Track Brand Growth Through Your Customer’s Eyes

Your brand won’t expand until your target market has used your product, trusted your brand promise, and formed a favourable opinion to buy (and rebuy) it. A brand has the potential to build lifetime brand equity when it meets or surpasses customer expectations.

Thus, tracking brand growth through your customer’s eyes involves measuring brand awareness, looking at the search popularity, listening to consumer sentiments, using surveys, and measuring and studying referral traffic.

Start with Measuring Brand Awareness

The primary metric is brand recognition. It reveals if people are even aware of your brand or if they can quickly recall it.

It would be best if you analyzed to determine brand performance:

• Unaided brand awareness: Can your target market name your brand among the competition without prompting?
• Top-of-mind brand awareness: In a specific product category, is your brand the one people first think of?
• Aided brand awareness: Does your target market know anything about your brand?

Search Popularity

Use a keyword tool to look up popular keywords as well as your brand, your competitor’s brand, and some other top keywords. This tactic is a terrific approach to gauging and keeping tabs on your brand recognition.

Store your data to keep tabs on the rise in branded searches over a more extendedperiod, as most tools only allow you to search over short periods, such as three to six months. Pay attention to homonyms and incorporate typos into your searches for more accurate results.

Consumer Sentiment

Consumer sentiment measures how consumers perceive your brand and the feelings it arouses. The degree to which your consumers and targets know your brand’s strengths, positioning, and product lines are referred to as brand knowledge. 

High brand awareness means that your target market can accurately recall and relate your brand to:

• Recent partnerships
• Specific products
• Brand story
• Values and USPs

Positive consumer perception and strong brand awareness are critical motivators for purchases, referrals, and loyalty.

Surveys

When surveys occur, You can include questionnaires on your website to find out how people found you and whether they’ve heard of you previously.

You can also find out how long ago your present clients first heard of your company. Keep customer surveys brief, straightforward, and rewarding to avoid annoying prospects or customers.

Another survey method is to randomly select a group of people and ask them if they have heard of your brand and what pictures it conjures up. You can accomplish this by, for instance, working with a PR firm or organizing a social media campaign.

Measure and Study Referral Traffic

The volume and quality of referral traffic are another fascinating Analytics indicator to investigate. Make sure your website receives a steady flow of referral traffic, but make sure it is genuine and pertinent to your business.

Referrals from penalized sites, for instance, lower your quality score and, even though visitors cannot see them, they worsenyour search visibility, which is terrible for brand recognition. Therefore, conduct a study, pay attention to quality referrals, and avoid getting sucked by vanity metrics.

Sometimes, your staff members make the best referees. Try to influence people to support your brand by engaging them.

Conclusion

The brand impressionis owned by consumers, not by businesses. Customers’ perceptions of a product or service are what it stands for, not what the company that owns the brand claims it does. 

Brand perception is influenced by consumer use, experience, reputation,functionality, and word-of-mouth marketing in person and on social media.