve done your groundwork and you care about their personal interests and needs.

Personalisation says to your customer:

“I know you and I want to share this with you because I think it would benefit you”.

But personalisation cannot happen without data and people generate mountains of data on a daily basis, which forms the bedrock of decision making.

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence

Once data about a consumer has been gathered, harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to perform data analytics and gain customer insights is key to tailoring marketing messages that are relevant to individuals, and this will avoid overload. With so much data available, businesses that are not targeting their messages to individual consumers can be perceived as lazy and are sending out the message that they are just not prepared to put in the work.

In an effort to regain customer trust and loyalty, retailers must be prepared to be transparent about their communication practices, while sending out content that resonates with their audience.

In addition, by listening to customer feedback and by offering exclusive benefits or rewards to their customers, businesses can build a community around their products.

Ultimately, finding the right balance between staying visible and avoiding communication overload can be tricky, but retailers need to adopt strategic, targeted communication that will mitigate overload and also builds stronger, long-lasting customer relationships.

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