Never has trust between customers and brands been more critical. As e-commerce continues to grow, both for health and convenience, a gap is growing, too\u2014between brands and their customers. Trust bridges the gap. Here are five ways you can use your print and digital communications to increase the level of trust you have with your customers.<\/p>\n
Be honest about your intentions with the communication\u2014don\u2019t bait and switch. Buyers are smart. They know when you\u2019re real with them.<\/p>\n
The more you show that you can relate to your customers\u2019 concerns, the more trust you gain. That\u2019s why empathy has become such a massive trend in marketing. Look at the success of home meal kits. Yes, advertisers promote the great taste of their food, but they also focus on helping families reclaim time out of their over-scheduled days and use meal preparation as a way to spend quality time together.<\/p>\n
Things like money-back guarantees, free trials, and \u201cno questions asked\u201d returns are one way to assure buyers that your promise matches what you deliver.<\/p>\n
Promote the results of customer service surveys showing high satisfaction rates (for example, \u201c95% of our customers would recommend us to a friend\u201d). Include customer testimonials and even online reviews as part of your print and digital layouts. If other people had a good experience, this increases buyers\u2019 confidence that they can trust you, too.<\/p>\n
Buyers in the same demographic categories often have similar priorities and needs, but when your goal is building trust, marketing to a prospect\u2019s values can be more effective. If you are selling children\u2019s toys, for example, target your message based on the shared value set of being active, involved parents rather than simply being parents of school-age children.<\/p>\n
Especially in times of uncertainty, use your communications to convey consistency, transparency, and empathy. It\u2019s a different approach than the traditional direct sell, but it\u2019s highly effective. Especially right now.<\/p>\n
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Source: Drawn from survey results of \u201cGlobal Marketing Trends\u201d (Deloitte, 2021)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Never has trust between customers and brands been more critical. As e-commerce continues to grow, both for health and convenience, a gap is growing, too\u2014between brands and their customers. Trust bridges the gap. Here are five ways you can use your print and digital communications to increase the level of trust you have with your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/34.94.80.94\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/34.94.80.94\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/34.94.80.94\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/34.94.80.94\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/34.94.80.94\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/34.94.80.94\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/34.94.80.94\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/34.94.80.94\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/34.94.80.94\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}