Consumer Buying Cycle or Customer Journey in marketing context are the mental flow processes of audience going through from need recognition and product awareness; and then interest; and finally being converted into a buyer and brand advocate. This buying cycle or sometimes referred as a sales funnel are usually in reverted triangle; as audience size is becoming smaller and smaller from upper streams to the lower streams of the funnel. However at the lower streams of the funnel, audience are of higher quality and more ready to buy. In different stages of the consumer journey, different media touch points are mapped to reach audience at different stages of the consumer journey more effectively.
In #digital marketing, with the the creative targeting options and technologies such as lookalike targeting and remarketing, the consumer buying cycle exhibits an hourglass shape. The amazing part here is customer extension based on characteristics of converted buyer through lookalike targeting. And these new customers will bring new prospects to feed into the upperstreams of the consumer funnel.
Here we identify 5 major stages and media touch points for digital marketing. (See the diagram)
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