create a customer persona in 3 easy steps
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Create a
For Your Hotel
In 3 Easy Steps
Customer Persona
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They are representations of your targetaudience, made from
analytics data + first hand knowledge.
Basically, they illustrate the buyingdecisions potential guests make whenthey consider booking with your hotel.
What is a Customer Persona?
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Not Necessarily!
Research shows that brands & businesses are
failing to grasp even the basic motivations and
desires of their customers.
51% of customers think brands don't "get" them.
40% don't find most promotions interesting.
Don't I Already Know Who My Guests Are?
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That's what we're here for.
Here are 3 key steps to buildcustomer personas that will increase hotel bookings and
fill up your rooms.
How Do I Make Sure I'm On Track?
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your customer personas will look like this.
LocationAgeGenderFamily membersHousehold IncomeInterests
Primary goal (relevant toyour hotel)ValuesPast experiences with hotelsProblems & frustrationswhen booking holidays andhotels
By the time we're done...
Let's get started!
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1Survey Your Guests
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Conduct surveys, either online or off.
This lets guests frame their needs and theirperception of your hotel in their own words -
giving you great insight into how tocommunicate with them.
Learn to Talk to GuestsIn Their Language
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If you're looking to tweak somethingparticular, like profit per guest, consideronly surveying guests who spend more
than average.
Find out why they're spending more &
how to leverage that.
Don't be Afraid to Get Specific
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Consider using exit surveys onpotential guests who didn't book.
Ask them why - were they too early inthe purchase funnel? Or did somethingabout your website put them off?
Find Out What Goes Wrong
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Here are a couple ways to get started withsurveying:
Post-stay email surveysPost-stay telephone surveysOn site surveysExit surveys
How do you survey?
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2Glean Insights fromYour Web Analytics
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Data should be most of your persona.A good rule of thumb is90% data, 10% knowledge
For a comprehensive, step by step guide,click here.
For the highlights, read on.
Web Anaytics are Fundamental
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Where your guests come fromHow long they stayed on your siteThe keywords they searchedDemographics - age, gender, locationInterests
By Looking At Your Analytics,You'll Learn:
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Here's a Killer Persona Example:
Enterprise Erin was built with Hubspot's persona tool
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3Consider Individual
Interviews
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But they're harder to get, and if you pushthem too much you can alienate guests.
Consider offering a voucher or entryinto a contest to motivate participation.
Interviews are Better Versions ofSurveys
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You'll get a more intimate, honestresponse with interviews,
because guests can sense thatthey're personal in a way surveys
can't be.
Interviews Promote Honesty
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Ask your reservations staff, or anystaff with long term experience
handling guests:
What are typical problems? Why are guestschoosing your hotel?
One Last Thing:
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Welcome to the club.Remember: a customer persona is onlyas valuable as it is detailed, and it's howyou use it in your marketing & sales
strategy that counts.
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