Profiling Customer: Customer Profile and Persona

1. Profiling Customer:Customer Profile and Persona Minder Chen, Ph.D. Professor of Management Information Systems Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics California State University Channel Islands Camarillo, CA 93012 Minder.chen@csuci.edu minderchen@gmail.com

2. 4. TAM: Total Addressable Market 12. DMU: Decision Making Unit (for purchasing our products) 17. LTC: Life Time Value 19. COCA: Costs of Customer Acquisition 22. MVBP: Minimum Viable Business Product Source: Disciplined Entrepreneurship in 24 Steps

3. The single necessary and sufficient condition for a business is a paying customer. Source: Disciplined Entrepreneurship in 24 Steps

4. Customer Profile • End User: The individual (a real person!) who will use your product. The end user is usually a member of the household (B2C) or organization (B2B) that purchases your product. • Decision-Making Unit: The individual(s) who decide whether the customer will buy your product, consisting of: • Champion: The person who wants the customer to purchase the product; often the end user. • Primary Economic Buyer: The person with the authority to spend money to purchase the product. Sometimes this is the end user. • Influencers, Veto Power, Purchasing Department, and so on: People who have sway or direct control over the decisions of the Primary Economic Buyer.

5. Profiling Customers There are several approaches that are used to segment a market so that you can determine what their wants and needs are. The traditional segmentation approaches include: • Geographic • Demographic • Socioeconomic • Psychographic • Behavior • Culture • Benefits Generic Description with range http://www.101businessinsights.info/14985/entrepreneurship/your-target-customer-part-2-of-6/

6. Persona Personas are imaginary, yet realistic and detailed descriptionsspecific but representative users of your product. They provide a basis for design discussions by concentrating many pieces of user data into key, focused, believable descriptions of your primary audience. Creating personas gives your design team a shorthand way of describing who they're building things for, rather than saying, the user, which could mean anyone.  • Key users • Give you focus in your product/service design • Create from site visit data or field research http://www.lynda.com/Web-User-Experience-tutorials/Creating-persona/144082/158945-4.html?

7. Persona Definition • Persona is a design tool that helps ensure that programs, services and systems are designed for real users. • Alan Cooper, pioneer of software interaction design, coined the term, defining personas as a “hypothetical individual that takes on the characteristic of real users,” representing real people throughout the process of designing a service or product. • Personas are developed “with significant rigor and precision...we don’t so much ‘make up’ personas as discover them as a byproduct of the investigation process.” http://www.innovation.va.gov/docs/Toward_A_Veteran_Centered_VA_JULY2014.pdf

8. Persona For the design of a CRM System http://www.lynda.com/Web-User-Experience-tutorials/Creating-persona/144082/158945-4.html? http://diytoolkit.org/tools/personas-2/

9. Persona • Name • Age • Photo • Candid quotes • Personal information • Work environment • Computer proficiency • Motivation for using the product • Information-seeking habits • Personal and professional goals • A persona is an archetype of an organization’s typical customer, and is defined primarily by a customer’s goals when interacting with the products. • They are not real people, but are used to represent real users during the design process. • Products generally have a “cast” of personas, ranging from 3 to 8, one of which is considered the primary persona. • These are best presented as narratives which provides a persona with realistic characteristics. • Evokes a strong sense of empathy in the project team • Eliminates the need to design for an abstract, elastic “user group” whose goals and needs are not fully understood • Facilitates user-centered design – focusing on the goals of your typical customers rather than the project team Source: The ABCs of Personas: Design for People, Design for Success

10. MeYouHealth.Com: 7 Personas & Their Motivation • Aware & Achieving, Me-Time Impoverished, Validation Seeker, Enlightened and Discovering, Idle, Excuse Maker, Enabled • Monumental mobile app with gaming feature  Daily Challenge

12. Different Approaches to Improve Wellbeing of Different Persona

13. Customer persona template Customer segment: ______________________ Name: __________________________ Who are they? Purchasing decisions/ Usage Scenario? Picture Sample quotation Goals & pain points

14. Example Customer segment: Name: _____________ Philip Exampleton Classroom teacher • Who are they? • 28 years old • Has been teaching grades 7 & 8 for 3 years • Works at a medium-sized public school in a lower socio-economic neighbourhood • Purchasing decisions? • Tries new resources based on colleague recommendations • Highly active on Twitter: #edchat, #gafe • Can request small amounts of money for resources, but has no control over budgets Goals & pain points Highly artistic and creative, Philip wants his students to try new things, but is often frustrated by the lack of time and money to do so. Quote: “I really want to make a difference at my school, and I want my superintendent to help me make a difference in other schools as well.”

15. Example Name: Monica Profiletti Customer segment: Superintendent • Who are they? • 49 years old • Oversees 7 elementary and 4 secondary schools • Was principal of an elementary school for 4 years before moving to her current position • Purchasing decisions? • Attends 4 to 5 educational conferences per year to learn about new resources • Has a budget specific to educational technologies • Bulk purchases must be approved by a committee • Prefers to work with official vendors Goals & pain points Monica wants to help her teachers with innovative new classroom resources, but is often frustrated by slow adoption rates. Quote: “I want my schools to take full advantage of new technologies that increase learning, but the costs have to make sense.”

16. The Difference Between Customer Profiles & Buyer Personas http://blog.strategyzer.com/posts/2016/3/17/the-difference-between-customer

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18. Customer Personas Customer personas areresearch-based archetypal (modeled) representations of  who buyers are,  what they are trying to accomplish,  what goals drive their behavior,  how they think,  how they buy,  why they make buying decisions,  where they buy and  when buyers decide to buy. Persona (link) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StAeA16gNPY

19. Persona: A Case Study of VA Services • We identify high level trends in ways Veterans seek out assistance, use technology, take advantage of services, and react to challenging interactions. Based on these patterns we have created a set of four profiles, or personas, that represent the kinds of users with whom we spoke. • Each persona is an archetype based on commonalities we observed amongst Veterans who exhibited similar behaviors and approaches to accessing VA services. They are not categorized by positive or negative experiences, but by shared expectations and needs. • In drawing together users by the ways in which they engage with the service at hand, we can identify trends and ensure we are meeting the needs of the varied types of customers we serve. http://www.innovation.va.gov/docs/Toward_A_Veteran_Centered_VA_JULY2014.pdf

20. VA Users’ Personas

21. Persona: Lifer

22. Designing for The Lifer Include info about local Veteran support chapters in communications. Provide me with a single online tool or a call center where they can refill prescriptions, see test results, and maintain all aspects of the VA needs. Give high level of feedback loops so that I can be assured my request was submitted and is being handled. Allow me to pause and ask questions, and to have access to a VA professional to speak with frequently and in a timely manner.

23. Example Source: Disciplined Entrepreneurship in 24 Steps

24. Ideal Customer Profile https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/06/ea/f8/06eaf8a2e6a630cc55f16d881aac4c00.png

25. Customer Profile http://blog.sumall.com/journal/create-accurate-customer-profile.html

26. Persona Example https://xtensio.com/user-persona/

27. https://www.managertoday.com.tw/glossary/view/213

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