Recall, Forecast Forensics is all about using conditional probabilities to illustrate how customers are likely to migrate between segments.
In other words, if we have a customer that belongs in the "Web Masters" segment, we can calculate how likely that customer is to purchase again next year ... and if the customer purchases again, we can calculate the probability of a customer migrating to any one of the sixteen Digital Profiles.
And if we can do that for one year, well, we can do that out into infinity, or at least for five years, right?
And if we can do that, well, then we can literally "see" what the future might look like.
So take a look at the image. This is the forecasted count of twelve-month buyers by Digital Profile, for each of the next five years.
Tell me what you see.
Hi Kevin,
ReplyDeletegraphs says to me most channels will just rumble along as they have. Some channels will really attract new customers.
I'm not getting what I think is your line of thought - are you suggesting that if a business continues to do what it has always done then it will pretty much be where it is today in 5 years time? Do marketing campaigns make any difference if you have a decent product and a decent customer aquisition strategy?
Cheers
This is just a sample slide, over the next three weeks, we'll cover several examples.
ReplyDeleteMost businesses, in spite of marketing efforts, are largely at the whim of merchandising, new customer actions, and economic effects.